The Marketing Meetup

The Marketing Meetup is a really, really nice place for the marketers of the world to come together to listen, learn, meet, and share knowledge. 

Founded in June 2016, the meetup features two talks with actionable insight per meetup and now has a community of over 50,000 people across the globe, running 150+ events per year from London to Tokyo.

At its simplest, it's lovely networking for people who like speaking to other people and learning together.

Join at https://themarketingmeetup.com

Co-Founder

The Marketing Academy

The Marketing Academy's purpose is to turn the marketers of today into the leaders of tomorrow. I was selected as one of 30 marketers from throughout the UK to be part of the class of 2020 scholarship.

Scholar (Class of 2020)

The Keynote Club

Board Member

CoWork Club

The CoWork Club is all about the magic that happens when you bring together freelancers & business owners into a space, once per day, to learn, work, and meet with one another in a positive environment. 

We're starting with our first event in Northampton, but we have big plans to roll out across the world. If you want to get in touch to run your own CoWork Club, host us in your space, or sponsor an event - get in touch :)

Advisor

Empath Marketing

Founding Consultant

Humans Come First

Humans Come First: 

"A podcast for marketers about being more human in your marketing by two marketers passionate about being more human in marketing.

Richard Wood and Joe Glover discuss weekly topics in the world of marketing they find interesting and how they sit within the scope of taking a human approach to marketing.

We're also calling out some shitty marketing practices."

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The Marketing Meetup Podcast

"The Marketing Meetup Podcast is an audio series by marketers, for marketers. Featuring live talk recordings, interviews, and discussions, The Marketing Meetup Podcast is the place for marketers to come to stay in touch, learn, and be inspired."

Co-Host

School of Marketing (SoM)

The School of Marketing was created to solve a growing issue in the industry; to help the next generation of marketers understand how marketing is evolving and to give them the skills needed for a successful career.

I am one of the 'Founding 50' - a group of 50 marketers selected from around the UK under the age of 30 to represent the programme and help bring through the next generation of marketers.

Founding 50 Member

Genie Goals

Genie Goals are a digital marketing agency for great retail brands. We specialise in PPC, Social, Affiliates and Amazon Marketing Services, and I must say... we're pretty blooming good at it. We were named by Google as the most innovative Premier Partner for Google Shopping in EMEA, and have won other awards for our work with clients such as Karl Lagerfeld, Mamas & Papas and many more. 

My role is to lead our marketing efforts - finding new clients, but also making sure opportunities to help existing clients more are being offered. The output of my work at Genie has seen us win a raft of new and impressive clients, being acknowledged for our work on an international scale, rebranded the entire company, and built a legacy for the entire marketing and business development operation to grow from in the future.

Marketing Manager

Business of Software Conference

Business of Software is a world-renowned conference in the software industry. Bringing together the likes of Seth Godin, Joanna Wiebe, DHH, Rand Fishkin, Rory Sutherland and so many more people who eventually became heroes of my own. 

During this time I was the sole marketer in the company, which also happened to be my first proper marketing role. I gained an entrepreneurial attitude and operated independently - teaching myself marketing as I went. 

During this time, I improved the year on year attendance for the main show of the year, Business of Software USA, and consistently delivered on my main metric of increasing email sign-ups. 

I left Business of Software proud of my achievements, having been head-hunted for my next role at Genie Goals.

Bluefin Solutions

My first job was at Bluefin Solutions who were a wonderful company filled with great people. 

I soon realised after joining the company that SAP was not for me, however. I entered the role for the wrong reasons (namely, money) but learned a lot about myself in the process, which inspired my future career choices. It should also be said this time gave me the experience of what it is like to work in large FTSE companies as a consultant. 

My time at Bluefin were some of the most important of my career, and although my time there was short, the lessons learned will last a lifetime.

SAP Consultant

👋  I'm Joe. 

Eight years ago I was the guy who was too shy to speak to people at networking events. Even when I did pluck up the courage, it felt all people valued was my job title or my budget rather than me as a person.

I knew I wanted to meet other marketers and learn about marketing in a safe space, so when I couldn't find it, I made it.

