Marketing Waiting Room by Justi CG

Growing an epic community of founders and marketing leaders who have the ambition to build niche-dominating Marketing Waiting Rooms ™

Community Manager

Helping entrepreneurs and startups pin down the one thing they should be known for and build a content strategy around it so nobody ever questions their value.

I call this building your Marketing Waiting Room: optimizing for memory so that when buyers are ready to purchase, you’re the first name they remember.

Content Strategist & Creator

Founder

GrowthMentor

Giving back to the community by helping growth marketing rockstars get unstuck in their daily work.

Areas of focus:
- Growth strategies
- Content & email marketing
- Customer research & behaviour
- Marketing automation

Strengths:
- Getting sh*t done
- Finding focus
- Aligning teams to achieve growth goals

Book a one-off session with me or a long-term coaching trajectory via the growth mentor app:
https://bit.ly/3CVw4fi

Growth Mentor

Hogeschool Rotterdam Business School 

Lecturer

Beducated

Growth Consultant

Head of Growth

- Work closely with the founders to develop and implement the growth strategy
- Leverage existing and establish new acquisition channels
- Generate insights and identify growth drivers
- Optimise the entire marketing funnel

Growth Marketing Manager

RockBoost | Leading Growth Hacking Agency

Growth Manager

Growth Hacker

UpstreamFestival

Partner

Engideers

We are the creative buddies that deliver high-quality creative work for a surprisingly low price. How do we do it? The key is our smart business model.

URL: www.engideers.com

Business Owner

Nel - Project for Children

Nel is a humanitarian project that connects kids around the world and inspires them to take an action to make the world a better place.

URL: www.nel.amsterdam

My responsibilities:
- web design
- UX/UI
- copywriting
- content creation
- animation
- graphical design
- photography 
- video production and postproduction
- social media

Marketing Specialist

X-Trade Brokers DM SA

- Cooperation with external branches and participation in creation of XTB marketing strategy
- Supervising marketing activities performance among XTB branches
- Conceptualization of XTB advertisement projects (including websites, TV channels, DTP)
- Monitor and analyze online campaigns and make changes to improve performance metrics
- Cooperation and wide support regarding XTB website development
- Creating and sending email campaigns
- Optimizing web content for SEO strategies

Junior Marketing Specialist

- designing graphical user interface
- designing newsletters
- designing website elements
- creating content on www.xstore.pro and on external websites
- copywriting
- partnerships

Marketing Designer

Trainee in Marketing & PR Department

Sportbody.pl

- creating products descriptions for the e-commerce purposes;
- creating newsletters and other marketing materials; 
- social media marketing

Marketing Copywriter

Building Marketing Waiting Rooms™ - Join the community 🦄 | Content | Demand-Gen | Inbound

I help ambitious tech brands and solopreneurs sharpen their positioning and turn it into content that builds buyer memory.

→ Find the hidden value in your product / service
→ Wrap it in a story your future buyers care about
→ Tell that story across channels to create the “I see them everywhere” effect
→ And when they’re ready to buy? You’re already on their shortlist

My services:

⚡ Power Hour - In 60 minutes, we’ll nail what makes you uniquely valuable — and how to say it in a way your buyers actually care about. (Book via my FEATURED section)

🚀 Positioning & Content Strategy Sprint - 4-week deep-dive to uncover your best-selling value prop and turn it into content (DM me)

Justyna Ciecierska-Göçeryan

Average marketers have ideas.
Good marketers execute them.

Great marketers can explain why specific ideas matter for this specific company in these specific circumstances → and then execute.

Most marketing teams have plenty of "ideas people" who never ship anything.

They also have plenty of "heads-down executors" who never stop to ask if they're working on the right thing.

Those who make the biggest impact do all three.

They think strategically. 
They articulate clearly. 
They ship consistently.

The only problem is that thinking isn't considered productive.

Marketers are rewarded for action. 
Not thinking. 

More output. 
More velocity. 
More *VISIBLE* effort.

And that's a pity.
Because speed without direction just burns fuel.

The best marketers I know protect time to think. 
They pick a direction first, then go full speed on execution.

Do you protect your thinking time?

