The Growth Hub Podcast

In episode 109 of the Growth Hub Podcast, we're joined by Chris Silvestri, Founder of Conversion Alchemy. He's been exploring the intricacies of messaging and how to balance customer research, user experience or even psychology to help brand craft messages that resonate with their audience. We cover: - Why (too) many companies need help with messaging - The importance of empathizing with customers - The unique framework Chris uses to understand one's audience better - How to use AI in your messaging work - How often should you revisit your messaging - And a bunch of other things you'll want to hear and bring home with you. ❤️ Don't forget to subscribe ❤️ About the show: The podcast for all things B2B SaaS marketing is brought to you by marketing agency Advance B2B. The Growth Hub Podcast is for B2B marketers, CEOs, and founders who want to increase their knowledge, skills, and wisdom about building a high-growth SaaS business. With a mix of strategic frameworks, actionable insights, and inspiring tales, we catch up with some of the top minds in B2B tech from across the world to gain their insight and advice on all things growth. ⬇️ Useful links ⬇️ More episodes: www.advanceb2b.com/thegrowthhub Visit: www.advanceb2b.com/ Become an Insider: www.advanceb2b.com/advance-insider ⬇️ Find us on ⬇️ Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…st/id1219957221 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/66pDW5uwWT1n7164vvYdZi Soundcloud: @thegrowthhub

PR is something that all B2B tech companies want, but if we're being honest, too few do it right (or invest in it, to begin with). In this episode of the Growth Hub Podcast, Clem is joined by Karla Jo Helms, a hardened PR professional with over 15 years of experience in PR and founder of JOTO PR Disruptors. The episode, in short - The meaning of Anti-PR and what's wrong with traditional PR? - The latest PR playbook one should follow - How should B2B professionals prioritize their PR efforts - How to get on journalists' or market influencers' radar - How to go beyond “brand mentions” with reporting and measuring PR efforts and their effects on brand reputation and trust? - Common mistakes B2B companies make with PR, and how to avoid them? - As well as a few more well-guarded secrets from Karla Jo. Happy Listening! About the show: The podcast for all things B2B SaaS marketing is brought to you by marketing agency Advance B2B. The Growth Hub Podcast is for B2B marketers, CEOs, and founders who want to increase their knowledge, skills, and wisdom about building a high-growth SaaS business. With a mix of strategic frameworks, actionable insights, and inspiring tales, we catch up with some of the top minds in B2B tech from across the world to gain their insight and advice on all things growth. ⬇️ Useful links ⬇️ More episodes: www.advanceb2b.com/thegrowthhub Visit: www.advanceb2b.com/ Become an Insider: www.advanceb2b.com/advance-insider ⬇️ Find us on ⬇️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-growth-hub-podcast/id1219957221 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/66pDW5uwWT1n7164vvYdZi Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thegrowthhub

In episode 107 of the Growth Hub Podcast, you'll hear about some of the most critical topics for B2B Tech companies and especially B2B founders and leaders:  scaling effectively, securing funding, and what to do after that! To cover all of this and more, we received Sri Ganesan, Co-founder of Konotor, and co-founder and CEO of Rocketlane, a SaaS Company specializing in customer onboarding that recently secured 24M in series B funding to supercharge its efforts to integrate advanced AI technology. We cover:  - How to secure funding (and avoid crashing after it) - How to build for scalability - Rocketlane's creative funding announcement methods - How to balance innovation with immediate customers' needs and requests - What Sri and Rocketlane have in store for the future - And a couple more pieces of advice from Sri Rocketlane's announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqXBvAKE7H0 Happy listening! About the show: The podcast for all things B2B SaaS marketing is brought to you by marketing agency Advance B2B. The Growth Hub Podcast is for B2B marketers, CEOs, and founders who want to increase their knowledge, skills, and wisdom about building a high-growth SaaS business. With a mix of strategic frameworks, actionable insights, and inspiring tales, we catch up with some of the top minds in B2B tech from across the world to gain their insight and advice on all things growth. ⬇️ Useful links ⬇️ More episodes: www.advanceb2b.com/thegrowthhub Visit: www.advanceb2b.com/ Become an Insider: www.advanceb2b.com/advance-insider ⬇️ Find us on ⬇️ Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…st/id1219957221 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/66pDW5uwWT1n7164vvYdZi Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thegrowthhub

