Startups have it all. They’re new exciting business that are growing themselves from the ground up. At a startup, you’ll work with innovators and free thinkers on cool, useful ideas, work hard but also play hard, and do whatever it takes (even if that means folding envelopes for 5 hours so that you can impress your customers). No matter which way you look at it startups are unparalleled environments for accelerated learning and growth, yet for the startup job seeker, breaking in can be one giant question mark.
In this webinar, Connie Wong, Co-Founder & COO of Planted, Inc., will discuss the roles, expectations, and tips for how to break into the startup world. Whether you’re a current student, recent grad, or someone looking for an alternative to corporate America, you’ll learn what to expect and how to stand out in pursuing a job at a startup.
By the end of this webinar, you’ll understand:
- The roles and potential career paths that exist at a startup for non-technical backgrounds
- What to expect working in a startup environment, from hours to compensation to growth opportunities.
- The qualities that startups look for when building their teams.
- How to track down those startup jobs and get noticed by the team, even if you don’t have direct connections.
- How to prepare for and stand out in a startup interview.
For more info and to find a job or internship at a startup, sign up at www.planted.com!
This document provides an overview of topics covered in a networking and marketing course, including Google Analytics, SEO content creation, web design, sales pipelines, and closing sales. It also shares advice from guest speakers on topics like the importance of talking to consumers face-to-face, finding your passion, the value of good writing skills, and using pivot tables. The document concludes by listing future plans and aspirational industry contacts.
Find out what it takes to define your core message, be clear on what you stand for and uncover your “MONEYMAKING EDGE”. First by focusing on the internal facet of
your business (its personality) and second, on the external facet of your business (its behaviour) with Isabelle Mercier Turcotte, pioneer brand builder and business performance catalyst at LeapZone Strategies™ and, host of LeapTV.com.
This document provides an overview of Juliana Méndez and her consultancy services. She has a background in several countries and speaks multiple languages. Her services include international business development, data analytics, sales and marketing automation, and serving as an innovation mentor for startups and corporations. She also provides services related to sales automation and integration, growth tracking and strategy, and analytics for early-stage companies. The document recommends approaches for gathering customer feedback and validating problems, needs, and solutions. It concludes with contact information to get in touch.
Thanks everyone who attended this round table discussion.
This session provides women founders and small business owners a round table discussion with peers and collaborators. This will help you identify challenges that women-owned businesses face and find options to overcome them. We encourage you to develop an ongoing relationship with other entrepreneurs, small business owners, and collaborators.
Bring plenty of business cards for networking and a chance to win door prizes. Must be present to win.
Light food and drinks will be provided. Thanks to our sponsor UpWork.
Agenda
* 6:30 – 7:00 – Check-In / Networking.
* 7:00 – 7:20 - Introductions
* 7:20 – 8:20 - Round Table Discussion
* 8:20 – 8:30 – Wrap Up
This session identifies common reasons women-owned businesses fail or lead to terminal business decline. If you envision a business that thrives, you’ve got to build an ecosystem to help you implement sustainable business practices, build the value of your organization, maintain financial reserves, and prepare for succession.
This session will help you connect, share, and learn from other women entrepreneurs and business owners. We encourage attendees to share war stories and interact with other small business owners.
Here are the key takeaways from this session:
• Interact with other women entrepreneurs and small business owners
• Identify options to overcome your specific business challenges
• Obtain invaluable advice and guidance from experienced peers and collaborators
Bring plenty of business cards for networking and a chance to win door prizes. Must be present to win. Light food and drinks will be provided. Thanks to our sponsor UpWork.
About the Host
Hector Del Castillo, CPM , CPMM
Hector helps executives and senior managers transform ideas into a great business. He has launched over 30 global products resulting in over $200M in achieved sales revenue. He has over 15 years of experience strengthening product portfolios and creating new revenue streams to accelerate business growth.
Hosted by WeWork. Visit www.wework.com.
Can't attend? Register for this Meetup anyway so you can stay informed about upcoming activities.
Interested in bringing this session to your community? Contact Hector Del Castillo to schedule a brief call.
Connect: http://linkd.in/hdelcastillo.
Selling yourself the right way... it's easy!Kaizen
Hannah Ajala - Journalist @ BBC
Hannah's talk explores what it takes to be a journalist and what digital PR's need to bear in mind when creating and maintaining relationships with publishers. Including:
Effective branding and networking
What makes an eye-catching story
How to pitch to journalists
How to maintain good relationships with journalists
Understanding the niche, you're pitching to
Why audience takeaways are important
Less brand, more story
[500DISTRO] Do You Speak Growth? Examining the Language Behind What Users Want500 Startups
This document discusses how customer feedback is essential for business growth at different stages. It argues that achieving product-market fit through early customer validation is the most important factor for sustainable growth. The document provides advice on gathering feedback to validate problems, understand user needs, iterate the product, and improve messaging and onboarding. It also discusses how feedback can help transition businesses to a growth phase by refining how they deliver value to customers and address friction points. Feedback is also important for scaling growth through optimizing user acquisition, onboarding, and word-of-mouth promotion.
This document provides an overview of topics covered in a networking and marketing course, including Google Analytics, SEO content creation, web design, sales pipelines, and closing sales. It also shares advice from guest speakers on topics like the importance of talking to consumers face-to-face, finding your passion, the value of good writing skills, and using pivot tables. The document concludes by listing future plans and aspirational industry contacts.
Find out what it takes to define your core message, be clear on what you stand for and uncover your “MONEYMAKING EDGE”. First by focusing on the internal facet of
your business (its personality) and second, on the external facet of your business (its behaviour) with Isabelle Mercier Turcotte, pioneer brand builder and business performance catalyst at LeapZone Strategies™ and, host of LeapTV.com.
