Whether you're a product marketer, growth marketer or customer marketer, you'll be able to use the 7 steps in this guide to nail your next product launch and drive demand.
Modern marketing organizational structure @kaykas - jascha kaykas-wolffJascha Kaykas-Wolff
Organizational design and restructuring is not new. But, with the requirement to create data-driven marketing organizations and support marketers who show bottom line results more emphasis is being placed on marketing leaders to structure their teams and business in a way that is agile and impactful.
Reflecting on this, and doing some additional research of my own, I was struck by the lack of published material describing how one might go about building a marketing organization that addresses business challenges happening right now and most importantly that can drive results right now.
Over the past several years as I’ve been fortunate to lead marketing organizations for enterprise and mid-market businesses. During this time I’ve developed an organizational playbook that can scale to virtually any size of business, is highly adaptable, and has a proven track record for success.
Enclosed is the core framework for what I believe is an ideal composition for the modern marketing organization. I’m looking forward to your feedback. - Jascha
Every venture capitalist, board member and startup advisor counsels the entrepreneur to focus on building their minimum viable product (MVP). But how exactly does a company build out its MVP? Learn how the right framework guides your development from MVP to a mature product.
31 growth hacking resources for startup marketers covering newsletters, podcasts, books, communities, and blogs. Bonus Twitter list of growth hackers to follow included.
Everything I needed to know about marketing I learned playing Dungeons and Dr...Ian Lurie
No, seriously. There are great marketing lessons in the game of Dungeons & Dragons. This is a updated, annotated version of a presentation I've given three times now.
Modern marketing organizational structure @kaykas - jascha kaykas-wolffJascha Kaykas-Wolff
Organizational design and restructuring is not new. But, with the requirement to create data-driven marketing organizations and support marketers who show bottom line results more emphasis is being placed on marketing leaders to structure their teams and business in a way that is agile and impactful.
Reflecting on this, and doing some additional research of my own, I was struck by the lack of published material describing how one might go about building a marketing organization that addresses business challenges happening right now and most importantly that can drive results right now.
Over the past several years as I’ve been fortunate to lead marketing organizations for enterprise and mid-market businesses. During this time I’ve developed an organizational playbook that can scale to virtually any size of business, is highly adaptable, and has a proven track record for success.
Enclosed is the core framework for what I believe is an ideal composition for the modern marketing organization. I’m looking forward to your feedback. - Jascha
Every venture capitalist, board member and startup advisor counsels the entrepreneur to focus on building their minimum viable product (MVP). But how exactly does a company build out its MVP? Learn how the right framework guides your development from MVP to a mature product.
31 growth hacking resources for startup marketers covering newsletters, podcasts, books, communities, and blogs. Bonus Twitter list of growth hackers to follow included.
Everything I needed to know about marketing I learned playing Dungeons and Dr...Ian Lurie
No, seriously. There are great marketing lessons in the game of Dungeons & Dragons. This is a updated, annotated version of a presentation I've given three times now.
Why do startups need a minimum viable product (MVP)? How do we define the features for a MVP? What are the principles that we can use to move the team towards building that MVP which can be subjected to a lot of distractions in the market? In this session, I will guide the students in Singapore University of Technology & Design on a product development session and teach them to think, construct and work out a MVP.
Here’s The Deck Andy Raskin Called “The Greatest Sales Pitch I’ve Seen All Year”Drift
Andy Raskin has led strategic story training at Uber, Intel, Yelp, General Assembly and Stanford and called this the greatest sales pitch he's seen all year. Have a look.
Motivate Design Presents the What If TechniqueMona Patel
Why "what if"...?
The What If Technique tackles the challenge of engaging a disruptive mindset when it comes to design thinking and crafting user experiences.
Thinking disruptively is a disruptive thing to do, which means it's a very hard thing to do, especially when you add in risk-averse business leaders and company cultures.
The What If Technique offers key steps, tools and examples to help you achieve incremental changes that promote disruptive thinking and lead to big, innovative differences for business leaders, companies, and ultimately user experiences and products.
Want help with your What Ifs? Check out http://www.motivatedesign.com. Or, gives us a "Hey, you there!" at http://www.motivatedesign.com/contact-us
A primer to growth hacking. Starts with the story of one of the web's most legendary growth hacks, then gets into what growth hacking is and how you can put it to work for your company. Originally presented at Growth Hacking Asia Singapore in Nov 2014
Tired of losing sales pitches? Look no further, get some timeless advice from high-stakes presentation consultant: Cliff Atkinson on how to throw out your old sales pitch and make your next one count.
