marketing communications

How does your marketing strategy find the balance between product and brand? B2B tech businesses often enter markets and try to grow through PLG. This does work, but oftentimes growth is slowed by a neglect of brand strategy.

On this episode of the FINITE Podcast you’ll hear from Nicola Hamilton, VP Marketing Brand and Communications at GoCardless. GoCardless is a hugely successful B2B fintech with a strong brand strategy built over 13 years. As their marketing communications leader, Nicola shares her approach to brand, and the distinction she’s noticed between brand and product-led growth. 

You’ll gain inspiration and insight as to how to balance the two. 

We’ve all heard the term ‘customer-centricity’ amidst LinkedIn posts and the webinar invitations in our inboxes. But what does customer-centricity actually entail? And how can B2B marketers demonstrate this to both stakeholders and customers? 

Jodi was honoured to host Simeon Lando on this FINITE Podcast. Simeon is the CMO at FORM3, a next-level B2B fintech driving the future of the payments industry. He’s had a long and successful career in marketing, formerly at titans like PayPal and Barclaycard, to fast-paced fintechs like Refinitiv and Finastra. 

Learn how Simeon approaches his marketing with customer-centricity, and emphasises the importance of research and relationships, with the success stories to prove it. 

This episode is set to inspire the structure of your marketing team, whether small, medium or colossal. 

Our guest, Eric Thum, Head of Marketing at VTS, was a winner of our FINITE 30 this year as he has led the marketing for one of the fastest-growing B2B SaaS companies in 2023. You’ll get an inside scoop into how he’s achieved this - through an integrated team structure, aligned metrics and more. 

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by:
- Clarity: the fast growing, global marketing communications agency working with leading technology brands.
- 93x: the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.
- And Exclaimer: the industry's leading provider of email signature solutions, empowering businesses to unlock the potential of email as a key digital advertising channel. 

If you’ve read the title, let us clarify. No, marketing is not dead. If anything it’s more important now than ever. What we mean by the title is that what marketing is and what it should do is shifting.

On today’s podcast episode, we heard from a true pioneer in the space: Jennifer Griffin Smith, Chief Market Officer at Acquia.

In the first half of the episode, Jennifer tells us the distinction between a CMO and Chief Market Officer, which is one that has drastic positive effects across a tech organisation. In the second half, Jennifer gives her take on what B2B tech marketers should all be thinking about next, and B2B trends set for 2024.

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by:
- Clarity: the fast growing, global marketing communications agency working with leading technology brands.
- 93x: the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.
- And Exclaimer: the industry's leading provider of email signature solutions, empowering businesses to unlock the potential of email as a key digital advertising channel. 

The SEO and content landscape is shifting. As marketers we all see it, and feel it.

On this FINITE Podcast, we’ll let you know how to adapt to these shifts, where SEO should fit in the wider business function and how brand gets involved.

We heard from the expert of experts, Erika Varangouli, Head of SEO Branding at Semrush. Semrush is the leading online visibility platform, and Erika leads their SEO community. Suffice to say she knows a lot about the subject. So enjoy!

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by:
- Clarity: the fast growing, global marketing communications agency working with leading technology brands.
- 93x: the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.
- And Exclaimer: the industry's leading provider of email signature solutions, empowering businesses to unlock the potential of email as a key digital advertising channel. 

The lines between B2C and B2B are blurring, it's a fact. But the stereotypes of stiff, business-like, suited-up enterprise customers prevail. On this FINITE Podcast episode, our guest, Nathan Rawlins, rejects these stereotypes and believes enterprise audiences respond well to B2C tactics all-the-same.

As CMO at Lucid Software, a leading visual collaboration suite, Nathan has his mind on the entire customer lifecycle and a full range of customer segments. This experience lends itself to the topic, as his strategic approach is full of experimentation and creativity.

Listen to learn his successes and challenges that arise when adopting this mindset.

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by:
- Clarity: the fast growing, global marketing communications agency working with leading technology brands.
- 93x: the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.
- And Exclaimer: the industry's leading provider of email signature solutions, empowering businesses to unlock the potential of email as a key digital advertising channel. 

As audiences grow increasingly skeptical of brands and tired of seeing ads, how can marketers market to people who hate marketing?

