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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dbt Labs

Community Engagement

ActiveCampaign

Currently designing a course for active Campaign, on the 
heels of the "I Hate Marketing Automation" manifesto. 

Having worked in Martech for 15+ years, I've seen the power of automation.  
But I've also experienced its underbelly, as a.. well... human.  

We've all been on the receiving end of 
unsolicited, 
unwanted, 
untimely, and 
unforgivingly persistent advances 
from brands that swear they are exactly 
what we need in our life, right at this moment.

Automation technology isn't the problem.

How we use it, is.


I'm working with Casey Hill and Adam Tuttle at ActiveCampaign, 
on the"Bingeworthy Emails" workshop for B2B Marketers.  

This is the future of B2B Email Marketing.

We can do better. 

Let's.

Brand Ambassador

MarTech

Contributing Writer

Demand Wars

Demand Wars is Survivor meets Hunger Games, for B2B Marketers.
B2B Marketing is Broken. 
Welcome to the Rebel Alliance. 
24 ruthless marketers.
4 fierce tribes.
Only ONE ultimate demand warrior.  

You decide their fate. 

Binge the series here: 
https://www.TACKnetwork.com/demand-wars

Director of Content & Community

Hello, Audience.

Content strategy consulting for B2B SaaS brands.

B2B Marketing content contributor for online publications, including:
- AudiencePlus
- MarTech.org.

Author: Before the Funnel newsletter
Host: Demand Wars Show, Season 1 
Host: Binge Podcast, Season 1

Thought leadership featured on:
- Notorious Thought Leader
- Account Based Beverages
- Marketers Talk Marketing
- 2 Pizza Marketers
- The Hype Within
- GTM News
- B2B Nation

Proficient with AI content tools, including:
- MidJourney
- Riverside
- Descript
- Capsule
- Canva
- Opus

TestBox

Led marketing strategy centered around demand creation + demand capture. 
- Rapidly stablished relationships with the top influencers in Customer Support.
- Created 12 episodes and 70 social videos for a new show, 
- resulting in a Top 5% podcast in the world, in month one.
- Achieved 5x user growth and 90% lead acquisition cost reduction.

VP of Marketing

Bevy

Led the Demand Gen Function at Bevy. Including:
-  Growth Marketing, 
- Field Marketing, 
- Partner Marketing, 
- Marketing Operations, and 
- Community Marketing of CMX, 
(the world’s leading community for Community Professionals.)

Senior Director of Demand Generation

Revenue Collective

Led the Revenue Collective of Color community in the Revenue Collective community (now called Pavilion.) Grew membership, increased engagement, and introduced new community programming.

Community Lead, Revenue Collective of Color (Volunteer)

metadata.io

Drove multiple projects across Demand Gen, Sales Engineering & Customer Success. 

- Sales Engineering: Led over four dozen sales calls
- Customer Success: Led several customer churn reversal sessions. 
- Marketing: Built  blueprint for Demand Gen course for LinkedIn Learning.

Director of Demand Generation

Oh Happy Day Marketing

Clients include The Walt Disney Company, Melissa & Doug, Bark Technologies, and multiple public and private schools.

Managed a team of go-getter marketers, using marketing automation, inbound marketing, and demand gen campaigns to drive results for small and mid-sized businesses.

Led planning and execution of a virtual online conference (virtual summit), using Account-Based Marketing to land 40 world-class thought-leaders, (40% conversion on outbound multi-channel campaigns), and half a dozen high-level corporate sponsors. 

The conference attracted 3,000 qualified leads and converted 5% to customers.

Built a training business teaching aspiring authors to write, publish, and market fiction successfully.  Created over two dozen courses, and sold to over 7,000 customers (10% average conversion rate from online sales letters.)

Built a high-ticket services business that helped dozens of small businesses leverage authority marketing as a thought leadership strategy, in the form of publishing bestselling nonfiction books.

Built dozens of profitable marketing funnels, using lead magnets, landing pages, drip campaigns, sales copywriting, and marketing automation.

Head of Content at Hello, Audience.

As a demand gen marketer turned community and content strategist, Bolaji builds high-impact owned media channels that drive real business outcomes—through community, video podcasting, and first-party content.

With hands-on expertise in tools like Common Room, Descript, Riverside, MidJourney and Opus Clip, Bolaji has launched and scaled content ecosystems that not only grow brand affinity but directly influence pipeline and product adoption.

Bolaji thrives at the intersection of community-led growth, media brand building, and strategic storytelling—especially in B2B SaaS environments where trust, education, and differentiation matter more than ever.

He's passionate about helping brands move beyond transactional marketing, to create audience-first experiences that turn users into champions.


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💬 Media projects include:

- Data Career Transformations: The most unlikely success stories in Data.

- The View on Data: 5 dynamic women share unfiltered insights from inside the data industry.

- The Data Analyst Show: Pull back the curtain on the lives of data analysts.

- Demand Wars: B2B Marketing meets Survivor + Hunger Games.

- Bingeworthy Emails: A mini-course on building addictive email nurture sequences.

- Before The Funnel: How to create content for the 95% of ideal buyers not yet in a buying cycle.

In his spare time, Bolaji coaches youth soccer, writes children's books, and reads too much science fiction.

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