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# Marketing Ideas

> A library of 140 proven SaaS marketing plays, organised by stage, so you never face a blank page.

A curated library of 140 proven marketing approaches for SaaS and software products, organized by category from content and SEO to paid ads, partnerships, launches, and product-led growth. Instead of generic advice, it helps you pick the right 3-5 tactics for your specific stage, audience, and budget.

## Use cases
- Finding fresh marketing tactics tailored to your product stage
- Brainstorming growth ideas when current channels stall
- Matching channels to where your audience actually is
- Choosing free or low-budget tactics for an early-stage startup
- Planning engineering-as-marketing tools and free utilities
- Building a balanced portfolio of compounding and linear tactics

## Benefits
- Skip the blank-page problem with 140 vetted starting points
- Avoid wasted spend by matching tactics to your stage and budget
- Test ideas cheaply with minimum-viable-campaign versions first
- Prioritize the highest-leverage ideas with simple ICE scoring

## What’s included
- 140 marketing ideas organized across 14 categories
- Stage, budget, and timeline filters for choosing tactics
- Implementation tips and first-step guidance per idea
- Channel-audience fit guidance to avoid high acquisition cost
- An ICE scoring approach to prioritize the best ideas
- A structured recommendation output format with expected outcomes

## Who it’s for
Founders and marketers who need relevant, actionable marketing ideas matched to their product and resources.

## How it runs
Five ideas that fit beat 140 that drown you. The library gets filtered by company stage, channel and audience, survivors are ICE-scored, and every winner ships first as a minimum viable campaign.
1. Profiles the product first: what it is, who buys it, what stage the company is in and what resources (time, budget, team size) actually exist. No profile, no recommendations.
2. Filters the 140 ideas by stage-gate: pre-product-market-fit gets founder-led tactics (Product Hunt, beta community), post-PMF gets content, SEO and paid, scale stage gets brand and ABM. Tactics from the wrong stage are discarded, no skipping ahead.
3. Filters again by channel-audience fit: B2B SaaS routes to LinkedIn, SEO and webinars, local business to Maps and local search, developer tools to GitHub and Hacker News. Channels the audience does not live in are dropped no matter how popular they are.
4. Scores the surviving candidates with ICE (Impact, Confidence, Ease, each 1-10): averages of 7+ go to the "do now" list, 4-6 to the plan, below that is parked.
5. Balances the final portfolio between compounding tactics (SEO, free tools, evergreen content that keeps paying after the work stops) and linear ones (ads and events that stop when the money does), targeting roughly a 60/40 split.
6. Ships each chosen idea first as a Minimum Viable Campaign: a tweet thread instead of a blog, a Typeform instead of a landing page, 1-2 weeks and minimal budget. Around 80% of ideas die at this stage, which is exactly the point of running it.

## FAQ
### We are pre-revenue with almost no budget. Is most of this out of reach?
No. The library is filtered by stage, budget, and timeline, and a meaningful share of the 140 ideas are free or low-cost tactics suited to early-stage products. The guidance also pushes minimum-viable-campaign versions, so you test an idea cheaply before committing to it.

### I can google 'marketing ideas' for free. What is different here?
The matching, not the list. Each idea carries implementation tips, channel-audience fit guidance, and a first step, and the ICE scoring approach narrows 140 options to the 3-5 worth running for your specific stage and budget. That filtering is the part a generic listicle never does.

### Will it execute the campaigns for me?
No. It is a selection and prioritization tool: it takes you from blank page to a shortlist with first steps and expected outcomes, then the writing, building, and shipping of each tactic is separate work. It is also written for SaaS and software products, not retail or local businesses.

## Price
$15, one-time, no subscription. VAT included.

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