In episode 106 of the Growth Hub Podcast, you'll hear from Jean Bonnenfant, Head of Growth at Trezy. Jean has been playing a LOT with Engineering as Marketing in the past and has many concrete examples to share as well as amazing advice to get it done the right way. The episode, in short - Jean gives a thorough definition of what Engineering as Marketing is - shares his experience with this practice, - shares advice to limit the number of unqualified leads free stuff usually generates, - and what you need to be careful about not to damage your sales when giving too much away for free and what you should focus on to track the performance of your free tools. ❤️ Don't forget to like and subscribe ❤️ About the show: The podcast for all things B2B SaaS marketing is brought to you by marketing agency Advance B2B. The Growth Hub Podcast is for B2B marketers, CEOs, and founders who want to increase their knowledge, skills, and wisdom about building a high-growth SaaS business. With a mix of strategic frameworks, actionable insights, and inspiring tales, we catch up with some of the top minds in B2B tech from across the world to gain their insight and advice on all things growth. ⬇️ Useful links ⬇️ More episodes: https://www.advanceb2b.com/thegrowthhub Visit: https://www.advanceb2b.com/ Become an Insider: https://www.advanceb2b.com/advance-insider ⬇️ Find us on ⬇️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-growth-hub-podcast/id1219957221 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/66pDW5uwWT1n7164vvYdZi Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thegrowthhub

In episode 105 of the Growth Hub Podcast, you'll hear from Kathryn Strachan, Founder and CEO of CopyHouse, a UK Content Marketing agency that recently successfully entered the US … without a US team. The episode, in short: - CopyHouse's GTM playbook, - How to enter a country without a dedicated team, - Whether marketing or sales should come first - How they had to rework messages that resonated in the UK, but not in the US. About the show: The Growth Hub Podcast—the podcast for all things B2B SaaS marketing—is brought to you by marketing agency Advance B2B. The Growth Hub Podcast is for B2B marketers, CEOs, and founders who want to increase their knowledge, skills, and wisdom about building a high-growth SaaS business. With a mix of strategic frameworks, actionable insights, and inspiring tales, we catch up with some of the top minds in B2B tech from across the world to gain their insight and advice on all things growth.

In episode 104 of the Growth Hub Podcast, we invited Joel Gaudeul to discuss a topic we all face: team misalignment. Joel had quite a lot to say - and he took the gloves off, no-bullshit-style. "I am not going to be popular by saying that (...) but you need to work, to make it work". Joel worked in B2C and B2B in companies like Ubisoft, Ulule, Mention, France Digitale, and Alma. He's worn the hats of brand manager, product marketer, CMO, COO, and CRO. The episode, in short: - How did wearing so many executive hats change the way he does marketing? - What metrics should sales, marketing, CS, and product follow together? - Joel's routine to ensure that alignment efforts stick - Go-to tools to make it happen About the show: The podcast for all things B2B SaaS marketing is brought to you by marketing agency Advance B2B. The Growth Hub Podcast is for B2B marketers, CEOs, and founders who want to increase their knowledge, skills, and wisdom about building a high-growth SaaS business. With a mix of strategic frameworks, actionable insights, and inspiring tales, we catch up with some of the top minds in B2B tech from across the world to gain their insight and advice on all things growth.

How much revenue can you tie to your content marketing operations? Should you place your Content Marketing Strategy in the hands of AI? To discuss this, we're joined by Alexis Chevallier, Former CMO, now Part-Time CMO, who's successfully achieved 3M in ARR directly attributed to content marketing operations for Content Marketing Agency YouLoveWords. We cover: > What does a part-time CMO do? > What are the requirements for Content Marketing to become a growth engine? > What would prevent Content Marketing from supporting growth? > How do you get your CEO to understand content marketing? > How to achieve 3M in ARR from content marketing > How to build a high-performing marketing team? > The right split between long and educational content and snack content? > What AI is really bringing to content marketing Tune in to hear from Alexis Chevallier, Content-Led Part-Time CMO. About the show: The SaaS Growth Hub podcast is powered by Growth Marketing Agency Advance B2B. We cover marketing strategy, sales and marketing alignment, content marketing, and brand marketing to help B2B marketers grow and scale up their companies.

Communities can be super powerful. They carry trends, they generate awareness, and if you play your cards right, they can even significantly affect your overall business growth. Now, communities are far from easy to build. To explore the topic, we invited Alex Theuma, founder of SaaStock a successful community helping SaaS founders and their teams connect via expert conferences around the world. In this episode, we cover: - The origins of SaaStock - How to start a community - How to keep your audience engaged to grow the community - The KPIs of community building - More advice for aspiring community builders - And, as per usual, the Fast Five. So, is community building just a nice to have, or should SaaS B2B companies really try to benefit from it? Answer in episode 102 of the SaaS Growth Hub Podcast, with Alex Theuma, founder of SaaStock.

Are you really making good use of video to promote your SaaS company, products, and services? If not, the latest SaaS Growth Hub Podcast episode might be of interest to you as it is about ... video marketing, and everything it touches. To cover this creative topic, we invited Nora Sandell, Head of Marketing at Videoly, a leading product video platform, serving over 1000 online retailers and brands around the world. We discussed: - The evolution of how we consume content - Video marketing trends B2B SaaS marketers absolutely need to know about - How to produce professional and engaging content when you're an absolute rookie in the field. - How to measure performance of your video marketing efforts - And a couple of DOs and DON'Ts to help you get started Tune in to hear from Nora Sandell, Head of Marketing at Videoly. About the show The SaaS Growth Hub podcast is powered by Growth Marketing Agency Advance B2B. We cover marketing strategy, sales and marketing alignment, content marketing, and brand marketing to help B2B marketers grow and scale up their companies.