The Marketing Meetup is a positively lovely community for marketers. (Basically, we all look after each other and treat one another as people first 😊)

Through good luck and hard work, in the years since, I (as part of a big team effort!) have built a global community of 50,000+ lovely marketers with a social following of 250k+.

Each week, we're lucky to have amazing guest speakers such as Mark Ritson, Rory Sutherland, Seth Godin and many more share time with our community - educating and connecting us all.

You should join one of our webinars, our membership, or the newsletter: I think you'd get a lot from all of them. 

Some places I have spoken/been a guest on include: 

- Festival of Marketing,
- Innocent Smoothies Internal Sessions,
- Everyone Hates Marketers Podcast with Louis Grenier, 
- The Next Web
- Marketing Week Columnist,
- Fiverr Webinar Series, 
- VeryGoodCopy
- GREENHOUSE Jersey
- SocialDay
- Freelancer Magazine,
- Startup Summit, 
- Marketing News Canada,
- Digital DNA, 
- Moneysupermarket internal inspiration event,
- The Marketing Meetup (of course), 
- Durham University guest lecturer, 
- London College of Fashion guest lecturer, 
- Norwich University of the Arts guest lecturer,
- Essex University Incubator guest lecturer 
- Cambridge University Judge Business School panelist, 
- Linkjoy Social Media Summit
- Habitz Podcast with Mike Winnet

And quite a lot of other places/podcasts. By all means get in touch with speaking/podcast ops. Or, just say hello :)

Joe Glover

Yesterday I was invited to attend LinkedIn’s B2Believe event where they showed some of their latest research. Here are the most useful things I learned in five hours - in under two minutes:

(All stats from LinkedIn unless stated otherwise.)

⬆️ Big picture

- B2B is a $20T market (B2C is $6T).

- Average CMO tenure: 4.5 years.

- The average buying group in B2B is 22 people.

- The biggest growth drivers in B2B: being known and being trusted.

- 82% of B2B buyers say creator content influences them.

- Peer video endorsements are 4× more influential than company-made ones.

💰 Getting buyer groups confident to buy

- “Marketing is an unfair game — the brands that spend more, win.”

- Companies are 20× more likely to be chosen when everyone in the buyer group knows them — not just the experts. Think: HR, legal, procurement.

- On a vendor shortlist, buyers have five jobs to be done. Only two relate to product. The top job: “Can I defend this decision?”. Number two: "Felt confident it would do the job"

- Winning the game is moving from being the biggest or cheapest → to being the most liked and recommended.

📈 Measurement

- The typical B2B buying journey is 211 days (Dreamdata).

- 70% of that happens outside the sales pipeline.

- Only 60 days sit inside the sales process.

- Big thing to note: this completely shifts how we think about “sales cycle length.”

🎥 Making video work harder

- Creative quality drives performance.

- 73% of video completions come down to the creative.

- 49% of engagements depend on it.

Five proven levers:

- Cultural coding - shared references that make a brand culturally relevant & instantly relatable - (Pop-culture references: +41% engagement, Memes: +111% engagement)

- Human stories - (Highly emotive creative: +102% CTR, People-led stories: +65% engagement)

- Attention hacking - story structuring to not waste time - (Mobile-first, bold visuals: +15% engagement, Dynamic text: +14% engagement)

- Expert takes (Featuring exec experts: +53% engagement, Experts on stage: +70% engagement)

- Inspiring imagination (31–60s brand films: +67% engagement, Strong inspirational message: +36% engagement)

There was loads more, but this felt like the most useful chunk. Hope it’s helpful.

P.S. Great to bump into Rachael Higgins and Matt Swain too.

Co-Founder of The Marketing Meetup | Co-Host of ‘Your CMO Mentor’ | The Marketing Academy Alumni

Andrej Persolja

Experiencing stagnant growth? DM me to help reposition your tech startup to attract best-fit customers 🚀 Lowered CAC by 52% for my last startup 🏹 Founder, Positioning @ Tangible Growth

You've built a good product. You're growing. But does it feel harder than it should?

Hi. I'm Andrej. I help CEOs in complex industries fix three things that kill growth: unclear positioning, misaligned teams, and spending money on developing products & features users don't buy.

