How Workshop Found Product-Market Fit Leveraging Customer Feedback with Jamie Bell, VP of Marketing at Workshop

On Today’s Show:

Early-stage companies face numerous challenges, including a need for more resources and tools and uncertainty about the viability of their solution. Even worse, you may be building a product that customers don’t want.

In this episode, Jamie Bell, VP of Marketing at Workshop, shares the company's journey to find product-market fit and their focus on early growth. Once essentially a company intranet builder, Workshop now focuses on being more than just an internal email solution.

They position themselves as a broad internal marketing solution, actively listening to customer feedback and investing in their product roadmap to provide a comprehensive solution for internal communicators. This feedback loop has been critical to evolving their product.

Main Takeaways

• Workshop pivoted from building an intranet to focusing on internal email communications, which proved to be a more practical solution for their customers.
• The Happy Monday Club newsletter has been a successful content strategy, providing practical resources and positive narratives for internal communicators.
• Workshop's marketing strategy includes using free email templates, Google Ads, and targeted campaigns to reach their audience.
• Jamie suggests that attribution software alone is not sufficient. She recommends measuring marketing effectiveness through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Asana is Jamie's preferred project management tool, allowing her to stay organized and manage project requests effectively.

Tools Mentioned in this Episode

• Workshop
• Hubspot
• Apollo
• Asana
• Typeform
• Google Optimize
• Google Forms

Additional Video: TK Kader - Finding Product Market Fit for Saas Startups

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