Download here: http://www.paywithapost.de/pay?id=80eb8437-7393-4e61-b8a6-175d76d9eb5b
Lean Analytics for Startups and EnterprisesLean Analytics
Latest Lean Analytics workshop from the Lean Startup Week in San Francisco. Focusing on what metrics matter to both startups and big corporations. Incorporates elements of corporate innovation into the Lean Analytics framework to help bigger companies think through the data that really matters.
You know that word-of-mouth marketing is effective, but how do you do it well? We've distilled really good tips from Dan Martell's "Breaking Down the Methodology Behind Word of Mouth Marketing" and Paul Jankowski's "4 Tactics to Build your Word of Mouth" and illustrated them with case studies and statistics. Enjoy!
Sales Decks for Founders - Founding Sales - December 2015 Peter Kazanjy
Presentation on "sales decks for founders" covering the best way to present your new technology product to a business-to-business buyer.
Presentation is an adaption of a chapter from Founding Sales (book on technology sales for founders and other first-time sellers): https://twitter.com/FoundingSales
Chapter excerpt here: http://firstround.com/review/building-your-best-sales-deck-starts-here/
Pitching Ideas: How to sell your ideas to othersJeroen van Geel
Learn how to convince others of your UX ideas by understanding them.
We are good in designing usable and engaging products and services. We understand the user's needs and have a toolkit with dozens of deliverables. But for some reason it remains difficult to sell an idea or concept to team members, managers or clients. After this session that problem will be solved!
Selling your ideas and convincing others is one of the most undervalued assets in our field. This ranges from convincing a colleague to use a certain design pattern to selling research to your boss and convincing a client to go for your concept. You can come up with the best ideas in the world, but if it is presented in the wrong way these ideas will die a lonely dead. This is sad, because everybody can learn how to bring a message across. The main thing is that you know what to pay attention to.
In this session I will take you on a journey through the world of presenting ideas. We will move through the heads of clients and your colleagues, learn what their thoughts and needs are. We will move to the core of your idea and into the world of psychology.
This is a presentation that I gave to a USF Masters of Business Administration class on Brand Planning for Clients. My hope was to share some thoughts with the future generation of clients on planning, positioning, relevance and new product development.
How to build a brand for your business, products, and even yourself.
Perry Belcher explains how brands affect our brains and our desire to buy, connect, and more.
Perry covers positioning, emotional words, colors, typography, and more.
Perry describes brands as vessels filled with elements that make people feel something.
A lot happens before you order a logo.
Digital Strategy 101 is an overview of the current state of digital strategy and an exploration of core concepts, deliverables, and thought-leaders relevant to young practitioners.
A workshop on how to pitch your startup idea in a pitch competition. Tailored to the Pitch Originator program, run by 'the GENERATOR', Monash University's entrepreneurship support initiative.
Growth Hacking / Marketing 101: It's about processRuben Hamilius
Outline of the repeatable growth process startups should adopt to do Growth Marketing. Show & tell deck on basic principles and mindsets of Growth hacking for early stage startups.
Presented at the Singtel Group-Samsung Regional Mobile App Challenge 2015
in the Startup Mentorship Programme
High Tempo Testing is about setting a weekly testing goal and finding a way to hit it. This requires a process, which is shared in these slides. The slides show how the right process can help you overcome the challenges of high tempo testing and hit your growth goals.
Building the Ultimate Full Company Growth TeamSean Ellis
The goal of any company with a valuable product is to scale adoption by qualified customers. This generally requires establishing a "north star metric" and managing growth against that metric. These slides show how you can build a core growth team that coordinates the efforts of the full company to drive sustainable growth. It is important that every idea be treated as a test. The more tests you run the more learning you gain for growing the company. But running a lot of tests requires a process that is explained in the slides.
Why do startups need a minimum viable product (MVP)? How do we define the features for a MVP? What are the principles that we can use to move the team towards building that MVP which can be subjected to a lot of distractions in the market? In this session, I will guide the students in Singapore University of Technology & Design on a product development session and teach them to think, construct and work out a MVP.
Here’s The Deck Andy Raskin Called “The Greatest Sales Pitch I’ve Seen All Year”Drift
Andy Raskin has led strategic story training at Uber, Intel, Yelp, General Assembly and Stanford and called this the greatest sales pitch he's seen all year. Have a look.
Motivate Design Presents the What If TechniqueMona Patel
Why "what if"...?