After Joining Supermetrics as employee number 32 — and marketer number 4 — in 2019, Edward is now Demand Generation Director at Supermetrics, a fast-growing SaaS company with a stunning 50M ARR, in a very competitive space. In this exceptional episode with Edward, we cover: — The secret sauce to Supermetrics' growth — Who should be driving growth? — What's the next stage at Supermetrics? — A full-funnel brand test Supermetrics ran (and what they learned from it) — Where is 'marketing data' going? — The alternatives to the traditional attribution models — Is there a go-to funnel for B2B SaaS companies? Tune in to hear from Edward Ford, Demand Generation Director at Supermetrics. About the show The SaaS Growth Hub podcast is powered by Growth Marketing Agency Advance B2B. We cover marketing strategy, sales and marketing alignment, content marketing, and brand marketing to help B2B marketers grow and scale up their companies.

- What's an efficient process for creating customer stories? - Can one scale the process? - Do you have a secret formula to get around this and still tell compelling stories? - How to tell stories when you can't share numbers - How to hook the visitor from the get-go? Tune in to hear from Joel Klettke, Founder at Case Study Buddy. About the show The SaaS Growth Hub podcast is powered by Growth Marketing Agency Advance B2B. We cover marketing strategy, sales and marketing alignment, content marketing, and brand marketing to help B2B marketers grow and scale up their companies.

- Why are customer stories so important? - Why is it so difficult to create and publish quality customer stories? - How to ensure customer stories serve business and revenue goals? - How should marketers measure the ROI of a case study? - How to ask a customer for a story? Tune in to hear from Joel Klettke, Founder at Case Study Buddy. About the show The SaaS Growth Hub podcast is powered by Growth Marketing Agency Advance B2B. We cover marketing strategy, sales and marketing alignment, content marketing, and brand marketing to help B2B marketers grow and scale up their companies.

What is the role of LinkedIn in a B2B advertising strategy? What is the best use of LinkedIn ads? Is LinkedIn really expensive? What's the Future of LinkedIn Ads? Tune in to learn from Gabriel Ehrlich, CEO at Remotion and LinkedIn Ads expert. About the show The SaaS Growth Hub podcast is powered by Growth Marketing Agency Advance B2B. We cover marketing strategy, sales and marketing alignment, content marketing, and brand marketing to help B2B marketers grow and scale up their companies.

What makes it so difficult to make LinkedIn ads work? How should marketers approach targeting on LinkedIn ads? What does a good LinkedIn ads campaign look like? Tune in to learn from Gabriel Ehrlich, CEO at Remotion and LinkedIn Ads expert. About the show The SaaS Growth Hub podcast is powered by Growth Marketing Agency Advance B2B. We cover marketing strategy, sales and marketing alignment, content marketing, and brand marketing to help B2B marketers grow and scale up their companies.

What should founders do to fix sales and marketing alignment once and for all? Dave Kellogg is an Executive in Residence at Balderton Capital. He also comes with 10 years of experience both as a CEO and a CMO. In other words, he has a lot to say about sales and marketing. Dave recently wrote “The Founder's Guide to B2B Sales”, and we invited him on the podcast to hear his thoughts on how founders should kickstart selling and what they can do to ensure a strong alignment between Marketing and Sales. In the second part of our chat, Dave discusses marketing and sales alignment, how to do it right, and what founders should do from the get-go to make it happen. Hope you enjoy it! > Why are sales and marketing so often misaligned? > … and what to do about it > What founders & CEOs should understand about marketing > How to find the right balance between building and scaling sales and marketing? Happy listening!

How much do founders know about Sales and Marketing? How much should they? Dave Kellogg is Executive in Residence at Balderton Capital. He also comes with 10 years of experience both as a CEO and a CMO. In other words, he has a lot to say about sales and marketing. Dave recently wrote “The Founder's Guide to B2B Sales”, and we invited him on the podcast to hear his thoughts on how founders should kickstart selling and what they can do to ensure a strong alignment between Marketing and Sales. In the first part of our chat, Dave tells us about the importance of understanding the basics of sales. > CMO vs. CEO: What's best? > What do founders need to know about selling? > How can a founder become a good “Chief Salesperson”? > The impact of technology in the sales landscape. Happy listening!

We've all heard stories from companies successfully entering new markets. Now, if every other B2B SaaS company is always trying to expand to new markets, success in that field is actually quite scarce. We had the pleasure of welcoming Teemu Ilola on the show to tell us more about this. Teemu is VP of Sales Operations at Leadoo, a Finnish SaaS company founded in 2018 with already +6M€ in ARR and operating in several countries, including the UK. In Part II of episode 96 of the SaaS Growth Hub Podcast, Teemu tells us about: — The most challenging markets to enter, and why. — The walls they hit on the way… — … and what they learned from it — How to deal with recruitment when entering a new market. Happy listening!

