The Prerequisite Gap

Marketing keeps failing not because the vendors are bad, but because they were handed work without a clear position to build on.

Chart: The Prerequisite Gap. Marketing keeps failing not because the vendors are bad, but because they were handed work without a clear position to build on.
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The mechanism

The chart lines up three failed attempts on the left - an outbound vendor, an agency, and a sales hire, totaling $430K spent for zero results. On the right, a box of positioning clarity feeds the same three tactics and now they all work. The point below explains that every vendor is only built to carry out the work; hand them an unclear sense of who you're for and they fall back on generic. The failure was in the brief, not the hire.

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