Reading time: 3 mins This is the ninth article in the series, Tales From a Startup Marketer, by Billy Cina, featured in CIO Magazine. Harassment, unequal pay and alienating work environments are just some of the accusations hurled by many women in tech toward their male counterparts. While there is no doubt about those claims, and plenty of...
Reading time: 4 mins Buyer personas are an excellent tool to identify exactly who your customers are and what they need. This will allow you to not only distribute your sales and marketing resources effectively, but could be helpful in the development of your product or services.
Reading time: 5 mins This blog was originally posted on Outbrain.com. It’s easy for startups to look at the robust content marketing efforts of large enterprises and think they don’t have the resources to succeed with content themselves. The reality is, they don’t really have a choice. Content is a fundamental necessity for...
Reading time: 3 mins This is the eighth article in the series, Tales From a Startup Marketer, by Billy Cina, featured in CIO Magazine. Ringing the bell at NASDAQ, the photo opp with the new investors, collecting the Gartner Cool Vendor award, breaking the good news to the team, finally flying business class (or first?).... A...
Reading time: 6 minutes you'll thank us for “An Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” —David Karp, Tumblr Founder. Most entrepreneurs will tell you that starting their company was the hardest thing they’ve ever done. It’s because there are so many pieces to a successful one. Not only must...
Reading time: 3 mins This is the seventh article in the series, Tales From a Startup Marketer, by Billy Cina, featured in CIO Magazine. There is a great divide between adapting to market requirements and knee-jerk reactions based on fear and fuzzy assumptions. The latter create a constant state of chaos.
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All you need is love. The Beatles sang it, Shakespeare wrote about it and Hallmark manufactured it. We’ve found a place for love in movies, television, books, radio and even our personal lives, but what about our businesses?
Reading time: 5 mins Let’s face it, not everyone gets, connects with, understands, wants to be within 100 light years of anything to do with…. Marketing. You have a fabulous idea, a brilliant product, surely it should just market and sell itself… yes! But, no. Since startup employees are often in single digits, one of the...
