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Marketing Diagnostic β€” Conversions Today
Free Marketing Diagnostic

Is your marketing actually converting β€” or just keeping you busy?

Three questions. Two minutes. A clear read on where your marketing is leaking β€” and one practical thing you can do about it today.

This diagnostic is built for business operators who are putting real effort into their marketing and still not seeing the pipeline results they expected. No email required. No pitch. Just an honest picture of where you are.

3
quick questions
2min
to complete
1
honest answer
Question 1 of 3

Where does most of your new business come from?

Be honest β€” this is where the real picture starts.

Marketing β€” my content, ads, or outreach are generating leads
Under 40% comes from word of mouth or referrals
A healthy mix β€” some marketing, some referrals
Roughly 40–60% comes from referrals
Mostly referrals β€” marketing helps but doesn't drive much
Roughly 60–80% comes from word of mouth
Almost entirely referrals and word of mouth
Over 80% β€” my marketing isn't really generating leads
Question 2 of 3

When you look at your marketing activity over the last 3 months β€” how clearly can you connect it to actual revenue?

Posts, emails, ads, outreach β€” all of it. How much of it can you point to a result?

Very clearly β€” I can point to specific activity that brought in clients
I know what's working and roughly why
Roughly β€” I have a sense of what's working but no real data
I'm going on instinct more than measurement
Not really β€” I'm putting effort in but can't connect it to outcomes
The activity is happening but the link to revenue is unclear
I honestly can't β€” I don't have visibility over what's converting
Marketing is happening but I couldn't tell you what's producing anything
Question 3 of 3

How would you describe your current pipeline?

Your honest read β€” not the optimistic one.

Predictable and growing
I have a consistent flow of enquiries and a clear path to close
Inconsistent but okay
It goes up and down β€” good months and quiet ones, no real pattern
Too dependent on a few clients or contacts
If one or two key relationships dried up, I'd feel it immediately
Genuinely concerning
I need more enquiries and I'm not confident my marketing is going to produce them
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Your diagnosis
The Referral Hostage

Your business works β€” and that's because you're genuinely good at what you do. But right now, your growth is almost entirely in other people's hands.

What this actually means

Being genuinely good at what you do is not the same as prospects understanding you're good at what you do. Referrals bridge that gap β€” someone vouches for you, and trust transfers. But when there's no referral, that trust has to be built from scratch. Most businesses haven't worked out how to do that at scale.

The shift needed is this: alongside selling on trust, you need to sell on proof of ability. Trust gets people interested. Demonstrated expertise closes them. Word of mouth is proof your work is good β€” it's just not a growth strategy.

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One thing to do this week

Ask yourself: do you have a named way of describing how you work? Not your services list. Your approach. Something a prospect who's never met you could read and think β€” "that's exactly how I want someone to think about my problem."

It doesn't have to be complicated. Even a three-step process with a name creates instant credibility and gives people something to talk about when they refer you. Write a rough version this week and put it somewhere visible β€” your website, your LinkedIn profile, or your email signature.

A question worth sitting with

"If someone landed on your website cold β€” no referral, no introduction β€” what would make them believe you're the right person? If the answer isn't immediately obvious, that's the gap we need to close."

Want to see exactly what this gap is costing you?

The full Conversion Clarity Exercise takes 5 minutes and uses your own numbers to show you the revenue sitting on the other side of fixing this. No guesswork β€” your figures, your picture.

Book a 15-min Fit Call β†’
Your diagnosis
The Busy Marketer Going Nowhere

You're putting in the effort. The activity is real. But the pipeline isn't moving the way it should β€” and that's one of the most frustrating places to be.

What this actually means

Before looking at what's not working, it's worth asking: what did you expect to happen? Most marketing activity fails not because the content is bad β€” but because the expectation was that a post, an email, or an ad would move someone directly from stranger to paying client.