This document provides an overview of Juliana Méndez and her consultancy services. She has a background in several countries and speaks multiple languages. Her services include international business development, data analytics, sales and marketing automation, and serving as an innovation mentor for startups and corporations. She also provides services related to sales automation and integration, growth tracking and strategy, and analytics for early-stage companies. The document recommends approaches for gathering customer feedback and validating problems, needs, and solutions. It concludes with contact information to get in touch.
Thanks everyone who attended this round table discussion.
This session provides women founders and small business owners a round table discussion with peers and collaborators. This will help you identify challenges that women-owned businesses face and find options to overcome them. We encourage you to develop an ongoing relationship with other entrepreneurs, small business owners, and collaborators.
Bring plenty of business cards for networking and a chance to win door prizes. Must be present to win.
Light food and drinks will be provided. Thanks to our sponsor UpWork.
Agenda
* 6:30 – 7:00 – Check-In / Networking.
* 7:00 – 7:20 - Introductions
* 7:20 – 8:20 - Round Table Discussion
* 8:20 – 8:30 – Wrap Up
This session identifies common reasons women-owned businesses fail or lead to terminal business decline. If you envision a business that thrives, you’ve got to build an ecosystem to help you implement sustainable business practices, build the value of your organization, maintain financial reserves, and prepare for succession.
This session will help you connect, share, and learn from other women entrepreneurs and business owners. We encourage attendees to share war stories and interact with other small business owners.
Here are the key takeaways from this session:
• Interact with other women entrepreneurs and small business owners
• Identify options to overcome your specific business challenges
• Obtain invaluable advice and guidance from experienced peers and collaborators
Bring plenty of business cards for networking and a chance to win door prizes. Must be present to win. Light food and drinks will be provided. Thanks to our sponsor UpWork.
About the Host
Hector Del Castillo, CPM , CPMM
Hector helps executives and senior managers transform ideas into a great business. He has launched over 30 global products resulting in over $200M in achieved sales revenue. He has over 15 years of experience strengthening product portfolios and creating new revenue streams to accelerate business growth.
Hosted by WeWork. Visit www.wework.com.
Can't attend? Register for this Meetup anyway so you can stay informed about upcoming activities.
Interested in bringing this session to your community? Contact Hector Del Castillo to schedule a brief call.
Connect: http://linkd.in/hdelcastillo.
Selling yourself the right way... it's easy!Kaizen
Hannah Ajala - Journalist @ BBC
Hannah's talk explores what it takes to be a journalist and what digital PR's need to bear in mind when creating and maintaining relationships with publishers. Including:
Effective branding and networking
What makes an eye-catching story
How to pitch to journalists
How to maintain good relationships with journalists
Understanding the niche, you're pitching to
Why audience takeaways are important
Less brand, more story
[500DISTRO] Do You Speak Growth? Examining the Language Behind What Users Want500 Startups
This document discusses how customer feedback is essential for business growth at different stages. It argues that achieving product-market fit through early customer validation is the most important factor for sustainable growth. The document provides advice on gathering feedback to validate problems, understand user needs, iterate the product, and improve messaging and onboarding. It also discusses how feedback can help transition businesses to a growth phase by refining how they deliver value to customers and address friction points. Feedback is also important for scaling growth through optimizing user acquisition, onboarding, and word-of-mouth promotion.
This document outlines Chad McCaffrey's presentation on social selling. It defines social selling as augmenting traditional sales processes with social media tools and tactics. It discusses how buyers now rely on search engines and social media for purchase decisions. The presentation then covers content marketing as the foundation, the four C's of content marketing, and defines a social sales funnel with four stages: soft engagement, direct engagement, pitching, and closing. It provides examples of social tactics like social proximity, social listening, and social surrounding. It concludes by discussing PostBeyond's social selling enablement tools.
This document discusses using stay-at-home moms for lead generation marketing versus traditional sales prospecting. It notes that stay-at-home moms can schedule two additional qualified face-to-face meetings per week by identifying interested parties. The document also discusses that many salespeople spend too much time avoiding prospecting or thinking about it rather than actually doing it. By using trained stay-at-home moms to position salespeople with interested leads, salespeople can spend more time in front of real prospects.
Tech Touch: Why Women should venture into e-commerce?Janette Toral
Last March 28, 2015 Janette Toral gave a "Tech Touch" talk at the 8th Annual Women Entrepreneurs Conference 2015 organized by the Network for Enterprising Women.
The document is a summary of an Entrepreneurship 101 presentation on sales. It discusses putting fun in the sales funnel by understanding the customer buying process, using a CRM system daily to track leads and opportunities, being held accountable to metrics in the sales funnel, and growing a sales team. The agenda includes understanding the buying process, getting a CRM, using it daily, being accountable to the funnel, growing the team, and taking questions.
Startups: the importance of getting your story rightPaul Naphtali
This document discusses the importance of branding and communications for startups. It argues that clear positioning and consistent messaging helps companies drive awareness, create buzz, and build value. This in turn can lead to faster product development, an engaged employee culture, easier hiring, improved customer retention, viral content, and increased interest from investors. The document advises startups to define their unique value proposition and brand personality in order to connect emotionally with audiences and earn their love and advocacy over time. This is more powerful for driving sales and growth than awareness alone.
The document discusses how keyword research is important for finding a profitable niche online. It recommends using the Niche Finder tool to simplify the keyword research process and find niche markets that have high searches, low competition, and are profitable. Niche Finder allows users to quickly generate long-tail keyword ideas based on a seed keyword, expediting the otherwise time-consuming keyword research task.
