The Beachhead Test

The segment worth building your marketing around is almost never the one that brings in the most money today.

Chart: The Beachhead Test. The segment worth building your marketing around is almost never the one that brings in the most money today.
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The mechanism

The chart drops four customer segments through three gates: proof a stranger can read, work the team actually wants, and budgets that already overlap your price. The biggest segment, 40 percent of revenue, falls out at the first gate; others drop at later ones. Only a small 3 percent segment passes all three and becomes the beachhead, because how much revenue a segment holds today isn't one of the three tests.

Part of Positioning. Who you are for and why you are the obvious choice.