Anyone can build a product. The companies and leaders that stand until the very end are the ones who created a community of believers and sparked a movement.
Include: 7 steps to make a movement happen
The Rise of Virtual Influencers: A New Era in Social Media Marketing.pptx
How to build a community and start a movement
1. How One Startup Can Build
a Brand New Category
A story of startup #HustleMuscle
2. #FlipMyFunnel with Sangram Vajre
• Head of Marketing, Pardot (now Salesforce)
• Co-founder and CMO of Terminus
• Founder of #FlipMyFunnel community
• I am now an author (by accident)
@sangramvajre
4. 7 Identify and articulate an
undisputable problem very
clearly
1
Create a compelling vision that
people can rally around2 Engage influencers who believe in that
problem to amplify your message
3
Make friends with potential
competitors who solve similar
problems
4 Write/talk/share a ton about “the
problem” and invest in #JJJRH5
Create experiencers online and
offline that matter6
And by the way, you also
have a product that solves
that problem
7
Lessons To Building a
Community of Believers
@sangramvajre
5. Marketers have a “little” problem.
Hard work does not equal revenue.
Less than 1% of the leads
turn into customers
– Forrester Research
1.IDENTIFY
@sangramvajre
6. The old way of thinking is sinking.
Teaching old dogs new tricks is hard.
1.IDENTIFY
@sangramvajre
11. Interviewed 50+
thought leaders in
the space
Write so much that you’ll be asked
to write a book.
Rising tides lifts all boats.
5.#JJJRH
@sangramvajre
12. Make it personal.
A movement is created when you have a tribe.
6.EXPERIENCES
@sangramvajre
MarTech Peers
and Thought Leaders
Tweet Chats
Slack Community
14. The Nine-Month Journey
We are just getting started
55K
O V E R
V I E W S
Since August
we have over
55,000 views on
FlipMyFunnel.com
Twitter
#FlipMyFunnel
has over 3 million
impressions
3
Million
200+ B2B
Marketers
responded to
#FlipMyFunnel
Survey
200+R E S P O N D E D
300+
300+ Marketing
and Sales
professionals in the
#FlipMyFunnel
Slack community
1000+
1000+ Marketing and
Sales professionals
added the
#FlipMyFunnel
conferences
6.EXPERIENCES