Marketers In Capes
By Eytan Buchman
[Learn more at buchman.co.il]
Marketers In CapesJul 02, 2018
Dani Peterman, Brand Marketing Lead @ Coho AI
You either use it or you're....probably not reading this.
But just like eating pizza - sometimes many times a week - does not a pizza chef make, so too posting crappy posts once a week does not turn you into a social media guru.
Especially not one like Dani Peterman.
He's had hand's on experience crafting company brands on social media that seem like they have way, way more resources behind them than I've come to learn. And they're fun to follow too!
So in this post, I got him to share his playbook (which is shockingly simple), explain a few tricks of the trades that make brands take off, and talk about his tool stack (spoiler alert, it's just LinkedIn's native tool and some productivity tools).
Read more about this episode and snag some key links at buchman.co.il/
Ya'ara Cohen, Head of Marketing @ Empathy
Death comes for everyone.
But Empathy, a startup that helps families deal with the aftermath, is there to help. And it's touting a sack full of awards, including some from Apple and Google.
But seriously, building a globally recognized brand around such a sensitive subject is no easy feat. So in this episode, I chat with Ya'ara Cohen about how she runs marketing at Empathy. We cover a lot in just 23 minutes (22:51, but who's counting) but if someone forced me to summarize it, the highlights are:
- How nothing good comes without effort...and how that shaped Empathy's upfront investment in brand
- A playbook for how off-the-beaten-track businesses can still get inspiration for marketing
- Lessons learned on partner marketing, especially with enterprise partners
- How Ya'ara hires
- Some freight references...cause why not?
If you liked this, just smash that five star review. Pretty please?
Asaph Schulman, CMO @ Firebolt
Let's talk brand. And SEO. And being irreverent. And while we're at it, let's talk about thought leadership.
In the first episode of a very arbitrarily defined Season 3, Asaph Schulman, the CMO at Firebolt talks about what it's like for a small startup to go up against Snowflake and Google. He also breaks down how he built out their brand (which is, IMHO, outstanding), practical ramifications on things like SEO content, and more.
Honestly, this is just a great episode. Why are you even reading descriptions when you can be frolicking in fields of dandolians or making ChatGPT tell SEO fart jokes?
The All-Powerful B2B Survey with Ramel Levin, Global Surveyz
In B2B marketing, it's not enough to get attention. To sell a vision, you need to educate. And while educating experts in their own field - is typically solved by content, crappy blog posts are so 2010.
Enter, the survey.
Crowd-sourced surveys may be one of a marketer's most effective tools. So this interview goes really deep, talking to Ramel Levin, a B2B marketing executive who believed in surveys so passionately, he started a company that does just that.
Listen to the full episode to hear how Ramel designs a survey, key tips for creating landing pages, effective distribution strategies and how a massive PalmPilot win (seriously) made it all possible.
And to see some of those surveys in action, head to the show notes at buchman.co.il/survey
Ingredients for a Perfect Explainer Video with Adam Lisagor, Sandwich
In this episode, Adam Lisagor, the founder of Sandwich, walks though the three key ingredients of every explainer video. He also touches on how the genre has evolved despite being nearly a century old, the all-powerful role of authenticity in videos, tips for working well with your agency (hint, one of them is to spend a lot :) ) and more.
Oh, I also make a life-shattering admission about a horrific video I once made.
For more great Sandwich videos, links to some of the other videos mentioned, and more, head to buchman.co.il/sandwich
Channels, Marketing, And Where Tacos Fit In with Noah Kagan (OKDork, AppSumo)
Noah Kagan is the founder of OK Dork, an early employee at Mint and Facebook, and the founder of AppSumo.com and sumome.com.
He's mastered and moved on from just about every channel there is - from a popular podcast to YouTube. In this episode, we explore channel selection, Noah's framework for marketing, and why he's so incredibly bullish on YouTube as a channel, especially in terms of new audience building.