This episode goes through Davor Kolenc's experience as Head of Growth at Treblle, and how he has successfully grown the brand in the DevTech space. Jodi and Davor cover tips for building trust, which channels to avoid and when sly tactics enter into manipulation.

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by:
- Clarity: the fast growing, global marketing communications agency working with leading technology brands.
- 93x: the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.
- And Exclaimer: the industry's leading provider of email signature solutions, empowering businesses to unlock the potential of email as a key digital advertising channel. 

From Adobe to Staffbase, David Burnand is the expert in SaaS product evolution.

On this episode, Jodi and David discuss when a SaaS product is ready to become a platform, if it ever will be, and how that evolution should be led by strategic marketing.

For our more junior listeners, we start the conversation by outlining what's the difference between a SaaS product and a SaaS platform. 

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by:
- Clarity: the fast growing, global marketing communications agency working with leading technology brands.
- 93x: the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.
- And Exclaimer: the industry's leading provider of email signature solutions, empowering businesses to unlock the potential of email as a key digital advertising channel. 

This FINITE Podcast will help you demystify the challenges and uncertainty around AI in the workplace, as Jodi spoke to the incredible Rob McCargow, Technology Impact Leader at PwC.

Their conversation spans ethics, regulation and the future of the workforce. Rob spends a lot of his work-life educating C-Suite execs in companies worldwide on how they can tackle challenges that arise when businesses utilise artificial intelligence, so you'll gain his insider knowledge on this as well.

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by:
- Clarity: the fast growing, global marketing communications agency working with leading technology brands.
- 93x: the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.
- And Exclaimer: the industry's leading provider of email signature solutions, empowering businesses to unlock the potential of email as a key digital advertising channel. 

This FINITE podcast episode is set to teach you how to successfully amplify and gain high ROI on your AI product or AI integration.

Alex was delighted to interview Ben Slater, SVP Marketing at Beamery, a leading HR tech platform that has just announced the release of its new AI product TalentGPT. 

Listen to learn: 

• Go-to-market strategies
• How to break through the noise 
• How to evolve an AI product to meet the needs of customers

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by:
- Clarity: the fast growing, global marketing communications agency working with leading technology brands.
- 93x: the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.
- And Exclaimer: the industry's leading provider of email signature solutions, empowering businesses to unlock the potential of email as a key digital advertising channel. 

In an increasingly competitive market, and with increasingly skeptical consumers, brand trust could be the make or break in your organisation's success.

This episode features Philipp Blankenagel, VP Comms and Marketing at re:cap. Philipp is entrenched in the European FinTech scene where companies can't get off the ground without immense trust from their customers. So listen to gain tips on building trust with your audience, and keeping it.

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by:
- Clarity: the fast growing, global marketing communications agency working with leading technology brands.
- 93x: the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.
- And Exclaimer: the industry's leading provider of email signature solutions, empowering businesses to unlock the potential of email as a key digital advertising channel. 

Taniya Bethke and Swanny Evans from the Council to Advance Hunting and Shooting Sports join DU’s Mike Brasher and Mark Horobetz in an entertaining discussion of the integral role of hunters and gun owners in conservation. Learn about the R3 initiative (Recruitment, Retention, and Reactivation) and the significance of the Pittman-Robertson Act to wildlife management. The group also explores the effectiveness of new hunter recruitment programs and societal attitudes toward hunting.

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This FINITE Podcast episode is for those high-level thinkers - those listeners looking to think top-level about how their marketing organisation responds and engages with pressure, both economic, internal or otherwise.

We're joined by Edgar Rouwenhorst, a successful CMO who has grown many leading tech companies, like Mollie, iZettle and Superb. His opinions will lead you to think about conventional approaches from a new perspective, with tangible takeaways for your own strategy.

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by:
- Clarity: the fast growing, global marketing communications agency working with leading technology brands.
- 93x: the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.
- And Exclaimer: the industry's leading provider of email signature solutions, empowering businesses to unlock the potential of email as a key digital advertising channel. 

Marketing and product, product and marketing. Two peas in the same pod... ideally! 

Hear from Stephanie Steggehuis, Chief of Growth at Compleye. Compleye are a budding startup with high growth ambitions, led by a great product. On this episode, Stephanie shares how they've built their product by aligning it with their brand, and most importantly, their audience.