- If you are stuck in alignment calls
- not 100% happy with what your website says
- If your board or co-founders are asking questions you don't know how to answer... I've probably seen (and solved) what you are experiencing.Because the real cost of these challenges? Isn't just growth. 

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐘𝐨𝐮. You're spending mental energy keeping everyone happy. Second-guessing your decisions on a Sunday night. Spending time in meetings instead of enjoying it with family. (You sigh, as you message your group of friends saying you won't make it to your basketball game for the third week in a row).

This 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 how leading a company should feel like. As a co-founder, I spent 2 years trying every marketing hack in the book chasing growth. Templates, frameworks, books... Nothing changed until we realized the problem wasn't tactics, but positioning. I never wanted to feel that way again, so I got really good at fixing it.

Because here's the truth: This is a 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 problem at your stage. Internally, positioning breaks because your company is evolving. Externally, you are competing against teams with bigger budgets that make clear, de-risked decision. Most founders hire consultants hoping for the answer, but their frameworks never get implemented. That's the gap.

I've been fortunate to learn from and work alongside the best in the industry, including Seth Godin, Brian Tracy, and Philip Kotler, which created the foundation of everything I do with founders:

Instead of consulting, I work with your team. We map your market, find your strengths, turn them into a competitive advantage. One that works across your product, marketing, and sales.@

The result of that is confidence & clarity on what to build, who to target, and how to win.This approach has:

✔️ Helped a CEO scale their B2B SaaS from $1M to $3M in &lt; 12 months.
✔️ Helped a management team build a defensible strategy for a B2C tech company scaling from $10M to $30M
✔️ Helped a B2B AI team deliver 10 impressive leads (Accenture, Bridgestone, ERM) proving traction before going for Series A. 

I work with max 3 companies per quarter. If you want that to be you, book a call. 

Let's see how we can turn the challenges you are facing into your competitive advantage: https://tidycal.com/tangible-growth/discovery-call

Founder

With Tangible Growth, I want to help you turn poor positioning symptoms:

➡️ You have some loyal customers, but new clients don’t know what you do
➡️ You have long sales processes, low conversion rates
➡️ Clients object your prices.
➡️ You don't get enough or get poor quality leads
➡️ People are leaving your product.

Into a strong positioning strategy, where you will be able to leverage your newly found position to:
💥 Get more high-quality leads at a lower cost
💥 Convert more leads into clients
💥 Charge more
💥 Increase your product's lifetime value
💥 Grow sustainably!

Send me an email to grow@apersolja.com and let's nail your positioning.

Sales isn't difficult. The difficult part is to give your champion the words to sell your idea to the management.

Deals dragging on usually means your champion didn't have the words, means, or motivation to close the deal internally 👇

When internal champions can't articulate why you're the obvious choice, they struggle to sell your deal to the decision makers. They delay, hiding their inability to convince their bosses, before dissapearing completely. 

I (partially) blame marketing. We sold the simplicity of the value proposition as "something your grandma needs to understand". 

That's the wrong angle. Leave your grandma alone, she is under enough stress keeping you fed.

The simplicity of your offer is important so your champion can remember how to pitch you to the decision makers. 

"We level up your company's decision-making abilities" BRUH 🤢, nobody's remembering that...

"Make important decisions with ease (by understanding pros and cons)" - now that's something every champion can bring into a management meeting.

Getting to a simple value proposition isn't easy. Especially in crowded markets. 

Want to know how we did it with 30+ tech companies I worked with? Join me for a live event. 

👉 Link to RSVP in the comments. 

(Bonus) You get a simple value proposition testing framework, but only if you join live.

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Fractional Growth (CMO/CGO) | Turn a leaky funnel into your competitive advantage - by positioning for your ideal audience | 🏂 Fan of snowboarding, motorsports & rock concerts.

I never did this before. But because I just hit 5000 followers...

I think it's time...

For a reintroduction. 

Hi there 👋

My name is Andrej. I've been in marketing since... 2015 (Yup, that's 10+ years ago; I believe growth hacking was just becoming a thing back then).