For links to some of Noah's awesome content, including one article that played a key role in how I record this podcast, head over to buchman.co.il/noah
Beating the Tech Marketing Hiring Crunch (Cognyte, Workiz, Yotpo, Lusha)
A ton of great marketing roles are open in tech now. And a ton of great people are looking. Which means that hiring is on everyone's mind.
So in this, I interviewed four incredible senior marketers from top-tier tech companies - Yotpo, Lusha, Workiz, and Cognyte - to learn what core skills they look for when they interview. We touch on learning capabilities, emotional resonance, grit, and more. Much more. But not much, much more - it's only 11 minutes long.
More importantly, I've compiled over 40 awesome roles currently available from great Israeli tech companies, with many roles open remote. Head over to the show notes at buchman.co.il/hire to get the list.
Hamburgers, Vests, and (Actual) Account Based Marketing (Amit Bivas, Optimove)
You know the way you tell the dentist you floss every day...but the dentist knows that on a good week, you floss it once or twice?
So yea, that...but account-based marketing.
There are so many marketers who embrace ABM but don't necessarily go all in. Heck, I'm one of them.
In this podcast, we talk to Amit Bivas, the VP Marketing at Optimove, about full-on ABM. We also talk what differentiates great segmentation from "eh" segmentation (this is literally what they do), his recipe for product-oriented ABM, the specific tools he uses (hint, you already use one of them), and more.
For more, including a sample of Amit's awesome product-oriented campaigns (hi, lululemon!), a showcase of Optimove content, some of Amit's favorite marketing articles, and more, head over to the show notes at buchman.co.il/optimove
Embracing the "And" with Lisa Bennet, Kaltura
Think you're the only marketer struggling with multiple products and audiences? With dozens of decks and hundreds of personas?
You're not alone. YOU'RE NOT ALONE.
Lisa Bennet, Kaltura's VP Marketing, is the glue that holds together a sprawling ecosystem of video solutions for a growing number of verticals that would make your head spin.
In this episode, she walks through how they created - and validated - their core brand mission, tips for video marketing that only a video tech company would know, relationship pointers for that sales/marketing slide deck collaboration that usually ends in catastrophe, and more.
Grab show extras in the show notes at https://www.buchman.co.il/kaltura
Turning Your Users Into Marketers with Jonny Steel, VP Global Marketing @ Payoneer
Okay, not to get too deep into your marketing budget but what if you could hire two million marketers? That's exactly what Payoneer did.
In a world of platforms - Airbnbs, Ubers, Amazons and Alibabas - sellers need to get paid.
And powering a shocking number of these sales is Payoneer, a unicorn that got started early and never stopped. In this episode of Marketers in Capes with GCMO, we host Jonny Steel, Payoneers' VP Marketing, to dive into the early days of Payoneer and how a killer combo of localization, community, and events transformed their users into their best marketers.
We also explore how an event strategy that included 30+ events annually pivoted to digital, how virtual events are different than physical ones (it's not just because you're not wearing pants), dealing with crisis communication, and more.
Learn more about Jonny and Payoneer in the show notes at buchman.co.il/payoneer
Marketing Reviews…And Marketing With Reviews with Yoav Aziz, VP Growth @ Yotpo
When was the last time you bought something online without first reading some reviews?
Thought so.
In this episode, Yoav Aziz, the VP Growth at Yotpo and former growth manager at Fiverr, lays down how reviews have evolved (hint, it’s really not about having a trabillion reviews on Yotpo). He also talks about how Yotpo, hot off the heels of raising $75 million dollars, structures growth, why making an onboarding LONGER improved activation rates, and more.
For more details, some of Yoav’s favorite tools and more, check out the show notes at buchman.co.il/yotpo
Epic B2B Category (and Content) Creation
The most exciting marketers are in the boring industries (or at least the ones that look boring from the outside).
Massive B2B budgets are thrown around for network security, which makes for a marketing strategy that absolutely must rely heavily on educating, segmenting, and nurturing. Which is where Idan Hershkovich, the VP Growth and Marketing at CATO Networks, comes in.
