Own the story
Brand and narrative
The founder story as a GTM asset, a point of view that sells, and earning trust selling from India to the world.
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I am a founder with no marketing team. Is my own story actually a GTM asset or just vanity?
It is an asset, but only the parts of it that are useful to a buyer. Nobody outside your family cares about your journey, they care about what you ...
What is a strategic narrative and how is it different from our pitch deck?
A pitch deck is about you, a strategic narrative is about a change happening in the world that your buyer is living through. The structure Andy Ras...
Everyone says post on LinkedIn. What do I post if I am not an expert yet?
Post what you are seeing, not what you have concluded. You sit in more conversations with buyers in a week than most commentators do in a month, so...
What is the difference between brand and demand, in plain terms?
Demand capture reaches the small number of people shopping right now, brand building reaches the far larger number who will shop later. The Ehrenbe...
How much of my budget should go to brand versus demand?
Anchor on the total first: median B2B SaaS marketing spend runs around 8 percent of ARR, with venture funded companies spending roughly double what...
How do I build a narrative the whole company tells the same way?
Write one narrative, not a messaging document, and make the sales deck the artifact that carries it, because long messaging docs get filed and neve...
Our founder is the brand. How do I make the brand bigger than one person?
Move from a person to a point of view that other people can carry. Name the belief the founder keeps articulating, then give it a home that is not ...
How do the best companies use founder story as a durable moat rather than a launch stunt?
They tell the same story for a decade and let the company's behaviour keep proving it. Vembu has said the same thing about rootedness and localism ...