# Co marketing Human Guide

## What This Is For
Provides co-marketing strategist who helps SaaS companies identify ideal partners and brainstorm high-impact joint campaigns. It gives the agent a clearer input/output frame for co marketing: what context to ask for, what decisions to make, and what usable artifact to return.

Use this as a human-readable version of the Co marketing agent skill. It is meant for marketers, operators, founders, and other non-coders who want the workflow without reading agent-specific implementation instructions.

## When To Use This
- Use this when you need a repeatable process for co marketing.
- Use this when the task needs judgment, examples, constraints, or a clear output format rather than a one-off prompt.
- Use this when you want to hand an AI assistant enough context to produce a usable marketing artifact.

## When Not To Use This
- Do not use this when you only need a quick factual answer.
- Do not use this when the work depends on private data you cannot share with the assistant.
- Do not use this as a replacement for legal, compliance, financial, or medical review.

## What You Need Before Starting
- The goal or business outcome you want.
- The audience, customer segment, or market context.
- Any source material the assistant should respect, such as notes, briefs, examples, URLs, or brand guidance.
- Constraints such as tone, length, channel, deadline, region, or approval requirements.
- A clear definition of what a good final answer should look like.

## Step-By-Step Workflow
1. State the job clearly: "Use the Co marketing guide to help me with..."
2. Add context: audience, goal, offer, channel, source material, and constraints.
3. Ask the assistant to identify missing inputs before producing the final output.
4. Have the assistant follow the skill-specific guidance below.
5. Review the result against the final checklist and ask for revisions where needed.

## Skill-Specific Guidance
- Finding potential co-marketing partners
- Brainstorming campaign ideas with a specific partner
- Planning joint launches or promotions
- Structuring co-marketing agreements
- Same buyer persona, different problem solved
- Adjacent in the workflow (before, after, or alongside your tool)
- Similar company stage and customer size
- Complementary, not competitive
- What tools do your customers already use?
- What do they use before/after your product?
- Who else is selling to your ICP?
- Which integrations do customers request most?

## Decision Points And Nuance
The original skill emphasizes: Before Starting, When to Use This Skill, Partner Identification Framework, Audience Overlap Analysis, Partner Scoring Criteria, Where to Find Partners, Co-Marketing Campaign Types, Content Partnerships, Webinars & Events, Product & Integration Marketing.

Use these questions to steer the work:
- What is the intended audience or buyer?
- What source material must be preserved?
- What should the assistant optimize for: clarity, persuasion, accuracy, speed, creativity, or conversion?
- What examples represent the desired quality bar?
- What should the assistant avoid?

## Common Mistakes
- The best partners share your audience but don't compete for the same budget.
- | **browserbase** | Real Chromium when rendering, interaction, or session state is required | API + MCP (Stagehand); use when Firecrawl can't handle the page |
- Zero-dependency, single-file Node.js CLIs for tools that don't ship their own. See [`clis/README.md`](clis/README.md) for install instructions and usage.
- Use Cogny when you only need marketing channels and want to avoid running your own OAuth proxy. Prefer native APIs when you need deep, custom control of a single tool.

## Copy-And-Paste Prompt
```text
Use the Co marketing human guide.

My goal:
[Describe the business outcome]

Audience:
[Describe who this is for]

Context and source material:
[Paste notes, examples, links, or existing copy]

Constraints:
[Tone, length, channel, timeline, must-include items, must-avoid items]

Before producing the final output, ask me for any missing information that would materially improve the result.
```

## Final Checklist
- [ ] The output matches the original goal.
- [ ] The audience and context are reflected in the answer.
- [ ] Important constraints and source material were preserved.
- [ ] The assistant made the relevant decisions explicit.
- [ ] The final artifact is ready to use, review, or hand to the next person.

## Source
This guide was generated from the coreyhaines31/marketingskills skill entry for `co-marketing`.

## Source Skill Notes
These notes preserve the nuance from the original skill. Use them as supporting reference when the workflow above feels too generic.

You are a co-marketing strategist who helps SaaS companies identify ideal partners and brainstorm high-impact joint campaigns.

## Before Starting

**Check for product marketing context first:**
If `.agents/product-marketing.md` exists (or `.claude/product-marketing.md`, or the legacy `product-marketing-context.md` filename, in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.

## When to Use This Skill

- Finding potential co-marketing partners
- Brainstorming campaign ideas with a specific partner
- Planning joint launches or promotions
- Evaluating partnership fit
- Structuring co-marketing agreements

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## Partner Identification Framework

### 1. Audience Overlap Analysis

The best partners share your audience but don't compete for the same budget.

**Ideal partner characteristics:**
- Same buyer persona, different problem solved
- Adjacent in the workflow (before, after, or alongside your tool)
- Similar company stage and customer size
- Complementary, not competitive

**Questions to identify partners:**
- What tools do your customers already use?
- What do they use before/after your product?
- Who else is selling to your ICP?
- Which integrations do customers request most?

### 2. Partner Scoring Criteria

Rate potential partners (1-5) on:

| Criteria | What to Evaluate |
|----------|------------------|
| **Audience fit** | How closely does their audience match your ICP? |
| **Audience size** | Do they have reach worth partnering for? |
| **Brand alignment** | Would you be proud to be associated? |
| **Engagement quality** | Do they have an active, engaged audience? |
| **Reciprocity potential** | Can you offer them equal value? |
| **Ease of execution** | Do they have a partnerships team? History of co-marketing? |

### 3. Where to Find Partners

**Integration ecosystem:**
- Your existing integration partners
- Tools in the same app marketplace category
- Platforms your product plugs into

**Adjacent categories:**
- Tools that solve the problem before yours
- Tools that solve the problem after yours
- Tools used by the same role but different workflow

**Community signals:**
- Who sponsors the same podcasts/newsletters?
- Who exhibits at the same conferences?
- Who's active in the same communities?
- Whose content does your audience share?

**Data sources:**
- Crossbeam or Reveal for account overlap
- Customer surveys ("what else do you use?")
- G2/Capterra category neighbors
- Job postings mentioning your tool + others

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## Co-Marketing Campaign Types

### Content Partnerships

| Format | Effort | Lead Sharing | Best For |
|--------|--------|--------------|----------|