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The language of the Gravity Funnel.

The framework keeps the funnel's vocabulary and adds a few words of its own. These are the terms used across the site, defined in one place.

The Gravity Funnel
The traditional marketing funnel reframed around gravity. A brand builds mass so customers are pulled toward it, rather than pushed through stages.
The Linear Funnel
The traditional funnel: customers enter at the top and descend through fixed stages toward a single exit. A model of attrition built on push mechanics.
Gravity
The pull a brand creates as it accumulates mass. The opposite engine to force: attention falls inward instead of being driven downward.
Mass
What a brand accumulates through visibility, repeated exposure, authority, and reputation. Enough mass produces pull.
Pull
Movement that comes inward on its own. Customers move toward brands they trust, without being pushed.
Push
The mechanic of the linear funnel: force applied to move a customer down through stages toward a single exit.
Customer Motion
The observation that customers never stop moving. They orbit a brand, pausing, leaving, and returning as trust and relevance compound.
Attraction
The engine of the Gravity Funnel. Rather than moving the customer, the brand becomes the thing customers move toward.
Trust
Credibility that compounds across encounters. As trust builds, the distance between customer and decision narrows.
Visibility
Being seen, repeatedly and in relevant contexts, including across AI systems. A primary source of a brand's mass.
Re-entry
A customer leaving and returning later, often from a new direction. Normal behavior the linear funnel had no way to draw.

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