Particulars of marketing in a start-up

(Or why marketers from large companies fail in start-ups)

It is difficult to position the marketing function within a start-up, let alone run, for several reasons. First, the project marketing are often too vague to engineers. On the other hand, each person involved in a start-up has a list of tasks and always full of action plan and prioritize. Marketing is not in the priorities of people-oriented operational. (Normal is why they are part of a start-up, they are super performers)

If you arrive with marketing efforts that require the involvement of several departments of the company (technical), you must be able to answer the following questions:

• When work-will it be completed?
• What your marketing will she look like? You must be able to formulate a sentence in a twitter (140 characters) Your Idea.
• What results can you expect? Provide verifiable figures and be pessimistic.
• What are the questions you do not have the answers? Ask your employees to help you find solutions.
• Why is it more important that what is on the list of tasks already completed?

The strength of a start-up is his agility. It is also its weakness because it can quickly move from one topic to another. The web marketing managers must be able to convey their ideas, plan their execution, a coffee break.

Marketers from major groups think that what makes a good marketing plan is the powerpoint presentation they make. However, in a start-up, a good marketing plan is a marketing plan done.

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