The Customer Journey Maestro

If you can't beat them, join them. I have resigned from my own career as a freelance writer because AI is replacing people like me, and there's no point in waiting around for the inevitable. Now I'm focused on learning how business people can leverage AI. I don't yet have a service to offer around this, but I'm happy to discuss the practical applications of AI anytime.

B2B Strategy Advisor and Consultant

I specialize in building and executing content marketing strategies for companies seeking sustained revenue growth. My process is to create a customized messaging framework (aka, “brand story”), develop a content strategy and calendar, and execute the content strategy by building a content team and/or writing brand content.

Fractional Content Director

I love to write and create content of all kinds. My broad and deep experience across sales, marketing, and customer success gives me a unique perspective and the ability to write compelling content for just about any industry. My approach is to get the inside truth from the people behind each story, and I don’t believe in taking shortcuts. I write and publish for your customers, to engage them, educate them, and compel them to take action. The SEO stuff comes along for the ride. Let’s talk about your freelance writing/content needs.

Freelance Writer

I help B2B companies build and execute modern marketing strategies focused on customers.

B2B Marketing Advisor

Hire me on a full-time or part-time basis to up-level your go-to-market strategy. And it won’t cost you an arm and a leg.

Go-to-Market Strategy Advisor

Your customers have their own Journey that may not match your Funnel or Flywheel. If you want to understand their journey and be there when they need you, that takes work. Designing a customer experience that builds trust, now that's another level entirely. I'm here to help - on your journey.

Customer Journey Guide

On-demand expertise in marketing strategy, demand generation, content marketing, social media marketing, product and customer marketing, sales and marketing alignment, and customer success.

Fractional CMO/VP Marketing

CMO for Hire

Are you in transition? Starting from scratch or making a pivot to a new revenue growth strategy? My Virtual CMO services provide proven expertise to help you jumpstart sales, marketing, and customer experience prior to hiring executives and staffing departments. It's a low-cost, low-risk way to get the strategic advice you need.

Virtual CMO

Riptide Business Press

Ed Marsh and I have written a book, titled Common Sense Revenue Growth, that helps CEOs understand the digital and consumer disruption facing them today and develop plans to grow in spite of those challenges. Buy the book at www.commonsenserevenuegrowth.com.

Author, Podcaster and Consultant

Kuno Creative

Co-owned one of the first and most successful inbound marketing agencies, Kuno Creative. Grew the agency from a handful of talented marketers and designers to a 50+ person agency with clients ranging from national healthcare and technology companies to international consortiums and manufacturing giants. Specialized in marketing technology and sales enablement - helping companies fix leaky funnels and sales pipelines via strategy, marketing automation and optimized CRM utilization. Please visit Kuno's website, www.kunocreative.com for more information, or follow me on LinkedIn.

EVP and Co-Owner

Awakening Technology Company

Developed corporate websites from scratch using HTML/CSS, then created a proprietary CMS for creating client sites backed by a SQL database using ASP.net and later, Ruby on Rails.

Web Developer

Zydeco Energy

Independent oil and gas exploration company in Houston, TX. No longer in business.

Executive Vice President and CTO

INEXS

Exploration Geophysicist

Raytheon - GeoQuest

Product Marketing Specialist

Shell

Research professional working in electron microscopy for Shell Research and in geophysical interpretation research for Shell Exploration and Production.

Research Geoscientist

B2B Marketing Strategy Advisor With Company, Agency, and Freelance Chops

I retired in 2017 from a 40-year career, mostly in sales and marketing, for a variety of energy, manufacturing, and software companies. My penultimate position was co-owner of Kuno Creative, a digital marketing agency and one of HubSpot's first agency partners. My contributions continue as I seek to help other agency owners, professionals, and free-wheelers navigate their way through gnarly challenges in business and life.

