Eighty Twenty Traffic Strategy

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name: eighty-twenty-traffic-strategy
description: "Prioritize traffic, media, lists, and audience sources with an 80/20 lens. Use when choosing acquisition media, deciding which traffic source to master, evaluating rented or owned lists, sequencing channel expansion, or shifting budget toward higher-leverage sources."
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# 80/20 Traffic Strategy

Use this skill to choose and sequence traffic sources by leverage, buyer fit,
and economic potential. It is based on 80/20 Sales and Marketing by Perry
Marshall.

## Source Traceability

Primary source: 80/20 Sales and Marketing, chapters 4, 6, 10, and 11.

- Chapter 4 emphasizes positioning and media mastery over low-leverage
  prospecting.
- Chapter 6 introduces the traffic, conversion, economics triangle and list
  quality.
- Chapter 10 covers media expansion after a funnel starts working.
- Chapter 11 covers scaling and diversification after conversion proves out.

## Workflow

### 1. State The Economic Constraint

Before recommending traffic, capture:

- Offer price and margin.
- Target customer value.
- Allowable acquisition cost.
- Sales cycle.
- Conversion path.
- Existing traffic source performance.

Think backwards from economics before adding traffic.

### 2. Inventory Traffic Sources

List owned, rented, paid, earned, and partner sources. For each, estimate:

- Buyer intent.
- Reach.
- Cost or effort.
- Speed to signal.
- Targeting precision.
- Control.
- Fit with the offer and conversion path.

### 3. Identify The Mastery Candidate

Recommend mastering one source before expanding when:

- The audience has the urgent problem.
- The source can produce measurable conversions.
- The economics can plausibly work.
- The team can learn it deeply enough to outperform average buyers.

Avoid shallow testing of many sources when one source deserves real mastery.

### 4. Sequence Expansion

Expand only after a source and funnel show signal. Prefer adjacent sources where
the same offer, message, or economics can transfer.

Expansion options:

- Paid search or high-intent traffic.
- Email and affiliate partners.
- Social or community traffic.
- Offline or niche media.
- Owned list development.

## Output Format

```markdown
# 80/20 Traffic Strategy

## Economics First
- Offer:
- Customer value:
- Allowable CAC:
- Current conversion path:

## Traffic Inventory
| Source | Intent | Reach | Cost/Effort | Speed | Fit |
|--------|--------|-------|-------------|-------|-----|

## Mastery Recommendation
- Source to master:
- Why this source:
- First test:
- Required tracking:

## Expansion Sequence
1. [Source] - [condition to expand]
2. [Source] - [condition to expand]
3. [Source] - [condition to expand]
```

## Quality Bar

- Do not recommend traffic before checking economics.
- Do not equate reach with quality.
- Prefer one mastered source over many shallow experiments.
- Separate list quality from list size.
- Define the condition for expansion before recommending expansion.

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