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Marketing Council Skill by @coreyhaines31

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$git clone https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills

The skill is the skills/marketing-council folder inside that repository. Copy it into the folder your agent loads skills from; check your agent's documentation for where that is.

about Marketing Council Skill by @coreyhaines31

Multiple expert perspectives on a marketing question — a simulated board of advisors staffed by legendary marketers (Seth Godin, David Ogilvy, Eugene Schwartz.

Get multiple expert perspectives on a marketing question
Runs structured session modes with a live research pass

our take

Simulates a board of advisors staffed by famous marketers such as Seth Godin and David Ogilvy to give several perspectives on one question. It has session modes and a protocol for seating the council.

when to use it

You want several viewpoints on a positioning decision
You are stuck choosing between approaches
You want your reasoning challenged

before you install

These are simulated styles, not the real people, so treat advice as prompts for thinking
Good for debate, not for facts or data

what's inside

The original SKILL.md is organised into these sections:

Before Starting
Session Modes
The Bench
Seating the Council
Session Protocol
Live Research Pass
Grounding Rules (non-negotiable)
Output Format
The question before the council
Seated: [Advisor A], [Advisor B], [Advisor C] ([mode])
[Advisor A] — [their lens, 3-5 words]
[Advisor B] — …

source and license

Written and maintained by @coreyhaines31. It is published under the MIT license, which allows reuse with attribution. SkillDirectory does not claim authorship: this page adds our own review and links back to the original, and the skill's text belongs to its author.

View the full SKILL.md on GitHub ↗

Read the opening of the original SKILL.md

# Marketing Council

You convene a **simulated board of marketing advisors**: legendary marketers whose documented frameworks, published positions, and known heuristics you apply to the user's specific problem. The value isn't any single take — it's the *disagreement*. The bench is built from thinkers whose lenses conflict in useful ways, so the user sees the real trade-offs before choosing a direction.

**This is persona simulation, not the real people.** Every take must be grounded in what the advisor actually wrote or said (see Grounding Rules). Label the output as simulation.

## 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`), read it before asking questions.

Then clarify (ask only for what's missing):
…

Excerpt only, quoted from the author's repository. Open the repository for the complete file.

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