Content Chaos: Building Brand Through Content ExperimentsRoss Simmonds
This document discusses how experiments can help small and medium sized brands build their content strategy through constant testing. It asserts that experiments are not just for user experience, email, search engine optimization, and paid media, but can also be applied to content creation and distribution. The document provides examples of how to validate different types of experiments by testing various channels, approaches, and topics. It also presents Coca-Cola's 70:20:10 model for balancing low, innovative, and high risk content experiments. The overall message is that embracing a little chaos through regular experimentation can help brands discover what resonates best with their audience.
1.6 billion people are on Facebook, how will you get to the 1 that buys your ...Clever Moe
With no guidance on who your next customers are going to be, Facebook will optimize the targeting of your ad to spend money to the wrong audience. In this webinar Frank Cohen, digital ad expert, shows his top 10 favorite techniques to target your ad to Facebook and Instagram audiences already interested in your product, service, and event.
Marketing faster than your competitors in 5 easy stepsClever Moe
You need a marketing AI to radically reduce advertising costs and increase clicks. Your marketing works best when targeting audiences already interested. But how do you expand past your current marketing into multiple digital advertising networks for fast, easy, and rapid results.
Digital advertising and marketing expert Frank Cohen hosts the event. Join fellow marketing and advertising people to learn the latest techniques, ask questions and answer fellow webinar participants to raise your skills to the next level. The webinar is entirely free. Frank will send you slides and a video recording immediately after the webinar.
The event is for marketers, advertisers, product managers, growth managers, growth hackers, revenue officers, sales people, and advertising agency people. If you have a new business and product - such as a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business - and are looking for your target market segments, or have an established product that needs to expand past your current target market segments, this is the event for you!
At a minimum this event will cover the most popular digital ad networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.
This document provides 20 tips for creating effective landing pages and generating leads. Some key points include:
1) Landing pages need a clear value proposition that speaks to a specific audience and answers why they should take action.
2) Pages should have a logical flow that follows the thought process of prospects.
3) Design, imagery, and copy should create credibility and focus on the benefits for the user in converting an action.
4) Data tracking and lead quality are important to evaluate page effectiveness and ensure the right information is collected from prospects.
5) Ongoing lead nurturing and content marketing can help improve conversion rates over time.
Startup Sales - How to Acquire Your First Customers Garrett Smith
How to Acquire Your Startups First Customers.
Learn a Proven 8 Step Path to Acquiring Your Startups First Customers.
1. Who are you targeting? - Developing target buyer personas
2. Build a Suspects List - Lining-up your suspects
3. Look for Referrals - Ask every option close to you
4. Create Supporting Content - Support content that sells
5. Set-up Your Tools - Sales tools give you superpowers
6. Plan Your Outreach - Email / Social / Phone / Repeat 3x
7. What to Do When You're There - What to ask so you can learn
8. Pitch + Propose + Close - Persistence + Perseverance
Denise Buchman of CORE Consulting & Business Development LLC offers outsourced business development, marketing, social media, and database management services. These services include developing qualified leads, building customer relationships, creating social media presences, and integrating systems like CRMs. Outsourcing to Denise provides efficient, cost-effective solutions while allowing clients to focus on their core operations.
Getting Back to the Basics of Lead GenerationSales Hacker
Lesley Collins - SurveyMonkey - Senior Sales Manager EMEA - Getting Back to the Basics of Lead Generation
http://www.saleshacker.com/saas/back-to-basics-of-lead-generation/
Visit SalesHacker.com for more sales hacks, tips, and tactics.
The marketing plan aims to increase Stimulus Advertising's client base and brand awareness. A SWOT analysis identified strengths like experienced staff but also weaknesses like the small size. The primary targets are established local businesses and startup companies with sufficient budgets. Goals include increasing the client base and brand awareness by a certain percentage. Tactics proposed include internal passion initiatives, warm lead generation through email, video and blogs, print materials, and outreach through merchandise, community events and surveys.
Growing a business by ignoring money and focussing on user experience [london]Nick Morton
Jessica Lovegood discusses sustainable business growth through a user experience focused approach. She argues that businesses should focus on three key areas: 1) Creating excellent products and services so that customers sell the business through word-of-mouth referrals, 2) Having efficient business processes while never sacrificing quality, and 3) Spreading brand awareness through low-cost methods such as social media rather than expensive advertising. By prioritizing great user experiences, businesses can see growth through customers marketing the products themselves without unnecessary spending.
Various marketing roles in the startup and tech ecosystem. For the college grad who is confused about which career to pursue or how to break into a growth hacking, digital or data-driven role.
Twitter Ads are unique from other digital ad networks - like LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. In this webinar Frank Cohen, digital ad expert, shows his top 10 favorite techniques to target your ad to Twitter audiences already interested in your product, service, and event.
Understanding User Intent - Tea-Time SEO' Series of Daily SEO Live TalksAuthoritas
Understanding User Intent
Get practical advice from SEO experts: Becky Simms - CEO of award-winning SEO agency Reflect Digital, Laurent Bourrelly - FrenchTouchSEO - arguably France's leading SEO thought leader and Christopher Hofman Laursen - Lead SEO consultant at the agency IMPACT Extend.
In this short ~20 minute talk they present bite-sized actionable SEO strategy and tips for keyword research and content strategy for the SEO community working from home during the coronavirus pandemic.
Watch a recording of the stream to go with these slides here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiqtsug-aSo&t=5s
Advanced Marketing Tips for Accountants & BookkeepersHubdoc
Cristina Garza, founder of Accountingprose, Xero Gold Partner and Hubdoc Top 50 Cloud Accountant, knows a thing or two about building a consistent and recognizable brand. She joined us for a webinar to discuss advanced marketing tips for accountants and bookkeepers. Use this link to watch the webinar: https://hubs.ly/H08sQ6r0.
