Alex Kracov

12 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 10, 2023 by Alex Kracov · across every show →

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Aug 10, 2023 negative
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Kracov: Hiring creative writers for B2B SEO content failed at Lattice
“One hire, you know, I sort of made a mistake on was somebody who was maybe a little bit more of like a creative writer. And I thought, oh, they could apply this like really creative writing. And they had done a lot of other, you know, like really interesting f…”
Alex Kracov Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 53:25 The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
Aug 10, 2023 positive
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Kracov: Granular solutions pages often drive more customer acquisition than homepages
“What you can do with your website, and this is why I'm a huge fan of like product and solutions pages, is you can have pages that speak directly to each of those subcategories. Keep going with the doc example. We have a, you know, a page around customer onboar…”
Alex Kracov Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 21:36 The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
Aug 10, 2023 positive
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Kracov: B2B startups skipping early marketing will stall past $10M ARR
“If you don't invest in marketing in the early days, you're going to stall out and it might not be at a million ARR. It might not be at two, but it's definitely going to happen as you get past 10 and 50 and so on and so forth.”
Alex Kracov Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 1:03:13 The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
Aug 10, 2023 neutral
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Kracov: VPs must work exclusively through managers, not individual execution
“When you're a VP, you're really working through managers. And you can't actually do any of the work yourself. You have to be a leader and kind of inspire.”
Alex Kracov Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 39:30 The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
Aug 10, 2023 positive
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Kracov: 'Above-the-line' whiteboard prioritization protected marketing focus at Lattice
“There was a priorities exercise where I wrote out on a whiteboard every single thing that we were doing, every single thing that we could be doing. And then we kind of went down the line and said, okay, what are the five things we're going to put above this li…”
Alex Kracov Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 45:30 The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
Aug 10, 2023 positive
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Kracov: Winning third-party conferences requires integrated brand domination, not just booths
“I think what's most important around conferences and the way to do it right. And I would say we only kind of did this at Lattice was you want to try and like dominate a conference, you know, from a brand presence perspective. So you have the booth, but then yo…”
Alex Kracov Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 49:50 The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
Aug 10, 2023 bullish
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Kracov: Multi-product platform approaches create harder sales but bigger businesses
“It makes the sales process a lot harder too, because you just, You're, as a sales rep, you have to be trained to be able to speak to a lot of different use cases and you deal with wildly different competitive sets. So that's like a danger of this approach, but…”
Alex Kracov Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 22:03 The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
Aug 10, 2023
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Kracov: Content and community marketing compound over time like software
“I generally think like nothing is going to work right away. Things work when you stick with it, right? The beauty with either content or community Is that they compound very much like software.”
Alex Kracov Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 9:42 The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
Aug 10, 2023 negative
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Kracov: Evaluate early-stage homepage copy by ARR growth, not conversion rates
“I generally am not looking though at conversion rates that Like I am not saying on my homepage, am I trying to increase this from three percent to four percent? I'm trying to say, what's the best way we're going to explain this in market? And then I'm looking …”
Alex Kracov Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 22:30 The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
Aug 10, 2023 positive
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Kracov: Early startup marketing hires must pass the 'button clicker' test
“You want to separate the talkers from the doers. And so the way I think about it is like the button clicker test. You want to make sure that they can actually sit behind a laptop and do marketing.”
Alex Kracov Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 55:38 The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
Aug 10, 2023
Disclosure
Kracov: Lattice CEO Jack Altman questioned his ability to scale to VP
“So like, I think the, probably the toughest moment for me at Lattice was, I think it was like series B ish. Like right before I really started hiring some of these more strategic leaders, Jack sort of went to me and was like, Hey, are you the guy? Like, are yo…”
Alex Kracov Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 43:21 The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
Aug 10, 2023
Insight
Kracov: Early founders should pick marketing channels they personally enjoy
“In the early days, you have to pick a few channels. You have to pick a few programs and things that you're going to really invest in and build a marketing muscle and get good at. You don't have enough budget to do it well. You don't have enough people. And I t…”
Alex Kracov Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 51:03 The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
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