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 11, 2020
The B2B Value Pyramid
I think most uf us accept that consumer products are bought based on subjective criteria and personal preferences. On the other hand, when we talk about business to business transactions, we often presume...
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
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.
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
A selection of new marketing resources & tools 2020
Since my list of new and exciting marketing tools and resources grew and grew over the past couple of months, I thought I'd do a little selection of them for you to explore this week.
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?
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July 8, 2020
Forget About Traffic and Start Using Content to Drive Leads and Sales
So much of the content that I see out there is written with the sole intent of getting more people to your website. It's SEO optimized and brings in a ton of traffic. But is that traffic part of your target group?
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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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February 16, 2022
Growth Leadership Show #20 with Wes Bush: Going Product-Led - How To Build a Product That Sells Itself
Wes Bush is the CEO and founder of the Product- Led Institute and author of the bestselling book, "Product-Led Growth: How To Build a Product That Sells Itself."
February 3, 2022
Growth Leadership Show #19 with Joei Chan: How to Build and Scale your Content Marketing Operations
Joei Chan is the brand and content director at 360 Learning, a collaborative learning platform for companies. Before this, Joei led content efforts for well over six years at five different startups.
December 9, 2021
Growth Leadership Show #18 with Ross Simmonds: The B2B Content Distribution Playbook for Startups
Ross Simmonds is the CEO and founder of Foundation, a B2B content marketing agency.
November 25, 2021
Growth Leadership Show #17 with Louis Grenier: Radical Differentiation - What It Takes To Stand Out
Louis Grenier is the host of the popular marketing podcast Everyone Hates Marketers, and founder of Stand the F* Out, a business positioning course.
November 12, 2021
GLC #16 with Fio Dossetto: How To Link Your Content Marketing To Business Results
This is a conversation with Fio Dossetto. Fio is the content lead and editorial lead at Wildbit. Previously she spearheaded content efforts at Aula and HotJar.
October 29, 2021
GLC #15 with Rosie Sherry: How To Build A Transformational Community For Your Business
This is a conversation with Rosie Sherry. Rosie Sherry knows a lot about community building. She's currently the community lead at Orbit and previously led all things community at IndieHacker.com.