John McTigue

PurpleOceans

Client results (B2B Tech/SaaS products only):

☑️ +60% MRR in 2 months
☑️ +15% reply rate in 48h
☑️ Merged 34 tools into 12 → cut sales cycle in half
☑️ Inbound leads: 5 → 30+ /mo
☑️ Content leads: 0 → 60+ /mo
☑️ Clear GTM → quoted by all competitors
☑️ Launched a new SaaS → 3 enterprise deals in 2 weeks
☑️ Successful GTM expansion to the US
☑️ Switched from SLG to PLG, without killing momentum

#demandgeneration #productmarketing #growth

Founder - B2B Product Marketing Consultant

ESSEC Business School

Experts in Residence - advising early-stage entrepreneurs from ESSEC startup incubator at Station F

Startup Advisor

Schoolab | Mission-driven company

Expert/Coach for early-stage startup founders

Powens Group

Revamping product messaging for customer acquisition, sales enablement, and go-to-market in EU & LATAM

Product Marketing Freelancer - 1st PMM

Unnax - A Powens Group Company

FrenchProduit

Member - Product Marketing Manager

Product Marketing Alliance

Bulldozer

Growth & Product Marketer

Germinal

Number 1 growth marketing agency in France. Ask any French growth marketer.

Growth

Spaag

75% of our clients doubled their income after working with us for only one year.
We boost profitable business growth using digital marketing and growth hacking.
Growth marketing consulting firm from Paris

Growth Marketer Analyst

B2B Product Marketing Consultant | Positioning​ =​> Demand

Got a few results for B2B SaaS clients:

☑️ +60% MRR in 2 months
☑️ +15% reply rate in 48h
☑️ Merged 34 tools into 12 → cut sales cycle in half
☑️ Inbound leads: 5 → 30+ /mo
☑️ Content leads: 0 → 60+ /mo
☑️ Clear GTM → quoted by all competitors
☑️ Launched a new SaaS → 3 enterprise deals in 2 weeks
☑️ Successful GTM expansion to the US
☑️ Switched from SLG to PLG, without killing momentum

To contact me:

→ DM me on LinkedIn
→ or write me at hello@gaspardpastural.com

Gaspard Pastural

"Contact forms were cool... in 1995."

How come B2B is 10 years late behind B2C?

Nick says it's from how we design the buying experience.

Amazon, Uber, and all main B2Cs, let you buy in one-click.

One. Click.

Whereas in B2B, buyers have to:

- fill a 2-page contact form
- pick a slot in sales people's agenda
- sit through a "qualification call"
- endure a generic demo

...until they finally get a conversation with someone who will try to understand their situation, and help them.

That's why Nick Tomic founded Face2Face.io

I interviewed him on the last episode of my podcast TractionStories

(Link to listen it is on my profile)


Did you ever enjoy a buying process in B2B?

I turn complex tech products into clear, differentiated offerings, so your messages finally land | Product Marketing Consultant | Narrative, Positioning & Messaging

Are humans still needed in the sales process?

Nick Tomic advocates they are.

Because nobody in B2B will sign a $100k annual contract without speaking to someone who can vet it's the right move to do.

I interviewed him on how he grew Face2Face.io - getting to $100k ARR in just 15-month, fully bootstrapped.

We talked about how "book a demo" forms should be dead, how to get users the quickest time-to-value, and increase conversion rates by doing non-scalable calls.

To listen to the episode:

1) Like this post for the reach
2) Head over to my profile

Enjoy - and thank you Nick for joining!


ps: I swear it's a coincidence Nick is the third guest in a row who speaks French 😂

Podcast TractionStories with Nick Tomic, founder of Face2Face

Nick and I both help B2B teams differentiate their SaaS in competitive markets.

But Nick Tomic does it from the CX:

He removes all friction in buying+using your SaaS, by connecting your experts to buyers/users exactly when they need help.

(CX = Customer Experience)


Can you believe simply being accessible makes you standout?

When I see gated demos, hidden pricing, huge contact forms...

Somehow, I don't doubt it.


Listen to the full episode on TractionStories

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