Growth Marketing Today

LinkedIn is the place to be if you're in the B2B space. The problem is that LinkedIn is often a cesspool of spammy sales posts or congratulatory posts for a job well done. How do you utilize LinkedIn to grow your company's brand so it stays top-of-mind to your potential buyers? Gaetano DiNardi, Director of Demand Generation at Nextiva, has figured out a way to build a following and get hundreds and thousands of impressions on his posts. In this episode, Gaetano discusses the 5 types of content that have a higher chance of going viral on Linkedin, the best way to structure your LinkedIn post and how to turn the viral content into inbound leads. To get the free show notes, three key actionable takeaways, tweetable quotes and more from this episode go to https://growthmarketing.today/045

SaaS companies that invest in customer research grew 2-3x faster than companies that don't. The problem is that 65% of marketers rarely do customer research. That's where Katelyn Bourgoin comes in. Her mission is to make customer research sexy again and help frustrated product and marketing teams use customer insight to guide innovation and identify untapped growth opportunities. In this episode, Katelyn reveals her step-by-step process in helping companies identify their best customers and trigger them to buy more. For the show notes, key takeaways, tweetable quotes from Katelyn and other valuable resources, go to https://growthmarketing.today/044

Is it worth investing in SEO in 2019 when it's getting harder to rank for keywords? According to Kevin Indig, VP of SEO at G2, you need to forget about blogs and drive organic traffic with his secret SEO strategy, he dubbed "microsite 2.0". Kevin has worked for companies such as eBay, Pinterest, Atlassian, and G2 acquire more than +100M users using SEO. In this episode, we talk about something Kevin dubs as "microsite 2.0" strategy that doubled the organic traffic from 4M to 8M at Atlassian. We also talk about a link building strategy that Kevin called "account-based link building." Finally, we talk about big shifts in SEO in 2020 and beyond. For the show notes, key takeaways, tweetable quotes and other valuable resources, go to https://growthtoday.fm/043

Hiring marketers can be a hit or miss. Building a high-performing marketing team from 1 to 35 employees that scales a SaaS company's annual recurring revenue from $1M to $15.6M in 5 years with no major funding is even harder! That's what Georginia (aka as Gia) Laudi, the former VP of Marketing at Unbounce (2012-2017), did exactly. As an early employee, she built a team which surpassed targets and more than doubled acquisition in its 2nd year. For the show notes, key takeaways, tweetable quotes and other valuable resources, go to https://growthtoday.fm/042

The #1 killer of growth for SaaS company is churn. For a SaaS business of almost any scale, the valuation impact of better retention is in the tens of millions over time. The problem is that only 44% of companies focus more closely on acquisition, while only 18% cited retention as a higher concern (source). In this episode, we have Kristen DeCosta, Growth Lead at ChurnBuster.io. Kristen shares some proven and simple strategies to reduce SaaS churn that kill growth.

How did YC-backed startup BxBlue, which is based out of Brazil, get their first customer using SEO within a month? In this episode, I chat with Roberto Braga, CMO of BxBlue, on an in-depth look of their SEO strategy, his experience and biggest learnings with being part of Y-Combinator and the challenges of growing a startup in Brazil. For show notes from this episodes, my key takeaways and other goodies, go to https://growthmarketing.today/040

April Dunford, market positioning expert and author of the just released book Obviously Awesome, shares why for most lead gen, customer acquisition or sales problem, it's really a market positioning problem. They don’t really know the value their product is giving to the right target audience. April goes through her methodology in helping companies from startups to 40 billion dollar company just do that. For the show notes, tweetable quotes from April (there are so many!) and other goodies, go to https://growthmarketing.today/039

From professional poker player to SEO and Paid Acquisition Manager at Drift, Bill King shares how the skills he learned in data, strategy and game theory as a poker player helped him become the marketer he is today. Prior to Drift, he was the Senior Growth Marketing Manager at AvidXchange, Senior Inbound Marketing Professional at Hubspot. For the show notes, tweetable quotes from Bill and other goodies, go to https://growthmarketing.today/038

For freemium and free trial SaaS marketers and owners, one of the biggest struggles is converting more free or free trial users into paying users. Wes Bush, a product-led growth consultant and upcoming author of the book Product-Led Growth, shares his secrets to doing just that. Learn why product-qualified leads are so much more “qualified” than marketing-qualified leads, how to increase your freemium or free trial conversion and why are some big mistakes marketers make when implementing product-led growth. For this episode's show notes, tweetable quotes and goodies, go to https://growthmarketing.today/037

Joel Klettke, B2B SaaS copywriter extraordinaire and CRO consultant, shares with use his process for creating copy that multiplies conversion rates and sells. He’s done some amazing work, including doubling the conversion rate of Hubspot. As a sign of how funny and great Joel’s copy is, check out his twitter bio - Pray for your competitors: after you hire me, they’ll need it. For the show notes, tweetable quotes from Joel and more, go to https://growthmarketing.today/036.