It almost never works that way. The average B2B buyer needs 7–12 touchpoints before they make a decision. If your system stops at one or two, the leads don't disappear β€” they just never get far enough. The second problem is that without attribution, you can't tell which activity is doing anything useful. You're optimising blind.

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One thing to do this week

Set up attribution β€” it's free and takes an afternoon. Start with these tools if you haven't already:

Google Analytics Meta Pixel Microsoft Clarity TikTok Pixel HubSpot Free CRM

Microsoft Clarity in particular shows you exactly where people drop off on your site β€” for free. Once you can see what's happening, you can fix it. Right now you're flying blind.

A question worth sitting with

"If you mapped out every step between a stranger seeing your content and becoming a paying client β€” how many steps does that journey actually take? And how many of those steps do you currently have covered?"

Want to map the full journey and find the leaks?

The full Conversion Clarity Exercise uses your own numbers to show you the revenue gap your current system is creating β€” and what closing it is actually worth.

Book a 15-min Fit Call β†’
Your diagnosis
The Accidental Scaler

Things are working β€” and that's genuinely worth acknowledging. You're ahead of most. The question worth sitting with is whether you know why.

What this actually means

You've landed on something that works β€” maybe a strong niche, a solid LinkedIn presence, or a referral network that's unusually active. The risk isn't that things are bad. It's that you don't fully know why things are good, which means you can't protect it when it slows, or deliberately scale it.

Growth that depends on the founder's judgment, energy, and relationships has a ceiling. At some point, to grow further, you need to hand parts of the system to someone else β€” a VA, an agency, an AI tool, a team member. That only works if the system exists somewhere outside your head.

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One thing to do this week

Map your current process β€” even roughly. Start from: how does someone first hear about you? Walk it through to: how do they become a paying client? Write it down in a way that someone new could follow.

Ask yourself: could a VA run this from a written brief? Could an AI tool take it and execute? If you can't document it in an afternoon, that's your answer. An undocumented process is a process that can't scale β€” and increasingly, one that AI can't help you run.

A question worth sitting with

"If you had to hand your lead generation and sales process to someone tomorrow β€” what would you give them? If the answer is 'nothing in writing,' your growth is still entirely dependent on you showing up every day."

Ready to build the system that makes this repeatable?

The full Conversion Clarity Exercise shows you what your current system is worth β€” and what a documented, scalable version of it could produce. Your numbers, your picture.

Book a 15-min Fit Call β†’
Your diagnosis
The Conversion Leak

You're doing better than most at generating interest. The issue isn't at the top of the funnel β€” something is breaking on the way to the close.

What this actually means

When leads go quiet, the instinct is usually to look at the offer β€” the price, the timing, the packaging. But most of the time, the real issue is earlier than that. It's in the messaging. Generic messaging attracts broadly and converts poorly. Human, specific, psychographically-aware messaging attracts fewer people β€” but converts them at a dramatically higher rate.

The question is how much your current messaging actually reflects the specific person you're trying to reach β€” their language, their fears, their self-image, what they're trying to become. A 10% improvement in close rate on your current lead volume is almost always worth more than doubling your leads.

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One thing to do this week

Pick your single best-fit client type and write a one-paragraph description β€” not demographics, but psychographics: what keeps them up at night, what does success look like to them, what do they tell themselves when they don't act, what do they want to say to their peers?

Then go and read your last 10 response emails to leads. Not your marketing copy β€” your actual replies. How much of that psychographic description shows up in the language you're using? Are you speaking to their world, or describing your service? The gap between those two is usually exactly where the conversion leak is hiding.

A question worth sitting with

"Of the leads you got last quarter that didn't convert β€” what happened to them? Do you know why they didn't buy, or did they just go quiet? The answer to that question is where your next $50k is sitting."

Want to find the specific leak and fix it?

The full Conversion Clarity Exercise maps your current pipeline in numbers β€” leads, close rate, revenue gap β€” and shows you exactly what fixing the conversion leak is worth in real dollars.

Book a 15-min Fit Call β†’