Expanding customer revenue: 5 key levers to drive business growth
Startup growth is a function of many hidden levers working independently and in tandem. Toggle these 5 key levers to drive your startup’s growth.
Why marketing your solution needs to start with product marketing
By implementing product marketing strategies into your marketing plan, you can make an impactful first impression, market to the right people, and create messaging that resonates with customers.
When to outsource product marketing
There tends to be confusion around the function of product marketing and when to bring it into your company but regardless of what stage you’re at, one thing holds true—product marketing is essential.
A guide to SEO for startup founders and marketers
Learn all about the benefits of SEO and how to get started with SEO to boost your search engine visibility and sales.
How to hire a marketing agency for your startup
Learn how startups can hire a marketing agency to help them launch and scale their brand.
The founder’s growth guide to content marketing
15 min read. Content marketing is a key growth strategy for startups and investing early can have a big long-term payoff. In this article, we cover what content marketing is, how to design a content marketing strategy based on your marketing funnel, and the best channels and formats to focus on.
Redjay’s positioning & messaging workshop: how the sausage gets made
8 min read. In our latest workshop, we’re taking you behind the scenes with Russ Thau, Founder & CEO of Redjay to show you how positioning & messaging come together in the early days.
Anatomy of a marketing team: who does what?
13 min. Full-scale marketing teams are a bit like a sports team or a fuse ball table. The people on them have a big range of talents and responsibilities and if you haven’t worked on or directly with a marketing team, it can be tough to understand the roles.
How to build switching costs into your product
13 min read. Getting married in Vegas is a lot like trying out new software. Getting started with a new spouse or tool for the first time is relatively easy, but leaving one for another can take months. The reason boils down to two words: “switching costs.”
9 Takeaways from ‘This is Marketing’ by Seth Godin
5 min read. This Is Marketing often tops the list of best marketing books and I highly recommend consuming it yourself. I listened to the audiobook and am sharing the key takeaways with you here.
The importance of creating a compelling brand story for your startup
9 min read. Before your startup gets traction or a sales pipeline, it lives in a vacuum. Potential customers don't know who you are, and they don't care to know unless you can display your value to them. That's where crafting a great brand story comes in.
The best tools for your marketing tech stack (plus pricing)
14 min read. There are 8,000 marketing tools and counting. In this post, we break down the key areas of martech, how they can help you grow, and how much they cost.
7 steps to include in your go-to-market strategy
13 min read. A product launch is a big milestone for any startup. Read on for how to gain more traffic, increase conversions, and ensure predictable revenue.
JUV has its positioning & messaging—now its ready to launch
5 min read. Jai Patel is on a mission to inspire busy people to maintain a healthy lifestyle with JUV, a juice press that pairs with the blender you already own. With design, prototyping, and production complete, he’s using The Founder’s Marketing Playbook to clarify JUV’s messaging and sell his first units.
7 crucial steps to start your SaaS sales process
12 min read. Sales. The lifeblood of any business — and the one thing most founders struggle to get right in the beginning. In this step-by-step guide, I’ll show you how to establish your first sales process so you can find product-market fit, close customers, and grow revenue.
MVP is dead. Launch your Minimum Marketable Product instead
55 min watch. In this talk we work with Santiago Suarez Ordonez, CEO & Co-Founder of Momentum to go beyond MVP and identify their Minimum Marketable Product to plan their next launch.
How Native Current’s brand positioning is driving product strategy
5 min read. Adam Cockell is on a mission to improve diversity at work through his Chrome extension, Native Current, which empowers recruiters to creatively expand their talent search to meet the demands of modern businesses. After some initial product adoption, he’s using The Founder’s Marketing Playbook to clarify his vision and accelerate his go-to-market strategy.
To craft great messaging, pretend your product fits in a box
6 min read. This is one of the most useful marketing tactics for crafting great product messaging. It fosters creativity, forces brevity, and drives lively discussions, and helps build consensus.
Talk: Live workshop to identify personas with the CEO & co-founder of Momentum
46 min watch. In this talk, we introduce the fundamentals of personas that will help you build an understanding of who your customers are which is critical to effectively designing, building, marketing, and selling products. Then we do a live working session with Santiago Suarez Ordonez, CEO & Co-Founder of Momentum to work through building their Proto-Personas.
How Momentum created a product 2-pager in 2 hours
4 min read. When Momentum got the chance to pitch to a big company, they knew they needed to not only ship a few features they’d been testing and nail the sales pitch—they also needed to produce a 2-pager that the prospect had asked for.