We've all heard stories from companies successfully entering new markets. Now, if every other B2B SaaS company is always trying to expand to new markets, success in that field is actually quite scarce. We had the pleasure of welcoming Teemu Ilola on the show to tell us more about this. Teemu is VP of Sales Operations at Leadoo, a Finnish SaaS company founded in 2018 with already +6M€ in ARR and operating in several countries, including the UK. In Part I of episode 96 of the SaaS Growth Hub Podcast, Teemu tells us about: — Leadoo's expansion (so far) — Market research before entering a market — The role marketing should play when entering a new market, from a salesperson perspective — How to deal with ongoing marketing operations when operating in different countries. Happy listening!

Lead generation is usually great for acquiring many contacts, but it also favors quantity over quality. Demand generation, on the other hand, focuses on attracting relevant people based on what they need to solve at a given time. It favors quality over quantity and has a greater impact on revenue. Put simply, companies focusing solely on lead generation may be missing out BIG TIME

How do you view the current economic situation — through the threat or the opportunity lens? As companies scramble to cut back on budgets, marketers are finding themselves in one of the following situations: —

Do you know what rhymes with Marketing? P-L-A-N-N-I-N-G. We recently welcomed Sophie Hedestad (CMO at Netigate) in episode 94 of the SaaS Growth Hub Podcast to discuss how marketers can move growth needles by working agile and being more strict with planning things ahead. Sophie, Reeta and Seija cover: > What it means to work agile > How can marketing benefit from it > The prerequisites for working agile > The benefits of using OKRs in marketing? > How deep should one go when setting OKRs > Ill-planned OKRs (and how to avoid them) Happy listening!

When things get hectic - and they are pretty wild right now -, looking at facts and data might be the best thing to do. Paddle recently published an insightful report: The State of SaaS Growth: Uncovering the growth levers that see SaaS businesses achieve long-term success. So, we invited Andrew Davies, CMO at Paddle, to share some of the key learnings of the said report. Episode 93 of the SaaS Growth Hub Podcast covers: > The main growth barriers for SaaS businesses > The main growth levers for SaaS businesses > How marketing can support growth in the wake of an economic recession > How to find your product-market fit > How to experiment with pricing > The impact of self-serve on growth Happy Listening! — Like our content? Follow us!

We love Halloween here at the SaaS Growth Hub Podcast. So, we decided to bring you a special episode on Marketing Horror Stories! Every marketer out there has either been involved in projects that have gone terribly wrong or they have had to do something they are now ashamed to admit. In this special episode, Seija and Reeta share a couple of marketing horror stories to make you shiver...! On the menu: - The spooky tale of a product launch relying on imaginary dollars. - The Curious Case of the Missing Roadmap. - The Legend of the cursed Email List - The Monster Marketer. - The tale of the monstrous motion machine called MQL. Happy Halloween everyone!

Mia Mäkipää is Data & Analytics Strategist here at Advance B2B. We invited her on the SaaS Growth Hub Podcast to discuss how the latest developments in the data and analytics world are impacting marketing and how to make the best out of it. — In short, the episode covers: - What a Data & Analytics Strategist (really) does? - How our use of cookies is evolving. - How Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is a good change. - The great alternatives to GA4 - How to solve common data challenges most organizations face. - How to grow one's data literacy skills. Happy listening! — Visit Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Reeta on Twitter >> twitter.com/rhtoivanen

Ryan Law is VP of Content at Animalz, a content marketing agency for SaaS companies. We discussed AI and game-changing technologies for Content Marketing in episode 91 of the Growth Hub Podcast. — Ryan and his team have been playing with GPT-3 (short for Generative Pre-trained Transformer), an artificial intelligence that can generate human-like text and, in this episode, he shares their learnings, failures and expectations for AI in Content Marketing. We cover: > What GPT-3 is > What it's great at - and its limits > The results of Ryan's experiments with GPT-3 > Can GPT-3 replace human writers? > AI and ethics: how to use it for good? > How AI is expected to impact the world of marketing in the coming years Happy listening! ❤️ — Visit Advance B2B >> https://www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> https://www.twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Reeta on Twitter >> https://www.twitter.com/rhtoivanen Visit Animalz >> https://www.animalz.co/ Follow Ryan on Twitter >> https://www.twitter.com/thinking_slow