As we talk about in S02E07, CATO combines some incredible category creation (together with Gartner, no less), with a fascinating nurture funnel approach, and, coolest of all, a survey-driven content strategy that I heard about from Merav Keren at CATO a year ago and haven't been able to shake. No spoilers but imagine a 50 question survey that drove more leads from people filling it out then the produced content itself ever needs to.
More on this episode at buchman.co.il/cato
PR’s Marketing Lessons And Webinars Done Right with Ethan Chernofsky @ Placer.ai
In this episode, Ethan Chernofsky of Placer.ai talks about the war lessons he picked up that make for incredible B2B marketing, how those lessons set the stage for COVID-driven webinars that regularly land 500+ registrations, his outlook on PR ROI, and more.
More on this episode, Ethan's approach, and a killer podcast summary post at buchman.co.il
Marketing Multiple B2B Brands (Well): Melissa Zeloof, VP Marketing at ironSource
In this episode, we dive deep with Melissa Zeloof, the VP Marketing at ironSource, to understand how she navigates the brand terrain. In just under ten minutes we cover:
The approach that stopped ironSource from Lowest Common Denimonator-ing themselves to death, how a brand land and expand model works
, two marketing strategies she recommends to start early on in a brand's life and how ironSource took thought leadership to the next level with LevelUp+, a sprawling educational brand play that combines contributed content with podcasts, blogs, and even events.
Learn more about Marketers in Capes, see Melissa's favorite marketing tools, and get some concrete examples of how she crushes it at buchman.co.il/ironsource
Scaling with (Almost) Accidental Exclusivity - Gaurav Vohra, Head of Growth @ Superhuman
Superhuman has defined a new category of luxury SaaS.
They take something we all use - email - and transform it into an incredible experience. And their brand reflects it.
In this episode, I speak to Gaurav Vohra, a founding Superhuman team member and their Head of Growth.
In just over ten minutes, we talk:
- The role exclusivity played in growth (275K people waitlisted and counting)
- How (and more importantly, why) it came about
- Why startups shouldn’t blindly follow launch playbooks
- Why marketers of tomorrow will not be just looking at marketing.
You can read more about Superhuman's internal playbooks and get a list of Gaurav's top three productivity tools at:
https://www.buchman.co.il/superhuman/
The 100K Member Community-Driven Brand with Nadia Hitman from JoyTunes
When a small startup is recognized at Facebook F8 for building a killer community, when mother’s share their five year old’s piano videos, and when a brand hits both Apple and Google’s app of the day, you know something's up.
That something is Nadia Hitman.
She's the VP of Brand Marketing at JoyTunes...and in this episode of Marketers in Capes, she shares her persona journey from P&G to 10+ million downloads, the #1 spot in education in app stores, and $42 million in funding.
And that road lies through a rock-solid understanding of brand-promises, a seriously validated community experiment, and more.
Oh, and there's more on this in the show notes at buchman.co.il/joytunes!
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Data, Video and the Battle for Attention [Hila Shitrit Nissim @ Promo.com]
In this interview, Hila Shitrit Nissim, the VP Communication at Promo.com and former marketer at Viola, shares how Promo.com turns internal data into media pitches, how finding internal attention grabbers - whether it's data or videos - drives brand recognition, the big picture vision necessary to complement short videos of men in tutus and more.
There's also more on this in the show notes at buchman.co.il/promo!
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Marketing like a Three Year Old with Ran Avrahamy, CMO at Appsflyer
Ran Avrahamy has grown AppsFlyer's marketing team from one - himself - to 70 strong, as the company itself grew to over 800 employees around the world. The analytics powerhouse has squarely set its goal on complete brand ubiquity, with a serious focus on offline events, driving a crazy amount of content, and socks. Lots of branded socks.
In this episode, which kicks off Season 2 of Marketers in Capes with G-CMO, we take a look at how they made those brand presence aspirations come to life, how personalized events changed the game, three tips for B2B marketers getting started, and how Ran's three year old daughter inspires him to market better.
Learn more about Marketers In Capes with G-CMO at buchman.co.il or follow G-CMO on LinkedIn!
