Anna Furmanov

Furmanov Marketing Consulting

Positioning and messaging that's backed by customer research. 

Most positioning and messaging is driven by assumptions (Assumption Marketing). FMC is a customer insights and strategy firm that helps B2B startups translate their confusing business jargon into simple and clear positioning and messaging that your buyers will understand.

So you get:

👉 deeper engagement with customers and prospects
👉 consistent, memorable messaging
👉 increased inbound to demos
👉 better sales conversations
👉 differentiated positioning
👉 increased word of mouth
👉 faster sales cycle
👉 closed deals

Founder

Building With Buyers

47k+ downloads + rated Top 5% podcast globally + very close to 5 stars

Host

Navattic

Navattic lets people get hands-on with your product earlier in the buying journey through no-code interactive demos.

Marketing Advisor

Riverside.fm

Riverside is your all-in-one podcast and video platform, and they just launched Magic Clips which is their AI powered video clips maker for social media.

Ambassador

Alumni Ventures

Limited Partner

MKT1

FuelK12

Helping edtech companies build scalable revenue engines to drive meaningful growth. Customers include Seesaw, Branching Minds, Pear Deck, Yoga Ed, Thimble, Graspable Math, Marker Learning and more.

Marketing Instructor

Forum Ventures

Startup Mentor

SignalFire

GrowthMentor

Growth is tough, and sometimes, you just want to talk to someone. Get unstuck quickly with 1:1 advice from vetted startup mentors. Check out my 5-Star reviews: https://app.growthmentor.com/mentors/anna-furmanov

Mentor

I start up marketing at startups using the MaaS Method | host of Modern Startup Marketing podcast

Most early stage startups face the same problem: 

People who need your product don’t understand what it is or why it matters, so they end up not caring.

Why?

We stuff our websites with business jargon to sound like we know what we're doing. We assume we know our customers and how to talk to them about our differentiating value. We end up over-explaining what the product can do (company-focused) instead of what problem it solves (buyer-focused).

And as the company grows, the focus moves further away from customers and more towards building the product and sales activities. As a founder, you FEEL like you've gotten plenty of customer signal already.

Big mistake.

The most successful startups are *obsessed* with their customers.

We are dismissing our customers, yet customers are the key to unlocking the next round of growth for our company. They bought your product when nobody else would. Do you know what makes them unique and what motivated them to buy?

A superficial understanding of your customers causes buyer indifference, team frustration, and slow growth. I help solve these problems by conducting and analyzing customer conversations to create positioning and messaging your buyers will understand and act on.

So you get:

👉 deeper engagement with customers and prospects
👉 consistent, memorable messaging
👉 increased inbound to demos
👉 better sales conversations
👉 differentiated positioning
👉 increased word of mouth
👉 closed deals

★★★★★
“We had a 4X increase in sales and I 100% attribute that to those learnings I had with Anna.”
—Founder, EdLight

★★★★★
“Highly recommend Anna to any startup looking to up their marketing game."
—Head of Growth, Navattic

★★★★★
"I especially appreciated the work she did up front to get to know us, our product, and our customers. Strong recommend for any startup." 
—Founder, Copybara

Book a call here: https://calendly.com/furmanovmarketing/45min

Helping venture-backed startup founders and marketing leaders implement marketing programs that drive revenue. Industries include: e-commerce, ed tech, higher ed tech, food tech, security tech, sales tech, martech, innovation tech, developer tech and more.

Whenever you’re ready, there are 3 ways I can help you:

👉🏻 Startup marketing strategy, execution and advising. I’m like your fractional Head of Marketing (25+ happy clients and mentees) >> www.furmanovmarketing.com

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Alan Hale

Consight Marketing Group, LLC

A firm which combines consulting and insight from voice of the customer market research to develop actionable recommendations for companies serving b2b markets. Voice of the customer services include customer satisfaction and loyalty, new product/service validation, designing channel strategies, developing go-to-market strategies, lost account analysis, employee satisfaction and alignment.  

What differentiates us is the following: 1. We only do b2b 2. We are easy to work with 3. We do in-depth telephone interviews which last 30 to 35 minutes. These interviews are highly qualitative and include the importance of factors, how well the client performs, how well the competition perform, as well as how well best in class suppliers perform. The interviews are then written up in a transcript format. 4. A presentation presents both the data, the key issues that need to be addressed, and recommendation. Recommendations are driven by a deep understanding of the customer as well as over 39 years experience helping companies with marketing issues. 

Do you really know how your major customers view you, or just think you know?  Please call Alan at 847.800.1685 for a free consultation to see if we can add value to your situation.

President

Strategex, Inc.

Focuses on market research, customer segmentation, marketing strategy, and design. Emphasis on understanding what the customer wants and expects, how to differentiate commodity products, and the understanding of customer attitudes and behavior — in short, how they behave, and what can get them to change their behavior.

Vice President and Research Director

Consulting and V.o.C. research in b2b markets leading to insight and actionable strategies and tactics. Providing marketing research for b2b. This makes market research actionable and enables better business decisions

I am the founder of Consight Marketing Group, LLC. I have an MBA in marketing; 40 years experience with over 250 projects helping companies in business to business markets grow their business.  I am also a contributing author to Quirks Magazine. This extensive consulting background is combined with voice of the customer research to develop customer specific insights which are used to develop actionable strategies and tactics. Rather than relying on web surveys or focus groups, the majority of the insight is developed by utilizing in-depth phone interviews with key decision makers and influencers of large accounts which may make up 80% of a company's revenue in a business to business market. This effort becomes an investment rather than just an expense. 

Consight Marketing Group, LLC is passionate about helping companies delight customers and make them raving fans as coined by Ken Blanchard. 

Who we work with:

Companies serving b2b markets, from manufacturing firms, wholesalers, construction firms, to professional service firms.

Presidents, General Managers, Directors of Marketing, Vice Presidents of Marketing

Ideal clients are manufacturers, professional service firms, distributors/wholesalers, and construction companies. The sales range is from $30 million to $100 million for a company or business unit. We have worked with billion dollar companies as well. 

Are you sure you know the needs and desires of your major accounts, or just think you know? We work with companies in the following areas: introducing a new product or service, identifying what needs to be done to increase your customer satisfaction and loyalty with your major accounts, understand why accounts have defected, design effective distribution strategy, re-position your company, or design an effective "go-to-market" strategy for a current or new market. 	

Call Alan Hale at: 847.800.1685 to arrange for a free consultation to determine if we can help you with your marketing issues.

www.Consightmarketinggroup.com

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