The What If Technique tackles the challenge of engaging a disruptive mindset when it comes to design thinking and crafting user experiences.
Thinking disruptively is a disruptive thing to do, which means it's a very hard thing to do, especially when you add in risk-averse business leaders and company cultures.
The What If Technique offers key steps, tools and examples to help you achieve incremental changes that promote disruptive thinking and lead to big, innovative differences for business leaders, companies, and ultimately user experiences and products.
Want help with your What Ifs? Check out http://www.motivatedesign.com. Or, gives us a "Hey, you there!" at http://www.motivatedesign.com/contact-us
A primer to growth hacking. Starts with the story of one of the web's most legendary growth hacks, then gets into what growth hacking is and how you can put it to work for your company. Originally presented at Growth Hacking Asia Singapore in Nov 2014
Tired of losing sales pitches? Look no further, get some timeless advice from high-stakes presentation consultant: Cliff Atkinson on how to throw out your old sales pitch and make your next one count.
Download here: http://www.paywithapost.de/pay?id=80eb8437-7393-4e61-b8a6-175d76d9eb5b
Lean Analytics for Startups and EnterprisesLean Analytics
Latest Lean Analytics workshop from the Lean Startup Week in San Francisco. Focusing on what metrics matter to both startups and big corporations. Incorporates elements of corporate innovation into the Lean Analytics framework to help bigger companies think through the data that really matters.
You know that word-of-mouth marketing is effective, but how do you do it well? We've distilled really good tips from Dan Martell's "Breaking Down the Methodology Behind Word of Mouth Marketing" and Paul Jankowski's "4 Tactics to Build your Word of Mouth" and illustrated them with case studies and statistics. Enjoy!
Sales Decks for Founders - Founding Sales - December 2015 Peter Kazanjy
Presentation on "sales decks for founders" covering the best way to present your new technology product to a business-to-business buyer.
Presentation is an adaption of a chapter from Founding Sales (book on technology sales for founders and other first-time sellers): https://twitter.com/FoundingSales
Chapter excerpt here: http://firstround.com/review/building-your-best-sales-deck-starts-here/
Pitching Ideas: How to sell your ideas to othersJeroen van Geel
Learn how to convince others of your UX ideas by understanding them.
We are good in designing usable and engaging products and services. We understand the user's needs and have a toolkit with dozens of deliverables. But for some reason it remains difficult to sell an idea or concept to team members, managers or clients. After this session that problem will be solved!
Selling your ideas and convincing others is one of the most undervalued assets in our field. This ranges from convincing a colleague to use a certain design pattern to selling research to your boss and convincing a client to go for your concept. You can come up with the best ideas in the world, but if it is presented in the wrong way these ideas will die a lonely dead. This is sad, because everybody can learn how to bring a message across. The main thing is that you know what to pay attention to.
In this session I will take you on a journey through the world of presenting ideas. We will move through the heads of clients and your colleagues, learn what their thoughts and needs are. We will move to the core of your idea and into the world of psychology.
This is a presentation that I gave to a USF Masters of Business Administration class on Brand Planning for Clients. My hope was to share some thoughts with the future generation of clients on planning, positioning, relevance and new product development.
How to build a brand for your business, products, and even yourself.
Perry Belcher explains how brands affect our brains and our desire to buy, connect, and more.
Perry covers positioning, emotional words, colors, typography, and more.
Perry describes brands as vessels filled with elements that make people feel something.
A lot happens before you order a logo.
Digital Strategy 101 is an overview of the current state of digital strategy and an exploration of core concepts, deliverables, and thought-leaders relevant to young practitioners.
A workshop on how to pitch your startup idea in a pitch competition. Tailored to the Pitch Originator program, run by 'the GENERATOR', Monash University's entrepreneurship support initiative.
Growth Hacking / Marketing 101: It's about processRuben Hamilius
Outline of the repeatable growth process startups should adopt to do Growth Marketing. Show & tell deck on basic principles and mindsets of Growth hacking for early stage startups.
Presented at the Singtel Group-Samsung Regional Mobile App Challenge 2015
in the Startup Mentorship Programme
High Tempo Testing is about setting a weekly testing goal and finding a way to hit it. This requires a process, which is shared in these slides. The slides show how the right process can help you overcome the challenges of high tempo testing and hit your growth goals.