Building a Zesty, Retention-Focused Movement with Yam Regev of Zest
Marketers In Capes shares practical, no-fluff marketing advice in ten minutes, give or take. Hosted by a human who likes marketing, Eytan Buchman, each episode features real-life marketing heroes talking about practical tips for standing out in a saturated world. See more rapid fire insights from heroes at Drift, MixPanel, Typeform and others at Buchman.co.il.
Pizza, Product Rosetta Stones, and Freemium Conversions
In this episode, Josh Slone, a content marketer-gone-product marketer at Gist, talks about how to bridge product development with what users actually want, user engagement (including how they got their freemium to trial rate up to 67% (yea, crazy), and an onboarding flow built on the one-two combo of segmentation and behavioral emails.
We end with some thoughts on processes. It doesn’t get more exhilarating than that, ammiright?
About Marketers In Capes:
Marketers In Capes shares practical, no-fluff marketing advice in under ten minutes. Hosted by Eytan Buchman, each episode gets real-life marketing heroes talking about practical tips for standing out in a saturated world.
See more rapid fire insights from heroes at Drift, MixPanel, Typeform and others here.
You’re (Probably) Doing Video Marketing Wrong with Sivan Felder from Two Head Consulting
So very much unlike my 8th grade math class self, I wanted to know the formula was.
In this episode, we dive into why videos created for social media platforms are different, two important ways to start videos social media video needs to start, and how distribution and context impact each other.
Also, Harry Potter.
Listen. Because you can’t watch it.
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Marketers In Capes shares practical, no-fluff marketing advice in under ten minutes. Hosted by Eytan Buchman, each episode gets real-life marketing heroes talking about practical tips for standing out in a saturated world.
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Listen Twice, Market Once - E. 20: Joel Gaudeul, CMO of Mention
Marketers are annoying.
Since our job is getting in people’s heads, we start to feel like we know everything.
But unless you’re Dr Doolittle or Mel Gibson in What Woman Want, you don’t. You really, really don’t.
In episode 20 (woot!) of Marketers in Capes, I talk to Joel Gaudeul, the CMO of Mention, a SaaS powerhouse that has helped the better part of a million marketers monitor meticulously.
In this short episode, we talk:
- Blended lifestyle social marketing (ie, your users are everywhere, why aren’t you
- What listening can drive (everything)
- How content and traction become a flywheel for distribution
- And more (but not so much more)
Not bad for under 9 minutes.
About Marketers In Capes
Marketers In Capes shares practical, no-fluff marketing advice in under ten minutes.
Hosted by Eytan Buchman, each episode gets real-life marketing heroes talking about practical tips for standing out in a saturated world.
Learn more about the self-crowned best marketing podcast and possible savior of mankind in the unlikely case that an alien invasion can only be stopped for some reason by the unique soundprint of these episodes here.
How To Win Email Friends and Influence Inboxes (E19: David Charest @ ConstantContact)
Email marketing.
With zero research and likely-misplaced confidence, I’m comfortable calling it one of the oldest but most successful forms of digital marketing.
Like a pterodactyl with lasers, it’s stayed on top by evolving. So in this episode of Marketers in Capes, we speak to David Charest, the Director of Content at ConstantContact, the marketing platform that’s been driving emailing marketing since back whenWindows 95 was the cutting edge. Good times.
We talk about how successful email automation works, the role of outstanding content in scaling, and one very big mistake that email marketers make. Once.
About Marketers In Capes
Marketers In Capes shares practical, no-fluff marketing advice in under ten minutes. Hosted by Eytan Buchman, each episode gets real-life marketing heroes talking about practical tips for standing out in a saturated world.
Learn more about the Marketers In Capes podcast
Cash-Worthy Content And Five-Word Show Booths (E18: Udi Ledergor @ Gong.io)
Between Q2 and Q3 of 2019, Gong.io grew their LinkedIn followers by 70%. And it’s hard to find any conversation across sales or marketing professionals on LinkedIn that doesn’t reference them. Because their content is that good.
