Marketing Principle-first vs process-driven marketing A new way to understand the type of marketer you're about to hire, and how you can predict their performance in advance.
Marketing Customers aren't inside your building The only way to understand humans, is to spend time with humans. Why then do so many marketers work within the confines of four walls?
Marketing Product teardowns are quick-win content marketing Content marketing is overdone. To death. Here's the approach I'm taking at Tiny to create relevant, interesting content.
Marketing A great product meets a great brand Very proud of the marketing team at Tiny, where we are #1 in G2 Crowd's 2019 Spring Grid Report for WYSIWYG editors.
Marketing Introducing Marketing, Minified Welcome to Marketing, Minified. Best practices to help you build a scalable, process-driven marketing function that runs by itself.
Marketing A go-to-market requirement worksheet for product marketers Before you start marketing anything, your product team needs to answer these questions. If they can't, you're dead in the water.
Marketing Do marketing teams of one really exist? Superhero marketers not required. Here are 5 things a solo marketer can do to deliver like a marketing team 10 times the size.
Marketing An inexpensive marketing analytics tool to help you win any argument Marketers need to win the attention of not only their audience but the hearts and minds of the C-suite. This tool will help marketing teams of one do it.
Marketing Data ratios are a marketer's secret weapon There are many ways to segment your marketing data to measure program success. To better understand business impact, use ratios to bring context and meaning to your data.
Marketing Balancing cold hard reality and eternal optimism What does Harry Potter have to do with marketing? Turns out, plenty. Especially if you're focused on the wrong numbers.
Marketing Every new dev marketing hire should write docs Three simple reasons why every new developer marketing hire should write technical documentation. And why your company will benefit.
Marketing How do I develop unique value proposition for a product in a highly competitive space? This is tough. Let's start with your homepage, which tells me what you do and not why I should care. The single screenshot on the page is of a contact list, and I recommend you add additional images that let a site visitor understand the solution.
Marketing When you think you don't have a marketing stack but it actually looks like this This is what a pretty simple marketing stack looks like nowadays. The idea that marketing "isn't technical" is remarkably inaccurate. Let's take a look.
Marketing The best marketing since 1984 Imagine you lead the marketing at one of the world's most iconic companies. The CEO takes you for a stroll around campus and says, "I need you to persuade the world to buy a product they don't want."
Marketing Why stability matters to marketing In this week's episode of the SaaStr podcast, Shan Sinha explains how iterating on their business model placed a huge tax on the organization, especially the growth function.
Marketing Don't hide spam in product update emails Don't put spam in product and security update emails unless you like unhappy customers. Here's how AwardWallet gets it wrong.
Marketing Banksy and his special place for Advertisers I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Marketing The trouble with Virgin Atlantic is? Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin group is all about brand, yet the inconsistency of his airlines is unexpected and damaging.
Marketing TV advertising used to work like this ... One of the more provocative and humorous views of social media, from the creator of Black Mirror.
Marketing The power of search & social marketing Search vs. Social? The team at MDG Advertising created a fantastic infographic highlighting the collective power of social and search marketing.
Marketing When should we add marketing? In the connected era, the marketing is the product, the service and most of all the conversations it causes and the connections it makes. Marketing is the first thing we do, not the last.
Marketing Steve Stoute on marketing (and Kodak) I posted a few videos a week or so ago featuring music biz meets ad-man Steve Stoute, and the author of The Tanning of America. In an article in the New York Observer he had this to say about Kodak's recent campaign featuring Rihanna. He wasn't complimentary.
Marketing How the Buddha solved his marketing problem When you think of the Buddha, you don't think of marketing. But if we agree with Seth Godin that marketing is about spreading ideas, then you could say the Buddha was one of the greatest marketers of all time.
Marketing The future of artist management The future of performing and recording artist management is global brand management using in-market expertise. We are moving into a disaggregated world and the gatekeepers are slowly losing their powering and influence.
Marketing Introduce the familiar before the unknown Most people, even investors, are relatively risk adverse. Most of us like safety. Investors want to know that your product is not that unusual.
