The Growth Leadership Blog

Der Growth Leadership Blog ist eine Publikation, die anwendbares Wissen aus der Welt des Growth Marketing für Marketing-Expertinnen und Manager zugänglich macht

August 6, 2020
The 4Cs of the Modern Brand
No matter if you are selling to businesses or directly to consumers, it is the valuable exercise to re-evaluate your branding. Especially with how the buying behavior online has changed over the past year...
August 4, 2020
Fasten your seatbelts: How to market in a downturn
Let's be honest, we don't really know what's coming. As sales started to drop in the past weeks, the immediate reaction for many was to cut costs, reduce prices and postpone new investments...
August 4, 2020
Framework: Marketing Strategy in the light of a crisis
Swiss venture capitalist investiere.ch has approached me to give a presentation to the founders of their investment portfolio startups, on how to adapt your marketing strategy in these challenging times.
August 4, 2020
How to weather the storm: Interview with Food-Entrepreneur Silvan Leibacher
An Interview with Silvan Leibacher, food entrepreneur and founder of Eggfield and Leibacher Biber Manufaktur. We talk about the challenges of weathering the storm of the COVID-19 crisis.
August 4, 2020
Has Slack ruined work?
Slack has a loyal following and has been growing like crazy, replacing and slashing internal email conversations at businesses across the globe. But the critics grow louder with every month...
August 4, 2020
Sprints for Marketers: A Reliable and Reusable Framework
Over the years, disciplines like product management and software development have adopted solid frameworks of how to work effectively and in a structured way (SCRUM, Design Sprints etc.)...
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August 11, 2020
How to Gain Confidence in Your Content Strategy
It's content strategy time. A bunch of marketers huddle together in a conference room and brainstorm content topics. Each throws in their prophecies with the iron conviction that they indeed foresee...
August 11, 2020
Paid Communities are On the Rise
We are at a crossroads right now. People are becoming overstimulated by mass social media networks, legacy media companies and the sheer volume of branded content that is out there to consume. What's coming next?
August 11, 2020
(Video) Content Collaborations: Two ideas for more reach and higher quality
In the video below I go into detail about two tactics for content collaborations that I have tried and got good results with.
August 11, 2020
Content Strategy → Document, Don't Create
The content creators who are best at their craft not only deliver incredible value to their follower-base, but they also do so at incredible speed and consistency. How do they do it?
August 11, 2020
The 3 Steps to build a thriving online community
2020 killed large gatherings, and the same trend has been going on online as well. Pitches like "Join 10'000+ members in our exclusive Facebook Group" don't work anymore. So we need a new framework...
August 3, 2020
From Social Media to Digital Campfires
No doubt about it, social media as we know it is still soaring. But What lies beyond?
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August 11, 2020
Show, Don't Tell: How to Market your Marketing Department
If you have worked in marketing, you know this problem: Everyone in your company has an opinion on how to do your job and worst case also thinks that "it can't be that hard". But what if there's another way?
August 11, 2020
The Five Essential Skills of the Modern Marketing Leader
As marketing leaders today we wear a dozen hats and are expected to be scientists (research, analytics, and running experiments), artists (writing, content and design) and managers (stakeholder management, leadership and business
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January 27, 2022
How to make the move from marketing practitioner to marketing leader
The two major mindset shifts necessary to be an effective team leader.
August 11, 2020
The Role of a Leader: Facilitating Decisions
To me, leadership feels like it should be mostly about building teams, building communities, and rallying folks together. You don’t need to be the smartest person in the room, but you need to be the voice that people follow.
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August 11, 2020
Your Customers' Alternatives Are Your Real Competitors
“Who are your competitors?” is the wrong question. "What alternatives does our customer have?", is a better one.
August 11, 2020
Minimum Viable Niche: Defining Your Target Audiences
A comically narrow audience to maximize growth is counter-intuitive for most people. The thinking usually goes, "the more people that try the product, the better the chance for growth." However...
August 11, 2020
Positioning Part 1: Why positioning is Ground Zero for all marketing activities
First part of a series on positioning. Positioning is the act of deliberately defining how you are the best at something that a defined market cares a lot about. If we fail at positioning, we fail at marketing and sales...
August 6, 2020
The 4Cs of the Modern Brand
No matter if you are selling to businesses or directly to consumers, it is the valuable exercise to re-evaluate your branding. Especially with how the buying behavior online has changed over the past year...
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September 10, 2020
Growth Leadership Show #5: Chris Walker, Founder & CEO at Refine Labs
My guest for this episode is Chris Walker, the CEO and Founder of Refine Labs, an agency helping SaaS startups and SME's on B2B Revenue Operations & Growth.
September 8, 2020
Growth Leadership Show #7: Nadya Khoja - From First Marketing Hire to Chief Growth Officer
My guest this episode is Nadya Khoja, the Chief Growth Officer at Venngage. She talks about her journey from being the first marketing hire to five years later leading a team of 10+ marketers as part of the executive team.
August 11, 2020
Growth Leadership Show #1: Tim Hess, CMO at Librio
In this episode, I sit down with Tim Hess, co-founder and CMO at Librio, a startup that writes and publishes personalized children's books.