In that time I've had a lot of successes. More failures. What I know today came from a combination of reading, implementing, trying, and failing. 

Those frustrating failures turned into anger, anger into obsession, obsession into perserverence... until the thing finally worked. Followed by a careful analysis why it worked.

I became fascinated with people's behaviors. Why sometimes we buy and other times great products get left on the shelves. 

Today, that's where I work. In a overlap of human behavior, marketing, and growth. 

I help tech companies with at least $1M+ in revenue understand what makes them special and why their clients buy. We use that knowledge to position their products, and the brand, so they are ready for growth.

But we go further than that. 
- We turn what makes them special into a competitive advantage so you can get ahead of your competition. 
- With enough data, we can even predict which products & features you should build next.
- And which customer segments you should double down on. 

So you get a whole picture of your company. Complete clarity on:
- What works,
- why it works, 
- and how to win in the future. 

My last 10 years have been all about business. 12-hour days. Working Saturdays. And I loved every minute of it. Met amazing people. (I can't tag all, but you know who you are).

Still, because of that, a lot of other things were put on a backburner, and I am now making a conscious choice to put more effort into taking some time for my family, my friends, my hobbies. 

I will spend my weekends on things I remember loving. Things like traveling, go-karting, snowboarding, and (15 years after I bought it) I want to (re)learn how to play my guitar. 

Ironically, time off often actually improves my work. And that's good because I want to do more. I want to work on high-growth, high-pressure projects, I want to continue meeting brilliant people, I want to shoot for the stars. (If you miss... right?)

So... that's me. The long and short of it. 

If you are new to my profile, welcome. If we've been connected for a while, drop me a line, I'd love to chat :)

Let's make 2026 the best year it can be 🚀

This was sent to me by a friend. And it's kind of perfect to prove a point.

👉 When you are in a crowded market where all products are sort of the same, you can always compete elsewhere.

Now, obviously the video is meant as a joke, but it does show there are "hidden" customer needs even in markets with very defined products that all compete on price.

Because there is a difference between: 
- How much would you pay to have an item delivered
- And how much you would pay to save a relationship.

If you'd like to brainstorm on how to compete in your market, I'm hosting a casual sort of session live on Dec 4th. Link in the comments. 

PS. Have you noticed how most of our engagement now is sending videos to each other? Or is that mostly me?

(CANCELLED EVENT) How to win when everyone's product looks the same

Had an accident carrying a glass mirror out of the apartment we are selling, leading to a hand surgery.
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It'll be an easy recovery, but unfortunatelly I have to cancel today's webinar.
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Thanks for everyone that registered, these are getting quite big now. I'll make sure we re-do the webinar in Q1.

Wondering how to have prospects choose you > competitors even in markets where that seems impossible?

I'm holding a live session, where I'll be sharing case studies of how we differentiated client companies in industries where all products felt the same.

Achieved $1M-$3M growth in under 12 months as well. 

The event is happening on Dec 4th at 12pm ET / 6pm CET and you really should join if you are a CMO / Growth / founder in a tech company that operates in crowded markets. 

🤔 Know someone? Tag them in the comments.

RSVP in the link below so I can send you a ton of emails reminding you to join the event.

(Oh, and those joining live get a doc helping you choose which (non tech) way will help you stand out on the market).

Ina Mariutti, Marie Jaksman🔥 and 7 other attendees

View event: 3 SECRETS TO WINNING WHEN EVERY COMPETITOR LOOKS THE SAME

3 SECRETS TO WINNING WHEN EVERY COMPETITOR LOOKS THE SAME

If your funnel is broken. Your sales cycles end in no deals. Competitors always seem to close your prospects... here is the stat, you'll want to hear:

Roughly 76% of deals go to the market leader -> the company that's positioned best on the market. (no, not a stat I made up, it's something Peep Laja of Wynter discovered when interviewing 100+ CMOs / decision makers).

The reason is simple. They are a known quantity, making it the least risky choice. 

If I have to promote a service provider, who am I going to promote? The one that doesn't end costing me my job, obviously.

So you tried to get around that. And build the better product. Except... either prospects don't seem to care, or all products sort of look the same because true tech innovation stalled.

