03Head 3 / 6 · channel strategyThe wound
GTM Engineering
“You're active on three channels. None of them are clearly working.”
The pain
You're not doing too little. You're spreading thin across channels that were never validated for your ICP. The playbook said be everywhere. Now you're everywhere and growing nowhere.
The cut
Audit what has signal. Map ICP behavior to channels. Write one hypothesis. Design the 30-day test with a defined win condition. That is GTM. Everything else is motion.
Do you have a GTM problem?
You're active on three channels. None of them are clearly working.
You launched a content strategy six months ago. You still can't tell if it's doing anything.
You tried ads. They felt expensive. You stopped. You're not sure if you gave up too early.
Your LinkedIn posts get likes from peers, not buyers.
Someone told you SEO takes time. You're still waiting.
You have a growth hypothesis somewhere in a Notion doc. Nobody has tested it.
You're doing everything the playbook says. Nothing is compounding.
You keep adding channels. The pipeline stays the same.
Three or more. That's a GTM problem. Fixable in two weeks.