This document discusses how marketing can adopt principles from Formula One racing to generate sales leads and win business faster. It recommends focusing on attracting customers by understanding their needs, providing relevant content, connecting with customers across all stages of the buying process, and optimizing digital presence so the business can be easily found online. The key is aligning sales and marketing teams to work together, measuring performance at each stage of the customer journey, and continually refining strategies based on data.
This document outlines Chad McCaffrey's presentation on social selling. It defines social selling as augmenting traditional sales processes with social media tools and tactics. It discusses how buyers now rely on search engines and social media for purchase decisions. The presentation then covers content marketing as the foundation, the four C's of content marketing, and defines a social sales funnel with four stages: soft engagement, direct engagement, pitching, and closing. It provides examples of social tactics like social proximity, social listening, and social surrounding. It concludes by discussing PostBeyond's social selling enablement tools.
This document discusses using stay-at-home moms for lead generation marketing versus traditional sales prospecting. It notes that stay-at-home moms can schedule two additional qualified face-to-face meetings per week by identifying interested parties. The document also discusses that many salespeople spend too much time avoiding prospecting or thinking about it rather than actually doing it. By using trained stay-at-home moms to position salespeople with interested leads, salespeople can spend more time in front of real prospects.
Tech Touch: Why Women should venture into e-commerce?Janette Toral
Last March 28, 2015 Janette Toral gave a "Tech Touch" talk at the 8th Annual Women Entrepreneurs Conference 2015 organized by the Network for Enterprising Women.
The document is a summary of an Entrepreneurship 101 presentation on sales. It discusses putting fun in the sales funnel by understanding the customer buying process, using a CRM system daily to track leads and opportunities, being held accountable to metrics in the sales funnel, and growing a sales team. The agenda includes understanding the buying process, getting a CRM, using it daily, being accountable to the funnel, growing the team, and taking questions.
Startups: the importance of getting your story rightPaul Naphtali
This document discusses the importance of branding and communications for startups. It argues that clear positioning and consistent messaging helps companies drive awareness, create buzz, and build value. This in turn can lead to faster product development, an engaged employee culture, easier hiring, improved customer retention, viral content, and increased interest from investors. The document advises startups to define their unique value proposition and brand personality in order to connect emotionally with audiences and earn their love and advocacy over time. This is more powerful for driving sales and growth than awareness alone.
The document discusses how keyword research is important for finding a profitable niche online. It recommends using the Niche Finder tool to simplify the keyword research process and find niche markets that have high searches, low competition, and are profitable. Niche Finder allows users to quickly generate long-tail keyword ideas based on a seed keyword, expediting the otherwise time-consuming keyword research task.
Content Chaos: Building Brand Through Content ExperimentsRoss Simmonds
This document discusses how experiments can help small and medium sized brands build their content strategy through constant testing. It asserts that experiments are not just for user experience, email, search engine optimization, and paid media, but can also be applied to content creation and distribution. The document provides examples of how to validate different types of experiments by testing various channels, approaches, and topics. It also presents Coca-Cola's 70:20:10 model for balancing low, innovative, and high risk content experiments. The overall message is that embracing a little chaos through regular experimentation can help brands discover what resonates best with their audience.
1.6 billion people are on Facebook, how will you get to the 1 that buys your ...Clever Moe
With no guidance on who your next customers are going to be, Facebook will optimize the targeting of your ad to spend money to the wrong audience. In this webinar Frank Cohen, digital ad expert, shows his top 10 favorite techniques to target your ad to Facebook and Instagram audiences already interested in your product, service, and event.
Marketing faster than your competitors in 5 easy stepsClever Moe
You need a marketing AI to radically reduce advertising costs and increase clicks. Your marketing works best when targeting audiences already interested. But how do you expand past your current marketing into multiple digital advertising networks for fast, easy, and rapid results.
Digital advertising and marketing expert Frank Cohen hosts the event. Join fellow marketing and advertising people to learn the latest techniques, ask questions and answer fellow webinar participants to raise your skills to the next level. The webinar is entirely free. Frank will send you slides and a video recording immediately after the webinar.
The event is for marketers, advertisers, product managers, growth managers, growth hackers, revenue officers, sales people, and advertising agency people. If you have a new business and product - such as a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business - and are looking for your target market segments, or have an established product that needs to expand past your current target market segments, this is the event for you!
At a minimum this event will cover the most popular digital ad networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.
This document provides 20 tips for creating effective landing pages and generating leads. Some key points include:
1) Landing pages need a clear value proposition that speaks to a specific audience and answers why they should take action.
2) Pages should have a logical flow that follows the thought process of prospects.
3) Design, imagery, and copy should create credibility and focus on the benefits for the user in converting an action.
4) Data tracking and lead quality are important to evaluate page effectiveness and ensure the right information is collected from prospects.
5) Ongoing lead nurturing and content marketing can help improve conversion rates over time.
Startup Sales - How to Acquire Your First Customers Garrett Smith
How to Acquire Your Startups First Customers.
Learn a Proven 8 Step Path to Acquiring Your Startups First Customers.
1. Who are you targeting? - Developing target buyer personas
2. Build a Suspects List - Lining-up your suspects
3. Look for Referrals - Ask every option close to you
4. Create Supporting Content - Support content that sells
5. Set-up Your Tools - Sales tools give you superpowers
6. Plan Your Outreach - Email / Social / Phone / Repeat 3x
7. What to Do When You're There - What to ask so you can learn
8. Pitch + Propose + Close - Persistence + Perseverance
Denise Buchman of CORE Consulting & Business Development LLC offers outsourced business development, marketing, social media, and database management services. These services include developing qualified leads, building customer relationships, creating social media presences, and integrating systems like CRMs. Outsourcing to Denise provides efficient, cost-effective solutions while allowing clients to focus on their core operations.