Justyna Ciecierska, MSc

Founder @ Marketing Waiting Room™ | Content strategy, positioning, messaging

Founder of Raven | Founder brand agency for B2B | Capture mindshare, win market share | 3x Head of Marketing

Building Raven, a founder brand agency. Privileged to be working with some of the finest B2B brands and helping them become the #1, top-of-mind choice for their ICP.

You can book a time with me here to see if we'd be a good fit: https://tidycal.com/raven-agency/founder-brand-discovery

Apply to join Raven, the founder brand community (+70 founders & execs from Paddle, Databox, Semrush, ProductLed, etc): https://airtable.com/app4A5y8I7xmfMULL/pagPaWPURQz1q5nwO/form

Ognjen Bošković

Semrush gets acquired for $1.9B by Adobe. A few days later, Ahrefs casually points out that Adobe is Ahrefs customer. Tim Soulo, a badass move!

Founder of Raven | Founder brand agency | 3x Head of Marketing | Community notes guy

State of b2b messaging: can't get any worse
Demandbase: hold my beer

A proper word salad:

- the only
- pipeline
- AI
- built for growth
- at scale
- smarter insights
- agent-led automation
- new ways to power pipeline growth

They even 'anticipate what gtm teams need before they do'!

Still, I'm sure they could add a few more buzzwords...

I can't afford to pay you $1.5M/y, but Raven signed 3 new clients this month so I'm looking to hire +1 more Head of CEO Content.

Raven is a founder brand agency, working with top 1% B2B companies (check my profile).

We just onboarded 3 new clients and pipeline never looked healthier.

So, if you're on top of your game as a:

- ghostwriter / copywriter
- content marketer
- ex journalist

We'd love to have you.

I'm quite picky, so here's what the right candidate looks like, BEYOND good writing:

- Business acumen (in B2B, ideally GTM tech)
- Write fast, learn fast (no 1-2 week turnaround)
- Ability to match the style of a founder or exec
- Can turn messy transcripts into well-formatted posts
- You can find the right insights in a pile of information
- You've successfully written for LinkedIn

If you want to apply, the process is simple:

fill out the form (in the comments) > provide samples + your rates > do a paid test > know the outcome in a week

Looking forward to working with you. 

I'm obviously biased but I think you'll rarely stumble upon a chance this good.

We'll work hard, the expectations will be high and you won't GET RICH QUICK, but you'll get to work with top 1% B2B brands and learn as much as you can handle from them + me.

Perfect time to join and be a founding member and grow with the agency.

PS. Please don't apply if you only created SEO/blog content and never wrote specifically for LinkedIn. It's a very different game and in my experience, someone who grow up in SEO often can't master social.

[rant] If you thought Martech was competitive (15,000 vendors), wait until you see the LinkedIn ghostwriting landscape (+2,000 agencies, 20-30k+ solo gws)...

When you combine this competitiveness with a few other factors...

- Low barrier to entry
- AI content creation
- 'get rick quick' motivations
- demand boom in the last 2 years...

You get a lot of bad actors who ruin the reputation of the entire profession with their...

- False credentials ('we work with a16z and Sequoia ...')
- False claims ('we'll pay $1.5M for head of ceo content')
- False promises ('we'll generate $XXM for you')
- One-size-fits-none AI slop (you see it everyday)
- Acts of plagiarism (can't tag them, I'm blocked 🤠)

So when's you're operating in an industry known for its lack of ethics...

Simply being the good guy and putting truth and integrity above anything else can easily become a huge competitive advantage.

I know this was a very pessimistic rant but what I actually wanted to do is to give a shoutout to 2 of my competitors I respect a lot, Alec Paul and Finn Thormeier.

They're not rotten like most of this space. They're one of the (few) good guys in this space, so give them a follow (or even better, hire them).

Guys, keep up the good work!





PS. Might as well insert a little 'I'm hiring' blurb here...
 If you're a top 1% writer, and you DON'T fit the description from my rant above, Raven wants you to join our conspiracy!

I know you've been dying for an update on Virio hiring a $1.5M/y Head of CEO Content, but since they still haven't provided one, I have a few...

