15. “Marketing is about making it easy for people to find,
evaluate and buy your products. Positioning is
figuring out what your product is in the first place.”
More April: rocketwatcher.com
- April Dunford, CEO of Sprintly
16. “Marketing can polish a turd. Positioning can turn
turds into fertilizer.”
More April: rocketwatcher.com
- April Dunford, CEO of Sprintly
17. HOW DO PEOPLE THINK ABOUT
YOUR PRODUCT?
Are you a turd or are you fertilizer?
18. WHAT’S THE CONTEXT IN WHICH
PEOPLE THINK ABOUT YOUR
PRODUCT?
Price, customers, competition,
brand, channels, message.
19. WHAT LANUAGE DO PEOPLE USE
TO TALK ABOUT ABOUT YOUR
PRODUCT?
How do your customers explain your
product to their colleagues?
21. “By not deciding on one of these personas, we paid a
gigantic, invisible ‘optionality’ tax.”
Source: readthink.com
- Brian Halligan, CEO of HubSpot
22. THE PROBLEM WITH MOST
STARTUPS ISN’T A LACK OF IDEAS,
IT’S A LACK OF CLARITY & FOCUS.
Hana Abaza | @hanaabaza
#SAASNORTH
24. DEMAND GENERATION IS A
CORE ELEMENT OF DRIVING
GROWTH
But it’s poorly understood
and badly implemented.
25. BUT WHAT EXACTLY IS DEMAND
GENERATION?
It’s about creating urgency with
buyers that are complacent.
26. Demand generation is the engine that
generates leads, identifies and
nurtures qualified prospects, and optimizes
conversion throughout the buyer cycle.
50. Blog Articles
“Snacky” Content
Long Form
Premium (gated)
ebooks/whitepapers
Webinars
WHAT CONTENT TYPES DO YOU FOCUS ON?
Visual Content
SlideShare, Videos
Infographics
51. THE CONTENT MARKETING
POWER LAW
A small portion of your content is
responsible for the majority of your
results.
52. THE VAST MAJORITY OF
CONTENT UNDERPERFORMS
Buzzsumo analyzed one million
random B2B blog articles.