Getting Back to the Basics of Lead GenerationSales Hacker
Lesley Collins - SurveyMonkey - Senior Sales Manager EMEA - Getting Back to the Basics of Lead Generation
http://www.saleshacker.com/saas/back-to-basics-of-lead-generation/
Visit SalesHacker.com for more sales hacks, tips, and tactics.
The marketing plan aims to increase Stimulus Advertising's client base and brand awareness. A SWOT analysis identified strengths like experienced staff but also weaknesses like the small size. The primary targets are established local businesses and startup companies with sufficient budgets. Goals include increasing the client base and brand awareness by a certain percentage. Tactics proposed include internal passion initiatives, warm lead generation through email, video and blogs, print materials, and outreach through merchandise, community events and surveys.
Growing a business by ignoring money and focussing on user experience [london]Nick Morton
Jessica Lovegood discusses sustainable business growth through a user experience focused approach. She argues that businesses should focus on three key areas: 1) Creating excellent products and services so that customers sell the business through word-of-mouth referrals, 2) Having efficient business processes while never sacrificing quality, and 3) Spreading brand awareness through low-cost methods such as social media rather than expensive advertising. By prioritizing great user experiences, businesses can see growth through customers marketing the products themselves without unnecessary spending.
Various marketing roles in the startup and tech ecosystem. For the college grad who is confused about which career to pursue or how to break into a growth hacking, digital or data-driven role.
Twitter Ads are unique from other digital ad networks - like LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. In this webinar Frank Cohen, digital ad expert, shows his top 10 favorite techniques to target your ad to Twitter audiences already interested in your product, service, and event.
Understanding User Intent - Tea-Time SEO' Series of Daily SEO Live TalksAuthoritas
Understanding User Intent
Get practical advice from SEO experts: Becky Simms - CEO of award-winning SEO agency Reflect Digital, Laurent Bourrelly - FrenchTouchSEO - arguably France's leading SEO thought leader and Christopher Hofman Laursen - Lead SEO consultant at the agency IMPACT Extend.
In this short ~20 minute talk they present bite-sized actionable SEO strategy and tips for keyword research and content strategy for the SEO community working from home during the coronavirus pandemic.
Watch a recording of the stream to go with these slides here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiqtsug-aSo&t=5s
Advanced Marketing Tips for Accountants & BookkeepersHubdoc
Cristina Garza, founder of Accountingprose, Xero Gold Partner and Hubdoc Top 50 Cloud Accountant, knows a thing or two about building a consistent and recognizable brand. She joined us for a webinar to discuss advanced marketing tips for accountants and bookkeepers. Use this link to watch the webinar: https://hubs.ly/H08sQ6r0.
This document discusses how marketing can adopt principles from Formula One racing to generate sales leads and win business faster. It recommends focusing on attracting customers by understanding their needs, providing relevant content, connecting with customers across all stages of the buying process, and optimizing digital presence so the business can be easily found online. The key is aligning sales and marketing teams to work together, measuring performance at each stage of the customer journey, and continually refining strategies based on data.
Success in Digital Marketing: Dealing with root causes of failureMarc Minor
Lecture given to MBA students at UNC Chapel Hill in 2014. What does it mean to succeed in digital and how to avoid industry traps. Also, why does digital marketing fail even when we think it succeeds.
Generously invited by the wonderful Professor JoAnn Sciarrino - http://www.jomc.unc.edu/directory/faculty/joann-sciarrino
The document outlines Donte Parker's personal brand exploration, including his motivation to help others in need and potential career paths in digital marketing. It identifies his brand archetype as the caregiver and includes short, mid, and long term career goals, as well as an analysis of his skills and credentials. The document also explores networking opportunities, areas for professional development, and references.
Social Business Strategy & Plan 8 Steps to Develop & Sustain Social BusinessPam Moore
The document discusses social business strategies and tactics. It provides tips for developing a social business plan, including determining objectives, knowing your audience, mapping your vision/journey, establishing executive support, creating a roadmap and governance guidelines, securing resources, and investing in the right technology. The overall message is that social media should align with and support core business goals, with a focus on people over tools and a holistic strategic approach rather than random acts of marketing.
Our goal is to make the entire marketing process as easy and seamless as possible for you. We pride ourselves on being one of the best marketing companies for small businesses and work to deliver the ultimate customer experience every time.
We have recently introduced the Market Smart™ program to bring full scale marketing campaigns within the reach of the start-up or small businessperson.
To learn more about our approach, contact us today to speak with an expert.
This is the deck used in The Digital Marketing Workshop at SXSW 2014.
Panelists include:
Blake Robinson, Director, Social Data @Kantar
Israel Mirsky, Global Managing Director, Social & Performance @ Annalect
Margaret Francis, VP, Product @Heroku
Marshal Kirkpatrick, CEO @GetLittleBird
Start Up Sales - Launching New Ventures - Columbia Business SchoolJeremy Seltzer
Start up Sales from Columbia Business School's Launching New Ventures course. Generating leads, sales pipeline, increasing close rates, tips and tricks.
This document provides advice and perspectives on start-up sales from Jeremy M. Seltzer. It discusses getting meetings with potential customers, pitching the company and solution, following up after meetings, and getting deals to the signature stage. Tips are provided for each stage of the sales cycle, from using tools like Slack and Salesforce to guide prospects through multiple meetings. Common challenges like negotiating legal agreements and setting pricing are also addressed. The goal is to help start-up salespeople effectively manage opportunities and move them towards closed deals.
