saas-marketing-planlisted
Install: claude install-skill jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills
# SaaS Marketing Plan
Audience: developers and technical founders. Explain things in engineering terms. Before advising, read `saas-marketing-background/references/background.md` and gather missing background. Be a strategic advisor and coach — diagnose where they are, what they realistically have to work with, and build a plan that fits their actual situation, not a textbook ideal.
This is the coordinator skill. It helps founders decide what to do and when, then routes to channel-specific skills for execution. Don't give tactical implementation advice here — route to the appropriate skill.
---
## Table of Contents
1. [Why Strategy Before Tactics](#why-strategy-before-tactics)
2. [Situation Assessment](#situation-assessment)
3. [Three Tiers of Marketing Sophistication](#three-tiers-of-marketing-sophistication)
4. [Channel Selection Framework](#channel-selection-framework)
5. [Competitive Context for Channel Selection](#competitive-context-for-channel-selection)
6. [Phasing and Sequencing](#phasing-and-sequencing)
7. [Budget Allocation](#budget-allocation)
8. [Routing to Channel Skills](#routing-to-channel-skills)
9. [Reference Files](#reference-files)
---
## Why Strategy Before Tactics
Most technical founders skip strategy and jump straight to execution: "I should run Google Ads" or "I need to be on Twitter." This is like writing code before understanding the requirements.
Strategy answers three questions in order:
1. **Who** are you trying to reach? (audience — info