Building the Ultimate Full Company Growth TeamSean Ellis
The goal of any company with a valuable product is to scale adoption by qualified customers. This generally requires establishing a "north star metric" and managing growth against that metric. These slides show how you can build a core growth team that coordinates the efforts of the full company to drive sustainable growth. It is important that every idea be treated as a test. The more tests you run the more learning you gain for growing the company. But running a lot of tests requires a process that is explained in the slides.
Agile Marketing Meetup: Moving Beyond the Marketing Plan So You Remain RelevantSean Ellis
Annual marketing plans can't keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of digital marketing acquisition channels and tactics. To remain relevant, CMOs and marketing teams need to completely rethink their marketing/growth approach. This presentation highlights the agile process that today's fastest growing companies are adopting - from building the right team to executing an agile marketing process.
Product managers drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. In this presentation I share my lessons learned on the art behind each of these four dimensions of product management.
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26 topline marketing strategies to launch a new brand, product or service. Includes a 1 page summary outlining the pros and cons of each approach as well as best in class examples. Designed as flashcards so that it can be printed out to help stimulate brainstorm sessions.
Let's talk about the job of a product manager and how to do it really well. Based off of this post: https://medium.com/@joshelman/a-product-managers-job-63c09a43d0ec#.v0kdyf816
This is Prateek Mishra from Ramaiah institute of management studies, Bangalore and the following presentation gives an overview of launch of a hypothetical product into the market.
Driving Success in the Subscription EconomyZuora, Inc.
Your customers want a new way to relate to you. Build a business that embraces the subscription economy by following these six key steps to success. www.zuora.com
The In‐Cosmetics 2013 exhibition held in Paris on 16th – 18th April, 2013, truly is the leading global business platform for personal care. Inside the “In Cosmetics” exposition, it was possible to see there is a clear trend toward natural products. There were lots of novel cosmetic oils from the Amazon, fragrant essential oils from Nepal, and Kampo traditional herbal skin formulas from Japan – all prepared in forms that make them ideal for use in cosmetic, skin and hair care products. Where once laboratory chemistry appeared to reign supreme, nature is re‐establishing dominance...
http://productprosystems.com - The Product Creation Manifesto is a guide to information marketing and creating information products. Written by Greg Rollett, the ProductPro, this guide will show you the "why" behind recording your own info products as well as practical tips that walk you through the creation of your very own information marketing products.
The Minimum Loveable Product: Go Beyond the Minimum Viable ProductDialexa
Minimum Viable Products (MVP) rarely make "good" products. We discuss an alternative: the Minimum Loveable Product. In the world of platform engineering, coordinating your software (and perhaps hardware teams) to deliver a valuable product that your target audience will use is critical to success.
http://by.dialexa.com/beyond-the-minimum-viable-product-why-you-should-build-a-minimum-loveable-product
Journey to product / market fit explained. What do the start-up's first stages look like and what you should keep in mind when identifying a problem worth solving, creating a product and getting your first customers
12 Steps to Effective Growth Hacking (www.wepullthetrigger.com)Trigger
Do you consider growth hacking to be a fluffy concept and practice? Are you unsure how to crack the code on how to get started? Good news ahead. We have broken down the process in 12 effective steps that will help you kick off your growth (hacking) efforts. Let's get started!
Harlan T. Beverly explains how Sales and Marketing should be done for Startups. The lean start-up method is assumed; including the Minimum Viable Product, and a new idea: The Minimum Viable Marketing.
At Pragmatic Marketing, we’ve worked with thousands of high-tech companies—so we’re no strangers to innovation.
And we’ve recently completed some innovation of our own, restructuring our curriculum to offer more of what the market has told us it wants. You see, the market should be at the center of every innovation effort you make. As Neil Baron puts it in this issue’s feature article, “A valuable innovation delivers an improved customer experience as a result of a better way of doing things.”
In addition to Baron’s view, Paul Brooks helps you decide whether what you’re contemplating is actually a bad idea. Jessica Dugan provides tips to get past the hang-ups that are holding you back, and Eric Doner shows you how to foster innovation in your organization—all in hopes of helping you do your own innovating in a way that’s valued by your customers.
This issue is also full of best practices and examples of how to approach content, mobile products, competitive analysis, and much more.
As Peter Drucker once said, “Business has only two functions: marketing and innovation.” This issue strives to help you do both.
Sincerely,
Craig Stull, Founder/CEO
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What does it mean to be a product marketer? What responsibilities do product marketers have?