It scrolls though like an intense sales crash-course. I’m a marketer that cringes from the idea of getting on a sales call…but their videos still had me (briefly) reevaluate my career.
And the amazing educational material is just one of the ways that Udi Ledergor, the VP of Marketing at Gong.io, has catapulted the company into the spotlight. So in this episode, Udi unpacks the cold marketing truth that makes our lives harder, how to get around it, three key tips for trade shows, a content hack for outbound, and more.
Links:
Gong.io’s Amazing LinkedIn page
Clearbit profile on Gong’s inbound stack
Udi’s book on The 50 Secrets of Trade Show Success(Amazon)
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About Marketers In Capes
Marketers In Capes (formally Two Minute Marketing) shares rapid-fire practical marketing advice. In less than ten minutes, each episode asks real marketing heroes, famous or not, how they do what they do so well.
Learn more at buchman.co.il
Lessons from the BBC on Tech Storytelling with Erica Marcom from Aleph VC E. 17
Show Notes
Intercom, Slack, Hubspot, LinkedIn and other phenomenal B2B companies all have a new role. And it has to do with story-telling.
In this episode, we talk to Aleph VC’s new head of marketing and messaging, Erica Marom, a BBC journalist gone tech storyteller, about how great brands rely on even better storytellers. Check out the six minute episode in its full glory to hear why video are made for storytelling, what journalists tap into to differentiate with storytelling, and why some of the best tech inventors in the world fail to tell a goosebump-worthy story.
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About Marketers In Capes
Marketers In Capes (formally Two Minute Marketing) shares rapid-fire practical marketing advice. In less than ten minutes, each episode asks real marketing heroes, famous or not, how they do what they do so well.
Learn more at buchman.co.il
How To Build A Funny Brand (Hint: Carefully) with Allie and Lyndsay from Obedient [E. 16]
You know what's worse than a crappy brand that tries to be funny?
Nothing. Nothing is worse.
Which is why I was intrigued by Obedient, a branding agency specializing in building funny brands.Humor can be one of the best ways to create an emotional connection with a customer (like this awesome Brooklinen ad) or an incredible way to fail. Hard.
So how do you develop a funny brand right? Well, that's what Allie LeFevere and Lyndsay Rush explain., touching on:
- The right way to run a branding process, whether it's funny or not
- Shaping a funny brand for a fertility clinic (seriously)
- The nuances of humor
- And a lot of crappy jokes of mine that show that it's really, really hard to be funny
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About Marketers In Capes
Marketers In Capes (formally Two Minute Marketing) shares rapid-fire practical marketing advice. In less than ten minutes, each episode asks real marketing heroes, famous or not, how they do what they do so well.
Also, in the episode I promised to drop Lindsay's full branding process, which didn't make the entire cut. Here is:
First and foremost you need a strategy. So, every brand that we work with, we take them through a multi-layered process. I'll go over just very high level. What we start with is understanding the brands goals, audience, and industry. Really knowing the landscape of their product and their history. Then we identify a point of differentiation. So, how do we creatively position your business in a way that breaks from the noise and breaks from the pack?Essentially what it becomes, is it becomes the focus and direction we take your brand in. What we're doing is we're leading to your position. And in order to develop your position, which is the thing that's really going to hook your audience and make them pay attention to you, we want to understand what does your audience need to be believe? And how is that different from what others are offering?
The Ad Your Ad Could Sound Like with Eric Kallman [E. 15]
Hello, Ladies. If you were alive and online in 2010, you know the Old Spice ad. I'm on a horse, right?
I grew up with that ad and it was one of my key inspirations for getting into the marketing space.
Which is why I was so pumped to host Eric Kallman, co-founder of Erich&Kallman and one of the main creative brains behind the entire ad campaign. In this episode, I speak to Eric:
- Why grandiose messaging can be trumped by directness
- The (very rapid!) creative process behind the Old Spice ad and its 180+ video strong social campaign
- What creating a breakthrough ad is really all about
Tune in, this was a great episode.
