2. About Me
• Marketing, BizDev, Sales, Product
• Design, Non profit, Real Estate,Tech startups
• Vancouver / Silicon Valley
• QuikPiq, Perch, Schoolzone, Cleanweb, Strutta
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3. Early Stage Startup Marketing
• Customer Development
• Getting Traction
• Any burning questions?
8. Food on the Table
• Observed shoppers at grocery stores
• Asked survey questions
• Asked interviewees to sign up for $$$
• Got rejected!
9. Food on the Table
• Found 1 person willing to pay
• Used “Concierge MVP” to understand needs
and problems
• Dropped off weekly package with coupons
and recipes
• Collected feedback, AND… $9.95
• Manual work, no code
10. Eventually…
• Got a few more customers
• Learned LOTS
• Low tech iterations (in-home visit > emails,
cheque > credit card)
• No wasted time/money on product
development
• Built a solid foundation of domain expertise so
they knew how to win
11. Customer Development
Tools
• Survey.io, Google Forms, SurveyMonkey
• “If you could wave a magic wand and change
anything about the way you do _______, what
would it be, and why?”
• Will you pay $20 to sign up today?
13. Exercise
• Who is your customer/user?
• What are your assumptions?
• Where can you find potential users to
interview?
• How can you test your assumptions in the
interview?
15. Getting Traction
• Where can you find your first
customers/users?
• How can you do this on a low budget?
16. Pre-product Marketing
• Lead Generation: Landing Pages, AdWords,
Social Media
• Content: Blog, articles, e-book, whitepapers
• Relationships: prospect, media, influencer
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17. Lead Generation
• Landing Pages, Social Media Promotions
• Lead capture promotions, downloads,
webinars
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21. Landing Pages
• Concise Value Proposition
• Use your customers’ language
• Clear Call To Action
• Capture email
• Tools:
• Unbounce, LaunchRock, Striking.ly
25. Social Promotions
• Low Barrier to Entry (Enter to Win)
• Fan-gate if on Facebook
• Offer a prize that is relevant to your users
• Collect email!
Tools: (use free trials)
• Offerpop, ShortStack, Strutta
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27. Content Marketing
• Blog, articles, e-book, whitepapers
• What content is valuable to your user?
• Who makes good content today?
• Learn from top players
• Use terms and keywords your customer uses
(SEO)
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29. Where to post…
• Quora
• Hacker News
• Reddit
• Blogs specific to your nice market
30. A word about PR…
If your customer doesn’t read tech blogs, Don’t
waste time getting covered by tech blogs!
31. Exercise
• What type of content might be valuable to
your user?
• Who makes good content today?
• What are some examples of blog posts you
should create?
32. Push The Ball Forward
• Be ruthlessly efficient with your time
• Don’t spend time on activities that aren’t
crucial
• Test assumptions quickly
• Get out of the building!