"Does your workforce represent your customers? Does your board represent your customers? Does your leadership represent your customers?" — Harini Gokul In the latest episode of the Growth Hub Podcast, we had the privilege to chat with Harini Gokul, Head of Customer Success at Amazon Web Services. With over 20 years of global business experience in companies like IBM, Microsoft and AWS, Harini is laser-focused on customer success. Now, Harini is also exploring key topics such as diversity and inclusion and how to build the foundations for sustainable growth (and she suggests a couple of great reads on those topics during the episode). To make a long story short, the key to growth is a mix of honesty, transparency and a customer-centric approach. Here's what we covered during this great episode:  >> How to acquire the right talent. >> The importance of diversity and inclusion. >> How to build and maintain brand credibility. >> How to increase collaboration with customers to grow. Happy listening! ❤️ — Claim your free SaaS marketing assessment from Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com/tgh — Visit Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Reeta on Twitter >> twitter.com/rhtoivanen — Visit AWS >> https://aws.amazon.com/ — Book recommendation: Speed & Scale: A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now, by John E. Doerr >> https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58796563-speed-scale

If you do competitive analysis by stalking your competitor's website, then creating a table to compare features, and then writing down their value prop and main messages.... this is for you. This time on The Growth Hub, we're talking to Andrew McCotter-Bicknell, Head of Competitive Intelligence at ClickUp, so we can find out how to actually do competitive analysis.

This episode is all about customer support, and Klaus CEO and Co-Founder Martin Kõiva's experience in learning how to deliver great customer experience at scale.

In this episode, Reeta and Seija sat down with Pinja Virtanen, Marketing Manager at Swarmia; a fast-growing company founded just 3 years ago. In the past 6 months alone, Swarmia doubled its customer count and MRR. What makes Pinja's journey particularly interesting is her eclectic experience. Before Swarmia, Pinja worked as a Content Marketing Strategist at Advance B2B, and she was also in charge of Demand Gen later at Supermetrics. With both in-house and agency experiences, she became the first marketing hire at Swarmia. We invited her to hear her thoughts on what it's like to start as the first marketer in a fast-growing company. During the episode, you'll hear about: - What motivated Swarmia to hire their first marketer - How Pinja onboarded herself to create her role - What she decided to focus on at first (and why) - How to prioritize when there's so much you want to do - How to experiment pragmatically to get relevant results - Pinja's views on the eternal “hire a Generalist vs. Specialist” debate Happy listening! — Claim your free SaaS marketing assessment from Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com/tgh — Visit Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Reeta on Twitter >> twitter.com/rhtoivanen — Visit Swarmia >> swarmia.com/ Follow Pinja on Twitter >> twitter.com/pinjaerika — Book recommendation: Founder Brand: Turn Your Story Into Your Competitive Advantage by Dave Gerhardt >> https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60227444-founder-brand

Katrina Wong is VP of Product Marketing & Demand Generation at Twilio Segment. Katrina spent over 15 years growing and scaling early-stage SaaS companies, and she had a few golden nuggets to share with us. We sat down with her to talk about growth strategies, including the following: — What is a growth strategy, and why create one? — How should different-stage companies address their growth strategy? — Who in a company should be involved in creating the growth strategy? — How to get buy-in from everyone in your organization? — What are mistakes companies make when creating their growth strategies? — How it works over at Twilio Happy listening! — Claim your free SaaS marketing assessment from Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com/tgh — Visit Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> https://twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Reeta on Twitter >> https://twitter.com/rhtoivanen — Visit Segment >> https://segment.com/ Follow Katrina on Twitter >> https://twitter.com/katchmesocial — Book recommendation: — Memos from the Chairman >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1069335.Memos_from_the_Chairman — Atomic Habits >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121378-atomic-habits — Artificial Intelligence Basics >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52362494-artificial-intelligence-basics

Disclaimer! If you're used to listening to the show, you might be a little surprised to hear how it sounds! Reeta Westman — content marketer at Advance B2B — and Seija Lappalainen — Growth marketer at Advance B2B — are now hosting The Growth Hub Podcast! Jesus Requena is VP of Growth Marketing at Figma. Formerly VP of Growth at Algolia and Growth Marketing Director at Unity, Jesus has been in the SaaS world for quite some time and he had many golden nuggets to share on user activation and the role of data in it. In this episode, we caught up with Jesus to hear how he's done it so far and covered great topics, including: > How Jesus became such a PLG (Product-Led Growth) enthusiast > What makes PLG so interesting for SaaS businesses > The role of growth marketing in user activation > How growth marketing can support PLG > Why data plays a central part in PLG and how to leverage it Happy listening! — Claim your free SaaS marketing assessment from Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com/tgh — Visit Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> https://twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Reeta on Twitter >> https://twitter.com/rhtoivanen — Visit Figma >> https://www.figma.com/ Follow Jesus on Twitter >> https://twitter.com/JRequenaFranco — Book recommendation: Product-Led SEO by Eli Schwartz >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57659600-product-led-seo

