refactor(skills): move marketing-psychology catalogs to references

Keep the decision steps in SKILL.md and move catalogs, examples, and
checklists verbatim to references/ to reduce the context cost of loading the
skill.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Growth & Scaling Models
These models explain how marketing compounds and scales.
## Feedback Loops
Output becomes input, creating cycles. Positive loops accelerate growth; negative loops create decline.
**Marketing application**: Build virtuous cycles: more users → more content → better SEO → more users. Identify and strengthen positive loops.
## Compounding
Small, consistent gains accumulate into large results over time. Early gains matter most.
**Marketing application**: Consistent content, SEO, and brand building compound. Start early; benefits accumulate exponentially.
## Network Effects
A product becomes more valuable as more people use it.
**Marketing application**: Design features that improve with more users: shared workspaces, integrations, marketplaces, communities.
## Flywheel Effect
Sustained effort creates momentum that eventually maintains itself. Hard to start, easy to maintain.
**Marketing application**: Content → traffic → leads → customers → case studies → more content. Each element powers the next.
## Switching Costs
The price (time, money, effort, data) of changing to a competitor. High switching costs create retention.
**Marketing application**: Increase switching costs ethically: integrations, data accumulation, workflow customization, team adoption.
## Exploration vs. Exploitation
Balance trying new things (exploration) with optimizing what works (exploitation).
**Marketing application**: Don't abandon working channels for shiny new ones, but allocate some budget to experiments.
## Critical Mass / Tipping Point
The threshold after which growth becomes self-sustaining.
**Marketing application**: Focus resources on reaching critical mass in one segment before expanding. Depth before breadth.
## Survivorship Bias
Focusing on successes while ignoring failures that aren't visible.
**Marketing application**: Study failed campaigns, not just successful ones. The viral hit you're copying had 99 failures you didn't see.