Go-to-Market Strategy
Get your team in one room and out with one plan. Go-to-market strategy workshops and market entry plans for lifestyle brands.
A go-to-market strategy is your roadmap for how you’ll take your brand, a new product or a new region to market.
The who, what, where, when and how, agreed before you invest time, money and resources into production, a new market, or spending a cent on marketing, so everyone’s working towards the same destination.
GTM planning gets talked about as a B2B and tech discipline. It matters just as much for product brands, lifestyle brands and retailers, and in my experience it’s where most founder-led teams quietly lose the most revenue and momentum when they skip it.
I always start with the end in mind. Where do you want to be in 1 to 3 years? Then we work backwards to what matters most in the next 30 to 90 days, and just as importantly - what you’re going to stop doing to give yourself the space to focus.
What we’ll work through
Vision and values: where you want to be in 3 to 5 years, and how you’ll get there
Target market: who they are, what their problems are, and how you solve the
Competitors: where you sit in the landscape and how you differentiate
Products & services: features, benefits and range architecture
Ideal customers: who they are, how you talk to them and how you reach them
Initiatives: the first moves, the next ones, and what you’ll stop doing
Channels: where you’ll focus and where you’ll excel
People & resources: who and what you need to deliver it
Revenue & pricing: what you need to sell to hit your goals, priced for profit
Outcomes: what success looks like at 3 months, 1 year, 3 years
Measurement: how you’ll know you’re on track, ready to scale, or need to change course
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Go-To-Market Strategy Workshop
This is a Google Doc template that I use with clients in our Go to Market Strategy sessions and workshops - it’s a free download for you to use!
What a good go-to-market strategy does
Confirms product-market fit.
Proof there's real demand, at the price you're asking, in the market you're selling in.
Starts with the end in mind.
We work backwards from your commercial goals to build the roadmap that gets you there.
Gets the fundamentals right before you scale.
Consistency wins. Sell to the first ten, then the next ten, then you're ready to grow.
Cuts the distractions.
The right mix of channels and initiatives, and the discipline to ignore everything else.
Go-to-Market Strategy Workshop
A full day with you and your leadership team
We start with a planning call to agree what the day needs to achieve. I build the workshop plan around your unique business, we spend the day working through it together, and you leave with a go-to-market roadmap that your team helped build, which is why they’ll actually run with it.
Format: One full day in person or two half days by video, with a planning call before and written notes after.
You leave with:
Clear positioning: Who you’re targeting and why
Commercial priorities: What you’re going after and what you’re deliberately not doing.
The 3/6/12 month roadmap: What happens next and in what order
Investment: From £2,750
From plan to launch
Once the plan's done, I can stay on as your Fractional GM one or two days a week to help your team see it through.
I'm based in London and work with brands across the UK, Europe, Australia and the US, in person and by video.
Founder Events & Speaking Engagements
I regularly partner with founder communities, industry events, accelerators and business groups to host my Business & Brand Strategy Workshop as a two-hour session. We work through aligning big vision, goals and priorities, and map out a go-to-market plan for the year ahead.
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Words from founders who have attended a workshop