Bill Macaitis is former SVP of Marketing & CMO at Salesforce, Zendesk & Slack, and today we're talking about how to build a billion dollar SaaS company. Many SaaS founders, CEOs, and marketers dream of building a unicorn business and it's something Bill has done on several occasions throughout his career. So, we caught up with him to hear how it's done and Bill covers some great topics, including: - How Marc Benioff convinced him to leave the world of consumer marketing and make the move to B2B SaaS - What it was like to work with Marc Benioff directly - How Bill brought a B2C mindset to the world of B2B marketing - How marketing teams can help create a billion dollar valuation - How you should structure your marketing teams for growth - The marketing philosophies and playbooks Bill ran at Salesforce, Zendesk, and Slack Links Claim your free SaaS marketing assessment from Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com/tgh Manager Tools Podcast >> https://www.manager-tools.com/podcasts --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Frida Ahrenby is CMO at GetAccept and in this episode we're talking about how to build a world-class SaaS marketing team. As companies scale, teams need to scale, so this is something all SaaS marketing leaders and managers will need to work on along their journey. However, it's easier said than done. So just exactly how do you build a world-class SaaS marketing team? I caught up with Frida to hear how she's scaled GetAccept's marketing org from a team of 3 in Sweden to a global team of 25 marketers spread across multiple international markets. In this episode, we cover: - How GetAccept scaled their marketing team, in what order, and why - How all their teams work together - What to look for when hiring top marketers - How to nurture talent and enable marketers to grow their careers within your company - An insight into the culture within GetAccept's marketing team - How to get your marketing team working well and aligned with your product & sales teams Links Claim your free SaaS marketing assessment from Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com/tgh GetAccept >> https://www.getaccept.com Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071764-lean-in --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Chris Walker is CEO at Refine Labs and in this episode we're talking about Category Evangelism and the modern marketing playbook to grow pipeline and revenue. Chris has started a marketing revolution. He is host of the hugely popular Demand Gen Live series and the State of Demand Gen podcast. Forbes described him as “The B2B demand generation guru every Series C company should be listening to” and so we got Chris on the show to break down what B2B marketers should be doing to grow their companies and their careers. We cover: - The limitations of the traditional view of demand gen >> Why you shouldn't centre on lead gen >> How to move away from demand capture to demand creation >> Where we went wrong with attribution - The modern playbook for successful demand gen >> How to know your customer better than anybody else >> How to win in dark social >> Why Category Evangelism is the future of marketing Links Claim your free SaaS marketing assessment from Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com/tgh Refine Labs >> https://www.refinelabs.com/ State of Demand Gen >> https://sptfy.com/6Nvh Mastery by Robert Greene >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13589182-mastery --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Kaylee Edmondson is Senior Director of Demand Gen at Chili Piper and in this episode we're talking about the future of demand gen. Essentially this episode is lifting the lid on where the marketing playbook is going as Kaylee shares her thoughts on how B2B SaaS companies should be gearing up for the future, including: - What demand gen is and where it sits in the marketing funnel - The major issues with the old demand gen playbook - Why the future of demand gen sits in the dark funnel - The playbooks SaaS marketing teams should be running - How to get senior buy in for that kind of playbook - How the Chili Piper team does marketing and measures success - The skills marketers will need in the future Links Claim your free SaaS marketing assessment from Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com/tgh Chili Piper >> https://www.chilipiper.com Obviously Awesome by April Dunford >> https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/45166937-obviously-awesome --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Aggelos Mouzakitis is Growth Product Manager at Growth Sandwich, and in this episode we're talking about how customer research can help B2B SaaS companies grow to their potential. We hear about various approaches to growth, such as product-led growth, sales-led growth, or marketing-led growth, but in this episode we look at it from another perspective, and that's customer-led growth. Aggelos is an expert on customer research and advocate of customer-led growth, and in this episode he breaks down this methodology that puts the customer at the core of everything you do, including: - What being customer-led truly means - How customer-led growth helps marketers - How to use the jobs-to-be-done framework to support customer-led growth - The “value gap” issue in marketing - What it really means to have customer empathy as a marketer Links Claim your free SaaS marketing assessment from Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com/tgh Growth Sandwich >> https://www.growthsandwich.com/ What Customers Want by Anthony Ulwick >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/426683.What_Customers_Want --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Anna Holopainen is Head of Growth at Kide Science and in this episode she's talking about why your marketing isn't getting results. All marketing teams are focused on one main objective, growing the business, but instead of just looking at ways to grow the business, we need to invert the problem and look at what is stopping us from growing and why we're not getting results. In this episode, Anna joins us to share some of these reasons, including: - Typical growth and marketing related reasons why you're not getting results - Why you should never start to uncover growth blockers with a marketing audit - A simple 4-step process to identify what's stopping you from growing - How to make sense of your data by putting it into context - How to identify growth opportunities if you don't have access to enough data Links Claim your free SaaS marketing