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Michael Taus
Startup Advisory
Strategic Coaching from Idea to Scale
Customer Discovery
Identify customer pains and problems to prioritize your product roadmap and marketing.
Product-Market Fit
Align your product to customer needs to prove objective value and drive revenue growth.
Go-To-Market
Standup a marketing and sales engine to achieve repeatable and scalable revenue growth.
Fractional CMO
Standup a GTM Org with Confidence
ABM
Drive superior results by targeting the right accounts at the right time with the right message.
Demand Gen
Efficiently scale your sales and marketing team by automating activities, while maintaining quality.
Sales Playbook
Ascertain priority needs, design the right solution and prove value throughout the customer experience.
Strategic SEO/SEM
Attract customers when they’re in need to deliver long-term growth and develop a competitive moat.
Content Marketing
Lead the conversation to define your expertise, educate your market and build trust in your brand.
Fractional CMO
Augment your organization and mentor key team members to improve execution across your product, marketing and sales.
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How to Derisk a Startup Moonshot: Building a Killer Product One Step at a Time
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The Persona-Value Matrix: Crafting a Lean, Mean GTM Machine for B2B Startups
I do a ton of meetings with B2B founders - most have a strong product management, marketing, sales or subject matter expertise - some even have a strong background in marketing at scale. But most have no idea how to standup a V1 Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy. And it's...
MFE Magazine Article on Millennial Marketing
I just published a piece about the importance of having a conversation with Millenials, rather than directing traditional "top down" advertising at them. The article includes 10 ideas that can help you connect with them on their terms. Read the complete post here.