1) A friend applied, got a $300k offer (turned down)

2) More than 3 months after the original 'job posting', they still haven't hired anyone 

3) A few applicants said 'I completed an assignment, they got free work out of me, they contacted my references and have since pitched my references'

4) One of their friends said they raised 400,000 CAD, claimed to everyone (offline) they actually raised 1M+, then gambled away 100k in one night in poker 

5) Their clients' content averages 20 likes, despite everyone on Virio team engaging with it

6) The top performing post they produced for a client... got inspired by one of my posts (see images attached)

7) The wins they quote on their homepage ($50M pipeline, 10M impressions) are NOT client wins. These are all Eric's stats (and I bet pipeline stats are totally made up)

8) A little prediction: they're building tech, so when they finally launch it (unless they spend all money on poker), they'll announce that they finally hired $1.5M Head of CEO Content - and it's their product 



Your daily dose of LinkedIn gossip (and calling out the bad actors), by yours truly, community notes guy

stay safe out there folks

I'm thrilled to announce Raven's Rule of 40 score is 180% (yoy growth rate 90% + profit margin 90%). The goal for 2026 is:

- 110% YoY growth rate
- 80% profit margin

(for a founder brand agency, anything under 150% Rule of 40 score honestly doesn't make sense)

The main bottleneck in hitting these goals is... me (duh).

I have to force myself to NOT work on acquisition because we simply can't take on any more clients right now (ping me in Q1!). So now I'm spending most of my time on delivery, hiring and operations.

To hit the above goals in 2026, we'll have to double our content production capacity by:

- (asap) Adding 2 freelance writers to the pool
- (Q1) Moving 1 part time strategist/writer to full time
- (Q2) Hiring +1 more FTE strategist/writer
- (Q3) Moving my AI/operations specialist to part-time

As always, finding great content talent is real tough. In the last hiring cycle alone, I went through 162 applications, tested 5 and hired just 2.

So, if you know where to find the link, I'm always looking for top 1% ghostwriters / content marketers / 'head of CEO content'...

I changed all Raven content production statuses from 'In progress' to 'Thinking'
we’re an agentic AI startup now

I'm looking for a designer to work with Raven. We're a founder brand agency, so you'll be working on LinkedIn visuals for founders & executives. The criteria?

Be a better designer than me lol

Shouldn't be too hard!

PS. These are some of the visuals produced by me, if you can't beat this (at the minimum) please don't apply. If you can, please apply 👇

Week #12 of posting a photo of an epic castle as a reminder that brand is the ultimate moat.

(Czocha Castle, Poland)

Last BFCM, I was selling my Founder Brand Playbook for $250 (50% off). Since then, I stopped selling courses & focused on Raven, my agency (grew 90% yoy).

In that year, Raven flew a lot higher:

- 13 new clients signed
- 2 from my tier 1 account list (of 3)
- 90% yoy growth rate (6 figures)
- maintained a profit margin of 90%
- 3 freelancers + first part-time hire
- great client retention, anecdotal churn

The part I'm most proud of is that I'm eating my own dog food: all this growth came from building a founder brand on LinkedIn.

My last 365 day stats aren't even that great: 4,969 new followers, 844,335 impressions. Just like most founders, I'm busy working on product (fulfillment in my case), so I only put in like 10% effort into LinkedIn (mostly screwed around with memes & calling out lame LinkedIn gurus).

Despite half-assing it, it was enough to close 13/17 clients on the first call ($50,000-$60,000 ACV).

So...

If you're an equally busy founder past $1M ARR, or a marketer supporting the founder/execs in building their brand equity on LinkedIn...

This BFCM, I'm giving away this playbook, 95% free. 95% because I'll ask you to comment + like this post to get it.

Before you sigh 'oh another lame comment for access post', let me tell you what's gonna happen once you do that:

- I'm NOT gonna double-gate it (no email capture)
- I'm NOT gonna ghost you
- I'm NOT gonna pitch you my services (not my style)
- I'm NOT gonna retarget you or add to a sequence
- I'm NOT gonna send you a crappy AI-generated doc

I'm just gonna manually send you the most detailed founder brand guide out there, built on insights from my 7-years in marketing and from working with +25 founders & execs (from brands you probably know, see my profile).

Based on what people said about it so far, you'll probably also think 'finally, a comment for access resource that doesn't suck'.

Rant over.

Comment + like and I'll send the Founder Brand Playbook.

Week #11 of posting a photo of an epic castle as a reminder that brand is the ultimate moat.

(Füzér Castle, Hungary)

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