ETS Performance / Build Plans / Mankato
v1.0 · Draft May 2026
00PHASE 1 · MANKATO PILOT

The Mankato build plan.

Turning your workshop strategy into a working system. We start with the Go High Level automation foundation, then activate Meta ads, location-specific social, and SEO content on top.

Pilot Mankato
Window 10 weeks
First readout Week 8
Audience ETS Marketing Team
The governing tension
"The people most qualified to develop young athletes are systematically locked out of the industry designed to do it. The franchise model recruits investors. The athletes need coaches."
Every automation, ad, and post built in the next ten weeks reinforces this. From the Outsider Advantage workshop — March 2026.
01The foundation

What's already built.

The Mankato build doesn't start from zero. Three pieces of work were stood up before this engagement, and the four new workstreams plug straight into them.

ASTRATEGY

Outsider Advantage Workshop

Eight phases of strategic work completed in March. The Pyramid v3 — eight core features that resolve the tension. The four customer-extreme profiles. The narrative suite. The 100-competitor radar. The 90-day execution blueprint. The brand style guide. The brand spine for every automation, ad, post, and blog that follows.

BCONTENT

Go-to-Market Dashboard v3

A working content library. 27 strategy guides. 19 deliverable playbooks. 17 email campaigns. 6 lead magnets. A parent-focused quiz. A director-recruiting webinar. 10 long-form blog posts. AEO-optimized location pages. Social calendars for Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Nothing in Phase 1 starts as a blank page.

CINTELLIGENCE

ETS Pulse

A weekly autonomous routine. Fires every Monday at 7:00 AM Eastern. Competitive refresh. Voice-of-customer mining from public forums. AEO visibility check across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Deterministic week-over-week diff. Content draft inbox. Runs straight through the Mankato build. Outputs feed the new workstreams.

02The architecture

The build stack.

One foundation. Three agent teams stacked on top. Measurement already wired underneath. Everything draws from work you already own.

Acquisition & content layer WEEKS 5–10
Meta Ads PAID
SEO + Blog ORGANIC
Leads + inbound
Automation foundation WEEKS 1–5
GO HIGH LEVEL Capture Nurture Handoff
Qualified leads route to ETS sales team (their domain — we don't cross that line)
Measurement
Already in place CONFIRMED
GA4
Search Console
Gym Master
Working from
Outsider Advantage workshop deliverables / brand spine
GTM Dashboard v3 / content library
ETS Pulse / weekly competitive + AEO refresh
Mankato sales call recordings / voice source for GHL copy
Current KPI tracker / reporting baseline
03The sequence

Why the GHL foundation goes first.

The three agent teams above the foundation all generate the same thing: leads and inbound. None of those workstreams can produce real value if there's nowhere for the leads to land, no sequence to nurture them, and no automated handoff to your sales team.

Specifically:

  • Meta ads drive paid leads. Those leads need to hit a GHL form, get tagged by source, enter a nurture sequence, and trigger a handoff when they're qualified. Without GHL underneath, paid spend converts at agency baseline at best.
  • Social drives inbound DMs and link clicks. Those touchpoints need to route into GHL pipelines tied to the right location and lifecycle stage.
  • SEO and blog drive organic search traffic. Conversions on those pages need to log into GHL the same way as paid, so cost per lead is directly comparable across sources.

If we light up the acquisition layer before the foundation, we burn budget on leads we can't measure or nurture properly. Foundation first. Then we turn the taps on.

04The dual build

How we'll work together.

You stand up a brand-new Go High Level account for us to build inside. Could be the live Mankato account. Could be a clean sandbox we prove out first, then snapshot over. Your call. The live operation stays untouched during the build either way.

Your team

ETS marketing team owns

  • Brand voice direction
  • Touchpoint domain knowledge — "here's how we actually talk to a parent in Mankato today"
  • Draft approvals
  • GHL account provisioning
Our team

Flywheel owns

  • Workflow architecture
  • Integration plumbing
  • Copy drafting from your Mankato sales call recordings
  • End-to-end testing
Working rhythm stays open. Meetings as needed, ongoing collaboration on Slack. The build is iterative: we draft, you review, we adjust, we test, we ship.
05The transition

What ports over from the current agency.

The realistic plan is to treat this as a full rebuild. Anything the current agency releases — workflows, audience lists, copy, historical campaign data — is a bonus we fold in where it's usable. Anything they don't release, we rebuild from scratch using the workshop deliverables, your sales call recordings, and the content already produced in the GTM Dashboard.

We're scoping the 10-week window on the assumption that the rebuild is full. If portions of the current build come over cleanly, we accelerate. If nothing does, we still hit the milestones. The schedule is constructed that way on purpose.

06The work

The four workstreams.

One foundation, three acquisition layers, all running into the same measurement surface.