assessment from Advance B2B >> https://www.advanceb2b.com/tgh Kide Science >> https://www.kidescience.com/en SaaS Reads >> https://saasreads.com Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828902-thinking-in-systems --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Skyler Reeves is CEO & Founder at Ardent Growth, and in this episode we're talking about why SaaS companies fail with content marketing. Almost all B2B SaaS companies will be doing content marketing in some form or another, but are you doing it the right way? In this episode, Skyler talks us through some of the pitfalls SaaS companies fall into when it comes to content, and what you should be doing instead. He covers: - The two primary factors that should dictate your content marketing strategy - How to set goals and measure the success of your content - How to prioritise topics in a search-led content strategy - How to acquire quality backlinks to your content - The importance of content refreshes and audits - How smaller B2B SaaS companies can catch up with established competitors Links Mindset by Carol Dweck >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40745.Mindset --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Margie Agin is Founder & Chief Strategist at Centerboard Marketing, and in this episode we're talking about how to turn your brand strategy into tangible marketing tactics. We often hear about how important it is to build a brand in B2B SaaS, but how do you bridge the gap between your brand strategy and your marketing tactics? Well Margie tells us how as she covers: - How to accurately and consistently reflect a company's strategic brand positioning and voice - How to get your company bought in and aligned on brand - How to turn brand strategy into demand gen campaigns - How to modify your brand strategy as your company grows - Examples of B2B SaaS companies that do a great job of reflecting and amplifying their brand (and which companies miss the mark) Links Centerboard Marketing >> https://centerboard-marketing.com/ Brand Breakthrough >> https://centerboard-marketing.com/brand-breakthrough/ Winning The Story Wars >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13088627-winning-the-story-wars --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Caroline Guo is Head of Growth at HashiCorp and in this episode we're talking about how to 2X pipeline and user acquisition in just 1.5 years. Caroline joined HashiCorp just over three years ago to build, hire, and lead the growth team, and in this episode she covers: - How HashiCorp has grown its growth team - How to build effective go to market models - How Caroline and her team built out HashiCorp's entire SaaS business segment - How her team operates across the entire funnel from acquisition & activation to monetization & retention - The main factors that enabled their growth team to double pipeline and user acquisition - The importance of diversity within hiring, your team, and the workplace Links HashiCorp >>https://www.hashicorp.com/ Getting To Yes >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/313605.Getting_to_Yes --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Krista Martin is VP of Growth at Boardable and in this episode we're talking about career acceleration and how to go from Marketing Manager to VP of Growth in just three years. Krista joined Boardable where she was able to align her professional and personal passions. Krista shares her journey of how she was able to grow her career so quickly, including: - How she leads growth at scale - How her growth team operates - What product-led growth at Boardable looks like - The qualities she looks for in people who are to join her team - How to actually make the move from mid-level manager to a VP or C-level role Links Boardable >> https://boardable.com/ Product-Led Onboarding >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58294382-product-led-onboarding --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Emily Kramer is Marketing Advisor, Angel Investor & Co-Founder at MKT1, and in this episode we're talking about how to build and organise your early stage SaaS marketing org. Emily has built and scaled the marketing teams at Ticketfly, Asana, Carta, and Astro and in this episode she talks us through her framework for structuring your marketing team, including: - The roles you should hire first - Why you shouldn't hire t-shaped marketers - How marketing teams should prioritise and focus - How much hierarchy you need in your marketing org - The story of how Emily built and structured Asana's marketing team Links MKT1 >> https://www.mkt1.co/ High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40536148-high-growth-handbook --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Hilary Kay is CMO at Wibbitz and in this episode we're talking about how to evolve your marketing strategy from a sales-led enterprise model to a product-led hybrid model. This is a transition Wibbitz went through about 1.5 years ago and it's something many SaaS companies are looking at today. In this episode, Hilary covers: - Why Wibbitz made the change - What some of the signs and indicators are that you should make this transition - The impact it has on understanding your target audience, customer lifecycle, and marketing tactics/channels you use - How it influences sales & marketing alignment, product & marketing alignment, and the marketing team's structure - The things that shouldn't change when making this transition Links Wibbitz >> https://www.wibbitz.com/ Think Like A Monk by Jay Shetty >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51942513-think-like-a-monk OpenView Build >> https://podcast.openviewpartners.com/ --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Rudan Zhang is VP of Marketing at Clubhouse.io and in this episode we're talking about how Clubhouse positioned themselves to focus on a niche segment. Clubhouse is a project management platform for modern software teams, but with so many project management tools on the market, Rudan discusses why Clubhouse decided to intentionally focus on a niche audience segment and how they did it. We cover: - The process Clubhouse used to find their points of differentiation for each of their ICPs - How they compete with well-known horizontal products - How to market to technical audiences - The marketing channels they use to reach their niche audience - How their marketing team is structured - The KPIs they use to measure success Links Clubhouse >> https://clubhouse.io/ Product-Led SEO by Eli Schwartz >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57659600-product-led-seo --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Mike McDerment is Co-Founder, former CEO, and Board Chair of FreshBooks, and in this episode we're talking about how to not kill your SaaS business. Mike went from accidental founder to CEO of a SaaS company with over 24 million users and he's learned a lot of lessons along the way having almost killed the business on multiple occasions. In this episode, Mike talks about: - How he accidentally founded a SaaS company - Why moving too fast almost killed FreshBooks early on - Why he underestimated word of mouth as a growth driver - Why raising at the wrong time can be very dangerous - The counter-intuitive idea of why Mike decided to start a direct competitor company to FreshBooks called BillSpring Links FreshBooks >> https://www.freshbooks.com/ The E-Myth by Michael Gerber >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81942.E_Myth_Mastery --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Audrey Agahan is Content Marketing Strategist at Advance B2B and in this episode we're talking about what the heck is growth marketing. Audrey introduces us to Advance B2B's growth marketing formula that blends brand strategy with agile marketing operations, as well as: - The difference between growth marketing and traditional marketing - How growth marketing differs from growth hacking - The sprint-based agile operating model Advance B2B uses to run their growth marketing activities - A framework to prioritise growth ideas and experiments - How to use content marketing as a growth driver - How Audrey and Advance B2B worked with a client to achieve over 100% YoY growth - How to get started with growth marketing Links Advance B2B >> https://www.advanceb2b.com/ Product-Led Growth by Wes Bush >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46033247-product-led-growthT The Power of Vulnerability >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23500254-the-power-of-vulnerability --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Zandra Moore is CEO & Co-Founder at Panintelligence and in this episode we're talking about how small SaaS companies can take on big competitor. Zandra discusses Panintelligence's David Vs Goliath story of how a SaaS underdog from a small city in northern England is competing against legacy BI heavyweights such as Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce. Zandra discusses the process of how they positioned themselves, identified points of differentiation, and built out their go-to-market strategy using Geoffrey Moore's framework from Crossing The Chasm. We also hear how this translates into their marketing strategy, their marketing playbook, and how they compete with much smaller budgets than their competitors. Links Panintelligence >> https://www.panintelligence.com/ Crossing The Chasm >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61329.Crossing_the_Chasm Latka >> https://nathanlatka.com/podcast-thetop/ Winning By Design >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF7LXR8Pi5fr-N8OQ8XtP9g --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Stephanie Cox is VP of Sales & Marketing at Lumavate and in this episode we're talking about why marketing should lead sales - as well as support, success, and product. Stephanie has a very unique role as a SaaS marketing leader since she also directly leads four other key departments and in this episode we hear: - Why she ended up taking such a broad role - The benefits of having marketing lead sales - What channels and tactics are working for the Lumavate marketing team - How all her teams work together - What her typical week looks like - How her teams move at a super fast pace and just get shit done Links Lumavate >> https://www.lumavate.com/ --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Derek O'Carroll is CEO of Brightpearl and in this episode we're talking about their incredible SaaS turnaround story from near failure to +$15M ARR & +40% year-on-year growth. When Derek took over as CEO of Brightpearl, he described the company as a "distressed asset". It was burning cash, had very high churn, and a culture where talented people were rowing in different directions. Fast forward to today and Brightpearl is growing rapidly and Derek has masterminded a successful SaaS turnaround story. In this episode, Derek discusses: - Brightpearl's three-pronged turnaround strategy - How they realigned product-market fit - How they grew ACV - Building a talented team where the right people are in the right place - The impact the strategy has had - How Brightpearl reduced churn from 28% to below 8% Links Brightpearl >> https://www.brightpearl.com/ Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42611483-escaping-the-build-trap --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Rebecca Reynoso is Senior Content Editor & Guest Post Program Manager at G2 and in this episode we're talking about how to *actually* run a successful guest post program. Rebecca manages G2's editorial calendar for all guest article contributions, which combined have generated over 550K yearly website sessions, 80% of which are organic. In this episode, Rebecca discusses: - The value of guest posting - How to draft a thorough and clear set of guest post guidelines - What goes into strong guest posting editorial standards - The story of how G2's guest post program has evolved over time - The results G2's guest post program has generated Links G2 Learning Hub >> https://learn.g2.com/ G2's guest post guidelines >> https://learn.g2.com/guest-post-guidelines Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6334.Never_Let_Me_Go --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward

Katheriin Liibert is Head of Marketing at Outfunnel and in this episode we're talking about how to grow your SaaS business as a solo marketer. Katheriin joined Outfunnel as the first, and currently, only marketer in the company. With many SaaS marketers in a similar situation, how do you grow your SaaS business as a solo marketer? Katheriin shares her experience on what's worked for her, including: - how you should set expectations for marketing and work with your CEO & founders - why you should create a 100 day plan (but still get quick wins) - how to figure out which tactics and channels to focus on - how to work with freelancers and agencies - how to scale your team in future Links Outfunnel >> https://outfunnel.com/ Thinking, Fast And Slow by Daniel Kahneman >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow --- Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward