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How I’ve evolved as
a marketer
and helped to grow Pipedrive from zero to 30,000+ paying customers
Andrus Purde, Head of Marketing @ Pipedrive
@andruspurde 2
Andrus who?
@andruspurde 3
Simple tool for managing complex
sales processes
2 months of Pipedrive for free, just use the promo code ELITECAMP
@andruspurde 4
Evolution of Pipedrive marketing
(and yours truly)
Weapons
of mass
distribution
Stage 4:Stage 3:
Time to
mobilize
Stage 2:
Scalable
“weapons”
Stage 1:
Hand-to-
hand
combat
@andruspurde 5
Feb$11& Mar$11& Apr$11& May$11& Jun$11& Jul$11& Aug$11& Sep$11& Oct$11& Nov$11& Dec$11& Jan$12&
“ Got a decent MVP. Got customer love.
Why are we not growing? “
@andruspurde 6
Stage 1: 2010 - 2011
hand-to-hand combat
@andruspurde
Feb-11M
ar-11Apr-11M
ay-11Jun-11
Jul-11Aug-11Sep-11O
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ec-11Jan-12Feb-12M
ar-12Apr-12M
ay-12Jun-12
Jul-12Aug-12Sep-12O
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ov-12D
ec-12Jan-13Feb-13M
ar-13Apr-13M
ay-13Jun-13
Jul-13Aug-13Sep-13O
ct-13N
ov-13D
ec-13Jan-14Feb-14M
ar-14Apr-14M
ay-14Jun-14
Jul-14Aug-14Sep-14O
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ec-14Jan-15Feb-15M
ar-15Apr-15M
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ar-16Apr-16M
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7
Growing a tech product starts
with the right product
in the hands of the right
costumers
Feb$11& Mar$11& Apr$11& May$11& Jun$11& Jul$11& Aug$11& Sep$11& Oct$11& Nov$11& Dec$11& Jan$12&
“ Why are we not growing? “
@andruspurde 8
Stage 2:
Scalable channels
@andruspurde 9
The Two Hedgehog marketing model
bit.ly/2Hedgehog
@andruspurde 10
Hedgehog #1 How to get referrals?

Great product, some triggers
bit.ly/referralspost
@andruspurde 11
@andruspurde 12
Hedgehog #2 Be findable.
@andruspurde 13
@andruspurde 14
Content marketing is very much part of
being findable. Here’s the first thing
we’ve learned about it.
@andruspurde 15
Content marketing is very much part of
being findable. Here’s the first thing
we’ve learned about it.
@andruspurde 16
And here’s the second thing:
there are only two ways to

do content marketing.
bit.ly/KWresearchPost
@andruspurde 17
Homepage CRO:
useful, but no silver bullet
@andruspurde 18
Removing hesitations: good
Removing the block that removes hesitations: even better
@andruspurde 19
Geo-target elements on website FTW
Lesson learned: document lessons learned
@andruspurde 20
Pipedrive’s marketing
(yours might look the same)
@andruspurde
Life Cycle Marketing / Onboarding
2 people

21
The Pipedrive marketing templ(at)e

2013-2015
Content

/ SEO

1-2 people

Paid

1 person

Growth

engineering

0 full-time
people

Referrals

0 full-time
people

+ Influence on
untracked
referrals
Analytics, User Insights, NPS, Product Marketing, Brand, Website
@andruspurde 22
Stage 3: General mobilization
@andruspurde 23
Brian Balfour
“ Growth = people + processes “
@andruspurde 24
Stage 4:
Develop weapons of mass distribution
@andruspurde 25
Everything is easier in hindsight.
Crashing hard is the best way to learn.
@andruspurde 26
No more slides. Now let’s talk.
Best places to find me: purde.net & andrus@pipedrive.com

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