Learn the answers to this, plus tips for elevating your company's product marketing here: https://www.drift.com/blog/what-is-product-marketing/
State of Conversational Marketing 2019 [Free Report]Drift
What does a great customer experience look like today? In a world where we now expect instant responses to our questions, and where we can order just about anything online with a few clicks and have it delivered to our door that same day, how can SaaS and B2B companies up their game in order to meet (and exceed) those new expectations?
At Drift, we decided to team up with our friends at SurveyMonkey Audience to find out.
In our new report, the 2019 State of Conversational Marketing, we explore how and why customer expectations are evolving and highlight key conversational marketing trends and benchmarks that will help your company become more customer-centric (and, in turn, drive more revenue).
To download the full report, go to: https://www.drift.com/state-of-conversational-marketing/
Introducing Drift Sequences: Sales Email Built to Drive Conversations, Not SpamDrift
The days of spray and pray are over. The best sales reps are helpful and personal. They are tour guides – more likely to be a product expert than a pushy salesperson.
While the way you and I buy things has changed, the tools have not.
Most sales reps rely on spray and pray tactics – how many emails can they send in order to book a meeting? It’s just a numbers game.
Today's sales email tools were built for yesterday's sales person.
Or as our CEO, David Cancel, would put it “they are perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.”
That’s because traditional sales email tools are designed for spray and pray tactics – instead of conversations.
Last October, we launched part one of our reinvention: a Drift Chrome Extension that connects your outbound prospecting to real-time messaging on your website.
Today, we’re announcing Drift Sequences, sales email re-designed to help sales reps start more high quality conversations with their prospects.
When we launched Drift back in 2016, we were a messaging tool, plain and simple. But as we talked to the marketers and salespeople using our product day after day, week after week, month after month, and incorporated their feedback into the product, Drift began to evolve.
Today, what started out as a messaging tool has become the world’s first conversational marketing and sales platform.
And we’re pumped to announce that with the launch of our developer platform, now everyone can build on top of Drift.
The 3 Secrets Behind Zoom’s Triple-Digit GrowthDrift
If you work in the tech world, chances are you’ve heard of — or more likely, you’ve used — the video conferencing application Zoom.
At Drift, Zoom has become our go-to tool for running company meetings and hosting webinars.
And based on Zoom’s 700,000 business customers, which include half of the companies in the Fortune 50, it’s clear that a lot of other teams are seeing its value, too.
But it’s not just businesses using Zoom.
Zoom’s customer base also boasts 6,900 educational institutions, which includes 90 percent of the top 200 U.S. universities.
All customers considered, Zoom’s revenue grew nearly 300% in 2016, which marked the company’s fourth consecutive year of triple-digit growth.
To support that growth, Zoom has built offices in San Jose, Santa Barbara, Denver, Kansas City, Sydney, and London. Overall, the company now employs 600+ people.
By all measures, Zoom has become a hypergrowth company, joining the likes of Slack and MailChimp.
And following a $100 million series D led by Sequoia, Zoom has also become a “unicorn,” as their valuation has now stretched beyond $1 billion. (Although here’s a fun fact: Zoom’s founder and CEO Eric Yuan hates the term “unicorn,” and tells Zoom employees not to use it.)
After reviewing all of these stats, and remembering the ridiculous timeframe in which all of this happened, it begs the question:
How the heck did Zoom do it?
The way people research and buy products has fundamentally shifted.
These days, people prefer having conversations over filling out lead capture forms (81% don't fill out the form when they encounter gated content).
And 66% prefer real-time messaging for talking to businesses over any other communication channel.
To help you better understand what this new marketing and sales landscape looks like, we teamed up with our friends at Clearbit to create the first-ever State of Conversational Marketing report.
My 3 Biggest Discoveries of the Past 20 YearsDrift
Drift co-founder and CEO David Cancel's presentation from HYPERGROWTH 2017. Learn about the 3 biggest discoveries of David's 20+ year career building companies and developing tools for marketing and sales teams.
How to Make the Switch to Conversation-Driven SalesDrift
For years, sales and marketing teams have been focused on using the “form and follow-up” approach to capturing and qualifying leads.
We’re all familiar with how this works:
Step 1: Drive people to your website (e.g. via content, social, paid ads, outbound email, etc.)
Step 2: Make those people fill out lead capture forms
Step 3: Email them, or call them, or dump them into an automated “nurturing” flow
For more than a decade now, step one has been getting all the attention, as we’ve been innovating new ways to attract website visitors and track down leads.
Step two, meanwhile, has remained unchanged, and that’s a problem. Because today’s buyers are getting fed up with filling out lead capture forms. As RapidMiner CMO Tom Wentworth explained, the people who visit your website are coming there for a reason (so why waste their time by making them fill out a form?).
