6 To Fix
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Six Strategic Areas of Marketing to Grow a More Valuable Small Business.

Six marketing areas decide what an owner-operated business is actually worth — and marketing owns all six. 6 To Fix shows you how to build them so the value transfers, whether you stay and grow, sell, plan for succession, or step away. By Terry Sullivan — founder of Strategic Glue and author of three marketing textbooks.

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6 To Fix: Six Strategic Areas of Marketing to Grow a More Valuable Small Business, by Terry Sullivan
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The Framework · 6 To Fix

Six areas of marketing that make your business more valuable.

6 To Fix maps six marketing strategy areas to the value drivers a buyer pays for. Three are assets. Three are systems. Together they decide whether your marketing is creating transferable value — whether you're staying in your business or planning for a sale, succession, or stepping away.

Assets — what the business owns

Value that sits on the balance sheet as goodwill.
Brand · Brand Worth
Recognition and trust that belong to the company, not to you.
Customer · Customer Yield
A base that keeps buying — measured, not assumed.
Offering · Category Claim
A clear position a buyer can defend and price against.

Systems — how the business runs

Repeatable engines that work without the owner.
Communications · Demand Engine
Attention you can turn on — not just word of mouth.
Sales · Revenue Quality
A process that closes without you in every room.
Management · Transferable System
Documented so it survives a change of owner.
6 TO FIX SCORECARD Sample result · 18 questions · 6 areas 32 out of 54 Active but Undocumented BY AREA B C O Co S M
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What's inside

Not marketing theory. Practical insight from 35 years of experience.

This isn't recycled theory. It's the six areas Terry Sullivan has spent 35+ years watching decide what a business is actually worth — the ones that move enterprise value, the logic that connects them, and what to do about each one.

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The six areas, one at a time
Brand, Customer, Offering, Communications, Sales, and Management — what each one is, and why a buyer pays for it.
The 6-to-6 Bridge
How each marketing area maps to the value driver behind it, and how all six converge on goodwill — the premium above book value.
II
The two scoreboards
The gap between marketing activity and documented strategy — why one keeps the phone ringing and the other builds value that transfers.
The closing-table test
Six questions that reveal what actually transfers when an owner steps back — and what quietly walks out the door with you.
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The category error
Why marketing gets mistaken for websites, ads, and social — and what it actually owns in the value of your business.
Four owner outcomes
Stay and grow, sell, plan for succession, or go absentee — and how the same six areas serve every one of them.

A full-length book — the complete six-area method, worked one area at a time. Written for owner-operated businesses roughly $1M–$15M in revenue.

Book to program

The book shows the map. The program builds it.

6 To Fix — the book — lays out the method. The 6 To Fix Program is how Strategic Glue builds it into your business: from marketing that lives in the owner's head to marketing that runs as a documented, transferable system.

01 · Diagnose
Know where you stand
Score the six areas and find the gap between what you do and what's written down.
02 · Document
Get the strategy written down
Move each area out of your head and into a documented strategy a buyer or successor can use.
03 · Run
Run it as a system
Operate the strategy so it keeps working without your daily attention — the part that transfers.
Ready to build it, not just read it?See how the 6 To Fix Program turns the book's method into a documented system in your business.
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About the author
Terry Sullivan

6 To Fix was developed by Terry Sullivan — founder of Strategic Glue; four-time entrepreneur including a successful exit; consultant who has worked with hundreds of businesses over 35 years; published author of three marketing textbooks; and marketing professor.

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6 To Fix — the six areas that decide what your business is worth, and how to build them so they transfer.

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