Brian Balfour

OCTOBER 12, 2016

As we emphasize continuously in Reforge , becoming an elite growth marketer has nothing to do with the specific hammer in your toolkit and everything to do with mastering the emerging skills, frameworks, and thought processes that enable you to solve new problems, repeatedly. It is no longer about credentials.

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Growth Marketing Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Growth Hacking 94

Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

“I’ve found sharing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into how we do marketing at Buffer has resonated with LinkedIn users,” says Director of Growth Marketing Simon Heaton. This is a favorite of Sophie Gil ’s, Buffer’s Growth Marketing Manager.

Social Media 125

Social Media Entertainment Education Branding 125

Sales Hacker

JUNE 3, 2021

Why is growth marketing essential knowledge for the sales team? How can marketing help your team be more successful? Gaetano Nino DiNardi leads this talk on the alignment convergence of sales and marketing by looking at what truly works in growth. Easy marketing tactics for salespeople [33:31].

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Growth Marketing Marketing Sales Branding 76

OpenView Labs

APRIL 18, 2019

We developed the PLG Market Map to illustrate the breadth and dynamism of this powerful growth strategy. The Market Map shows us that PLG is being adopted across all product categories, from developer tools to finance applications to enterprise-grade solutions.

Growth Marketing 70

Growth Marketing Marketing Finance Acquisition 70

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2016

They prioritize revenue growth, market share and profit maximization differently. Maximization (Revenue Growth) - maximize revenue growth in the short term. Penetration (Market Share) - price the product at a low price to win dominant market share. Penetration prioritizes market share.

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Pricing Startup Strategy Consulting 241

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2024

However, industries are being built like development platforms where engineers would rather buy from a bot. Key Takeaways Outbound lives within growth marketing ops. Nowhere, potentially. They might become AEs, the closers, in ops, or displaced entirely. For now, closing is still done by humans. Which Tool Should You Pick?

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

What’s your pulse check on the venture markets right now, today? Venture growth markets have been challenging in the past two years, but we are starting to see some real deal and investment velocity among pretty impressive businesses. That, and give your investors more homework. #4.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

As the Head of Growth Marketing at Clearbit , and previously a co-founder and CEO of more than a few startups (including WorkMob, ApiXchange, and GoFlow), Matt Sornson knows these pitfalls intimately and how to avoid them. Here are five quick takeaways: At Clearbit, all marketing falls under growth marketing.

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Data Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 182

Buffer Resources

JULY 11, 2024

  Here's an example from Buffer's Director of Growth Marketing, Simon Heaton : Day 9 Reflect on a piece of feedback you received recently and how it helped you improve your approach to work, life, or content. Day 16 Share your take on a recent development in your industry, hot or not.

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Branding Social Media B2C Engagement 123

SaaStr

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Sean Falconer has over 15 years experience working in research, engineering, product, developer relations, and marketing.

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Marketing Engineering Communication Development 288

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 21, 2024

What you’ll learn : How to develop a social media marketing strategy as a small business owner How to drive inbound traffic that’ll help you grow your revenue Basics of social media advertising HubSpot academy isn’t an unfamiliar name in the social media marketing world. The playbook contains 26.5

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Social Media Marketing AI Search Systems Review 114

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2024

So they decided to make a reference guide, like developer documentation, but for doctors. It could be schools, co-marketing with integrated products, licensing or credential organizations, etc. They needed to build a user experience that allowed Google to index everything in it.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Adobe has been developing with AI in its tools for almost a decade. Art Class” Should Be More Than An Hour Each Week: Creative skills development will no longer be constrained to “art class. They’ll just have more time to develop quality solutions and spend less time painstakingly doing tasks that take AI seconds to achieve.

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VP of Engineering AI Social Media Generative AI 321

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The new funding will accelerate product development for the hospitality industry, with continued innovations in review management and digital guest experiences. The team is growing too – one role highlighted below and many more being hired for.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2022

In the early days of Algolia, even at less than $1m in ARR, they were at every developer event that might have a few good customers at it. This strategy is less about developing partnerships and closing the most new business (because the Big Events are often where you do the most of that), but more about awareness, brand and presence.

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Strategy Branding Development Marketing 298

Mucker Capital

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

How do we develop positioning? This methodology was developed by Andy Cunningham, a well-known marketing expert, and has been tested over several decades. This enables the startup to develop innovative and distinctive positioning strategies within the market.

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Branding Startup Development Strategy 98

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Wondering what a marketing growth strategy is? From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Market penetration is about increasing existing market share with existing products.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 105

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Product Marketing vs Growth Marketing discussion isn't just about specific tasks and to-do lists, but about how they cultivate product growth to achieve business objectives. Analyzing data to understand user behavior and optimize their marketing material to bring the most conversions across the funnel.

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Growth Marketing Product Marketing Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

However, in just under 4 years experience at Gorgias, I feel like I have acquired a master’s in sales and a minor in data analytics, growth marketing, automation, and process building. Together, we developed sales pitches, built out a robust sales process in just a couple of weeks.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Outside of the office, she’s a competitive equestrian, a decent but enthusiastic home chef, and a champion of Dry Creek Valley Cabernet.

