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A guide for finding product-market fit

Lenny's Newsletter

If you’ve come here looking for a step-by-step guide to finding product-market fit, you’re going to be disappointed. Additional takeaways and surprises from the insights below If you build it, they will come—if you have strong product-market fit. Art by Natalie Harney. No such guide exists. Nor will one ever exist.

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Ultimate Pricing Power Part I: Who Is in Charge of Product Pricing?

Mereo

Pricing a B2B solution is complex. People are quick to debate pricing models and numbers. The leading B2B organizations do not leave pricing up to chance. They treat pricing as an art and science. WHO IS IN CHARGE OF PRICING? Alignment of the differentiated value proposition to the pricing approach is critical.

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5 Reasons Automation is the New Reality in Digital Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

There is surprisingly a lot of controversy surrounding marketing automation from both marketers and consumers. Apart from the fear that automated robots will steal away millions of jobs, many claim that it eliminates the human touch in marketing that is so critical for lead nurturing. Creates New Roles in Marketing.

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How Metadata Fundamentally Changed My Approach to B2B Marketing

Metadata

I used Metadata for the first time in 2021 when I worked at Armorblox (now a part of Cisco), and it instantly made me a better B2B marketer. Seriously: our lead-to-conversion rate increased by 15X and our cost per opportunity (CPO) went from $40k to $800. I was instantly hooked. With Metadata, our CPL dropped to about $50.

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How brands should react to market slowdowns

Martech

This article was co-authored with Ed Crain , President and CEO of Kingstar Media and 26-year veteran of the marketing and media industries. Over 30 years of working in the media business, I’ve seen a fair share of market slowdowns. They emerged stronger, capturing a larger market share, while their competitors lagged behind.

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Ultimate Pricing Power Part II: UNLOCK YOUR POWER WITH 4 KEY PRICING PRINCIPLES

Mereo

Nextworld was going to market with a powerful no-code enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform. Rather than assign an ambiguous, arbitrary cost to their subscription services, they recognized that pricing was key for both their organization’s and their buyers’ long-term success.

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Ultimate Pricing Power Part III: THE GROUNDWORK OF EFFECTIVE PRICING STRATEGY

Mereo

I recently shared the key elements that make for an effective pricing strategy and who should be leading this. Yet actually taking the steps toward creating an effective pricing strategy can be daunting. Growth: Defined in terms of revenue, market share, market penetration, units sold, and customers retained or acquired.

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