Indiverse Continuum

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Our Marketing

‘Our job is to understand exactly why your game fits with retailers, distribution, publishers, and buyers’
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As a product marketer for over a decade — having worked with the largest companies in the world, tiny startups, indie tabletop designers, and building my own companies — I’ve narrowed my view on marketing.
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Marketing is the process of

Identifying what consumers truly value.
Helping them realize that value, faster.
Here’s the hard truth: ​Marketing doesn’t sell games people don’t want to play.
If the value isn’t felt, doesn’t exist, or is misaligned — no amount of marketing will save your business.
Marketing is fuel.
It is not the fire.
We work with you to align product value with the market. We help you find the spark.
If it’s not burning yet, we help ignite the flame.
🚀 For creators navigating the chaos, noise, and pressure that hits post-crowdfunding, we give you product marketing tools, frameworks, and methods to move forward with clarity.

We are focused on product-alignment marketing.

Product Alignment Marketing (PAM) is our philosophy and practice focused on ensuring that marketing is tightly aligned with the actual product experience and the real needs of the target audience.
Instead of trying to force demand through persuasion, PAM emphasizes uncovering and amplifying product-market fit signals.

Principles of Product Alignment Marketing

This is what we’re all about...
Truth Over Hype Marketing should reflect reality. PAM rejects manipulation, gimmicks, and spin. If the product doesn’t work or fit a need, no amount of marketing will fix that.
Marketing, in fact, does not create needs. Consumers are highly capable and quickly understand the truth of your products value.
Customer-Led Positioning Messaging is derived from direct customer insight—what customers actually say, do, and value—not what marketers wish were true.
We’re purists when it comes to positioning, we believe Trout and Ries.
‘Positioning occurs only in the mind of the consumer’, not on a whiteboard, or a pitch deck.
Fit Before Scale Don’t scale marketing until you see organic signals of product-market fit (PMF). PAM focuses on small tests, feedback loops, and behavioral validation before major marketing investment.
Product-market fit is never solved by marketing, and
Your product-market fit is solely determined by the market.
We create tests and listen for signals that justify our marketing investment.
Clarity and Confidence PAM is designed to give us the clarity and confidence to act: clarity on what the product really does (in terms of perceived value) and confidence that it’s the right fit for the customers needs.
When we discover the value our market actually feels…
When we identify the position we actually can own…
When we know who needs it, where they are, and why they buy…
Our decisions become accurate. Our marketing becomes focused.
Narrative Emerges From Value Rather than inventing a “story,” PAM finds the natural, truthful narrative already embedded in how customers describe the games value.
Successful communication isn’t about saying everything.
It’s when we consistently say what needs to be said.
We listen for the story customers already use — we make it easier to repeat, and impossible to ignore.

What Product Alignment Marketing Isn't...

It’s not traditional, it’s fundamental.
We don’t just market the product — we align the product with the market.
It’s not about testing messages to see what sticks.
We begin with customer-led inputs — real language, real reactions.
It’s not a fix for a game that doesn’t fit the market.
We uncover the why and the why not, fast — so we can move with clarity.

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We set you up with the latest methods in product marketing, lifted straight from the greatest minds in startup and adapted for tabletop games.

We believe the customer knows best.

This protects us from marketing as if customers are zombies. It pulls us out of endless tactics and blurry brand marketing, and grounds us in what really matters:
Why someone cares about your game.
That’s where great marketing begins. And it ends when someone plays your game at a friends table — and buys it because it meant something.

No — the job isn’t to "do more marketing."

It’s to step back and find the fit you already have.
We help you become a detective — uncovering how value is transferred between your game and your audience.
What specifically makes people play it, talk about it, and share it?
We work with you to bottle that insight — and turn it into an engine.

There is no crystal ball for messaging and positioning.

That’s why we go straight to the source — to uncover the value your game holds in the minds of your customers.
‘Value is a perception, not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get.’ - Simon Sinek

Once you understand the real reason people talk about your game, bring it to friends, and spark new sales — marketing becomes clear.
Word of mouth begins to scale.
Retailers respond to growing demand.
Your growth becomes repeatable.
And most importantly — you’ll know how to do it again.
Not because we guessed.
Because we built a plan to find out — and discovered the answers together.

We live in the problem space.

We don’t throw a checklist of copy-paste marketing solutions at your game.
Because it’s not that easy — and it never was.
Before you can scale, you need to know exactly what’s working — and actually understand why.

‘If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.’ - Albert Einstein

We engage your recent customers. We ask what led to their purchase. Why did they bring it to game night? What happened at that game night that inspired others to buy?
Where were they?
Where do they spend their time?
Who do they listen to?
What were the exact words they used when pitching the game to their friends?
Why did they decide to use those words?

We turn those insights into a repeatable recipe.

We will do this for
Retail partners
Distribution partners
Backers
Repeat backers
Website customers, and more...
We don’t copy strategies that worked for someone else’s game.
We ask:
What’s the real value here?
Who actually feels it?
When does that moment of traction happen — and why?
We observe the moments where interest turns into action, and turn it into an engine.
Once you understand the real reason people talk about your game, bring it to friends, and spark new sales — marketing becomes simple.
Word of mouth, which is the critical lifeblood of indie games, starts to scale.
And we’ve achieved this together scientifically.
So you’ll know exactly how to make it happen again.
That’s marketing at Indiverse Continuum.


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