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Marketing Scale Mobile Branding 298

SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2024

Every week, there are significant new developments in tech. It’s a playbook you’re developing, and it’s not easy. There will be jobs that no one could have envisioned. What Are We Too Optimistic About In Terms of What AI Can Do In The Next 24-36 Months AI is evolving at a mindblowing speed. Gong is best-of-breed. At Gong, yes.

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Scale AI Sales Underperforming Technical Team 311

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

We developed the PLG Market Map to illustrate the breadth and dynamism of this powerful growth strategy. The Market Map shows us that PLG is being adopted across all product categories, from developer tools to finance applications to enterprise-grade solutions.

Growth Marketing 43

Growth Marketing Marketing Finance Acquisition 43

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Go-to-Market matters because sales and marketing spend remain the biggest proportion of SaaS spend, so honing in on that spend to build an engine and drive growth is paramount. But to develop a GTM strategy, you must have Product Market Fit. The Early Stage — $0 to $20M ARR The early stage is crucial for GTM.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Outsourced Development 278

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. What if, instead of spending so much time making your payment stack work for you, your developers could focus on your product? And this leads to our third point.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 148

Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Wes Bush reveals the growth process he uses to grow his business. At the Product-Led Institute, we developed the “Triple-A” sprint, which focuses on rapidly identifying problems, building solutions, and measuring impact. The SaaS growth ceiling: what happens when churn takes hold. How to develop a success management strategy.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Churn Engineering 69

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The first rule of marketing to developers is to never market to developers. Instead, if your organization sells to developers , you should focus your energy on building communities that allow you to deliver value, create goodwill, and build actual relationships. It’s not about how you can profit off developers.

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Development Marketing Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 53

User Pilot

JULY 23, 2023

In this article, we’ll go through the essential roles in a B2B marketing team structure and their responsibilities. TL;DR A B2B marketing team comprises leaders, contributors, and specialists who develop and implement a B2B marketing strategy. is necessary to assess your marketing team’s success.

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B2B Sales Hiring Marketing Social Media 97

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Then: Hire a full time business development person to manage the relationship. But what you can do is double down if you see yourself even having a hint of being a favorite. If you start to get pulled into deals by a partner. If you start sharing several key logos. Open an office close to your partner and platform.

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Sales Hiring Pricing Sales Marketing 265

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

It just added too much friction to a developer sale, when folks are used to trying before they buy, and paying slowly until they pay a lot. Better to just close them. And let them go if they want. MongoDB in fact found pushing annual contracts led to a substantial decrease in sales. More on that here: #7.

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Payment Features Outsourced Development Scale Payment Services 251

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Manager, Outbound Growth Marketing at Greenhouse) and Will Allred (Co-Founder & COO at Lavender) to get TWO perspectives and TWO approaches on real sales emails, every week on Sales Hacker. Additionally, they often need developers, engineers, or data analysts only for a short period of time. Subject: Developer Hiring Plan.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Engineering 102

Sales Hacker

APRIL 12, 2022

In this episode, we’ve got Auseh Britt , a seasoned B2B marketer with 20 years of marketing experience across a wide range of industries and companies spanning global hospitality to startups, who currently serves as the VP of Growth Marketing at Terminus. The keys to being a successful growth marketer.

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Strategy Marketing B2B Growth Marketing 109

Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

I stay focused on my niche I concentrate solely on growth marketing for SaaS companies, specifically focusing on SEO. Rather than commenting on general marketing trends, my content consistently addresses specific challenges in this space. A great example of this in action is Gaetano’s story about why he joined Aura.

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Consulting Social Media Engagement Trends 80

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 29, 2022

Manager, Outbound Growth Marketing at Greenhouse) and Will Allred (Co-Founder & COO at Lavender) to get TWO perspectives and TWO approaches on real sales emails, every week on Sales Hacker. We have centers of excellence in Cloud, Custom Software Development, DevOps, PEGA, SaaS, AI, Data warehousing, Data Analytics, BI, and Testing.

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Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Healthcare Software Development 103

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 15, 2022

Manager, Outbound Growth Marketing at Greenhouse) and Will Allred (Co-Founder & COO at Lavender) to get TWO perspectives and TWO approaches on real sales emails, every week on Sales Hacker. to save hours of engineering resources on billing-caused breakages & re-integrations, and allocate that time to core product development.

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Scale Payment Features Finance Business Model 103

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 1, 2022

Manager, Outbound Growth Marketing at Greenhouse) and Will Allred (Co-Founder & COO at Lavender) to get TWO perspectives and TWO approaches on real sales emails, every week on Sales Hacker. Company is augmenting developers and Product teams ability to optimize their solutions with real-world data. Join Kristina Finseth (Sr.

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Scale Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Growth Marketing 102

Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Sales development is a nuanced blend of art and science, requiring a delicate balance for its effective implementation within a company. Drawing from substantial experience, Sally Duby from The Bridge Group provides valuable insights into the intricate realm of sales development. Sally's wisdom sheds light on this dilemma.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 28, 2021

What the heck is revenue marketing? Is it just a different name for familiar things (we see you, growth marketers)? Or is it an entirely different way of thinking about marketing’s role in the GTM/revenue org? Revenue marketing is just one example. How is revenue marketing different from other marketing models?

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