Lesson 9 of 16 · Grow
Marketing
If you don't know where to start with marketing, start here. Winston asks you eight short questions, one at a time, then writes a plan made for your business: your goal, who you're talking to, what to say, exactly how to do each part step by step, what it costs and brings back, what to design, and your first 90 days.
What this tab is for
- Answer guided questions about goals, customers, budget and time
- Get a plan with strategy, step-by-step how-tos, costs and a 90-day plan
- Save the plan as a PDF
- Answer again at any time for a fresh plan
- Tick off your plan step by step
- Have Winston draft a post, email or ad on request, or a whole batch
- Choose Manual, Guided or Autopilot for how much Winston does on his own
- Approve drafts, open them in email or copy them to publish, then mark them posted
- Campaign Performance, Content Marketing, Email Marketing and Lead Generation dashboards
- Marketing Executive, SEO & GEO and Social Media dashboards
- Filter by date range, source and content type, and compare with the previous period
- Track target keywords and the campaign feed
Option 1 of 7
Writing the plan
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Open Marketing
In the Grow group, open Marketing and choose Marketing Plan from the dashboards menu.
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Press Start the questions
Winston asks one thing at a time: what you want marketing to do first, who your best customer is, what you want to sell most, where your customers spend time, your monthly budget, your weekly time, what you've tried, and anything else.
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Check your answers
On the last step, Does this look right? Tap Change to fix any answer.
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Let Claude write it
It takes a minute or two.
Option 2 of 7
Reading and using the plan
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Start with the strategy
Your goal, who you're talking to and what to say, with lines you can use word for word.
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Follow the how-to
How to do it, step by step: each step says exactly where to go and what to tap or type.
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Check the costs
What it costs and what it brings back: monthly and one-time costs, and when it pays for itself.
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Do this week's list
Your first 90 days starts with Do these this week, then your weekly routine and how to tell it's working.
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Save it
Press Save as PDF to keep or share it. Press Answer again any time for a new plan.
Every step of the plan also appears in the Launch Center as a checklist, with a Draft it button wherever Winston can write it for you.
Option 3 of 7
Getting set up
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Open the Launch Center
It's the first option in the Marketing dashboards menu. If you have no plan yet, press Set up my marketing plan.
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Choose how much Winston does
Manual: Winston drafts only when you ask. Guided: he drafts on a schedule and you approve each one. Autopilot: his drafts are approved for you, and you still post them.
Option 4 of 7
Drafting content
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Draft a plan step
Under Your plan, step by step, press Draft it on any step Winston can write.
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Ask for anything
Under Have Winston draft something, choose what to draft (social post, email, ad or outreach) and say what it should say, for example "a Facebook post about our fall tune-up special, $89 through November".
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Draft a batch
Press Draft a batch now to get several social posts, emails or ads at once.
Option 5 of 7
Approving and publishing
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Review what's waiting
Waiting on you lists drafts to approve.
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Publish
Approved drafts move to Ready to post. Copy the post to your social account, or press Open in email.
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Mark it posted
Press Mark as posted. The tiles at the top count Plan steps done and Posted in 30 days.
Option 6 of 7
Reading a dashboard
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Choose a dashboard
Use the Marketing dashboards menu at the top of the Marketing tab.
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Set the date range
Pick the period you want. Tiles compare with the previous period so you can see if things are improving.
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Filter
Where available, filter by source (where people came from) and content type.
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Start with Executive
The Marketing Executive Dashboard is the one-page summary. Open the others to dig in.
Option 7 of 7
Target keywords
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Open SEO & GEO
This dashboard tracks how you show up in search and in AI answers.
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Add a keyword
Type a search you want to be found for, such as "emergency plumber Tampa", with the page it should lead to and any notes.
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Remove one
Press the remove button beside it.
Your exercise
Before you finish, open the tab and try:
- Answer the eight questions and save your plan as a PDF.
- Draft one social post for this week and publish it.
- Tick off the first step in your plan.
Worked through every option above? Finish the lesson to tick it off.
Want more detail? Read Marketing: your marketing plan, Marketing: the Launch Center and Marketing: dashboards and keywords in the manual.