People who come to our website aren’t coming there because they want to surf our site, they’re coming there because they have a specific problem, whether it’s a question about our product or what it does, whether it’s some technical support they need, or whether it’s they want to talk to someone in sales.
Using the traditional approach, you would make all of those website visitors fill out forms and then you’d sort them all out later — including the folks who were interested in talking to sales.
But as more and more companies (RapidMiner included) have started to see, by adopting a conversational approach, and engaging with website visitors in real-time, sales reps can create a fast lane for their best leads.
Think about it: With the old way, you’re forcing leads to hurry up and wait. You’re investing all of this time and energy getting leads to your site, but as soon as they get there, BAM. You put up a lead capture form — a barrier.
With conversation-driven selling, you pull down these barriers and give your company’s best leads a direct, real-time line to your sales team. You give leads the power to reach out when it’s convenient for them, and — with the help of intelligent chatbots — you can answer their questions and schedule demos 24/7, 365.
As a result, your sales cycle becomes shorter (example: ThriveHive has seen their sales cycle shrink by 63% after adopting a conversational approach), and you add to your sales pipeline (example: conversations have influenced 25% of RapidMiner’s open sales pipeline, worth more than $1 million).
Ready to see how Tom and thousands of other companies have been using conversation-driven selling to supercharge sales? Check out this SlideShare.
After talking to thousands of customers, what we’ve heard loud and clear (and maybe you’ve felt this, too) is that something is broken with the way we market and sell.
Over the past several years, we’ve become obsessed with tracking and measuring every metric imaginable: hits, clicks, emails, dials, and so on.
We’ve become so focused on things like A/B testing, retargeting, email blasts, robocalls, form fills, marketing-qualified leads (MQLs), and sales-qualified leads (SQLs), that we’ve lost track of what really matters.
At some point, being data-driven started being more important than being customer-driven.
As a result, the buying experience most companies provide has become cold and impersonal. For many marketing and sales teams, their leads have become faceless entities that exist only inside of spreadsheets -- they aren’t treated like actual people.
Not only is it a terrible experience for potential customers, it’s also bad for business.
There’s a reason why only 43% of people answer cold calls, and the average email open rate is about 20%, and the average landing page conversion rate is just 2.35% …
The way we’ve been doing marketing and sales is broken.
The good news? You already know how to fix it, because the solution has always been there:
We need make business personal again.
So that’s exactly what we’re doing, and thousands of businesses are doing it with us. And the way we’re doing it is by putting one-to-one communication and dialogue back at the center of everything.
We’re replacing traditional marketing with conversational marketing.
Keep reading to learn more about what conversational marketing is, what kind of results it’s been driving for businesses, and how you can implement conversational marketing at your business.
Why do some companies, products, services, and ideas achieve Hypergrowth, while others only capture a small portion of a market?
That’s the question I was trying to answer when I came up with the Hypergrowth Curve.
The curve consists of three stages of growth that every breakthrough company, product, service, or idea transitions through. And in each stage, the strategy and focus totally shifts.
In the first stage on the Hypergrowth Curve, you’re building a product and finding your tribe. You’re seeing if the idea is even possible.
In the second stage, you’ve found product/market fit and are now focused on rolling out your invention to the masses.
Finally, in the third stage, you’re focused on building a global brand and dominating an entire category (or micro-niche).
For years now, the lead capture form has been a favorite tool in the marketer's tool belt. But do forms actually work? We wanted to use data to explore how today’s lead forms are performing, as well as how leads and customers like using traditional communication channels associated with forms (i.e. phone and email). Learn more here: https://blog.drift.com/truth-about-forms/
David Cancel's presentation slides from the 2017 Revenue Summit conference. Look back 5-10 years ago, and sales and marketing teams were all focused on this same thing: Attracting website visitors. Back then, everyone was asking questions like…How do I rank higher in search? How frequently should I be posting on social media sites? How long should my emails subject line be?
Some people are still asking these questions today, but for the most part these are questions that we’ve already found the answers to.People have figured out how to attract attention and get awareness and get people to their websites, thanks in part to all of the technology that’s been developed: marketing automation software, social media management software, blogging software with built-in SEO tools, and the list goes on.
That was the first wave in sales and marketing.
Now it’s time to move on to the next wave.
Businesses talk about branding all the time. What’s the #1 common thread that I hear? “We need brand standards!”
