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73: Patrick Shea / How HubSpot Built A Community of Thriving Partners & What SMBs Can Learn from Enterprise (& Vice Versa)
An old friend Patrick Shea joins the pod to discuss the early days of HubSpot's partner program, how they went about building a powerful and thriving partner community...
72: John & Pete / How Databox Uses Live Chat For Sales & Support (& Why It Took So Long To Roll It Out)
Today Pete Caputa joins the podcast to talk about how Databox is leveraging live chat + email in both the sales and support functions, how the approach differs from th...
71: April Dunford / Product Positioning Has a Positioning Problem––Here's How to Solve It
April Dunford joins the podcast to discuss her surprise (at least to her) hit book, Obviously Awesome. On this episode, we dig into some of the core product positionin...
70: Benji Hyam / Inside Grow & Convert's Content Marketing Framework for Growing Traffic, Leads, & Sales Through Content
Benji Hyam shares his experience running content marketing for a few companies in San Francisco and how that inspired him to start 2 companies––Wordable and Grow and C...
69: Lindsay Tjepkema / Will Casted Become The HubSpot for Podcasts? Inside the First Podcast Platform for B2B
On this episode, Casted CEO and cofounder Lindsay Tjepkema joins the show to talk about its recent public launch and round of funding, how the company is growing and w...
68: Meghan Keaney Anderson / A Decade(ish) of Marketing at HubSpot
Meghan Keaney Anderson, VP of Marketing at HubSpot, joins the pod to provide what is essentially an oral history of marketing at HubSpot. Anderson has been with HubSpo...
67: Wes Bush / Why Product-Led Growth Is Outperforming Traditional Marketing & Sales Teams
In this episode, Wes Bush, author of Product-Led Growth, sits down with John to discuss all things PLG, including how it's different from marketing + sales-led organiz...
66: Devin Bramhall / How Animalz Produces The World's Best Content
Today we're joined by Devin Bramhall, VP of Marketing at Animalz and previously head of content at Help Scout. Animalz is a content marketing services company that wor...
65: Daniel Waas / Lessons from 10 Years of Growing GoToWebinar
Daniel Waas spent 10 years managing and working on the same product––GoToWebinar. First with Citrix and later, after an acquisition, with LogMeIn, Waas's strength was ...
64: David Rostan / Calendly's Approach to Freemium & How Competition Sharpened Its Positioning
David Rostan, former VP of Sales & Marketing at Calendly, joins the pod to talk about how freemium helped shape Calendly's go-to-market approach and how growing market...
63: John & Pete / Company Performance Is Not A Passive Sport
We’re back! In this episode, John and Pete return for some friendly banter and conversation around how Databox approaches reporting on company performance including wh...
62: Melissa Matlins / Vimeo’s Journey to Full-Service SaaS & 1M Paying Subscribers
Vimeo's VP of Marketing, Melissa Matlins, dives deep into Vimeo's journey to become a full-service video platform and how they're repositioning the brand to support that.
61: Dan Slagen / How (and Why) ThriveHive Went All-In On Small, Local Businesses
ThriveHive CMO Dan Slagen joins John to discuss: - the challenges of marketing to the SMB - how to develop a marketing strategy for a high-churn, high CAC audience ...
60: Maria Pergolino / How ActiveCampaign Grew to 80k Customers By Focusing On Product First
ActiveCampaign's CMO, Maria Pergolino, joins Ground Up to share: - how the company netted 80,000 customers by focusing more on product and less on marketing - why s...
59: Ryan Bonnici / Inside G2's Explosive Growth
Ryan Bonnici, CMO at G2, checks in after 2 years at the company to share: - how they grew the team from 5 to 80 people - how he structures the marketing team into 3 ...
58: Andy Cook / Inside Tettra’s Long, Winding, and Persistent Path Toward Achieving Profitability
Andy Cook, cofounder and CEO at Tettra––a company wiki and internal knowledge base software––shares the company's journey from "Ramen profitability" to actual profitab...
57: Elle Woulfe / Building a Content Engine, Brand-Centric Demand Gen, & The Importance of Left Brain/Right Brain Marketers
Elle Woulfe, a martech veteran with over 12 years working in SaaS for companies like Eloqua, Lattice Engines, and Path Factory shares her experiences in: - building ...
56: Ellie Mirman / From HubSpot to Toast to Crayon: The Evolution of the Inbound Marketing Playbook
Ellie Mirman, CMO at Crayon, shares details on the early days of building the inbound marketing playbook at HubSpot, how the channels and mediums have changed, and how...
55: Kieran Flanagan / How HubSpot Instilled a Culture of Growth That Expanded Well Beyond Marketing
Kieran Flanagan, HubSpot's VP of Marketing, talks about the early days of freemium at HubSpot, instilling a growth discipline that expanded well beyond the marketing t...
54: Joe Martin / How CloudApp Grew to 3 Million Users Without a Marketer on Staff
On this episode of Ground Up, Joe Martin shares: - CloudApp's journey to becoming a thought leader in customer experience, productivity, and collaboration. - How ...
53: Justin Jackson / How a Vulgar Card Game Helped Shape Transistor & Disrupt Podcast Hosting
Transistor cofounder Justin Jackson shares why he and his co-founder Jon started a "boring" podcast hosting company, how they netted their first 100+ customers, and ho...
52: Rebecca Corliss / Marketing in Survival Mode with Owl Labs (And HubSpot)
Rebecca Corliss talks about landing press coverage before you have a product or website, building a brand and content marketing engine from scratch, and marketing thro...
51: Ben Jabbawy / Privy's Journey Back from (Almost) Out-of-Business
On this episode of Ground Up, Ben Jabbawy talks about pivoting, a failed acquisition, and how a handful of loyal customers helped fund their early growth.
50: Shane Murphy-Reuter / Intercom's SVP of Marketing On The Power of Consistent Messaging & Clear Differentiation
On this episode of Ground Up, Shane Murphy joins John to discuss consistency in messaging, moving upmarket, and how to differentiate in a crowded market.
49: Patrick Campbell / Lessons from 7+ Years of Bootstrapping ProfitWell
Patrick Campbell sits down with John to share the peaks and valleys of bootstrapping ProfitWell over the last 7 years, including making $0 in year one, managing produc...
48: Kyle Lacy / How Lessonly Built a Thriving Community–One Llama at a Time
On this episode, Kyle Lacy sits down with John Bonini to discuss brand-building, communicating your brand's vision, and battling imposter syndrome.
47: Jeanne Hopkins / Building Lola.com's Marketing Engine from Scratch
Jeanne Hopkins sits down with John to discuss building a marketing engine when you have no historical data/context, building a strong team, nurturing relationships, te...
46: Ground Table / Are website forms dying? Are chatbots a better experience?
On the very first Ground Table, Databox’s John Bonini is joined by Andrea Lechner-Becker (CMO at LeadMD), John McTigue (former EVP and cofounder at Kuno Creative) and ...
45: Doug Davidoff / HubSpot Sales Enterprise: The Great, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Sales software savant, Doug Davidoff, joined us on Ground Up to discuss the 37 (yes, 37!) features of HubSpot Sales Enterprise.
44: Jimmy Daly / Lessons from One of the Best Content Marketers in the World
On this episode of Ground Up, we chat with Jimmy Daly on lessons learned growing a content agency, the library vs. publication method, the connection between sales and...