Digital Space Consulting presentation for 2013 Luna Conference - Dallas, Texas. Digital marketing approach including social media, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, SEO, content marketing, content strategy, market intelligence, social amplification, social listening, online media budget, and social strategy.
Social media marketing is an important opportunity for newspapers and small businesses. It allows generating leads, measuring results, and having a flexible multi-media approach. While print remains important, online revenue should grow. Businesses need to use platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to engage customers and be part of online conversations. The key is reputation management and guiding advertisers through social media solutions. Newspapers can offer social media services and gain market share.
Grow your business through smart, simple marketingWendy Lieber
This presentation was delivered to the Roofing Contractors Association of South Florida during their annual meeting. The topic was how to grow you business through smart, simple marketing.
Digital Space Consulting is a digital agency that provides social media strategy, content creation, and analytics services. They help brands connect with customers and empower them through research and engagement. The document provides tips on building a social media strategy, including listening to conversations, becoming active on key platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter, sharing valuable content, and measuring results. It emphasizes starting simply by optimizing profiles, engaging with others, and staying connected to industry conversations.
This document provides guidance on building a content marketing strategy from scratch. It begins by establishing why content marketing is important, noting statistics on its effectiveness and cost savings compared to traditional marketing. It then discusses starting with a strategy by defining goals, budgets, responsibilities and logistics. Key aspects of a strategy include understanding the audience, defining content pillars around which to build the strategy, and generating ideas from sources like keywords, customer feedback and seasonal trends. The document stresses the importance of quality over quantity in content.
How Startups Get Customers: Using Content Marketing & Social Media to Tell Yo...Kim Donlan
Defining your early brand story is difficult for any startup. Content marketing and social media channels are important to establish credibility. This is a presentation showing how to create a unique value proposition, define your brand story by using your customer perspective. It will help with lead generation and awareness.
Alinea Partners Social Media - Why it's Different with Us!Leahanne Hobson
Our approach to social media - for you and your partners - is different. We give you the skills you need, rather than taking over your corporate or personal identity by doing it all for you. Contact us to hear more ... office@alinea-partners.com
Starting a business...a guide on what to consider, brand identity, financing, culture, marketing, plus more. Includes interactive tools for you and your team.
Digital marketing technology has outpaced the ability of marketers to implement and optimize it. In this talk, I present a strategic approach to help marketers implement omni-channel marketing more successfully.
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5. Roles at Startups
Business Development
Customer Service
Marketing
Operations
Analytics
HR
Office/Admin
Sales
The Wolf
Social Media/Community
Developer
6. Common Entry Points
• Business Growers
• Happiness Specialists
• Operations Coordinators
• User Magnets
7. Business Growers
Impact: Drive New Business
• Learn: Business bootcamp – gain professional
confidence, learn to sell, build relationships
• Paths: Sales Associate, Account Manager, CEO
8. Business Growers
You
• Want to be a founder
one day
• Love to persuade
• Can break out of your
comfort zone
• Friends call you the
shark
Roles
• Sales Associate
• Market Development
Representative
• Business Development
Associate
9. Happiness Specialists
Impact: Keep Customers Happy
• Learn: Manage expectations, communicate complexity in
simple terms, problem solve, experience the product
• Paths: Account Manager, Social Media/Community
Manager, Operations Associate, Product Manager
10. Happiness Specialists
You
• Naturally enjoy
helping others
• Love speaking with
people
• Embrace tough
situations
• Problem solver
Roles
• Customer Experience
Associate
• Customer Success
Manager
• Customer Service
Representative
• Account Manager
11. Operations Coordinators
Impact: Keep the Company Running
• Learn: Wear a ton of hats, interact cross-departmentally,
how to scale and optimize
• Paths: Project Manager, Product Manager, COO
12. Operations Coordinators
You
• Go-to party planner
among your friends
• Love wearing multiple
hats
• Efficiency fixer-upper
• Ready to adapt to any
project
Roles
• Operations Associate
• Office Manager
• Admin Assistant
13. User Magnets
Impact: Acquire Users
• Learn: Science behind user acquisition, levers of growth,
marketing analytics
• Paths: Marketing Manager, Product Marketing Manager,
CMO, Business Intelligence
14. User Magnets
You
• Love numbers and
data
• Creative yet highly
analytical
• Use Twitter more than
email
Roles
• Marketing Analyst
• Growth Hacker
• Social Media /
Community Manager
33. Top 5 Startup Interviewing Tips
1. Do Your Homework
2. Bring Something to the Table
3. Show Passion
4. Don’t Ask to Do “Strategy”
5. Don’t Wear a Suit
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Editor's Notes
2 min: Today’s Topics + Brief Background
Audience Check:
Currently working at startups
Transitioning careers into startups
Just graduated and looking at startups as a first job
Current students
Technical positions vs. Non-Technical
5 min: Roles at Startups for Non-Engineers
Devs aren’t the only positions – lots of non-tech
Example stories of candidates we’ve matched (student / career transitioner)
5 min: What to Expect at a Startup
Expect to Wear Multiple Hats
Change Is the Only Constant
100% Mindshare
Don’t Do It For the Money
Career Trajectory Is Your Own
Who Startups Look For
Hustlers
5 min: How to Find a Startup Job
Check out our blogpost
5 min: Startup Interviewing Tips
20 min Q&A
Trevor
Penn/Wharton
Consulting
MeetMoi
Lynxsy
Let’s start with what roles exist at a startup
Everyone knows about the elusive developer – the purple unicorns that everyone is looking for
It’s a common misconception that we run into that you have to know how to code to work at a startup – that isn’t the case. In fact, according to a recent study on the NY Tech Ecosystem, 60% of jobs in tech here in NY are non-technical.
