For founders who wear every hat
You shouldn't have to become a marketer to grow your business.
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You're the CEO.
The founder's hat turns into a cap with CEO written across the front.
Yet you're stuck doing every job.
You spend your day fighting fires, and marketing falls to the bottom of the list.
A to-do list fills up with jobs. Each one gets ticked off. Marketing keeps sliding to the bottom, unticked.
Half of new businesses won't make it to year five.
Ten lit boxes, each one a tenth of new businesses, each fed by a stream of customers from the Marketing box. Over five years the streams to five of them dry up and those boxes go dim: 20% closed by year 1, 40% by year 3, 50% by year 5. Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Employment Dynamics.
Why did they fail?
Not enough customers.
The streams to the boxes still lit grow brighter. The dim boxes have none.
That makes marketing the most important job on your list.
Back on the to-do list, Marketing lifts off the bottom and moves to the top.
But who's going to do it?
A question mark appears in Marketing's box and stays as we fly through it.
Do it yourself
Doing it yourself looks like the cheapest choice. It isn't. It quietly becomes the most expensive decision in your business, and most founders never even realise.
Start with time, your scarcest resource. Every hour spent on posts and ads is an hour taken away from the work only you can do: actually running the business.
And let's be honest, marketing is a skill. You didn't get good at your job in a weekend, so why would marketing be any different? Expecting to match a seasoned expert with ChatGPT and a spare evening is a bit of an ask.
But the real cost is opportunity. When the messaging doesn't resonate and the creative doesn't hit, you keep guessing. Every wrong guess costs you customers, and that loss never shows up in your accounts.
A founder wears the marketing hat beside a price tag that reads $0 while a long receipt prints out behind it. A clock eats into time for running the business, a seasoned marketer's years dwarf a spare evening with ChatGPT, and people walk straight past the shop while only the odd one comes in.
Hire an agency
So you outsource to the experts. Makes sense. Good agencies have already made the mistakes and learned the lessons, so you're paying to skip the headaches. The problem, though, is expectations.
Leads in a few weeks, a full calendar in a month. Exactly what you want to hear. But good marketing is built on testing and refining, and that takes months, even for the best in the business.
So a few months in, the results don't match the promise and you walk away. You're back to square one, out of pocket, with nothing to show for it.
Then you hire the next agency and the whole cycle repeats. No lessons carry over, so you pay for the same tests again. Nothing compounds, and in marketing, compounding is the whole game.
The marketing hat passes to an agency and its windows light up. The promised results shoot up within weeks while the real ones climb slowly through rounds of testing, a gap opens, and the line drops back to zero. Each new agency starts again from zero, never reaching the curve compounding would have drawn.
Hire someone in-house
So you think, right, I'll get my own marketer. Someone who gets the business, knows the customer. And because they're in-house, what they learn finally compounds. Get the right person and it works brilliantly.
But the right person costs serious money. Anyone who can run your marketing without you is a senior hire on a senior salary. A junior just hands the problem back to you.
And how do you know what “right” looks like? You can't judge a job you've never done. So you're placing your biggest marketing bet on a person you have no way to evaluate.
Even a great hire needs training and direction. That takes time, the one thing you were short of to begin with. Now you're left with the original problem, just in a new form.
The hat goes to your own marketer and the compounding curve finally draws. A senior candidate comes with a big salary and a junior with a small one. Five identical candidates stand under a question mark. Then the hire asks for help, and the hat goes back to the founder.
It's not as hopeless as it sounds.
A small ball of light shoots down and leaves a column of light behind it. Four windows grow out of the column as it spirals down: a clock beside a marketing bar that keeps filling, a growth curve drawn month by month, a street where people walk in, and the founder wearing the marketing hat. The hat lifts off, the column gathers back into the ball, the hat settles on top of it and the XAViiO mark forms inside.