marketo
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Everything else is supporting detail. How does a good pitch begin? Feature dump? Roadmap? The clever engineering behind the scenes? Buyers anchor on value they can repeat to their CFO in one breath. ROI is the first anchor. A solution that shows a direct, believable path to financial impact earns attention. Not theoretical savings. Not
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Everyone shows up with features. Every vendor claims speed, intelligence, visibility, automation. Line them up in a comparison grid and the differences start to look cosmetic. At some point the buyer stops comparing. They assume the fundamentals work. And that is the moment the real decision begins. What separates the winner from the shortlist is
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If it isn’t measured, it isn’t improving
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Every team says they want growth. Very few want measurement. Because measurement kills the stories we tell ourselves. In cybersecurity this shows up everywhere. Vendors brag about “engagement” without knowing what that means. Sales teams celebrate “pipeline” without checking how much actually closes. Marketing declares victory on impressions while no one checks if a single
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Make Your Onboarding Unforgettable
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Because people remember the first thing and the last thing. Everything in the middle is noise. Yes, we obsess over features, benchmarks, detection rates. All fine. But the moment a customer forms their opinion of you is not in the middle of a PoC or buried in a dashboard. It is in the first ten
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In security, people talk about “pipeline” as if everything happens before the signature. It doesn’t. The real leverage sits with the people who already trust you. They mention you in budget calls. They drop your name in peer groups. They forward a dashboard to justify their own decisions. That is marketing you never paid for.
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No ads. No cold calling frenzy. No hoping Google blesses me with traffic. I would use the same playbook big names use when they enter a market with nothing but a logo and a promise. If it works for them, why would it not work for you. Here is the plan. Step 1 Show up
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Most marketing emails die before the second sentence. Not because the product is bad. Because the email feels like homework. Good emails don’t sell. They pull. They make the reader forget they are being marketed to. Here is the checklist I use. Simple. Practical. No fluff. 1. Write the subject line last If you start
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How Michelin Stars Became a Marketing Masterclass
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A tyre company made chefs cry. That’s not exaggeration. That’s the power of great marketing. In 1900, Michelin had a problem. People weren’t driving enough, and if people didn’t drive, they didn’t wear out tyres. So the founders came up with an idea: print a free travel guide. It included routes, maps, and lists of
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Product Comes Second
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Yes, not first. I’ve seen deals close without a product. Not a beta. Not a prototype. Nothing ready to ship. How? The story was right and the connections were real. When you know your customer, understand their needs, and have earned their trust, you can promise what doesn’t exist yet. That’s not manipulation. That’s alignment. In
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Lessons Worth Repeating
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Cybersecurity marketing teaches you more about people than about technology. You learn how fear sells but trust sustains, how data can both confuse and clarify, and how simplicity often hides behind the most complex systems. These lessons are worth repeating, not because they’re new, but because they’re true. 1. From Fear to Empowerment Previously, most