We were getting a lot of questions about how we think about branding at Drift, so we created a brand guide to share our approach. In this book we cover our mission, values, culture, logos, typography, colors, editorial voice, social media voice, and visual branding.
Branding is so much more than a logo. That's why we break down our core brand values — and core value number three is Transparency.
So sharing version one of our brand book with you just seems right.
It’s a living document — which means we’re always going to be changing, updating, and tweaking, but it’s time to share V1 with you now.
Here’s the Drift Brand Book, version one.
3 Things Every Sales Team Needs to Be Thinking About in 2017Drift
Thinking about your sales team's goals for 2017? Drift's VP of Sales shares 3 things you can do to improve conversion rates and drive more revenue.
Read the full story on the Drift blog here: http://blog.drift.com/sales-team-tips
We've made diversity a priority here at Drift from day one and we want to hold ourselves accountable. So we are happy to announce the launch of the first edition of Drift's Diversity Report. We will continue to lean in on diversity to improve in all areas.
In this presentation, Danny Leibrandt explains the impact of AI on SEO and what Google has been doing about it. Learn how to take your SEO game to the next level and win over Google with his new strategy anyone can use. Get actionable steps to rank your name, your business, and your clients on Google - the right way.
Key Takeaways:
1. Real content is king
2. Find ways to show EEAT
3. Repurpose across all platforms
In this presentation, Danny Leibrandt explains the impact of AI on SEO and what Google has been doing about it. Learn how to take your SEO game to the next level and win over Google with his new strategy anyone can use. Get actionable steps to rank your name, your business, and your clients on Google - the right way.
Key Takeaways:
1. Real content is king
2. Find ways to show EEAT
3. Repurpose across all platforms
Short video marketing has sweeped the nation and is the fastest way to build an online brand on social media in 2024. In this session you will learn:- What is short video marketing- Which platforms work best for your business- Content strategies that are on brand for your business- How to sell organically without paying for ads.
The What, Why & How of 3D and AR in Digital CommercePushON Ltd
Vladimir Mulhem has over 20 years of experience in commercialising cutting edge creative technology across construction, marketing and retail.
Previously the founder and Tech and Innovation Director of Creative Content Works working with the likes of Next, John Lewis and JD Sport, he now helps retailers, brands and agencies solve challenges of applying the emerging technologies 3D, AR, VR and Gen AI to real-world problems.
In this webinar, Vladimir will be covering the following topics:
Applications of 3D and AR in Digital Commerce,
Benefits of 3D and AR,
Tools to create, manage and publish 3D and AR in Digital Commerce.
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Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
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When most people in the industry talk about online or digital reputation management, what they're really saying is Google search and PPC. And it's usually reactive, left dealing with the aftermath of negative information published somewhere online. That's outdated. It leaves executives, organizations and other high-profile individuals at a high risk of a digital reputation attack that spans channels and tactics. But the tools needed to safeguard against an attack are more cybersecurity-oriented than most marketing and communications professionals can manage. Business leaders Leaders grasp the importance; 83% of executives place reputation in their top five areas of risk, yet only 23% are confident in their ability to address it. To succeed in 2024 and beyond, you need to turn online reputation on its axis and think like an attacker.
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8. Just in case you only take ONE slide from this deck.
9. Just in case you only take ONE slide from this deck.
(Go ahead, this is your chance to take a screenshot)
1. Talk to customers and do your research.
2. Create your positioning and messaging.
3. Share that positioning and messaging with key teams/stakeholders.
4. Create a list of all possible launch activities.
5. Create all of your launch assets and product content.
6. Get the whole team prepared and on the same page.
7. Launch.
10. But in reality, there are
no shortcuts.
So, instead of the TL: DR version
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12.
13. Yes, we believe in shipping fast.
That’s our CEO @dcancel.
His motto is “just ship it!”
14. ...there’s never been a successful
launch that wasn’t grounded in at
least a little bit of research.
15. Neil Patel
Co-founder of Crazy Egg,
Hello Bar and KISSmetrics
The sooner you learn about your
customers, the faster you’ll be able to
pivot and serve them better.
16. Some call it research.
Some call it
customer development.
19. When you’re talking to customers, you’re
going to hear a lot of things like:
and
20. But as a marketer it’s your job to filter out
the noise and only listen for one thing:
21. Push yourself to go deeper,
ask better questions
and you’ll get better answers.
22. One of the best frameworks for
discovering pain is
23.
24. Sandler’s process pushes you to go deeper
and uncover the underlying reasons for
your prospect’s pain vs. stopping at the
surface.