These range from sales and customer service to marketing / business dev / social media or community mgmt …
To highlight some of these roles, we’d like to share a few Planted stories of actual candidates we’ve helped place into positions at startups.
Gabrielle – Colgate 2014 grad, English degree – matched with OneFineStay, a startup originally from London that is creating a full-service AirBnB where they turn your apartment into a hotel for rent. Gabby’s responsibilities as Team Coordinator falls within Operations where she helps make sure that the logistics teams are working smoothly to create an amazing guest experience for the guests.
Jenn, Northwestern 2013 psychology, was matched with Kinnek, a b2b startup out of AngelPad accelerator that helps match SMBs with suppliers. She started there as a Customer Success Manager building direct relationships with buyers on the platform when Kinnek, and in just 6 months is already being promoted to managing the entire 8 person Customer Success Team.
Trevor graduated from Cornell in 2014 (business degree) and recently started at TriggerMail, a Techstars company that provides triggered email solutions to ecommerce companies. As the first Market Development Rep, he’s responsible for driving new business by prospecting new leads and reaching out to set up sales calls.
Now that we’ve covered some of the roles at startups, it’s important to know what you should expect working at a startup to determine if it’s right for now.
Wearing multiple hats - When your team is small, you’ll likely be taking on responsibilities not directly in your line of duty
One moment you might be tasked with competitor research, the next you could be negotiating vendor agreements, and the next you are ordering the weekly supply of snacks, all of which I did at MeetMoi on top of working with the engineering team on the product.
Don’t expect that what you signed up for is all that you’ll be expected to take on – and that’s the fun of it
Change is the only constant at a startup, so be prepared to be flexible
The company could decide to pivot in a new direction or a new fundraise round could turn your 5 person startup into 50 in weeks. At Tough Mudder, where our co-founder & CEO, Susan worked previously, the company exploded from 10 to 200 in 2 years – which put the team through a whirlwind of change in team dynamics, processes, and growth.
You’ll constantly have to change gears, so be prepared to be flexible and adapt
When talking about hours – it’s less about the actual hours spent in the office, but the mindshare a startup takes.
At MeetMoi, I was working 9:30-7, but often found myself working on projects late at night and weekends, or unable to fall asleep because my mind wouldn’t shut off about work. Not because anyone told me to, but because I knew that my contribution would move the ball forward in a meaningful way.
Don’t expect a clear line between work and life at a startup – it very much becomes everything you do.
If you’re looking at startups hoping to find the next Facebook, you’re probably in it for the wrong reasons.
While it could very well be that the startup you join is a rocket ship, there’s a 99% chance it’ll fail, so you have to be ok with that outcome. Ask yourself – in the worse case scenario and the company doesn’t succeed, will you be happy having been part of something trying to create something new and where your contributions made an impact. Financial payoff is of course great, but consider it as gravy on top should you be so lucky.
In terms of compensation, average entry-level salaries we’ve seen in the market range from $35K-$45K with a tiny percentage of equity (0.1-0.25%). So if you are transitioning from another career in finance, consulting, or another corporate job, while comp may be slightly higher if you come from some experience, make sure you are ok with a likely sizeable paycut before you start your search.
That said, startups can give you unlimited career potential.
At a startup, things can change dramatically, fast, that can have the potential accelerate your career path and responsibilities – it’s all about your willingness to take on added responsibilities and flexibility to grow with the team, wherever needed.
Back to our example with Kinnek, their Series A fundraise of $10M is dramatically shifting the responsibilities of the current employees and providing Jenn an opportunity to manage the entire customer service team within 6 months of joining.
Given these expectations at a startup, it’s important to understand the qualities that startups look for so you can brand and position yourself accordingly.
Self-Starters – people who don’t require a lot of guidance to get going and move the ball forward
Comfortable with the Unknown – startups are forging a new path which can create a lot of ambiguity – you might get a project to “open up a new market” or “figure out our sales process”, which you, nor your manager, has any experience with
Resourcefulness – That’s where resourcefulness comes into play with being able to leverage your connections to get sales expertise, research for online tutorials, and get to what you need.
Whatever it Takes Mindset – Comes down to having a whatever it takes mindset. Before you get the job this may mean proactively offering to do some free projects for the company to get them comfortable with the value you can provide. Or while on the job, staying those extra hours or picking up additional responsibilities to get the job done.
>>Hustlers – Essentially, hustlers
Independent: Startups look for problem solvers. People who approach challenges with “how can we make this happen” versus “there’s no way we can do this.”
Tolerance: Startups by nature are ambiguous organizations that are heavily resource constrained. There aren’t enough resources for any handholding so each and every person needs to be able to take a project and run with it. That means you might be given a project that you have never done before and maybe the company has never done before, but you have to add structure and figure it out. These could be “figure out our international expansion” – actually one of Susan’s first projects. Or, figure out how we can improve community moderation.
Going along these lines, being resourceful is a key trait of any successful startup team member. That may mean Googling something new to you, pulling your friends for connections or feedback, or coming up with creative solutions.
Resilience and passion. There are always ups and downs to startups – they look for people who can push through setbacks and bounce back stronger because of their passion for the team, mission, and product. In sales, for instance, you might get 100 closed doors before you land your first client. It’s the ability to be persistent that makes you stand out.
Confidence but no ego. This means being a true team player. In a startup, there are a lot of things that need to get done that aren’t glamorous or in your direct line of responsibilities. For example, as a Product Manager, it wasn’t in my job description, but I helped manage the Fresh Direct order on top of my other product responsibilities to keep up the team culture.
Basically it comes down to being a hustler – being able to do whatever it takes to make things happen.
Now that we’ve covered some of the expectations of a startup and what they’re looking for, how do you actually break in?
The first thing is to develop your target list of not only startups, but also anyone you know in the tech community who could potentially be a resource in your search.
