Episodes

Paige LaNasa, Head of Marketing at Forager, joined me on the Modern Startup Marketing podcast. Forager was founded in 2018, they've raised Series A ($10M), and they're 75 people strong. Here’s what we covered: Logistics is the backbone of global e-commerce. Millions of dollars of goods move between the US, Mexico and Canada (cross-border). Despite that, it still happens to be a logistical nightmare to move commerce across these countries; What Paige worked on with Forager's marketing efforts...

Nemanja Zivkovic, CEO at Funky Marketing, joined me on the Modern Startup Marketing podcast. Mixing it up! This episode is a little different. I usually have venture-backed startup founders and marketing leaders come on as guests. This time I brought on a fellow marketing business owner to share his experience and wisdom. Nemanja started Funky Marketing in Jan. 2020, with a total of 6 employees at the time of the conversation. Funky Marketing is based out of Novi Sad, Serbia. They're helping B...

Anna McVeigh-Murphy, Marketing Manager at Curacubby, joined me on the Modern Startup Marketing podcast. Curacubby was founded in 2016, has 20 people, and is based out of Berkeley, CA. They are seed funded and preparing to raise Series A. Curacubby is an integrated business and payments platform for schools of all sizes. School management shouldn’t be a headache. With Curacubby, schools can focus less on administrative tasks and more on the students. Hurray! We covered: How to prove your compa...

George Wojciechowski, Co-Founder at ShipBob, joined me on the Modern Startup Marketing podcast. ShipBob was founded in 2014 and has raised Series D ($130.5M total). Based out of good 'ole Chicago, IL, ShipBob has ~650 people. ShipBob is a tech-enabled 3PL (3rd party logistics) that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. You can outsource your logistics, from warehousing to delivery (and more) so you can focus on other aspects of your business. ShipBob was recently ranked #1 o...

Matt Bendett, Co-Founder and VP of Ops & Strategy at Peerspace, joined me on the Modern Startup Marketing podcast. Peerspace was founded in 2014 and has raised Series B ($34.8M total). The team was ~85 people at their peak (currently a leaner team due to the impacts of COVID-19). Peerspace is your little black book for finding unique and undiscovered places to meet, create, or celebrate. Whether it’s a photo shoot, birthday bash, pop-up shop, or team brainstorm, Peerspace gives people the keys ...

MJ Peters, VP of Marketing at Firetrace, joined me on the Modern Startup Marketing podcast. We covered: MJ's talent at challenging industrial companies to think differently about marketing; Marketing's focus shifting from trade-shows and sales enablement to driving strategy, segmentation, positioning and demand gen; A unique team structure that includes product marketers focused on specific customer segments; How to use LinkedIn ads effectively; How to think about and test PR successfully ...

I created a new podcast this year. Want to learn how I did it? Everything from outreach to setup to content and more, I'm sharing it all here. Consider this your ultimate easy-to-understand podcast creation learning module. Why did I start this podcast? For me, it all boils down to this. I love reading books. In a way, having your own podcast is like having a never-ending library of books. Every time I talk to my podcast guest, I feel like I'm reading a book. And I get to ask the book questions...

Nikolaus Volk, co-founder and CEO of Kyte, joined me on the Modern Startup Marketing podcast. Here's what we covered: How the Kyte team formed in 2019 and is already onto their second round of funding (wow!); How they've been able to achieve 20-40% MoM growth; Their sharp focus on retaining current customers through paid search, paid social, PR, email reactivation, and partnerships; Exciting opportunities with business travel for next year; Challenges with figuring out the Kyte-specific br...

Jen Saxton, Founder and CEO of Tot Squad, joined me on the Modern Startup Marketing podcast. Here's what we covered: Partnerships and relationships as a growth hack (versus paid ads); Intriguing and funny founder's story on how the company got started; The case for doing more of those things that you're passionate about on the job (versus not so much); Growth that's dependent on marketplace liquidity (enough demand and enough supply); Marketing strategy to help clear the noise, prioritize ...

Laura Kendall, VP of Marketing at MadKudu, joined me on the Modern Startup Marketing podcast. We covered a lot, including: The team you need to set up in your company - the Customer Love & Community team; Who your first marketing hire should be (reporting into the Head of Marketing); How to ensure your brand is seen and heard in a noisy world, and especially during COVID; Narrow your focus on your specific target segment and pick 2-3 main growth levers; Using webinars effectively to engage...

Michael Klozotsky, CMO at IMO, joined me on the Modern Startup Marketing podcast. We covered: How storytelling makes the marketer's work authentic; On team building and starting from a place of care; How to swim downstream with your marketing when others are swimming upstream; How to ensure your MQLs are quality leads that the sales team will follow up with; How sales and marketing can become successful partners in crime; Marketing simplicity will allow you to more easily shift and steer ...

Alexander De Ridder, Co-Founder and CTO of INK, joined me on the Modern Startup Marketing podcast. We covered: Marketing is a competitive sport and marketing campaigns can be as awe-inducing as great art; Why have 15 software developers at a 30-people total bootstrapped startup; Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) to organize the inner-workings of the business; How 64 blog articles brought 100,000 site visitors in 5 months; Top marketing channels used to launch and grow INK including Pr...

Lenny Lebovich, Founder of Pre Brands, came on the Modern Startup Marketing podcast. We covered: Why people misunderstand marketing and branding; How to solve a problem differently through your hiring efforts; The most effective ways to get people to try your (food) product; How to manage the power struggle with retailers, leveraging consumer love of your product; What to look for when you're hiring your startup dream team. Lenny Lebovich is the Founder and former CEO of Pre Brands (www.e...

Gil Eyal, Founder of HYPR, came on the Modern Startup Marketing podcast. We covered: How your marketing will change 100x from early stage to exit; What happens when you find the right investor; What drove the decision to get acquired; Doing marketing by the book slows you down, you have to think a step further to get a higher level of attention; How to get prospects to drop their status quo reality and buy your product. Gil Eyal is the founder of Starfund (www.starfund.io) which invests i...

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