Workstream What it does Your team owns Our team owns
GHL Automations
Foundation WK 1–5
Lead capture, nurture sequences, SMS and email, scheduling, automated follow-up, handoff triggers to your sales team. Copy voice-sourced from your Mankato sales call recordings — so the automations sound like Mankato, not like generic GHL templates. Brand voice direction · touchpoint domain knowledge · draft approval · GHL account access Workflow architecture · integration plumbing · copy drafting · end-to-end testing
Meta Ads
Paid WK 5–10
Paid acquisition into the Mankato funnel. Audience targeting built from your Customer Extreme Profiles. Ad creative drawn from the workshop narrative suite. Leads land directly in GHL. Budget approval · creative review Account structure · audience builds · campaign launch · ongoing optimization
Location-Specific Social
WK 5–10
Organic Instagram and Facebook content cadence for Mankato. Voice-aligned to the workshop brand guide. Quality-control layer reviews every post before it publishes. Final publish approval · Mankato photo library Content drafts · scheduling · voice calibration
SEO + Blog Content
Organic WK 5–10
Geo-targeted blog posts (Mankato-first). Location-page meta and schema rewrites. Internal-link improvements. Two-week competitive refresh from ETS Pulse. Topical direction · final publish approval Drafts · on-page optimization · voice calibration
One important boundary on Workstream 1. We build automations that hand off to your sales team. We don't train sales reps, design the sales process, or own anything that happens after a qualified lead is routed. That part stays in your house.
07The schedule

Timeline.

Foundation first. Acquisition layers light up once the foundation is locked. Real decision gate at the 8-week mark.

01Week 1
GHL account provisioned. Touchpoint inventory session. Mankato customer journey mapped end-to-end. Sales call recordings transcribed, voice patterns extracted.
02Week 2
Workflow architecture drafted. Email and SMS copy first pass. Review with your marketing team.
03Week 3
Workflows built in GHL. Copy revisions based on Week 2 feedback. Internal end-to-end test.
04Week 4
Full automation flow tested with a live test contact. Your team reviews. Adjustments.
05Week 5
GHL foundation locked. Snapshot ready for Mankato transfer if built in sandbox. The three agent teams begin parallel build: Meta ads account setup, social content drafting, SEO content drafting.
06Weeks 6–7
First Meta campaign launches. First social posts publish (draft-approved). First blog posts publish.
08Week 8
First readout — decision gate. Conversion, CPL, organic ranking, and content velocity reported against baseline. Scope Phase 2 if the model is working. Calibrate if not.
09Weeks 9–10
Calibration based on the Week 8 readout. Phase 2 scoping conversation begins.
08Inputs

What we have. What we need.

Already in place

Confirmed accesses and assets received from your team.
  • GA4 access
    Confirmed
  • Google Search Console
    Confirmed
  • Gym Master access
    Confirmed
  • Mankato sales call recordings
    Received — will be the voice source for GHL automation copy
  • Current KPI tracker
    Received — our reporting baseline
  • Meta business portfolio
    In progress on our side

What we'll need to start

Five items. The kickoff session is the unlock for the rest.
  • GHL account access
    A brand-new Mankato account or a clean sandbox we can build inside
  • Mankato photo library
    For the social workstream. You may have sent something along these lines already — we'll confirm in the kickoff.
  • Anything the current agency releases
    Workflows, copy, audience lists, historical campaign data. Send as soon as you have it. We'll fold in what's usable.
  • A 30–45 minute kickoff working session
    Walk the Mankato customer journey end-to-end with someone who knows the current touchpoints firsthand
  • A point of contact
    One person on your team we can go to for fast Slack questions during the build
09The decision gate

What success looks like at Week 8.

We meet you where you measure today — your current KPI tracker is the baseline — and add agent-team-level metrics on top.

GHL Foundation
Response time on inbound. Sequence completion rate. Qualified-lead handoff volume to sales.
Meta Ads
Cost per lead. Return on ad spend. Click-through. Lead quality via sales-team feedback after handoff.
Engagement rate. Follower-to-lead conversion. Content velocity — posts shipped versus scheduled.
SEO + Blog
Organic traffic to Mankato pages. Keyword rank movement on Mankato-targeted terms. Blog-to-GHL conversion.

The 8-week readout is a real decision gate. If the model is working — cost parity or better versus the current agency baseline on existing operations, plus measurable lead flow from the new layers — we scope Phase 2 (the next two locations). If something underperforms, we calibrate before turning anything else on.

Next step

A 30-minute kickoff with your marketing team.

We walk the Mankato customer journey end-to-end and confirm the GHL account setup. Once you've reviewed this plan, we'll send a couple of times that work.

Schedule kickoff
Or reply to the email this plan came from — we'll find time.