Learn more about the Sandler
methodology here.
25. You don’t need to talk to the entire world when
doing research!
Just 12-15 one-on-one customer interviews will
reveal about 80% of all possible pain points for
your segment.
Henry Devries & Chris Stiehl’s Pain
Killer Marketing, 2008
26.
27. Now it’s time to turn all of that
customer development research into
something actionable.
28. There are a million ways to write a
positioning statement.
29. But you don’t need to get caught up in all of
the textbooks, tutorials, and worksheets.
30. Just focus on answering these three
questions when it comes to your product:
31. *But if you do want a worksheet. Here’s a
good exercise to nail down your positioning.
32. Just fill out each one of these bullets:
Source: Mike Troiano & Intelligently
33. And then turn those answers into a
Mad Lib style sentence:
“For target who are segment, brand
provides the category with distinction
because of proof.”
34. “For target who are segment, brand
provides the category with distinction
because of proof.”
“For drivers who value auto
performance, BMW provides luxury
vehicle that deliver joy through
German engineering.”
“For people around the world,
Coca-Cola is the soft drink that has
been the real thing since 1886.”
35. Don’t think about what your product does.
Anyone can write about features.
Think about the super powers that your product
gives to your customers.
Your product is the spinach. Popeye is the customer. The
ability to lift 1,000 pounds is the super power.
Credit to Justin Jackson for this one. Check out his
Tiny Marketing Wins to get awesome daily nuggets
like these.
36.
37. Now that you have positioning, everyone at
your company needs to know it.
39. Positioning will never stick unless everyone
is on the same page.
If you can’t even get employees to buy-in,
what makes you think that customers will?
40. Spend the time to key stakeholders on board.
The more people internally that are invested and
excited about your launch, the more resources
you will have to succeed.
Just be careful managing all of the cooks in the
kitchen and make sure you build time in your plan
to get their feedback.
43. As Ben Franklin once said (most
likely about product launches):
44. Don’t let all of your hard work on customer
development and positioning go to waste.
45. When creating your launch plan, start with
your goal and work backwards.
46. If your goal is 100 new customers, what
do you need to do to get there?
If your goal is to cross-sell to 3,000
existing customers, what do you need
to do to get there?
47. Once you’ve set a clear goal, make a list of
every single marketing activity you can
think of.
Don’t take anything off the table.
48. Don’t just think of things like “we’ll write a
blog post” and “we’ll send an email.”
Those are table stakes.
49. Think of things like using SumoMe to do a homepage
takeover to capture email addresses,
posting on sites like Reddit and Inbound.org,
and giving VIP customers/partners early access if they
blog about your launch.
50. Once you have your list of ideas, go through it again
and pick out 2-3 activities for each channel.
You don’t have to do them all, but you won’t know the
universe of activities unless you make an effort to think
through each one.
51. “The biggest problem we’ve encountered is lack of
preparation: Companies are so focused on designing
and manufacturing new products that they postpone
the hard work of getting ready to market them until
too late in the game.”
Harvard Business Review, April 2011 on “Why Most Product Launches Fail.”
53. Choosing which channels to include in your plan
can be overwhelming.
Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares provide a
helpful (and simple) framework for identifying all of
the possible channels in their book Traction,
including how to narrow down the channels you
should focus on and how to execute.
Check out their Bullseye framework.
54.
55. Now that you’ve prioritized all of your
launch activities, it’s time to get to work on
creating all of the assets you’ll need.
56. This should be everything from demo decks
to product screenshots, sales materials,
landing pages and website updates.
57. If you need creative or web design
resources to help with these assets, make
sure those deadlines are factored into
your launch plan.
Make it your responsibility to keep them
on track for launch.
58. Don’t forget about tracking. Think of
tracking as an asset you’re creating.
It’s just as important to be able to measure
demand as it is to drive it.
59. Seed the market.
Just because you haven’t launched yet doesn’t
mean you can’t be out there sharing that content
and talking about what you’re going to launch.
If you aren’t comfortable revealing specifics, take
a thought leadership angle and talk about things
like upcoming trends and best practices.
63. Email, Slack and the Wiki are great
channels to reinforce messages, but if you
are getting ready for a big launch, don’t hide
behind technology.
Get up in front of the room or hold individual
meetings and make sure everyone is on the
same page and send them any relevant
links after.
64.
65. Regardless of whether you’re an early stage startup or
have a product marketing army at your disposal,
using this checklist can help you launch your next
product with a bang.