Learn tips on:
- How to feed into product development as a marketer
- Where to get the right data that informs your product development
- How to keep evolving your product to better suit customer expectations

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by:
- Clarity: the fast growing, global marketing communications agency working with leading technology brands.
- 93x: the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.
- And Exclaimer: the industry's leading provider of email signature solutions, empowering businesses to unlock the potential of email as a key digital advertising channel. 

This is the first of five incredible podcast episodes from The Next Web Conference, which our Community Manager, Jodi, attended last month to record with some of the brightest marketers at leading tech companies.

The episode is with Cordula Pfluegl, Marketing Director at TNW, who shared her secrets as to how she created such a big buzz for TNW, gaining their largest and most vibrant group of attendees yet. (She even had the President of The Netherlands at the opening ceremony!)

Listen to get tips on creating a buzz for your events, product launches, announcements and more.

Check out Cordula's newsletter here for marketing tips! 

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by:
- Clarity: the fast growing, global marketing communications agency working with leading technology brands.
- And 93x, the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.

Kate Cox, CMO at BrightBid,  believes the playbook of B2B marketing will stay largely the same as technology advances. Search, as one of our more traditional channels, isn’t going anywhere even as the shape of search marketing changes with new formats and algorithms that impact how users interact with it.

Listen to learn her tips for using search in the world of ChatGPT and  new search pages.

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by:
- Clarity: the fast growing, global marketing communications agency working with leading technology brands.
- And 93x, the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.

Roundtables are the perfect tactic to add value across the customer lifecycle. You just can't replicate such quality conversation and deep connections in any other event format.

On this FINITE Podcast episode, Sarah McCredie, Director of Product Marketing at Recurly, outlines her approach to roundtables - Who to invite, where to host and what to talk about.

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by:
- Clarity: the fast growing, global marketing communications agency working with leading technology brands.
- And 93x, the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.

On this podcast episode, learn how Inbar Yagur, Dir. Content and Product Marketing, repositioned Lusha's brand for better B2B marketing success. To do this, she employed exercises in sales and marketing alignment to bring both teams on board.

Throughout their planning phase of the project, she took both teams' understanding of sales and marketing data to inform their new Ideal Customer Profile. And once formed, she took time to educate both sales and marketing on their new target audience and strategy.

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by:

- Clarity: the fast growing, global marketing communications agency working with leading technology brands.

- And 93x, the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.

“No lever influences people more consistently than culture.”

Marcus Collins is the author behind a new book that I’m absolutely obsessed with, called For the Culture, and he’s also the Chief Strategy Officer at Wieden+Kennedy, a global advertising agency best known for their work with mega brands like Nike and Budweiser.

We’re digging into all things culture today - starting with the premise of understanding culture and its influence on marketing, shared beliefs, the “identity marks” of branding, and how consumption becomes a proxy for culture.

This conversation is SO good and I can’t wait for you to tune in.

00:02:29 Culture is a powerful connection.
00:10:21 Culture is the cheat code.
00:13:59 Find connection through identity.
00:20:23 Believers, not fans.
00:24:59 Believe, then sell.
00:30:25 Spread the culture gospel.
00:31:36 Digital transformation is possible.

In This Episode:

• How Budweisier cemented themselves as a cultural product through their marketing communications and commercials
• Patagonia’s conviction and beliefs that have led to their ultimate success, plus, hear about one of their infamous Black Friday campaigns
• Why our purchase of branded products tells the world who we are and translates to finding community 
• How Nike put a stake in the ground around a cultural moment, causing a 6 billion dollar market increase for their brand after it happened (!)
• Marcus breaks down a beautiful and simple framework - get ready to write this down and iterate on it
• The tremendous amount of empathy and curiosity that are required to “find your people”

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Evelina Amanatidou is a B2B leader with a background leading field marketing teams and marketing ops at SAP. In her current role, as Global Head of Marketing and Communications at Temenos, she bridges the gap between marketing and communications for a leading FinTech organisation that serves 3000 financial institutions and 1.2 billion people.

On this FINITE Podcast, Evelina shares how she leads both functions to reduce silos for successful messaging.

The FINITE Podcast is made possible by 93x, the leading digital marketing agency for B2B technology, software & SaaS businesses delivering SEO & PPC strategy that drives leads, pipeline & revenue growth.

And Terminus: the only account-based engagement platform built to deliver more pipeline and revenue through multi-channel ABM.