The SaaS world got hit the hardest where... Yeah. But it's actually on the marketing side is becoming a good thing because you're allowed to now invest in more long term plays, which is great for the business. I think even if you look at marketers in some standard now, every marketer now has a little data analyst in them. You know, attribution platforms were never a thing. They used to just be kind of things that, oh, yeah, some of them some marketers use and whatnot. Now, once you start up your marketing efforts, you're on data. And it's all partly because, oh, we need to be sustainable. We can still lose
Great marketing is one thing, but if it’s not hooked up to a finance strategy your business will suffer. CEO and Co-Founder Ronak Shah, opens his marketing and finance playbook.
Daniel and Ronak, Co-Founder of Obvi, open the conversation discussing why Ronak put accounting on hold to get into the startup space, how to become numb to success and failure, and why, if marketing is a company’s engine, finance is the wheels.
You’ll also hear Ronak’s take on why building sustainably is crucial, and why Facebook is still his go-to platform for customer acquisition.
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Timestamps:
0:00: Intro
05:02: What’s the Finance/Marketing Conversation?
07:32: How Attribution is Never a Perfect Science
10:10: Becoming Numb to the Ups and Downs
12:45: Sustainable Business Over Top Line Profit
15:55: Marketing Dynamism
17:17: Facebook – the Hill Ronak Would Die On
23:58: Experience as Nostalgia
26:25: And Relaaaax
27:34: The One Thing Ronak Would Tell You