After years of struggling with your company's positioning, you deserve a different approach. I'm running a masterclass: "3 secrets to differentiating in extremely crowded markets" where I'll reveal:

- Why traditional positioning frameworks fail in commodity markets (and what works instead)

- The reverse engineering method: positioning from unmet buyer needs, not product features

- 4 positioning levers you can pull in 90 days (without changing your product)

This is for heads of marketing, growth-orinted people, and CEOs at companies ($5M-$15M) stuck competing on price despite years of trying to fix positioning. Limited spots because I have a discounted Zoom tier.

Link in the post below (make sure you click on the link and register)

Oh, and if you attend live you get a framework to test your value proposition.

If you are on a 0 -> 1M€ journey, don't miss out on this post.

Last month, Alexander Estner asked me & 20 other experts "what the one lesson we would share with early stage founders is"

The answers? I can't share them. Yet.

But they are coming from world-class specialists who have been there and have done it. Time and time again. People like Rob Kaminski, Douwe Wester 🟢 👉, and many others.

There was even talk of a live event. Who is in?

I've worked with 30+ projects, helping them improve acquisition & conversion rates, even in VERY crowded markets. Now...

I share ALL OF IT live.

Join me December 4th. 

RSVP in the article, live atendees get my framework to test value proposition in 3 simple steps.

Join me LIVE: https://onemessageaway.clickmeeting.com/3-secrets-to-positioning-in-extremely-crowded-markets/register If your funnel is broken. Your sa

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(LIVE - RSVP) How to win when everyone's product looks about the same

Evenings for me are a time for learning from peers and compare growth stories (through podcasts, case studies & live events) 

Happy to see lemlist sharing their knowledge & insights through a chat with their CEO. Including the not typically discussed side-effects of building a brand (like when everyone is trying to get a word in with you at an in-person event because they recognized your beard from LinkedIn 🤣)

The 40-minute chat offered a ton of value, including that I'm not the only one stopping my runs to take notes 😅 (I'm wondering if you run to get rid of stress or spark business ideas, Charles Tenot?)
 
Let's continue in the comments, how do you see the founder-led initiatives companies today use for visibility (such as founder branding on LinkedIn)?

Marketers offering BF discounts on services? Are we nuts? I get you want a quick buck, but... 

Look. I see marketers, service providers, consultants offering black friday deals.

(What I thought were) Good copywriters offering heavy discounts on landing page rewrites, agencies offering free months of managing, solopreneurs offering free workshops.

Here is why YOU CAN'T WIN with this move:
- If no one buys, you killed your credibility and authority. You'll struggle for months in 2026.
- if people buy, you'll end up rushing the projects, knowing you aren't getting paid enough for them.
- people buy, you do projects well, it limits your time to do proper sales in early 2026.

It's a lose-lose situation.

If you don't have work in q4, I am sorry, you have a foundational problem.

Work on your networking, positioning your offers, or closing, depending on where the problem in your funnel is.

But whatever you do, DON'T discount your work for a made up consumerism holiday or you'll end up in the same situation in 2026, wondering where it all went wrong.

Amazing opportunity if you are looking for one 👇

Founder of Exit Five. Community Builder. Former CMO.

Any talented Product Managers with experience in MarTech/SalesTech want to work together?

I'm building a new product (currently in stealth mode) and looking to make our first hire on the product side after the holidays.

This person:

• Loves the early stage
• Has previous experience taking a product from 0 → $1M+ ARR
• Wants to jump into something brand new and ambitious with us
• Ideally background in MarTech/SalesTech but could be from anywhere

This is a role working directly with me and team on a new AI product for B2B marketers in 2026.

If you’ve built in MarTech or SalesTech, have hired or managed designers and developers, understand how to ship fast, validate with customers, and turn insights into a roadmap, I'd love to chat.

We’re still in stealth mode for now - but if you’re curious, fill out this quick form below. 

If your background looks like a strong fit, I’ll reach out privately with more details

Put your name and info here 🙏 Maybe talk soon.

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Product Manager - Stealth B2B Marketing Product

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