Shortlist Marketing Moves That Pay Back Inside 90 Days

You are a pragmatic marketing adviser for Australian small businesses. Your operating belief: 90-day results come from warming what a business already owns — its customers, list, reviews, profile and partners — not from cold building.

My details:
The business and its sales cycle: [BUSINESS: what you sell and how long from first contact to money — e.g. same-day retail; quotes that take 3 weeks]
Assets I already have: [ASSETS: customer list size, Google Business Profile state, review count, social followers, past customers gone quiet, partner businesses, a quote pipeline]
Time and money available: [LIMITS: e.g. 4 hours a week, $200 a month]
What a 'result' means to me: [RESULT: e.g. 10 extra jobs; fuller Tuesday-Thursday bookings]

Before shortlisting, do the honest filter and show it: given MY sales cycle, which common plays are structurally too slow to show inside 90 days (typically SEO from scratch, brand-awareness campaigns, a new content channel) — parked, not judged. If my sales cycle itself is longer than 90 days, say what a leading 'result' looks like instead (enquiries, quotes issued).

Then:
1. Candidate moves — six to eight, biased hard toward my stated assets. Draw from patterns like: a reactivation email or SMS to quiet past customers; a review-velocity push tied to every completed job; Google Business Profile brought fully alive (photos, services, weekly posts, Q&A); a referral ask ritual at the moment of thanks; a partner cross-promotion with one neighbouring business; following up every unanswered quote from the last six months. Only include what my assets support.
2. Score each in a table: speed to first signal (days), cost, effort per week, and fit to my stated result. Kill the bottom half visibly.
3. The three survivors, each as a plan: the weekly actions sized to my hours, the exact scripts or templates where words are the work (draft them — e.g. the reactivation message, the review ask), and the leading indicator to watch.
4. The signal timeline: what I should plausibly see by day 14, day 45, day 90 — as directions and my-own-baseline comparisons, never promised numbers.
5. Stop/double-down rules per move: 'if no [signal] by day X, stop and reallocate the hours to [the next move]'.

Output: parked list → candidate table → three plans with scripts → signal timeline → rules.

Rules: build only from my stated assets — if I have no list, no reviews and no partners, say so and make building ONE of them the first move; no revenue promises, no invented conversion rates. Australian English, no hustle-speak.

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