5 Things Startup Marketers Can Teach Big Companies
Are startup marketers getting smarter than their big company counterparts? At a time when marketing is rapidly changing, smaller agile companies are adjusting faster.
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Startup Storytelling and Media Coverage
You might not think you have stories to tell but stories can be found everywhere from current events to hiding in your own customer data.
My New Role as EIR at Communitech
I have a new role as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Communitech, one of North America’s largest and most exciting Innovation Hubs and Accelerator.
Startup Marketing Workshop
I’m an advisor to a startup in Toronto called HackerYou that provides hands-on project based learning for folks in the startup community. They asked me if I wanted to run a Startup Marketing workshop and I happily jumped at the opportunity. It’s happening in Toronto on Saturday and there are still spots available. The cost [...]
A Startup Customer Worksheet
Great marketing is based on a solid understanding of target customers. Here I’ve shared a customer worksheet that I’ve used in the past to help me track what is known and not known about my target buyers that I use as a foundation for building a marketing plan.
Extreme Customer Insights: A Startup Marketing Secret Weapon
In my first startup marketing job I was given the task of attempting to call a couple hundred customers to try to rustle up a dozen or so customer references. That task opened my eyes to how important customer insight was for our startup’s marketing efforts. I quickly learned that there we things things we [...]
Addressing the 3 Root Causes of Bad Marketing
This presentation is from a startup marketing workshop I gave this week. The deck covers how startup marketers can design a marketing plan and programs in a more strategic and less tactical way to address the 3 root causes of bad marketing.
Introducing RocketScope
I was busy last year. I spent the first two thirds of it helping Huawei launch its Enterprise business globally which was interesting, challenging and eye-opening all at once. I also did a handful of projects with startups that were much more within my comfort zone of developing operational marketing plans. The contrast between working [...]
Startup Branding and Selling to Martians
Should connecting emotionally with your customers be your marketing’s top priority? Not on planet startup it isn’t.
Growth Hacking and B2B Startups
I have an engineering background, I love metrics, I believe in experiments and I’m not afraid to get my hands dirty on the product side. Does that make me a Growth Hacker? Not so fast you B2B marketer you.
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