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About Marketers In Capes
Marketers In Capes (formally Two Minute Marketing) shares rapid-fire practical marketing advice. In less than ten minutes, each episode asks real marketing heroes, famous or not, how they do what they do so well.
Learn more at buchman.co.il
One Million Readers. Website Not Required. With Morning Brew’s Austin Ried [E. 14]
My guest this week is Austin Ried, the COO and Co-Founder of Morning Brew. Morning Brew is an incredible business email newsletter that packs great information with a very unique brand voice (that’s my favorite part).
In this episode, Austin explains why Morning Brew’s go-to market strategy relied on email, how a friend attending a Facebook F8 conference gave them a huge first-to-market Instagram advantage, their internal guidance for staying on brand, and more.
When you’re done, head over here to sign up for Morning Brew.
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About Marketers In Capes
Marketers In Capes (formally Two Minute Marketing) shares rapid-fire practical marketing advice. In less than ten minutes, each episode asks real marketing heroes, famous or not, how they do what they do so well.
Learn more at buchman.co.il
What Wistia’s $111,000 Videos Mean For Marketers.
Mo money, more videos?
What if you could drop over $100,000 to test if video production value impacts ROI? And if it's not all about production, what else drives views, reads, and sales?
I got Andrew Capland, Wistia's marketing director, to dive deep on a a hella expensive experiment they ran that did just that, how he optimizes growth funnels, some killer video ad distribution tips, and more.
And it's all crammed into 7:30 minutes of pure insights (and another 10 seconds of me goofing off).
I'm what you may call a biased audience...but this is good episode.
Content. Not Just A Marketing Thing. Guest: Steli Efti, Close.io
Content is typically the domain of very, very cool marketers (like us, right?).
But Steli Efti, the CEO of Close.io, is building a sales-driven CRM machine by leveraging content across the funnel. This guy gets it; he's written a baker's dozen of sales books and is scaling a Y-Combinator backed powerhouse.
Plus, how often do you hear a sales guy say things like this:
I'd rather have like an ideal customer share a blog post that we have with 30 other ideal customers that's much more valuable to me than getting some celebrity to tweet about our content that gets us 100,000 uniques from an audience that could never purchase our product
Tune in for the three core ingredients on how Steli built (and is scaling) a huge sales+marketing machine.
And for witty jokes by me.
What more could you want?
Newsjacking: How Soybeans Make Headlines
Typeform's 240 Second Journey to Google’s Page 1
This is the real deal, folks. Enjoy.
How The Kings of SEO Do Content with Tim from Ahrefs (TMM E09)
The Process That Makes CRO Actually Work
But for CRO (conversion rate optimization) to work, it needs a rigorous process. You know who has one? Talia Wolf, the founder of GetUplift.
Tune in to learn why you shouldn't listen to your grandfather, what CRO best practices aren't...and how low I'm willing to go for a good(ish) pun.
Toilets, Toothpaste, and Don't Open This Email: Matthew Smith, Founder of Really Good Emails
Which makes it hard to get yours opened when you need it to be opened.
So I went to the person who clearly knows that makes an email good, Matthew Smith, a design and customer experience wiz show came up with Really Good Emails (RGE), possibly the best email resource in the world. And I trust him, because I open their emails every. Single Time.
Give it a listen to hear where emails are going in the future, how they nail their brand voice, and the internal process for creating emails.
How Data Guided Mixpanel To Perfect Homepage Copy (Ep. 06)
Amelia Salyers, who runs corporate marketing at Mixpanel, walks us through the process of merging data and some old-fashioned research to come up with the perfect mix.
Nailing the Niche with Todoist’s Brenna Loury (E05)
Donuts and Practically Free Super Bowl Ads (Ep. 04)
Touch Up Paint & Growth Hacks (Or Not) With Rand Fishkin (Ep. 03)
Carpenters, Chatbots, and Selling the Result (Ep. 02)
Two Minute Marketing: License Plates
This first episode focuses on two important marketing concepts to pick up from license plates. Check out buchman.co.il for more marketing thoughts