There are some great resources out there to help you develop this list.
Made in NY is a great list to browse – it has 1000 startups that were founded in NY listed and highlights which are actively hiring
AngelList is a great resource if you’re looking for early stage startups – will provide you links to the founders, and in-depth info on the product and investors of the company
Twitter is helpful in discovering and following startups as they all have social media presences. It’ll also give you a good idea of which are active and have momentum.
Also look to your own university alumni databases to find friendlies willing to help.
Once you have your list of startups and influencers, use LinkedIn to find connections to them and ask for 15-30 min of time to grab a coffee or chat on the phone to ask for some advice.
Have a LOT of these conversations so you can not only get yourself as top of mind if they are hiring later, but also so you can gather a lot of data points to help guide your own search.
Ask them about the startup culture, work load, and responsibilities of their job, what they did when they joined and what they’re doing now, and given your background where they would see you most fitting in. Start narrowing down your criteria from here on the exact stage and role you’re looking for so you can better focus your efforts.
Also make sure to ask them for someone else they could intro you to.
Referrals in general are the #1 way people find jobs at startups – There often is no formal recruiting process, especially at early stage companies. And even at big startups, they have so many inbound resumes that they don’t even look at them. One of our clients has 1000 resumes in their inbox, and as a result goes strictly through referral.
Events are a great way to jumpstart or expand on your network. And the tech community in NY is especially strong.
Gary’s Guide is a great resource for curated startup events to help you filter for ones worth attending. Set a goal for yourself that you’ll attend at least 1 event a week and set up a coffee chat with at least 1 person from that event. Just going to the event won’t help you alone.
StrtupBoost hosts all types of startup-focused events, from job fairs to panels to online discussions.
Digital.NYC is an online hub for the startup community, connecting companies, investors, incubators, and other organizations in the five boroughs.
Get a taste of actually building something.
Workshops like Startup Weekend and LeanStartupMachine are a great way to get a taste of going from an idea to a prototype and validated customer learning all in the course of a weekend, and you don’t have to be a developer to participate.
This was something I sought out while in consulting as a way to get absorbed into the startup ecosystem while still balancing my current job. It also was a great way to work with a cross-functional team of devs, designers, marketers, and business people, which I had not previously been exposed to in consulting, and what I found to be essential in the 15 person team at MeetMoi. It was also a great tangible piece of evidence of my interest in startups when in an interview setting.
Set yourself apart by actually having real skills, or at the very least demonstrate your interest in learning.
Startups are looking for people who can add tangible value and deliver on real output from Day 1, or with limited direction. Interested in marketing? Take some classes from Skillshare or GA on digital marketing – set up your own google adwords campaign so you can learn the ropes and at least be familiar with the concepts. Take an intro web development course so you can build up some basic knowledge in html/css and have a basic understanding of what the developers are talking about.
This will help you set yourself apart and prove to the startup that you at the very least have taken the initiative to learn some of the relevant skills on your own.
And of course use Planted has a resource to help you get your foot in the door.
We focus on matching junior talent with startups for non-technical roles (sales, marketing, customer service).
All you have to do is sign up with a brief profile and we’ll send you curated jobs that match your preferences and background. There’s no charge for candidates.
We have direct relationships with over 100 startups and we’ll act as your “in” to the company to fast-track your resume.
We also provide a Trial Period for many of our roles to help you test out the company before making a long-term commitment.
Finally, once you are able to get an interview opportunity, here are our Top 5 tips on making an impression:
Do Your Homework
This means, Sign Up for their site and experience it – can’t tell you how many candidates fail to do this baseline requirement which most startups expect for someone interested in working at their company.
Look up PR so you can show your awareness of recent news like a new round
Check out the Competition to help give you some thoughtful questions to ask
Bring Something to the Table
Again, it goes back to proving you can add value on Day 1. If they don’t give you an assignment themselves, Wow them with your own assignment. Have a new feature idea or a new type of email template they could send to users? Mock it up and bring it in to show. Your goal should be to WOW the interviewer above what was expected in the amount of value you could add and the initiative you have.
Your own portfolio
Show Passion
You need to prove your passion for the company and role in the interview. There are many times that candidates fall short in the interview because they don’t exude enough enthusiasm. But it’s not just blind cheerleading for the company. It’s about showing your enthusiasm around the mission of what they’re doing, but also asking thoughtful questions around the challenges you expect them to face and which you could help solve.
Outside of showing passion for the company, demonstrate your passion in something else as well. Play music on the side? Talk about that in the interview and show that for something you are passionate about you’ve pursued it to the Nth degree.
Don’t ask to do “Strategy”
When candidates are asked what they see themselves doing at a startup and express interest in doing “strategy”, the alarm bells go off in an interviewers mind. Sure, roles like these might exist at a Google or FB, but for much smaller companies under 50-100, that role doesn’t exist – it tends to fall amongst the founders or CEO. It’s about building teams to execute and bringing in people who are going to add real results, not just recommendations. And when candidates ask it scares the interviewer that this person isn’t willing to get their hands dirty in the real work.
Don’t wear a suit
A huge part of the interview beyond requirements fit is culture fit with the team. Know that most startups are known for casual wear and t-shirts so if you show up in a suit, it’s going to be super awkward for both sides. A big part of the interview should be relating with the interviewer and making sure you get along, and also show your awareness of the environment you’re getting yourself into. We tend to recommend dressy casual to keep things safe.
WOW your interviewer
Do your homework (that means sign up)
Come with recommendations
Ask thoughtful questions
Demonstrate legit interest in startups
Create a “portfolio”
Own a sphere of influence – prove you can execute
Show your passion for the company and role
Know your story – why are you here?