Description
Martyn Baker and I got introduced back in the days when he left Twitter and I started my consulting career. We have since worked together on projects under his brand Gardn. He looks back at a corporate career, working with big clients like adidas, Twitter, Telefonica and Microsoft. That wealth of experience lead him to found Gardn as a company helping businesses to position themselves, get their storytelling right and make sure every company he works with operates at its most efficiency.
I invited him to speak about how he can help freelancers and interim and fractional professionals to tell a better story, and how he launched himself into this world. Looking at the space from both ends.
But who would be better to go into more details than Martyn himself.
Topics we discussed:
Companies Martyn worked for and how they lead him to do what he loves
How is storytelling skills apply to entrepreneurs, interim and fractional leaders or any portfolio professional
Why he started his own business www.gardn.co
Wanting to be more hands-on
Interim and fractional commercial roles
How he scales Gardn
Working with both scale-ups and big established companies that want to go to market with a new product
Sales narrative
Pitch decks
Breath and depth of positioning
50% of business is coming through recommendations
Establishing a single narrative to talk to all people
You can't be all for all people, you have to narrow your focus
Negotiations
Value propositions
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martynbaker/
Volker is a sales, strategy and leadership consultant working as an interim CRO. Find out more on his website or subscribe to his newsletter.
This is the end of season 5 episode. You might think it's earlier than anticipated, but there is a reason. There is always a reason.
I say thank you.
Please stay in touch and add me on Linkedin or subscribe to my newsletter.
Volker is a sales, strategy and leadership consultant working as...
Published 09/15/22
Today's episode is with Tom Glason. Tom is the co-founder and CEO of Scalewise which helps ambitious B2B tech scale-ups accelerate growth by providing unique and flexible access to a community of world-class Scale Experts. He's also the founding member and Chair of the London chapter of Pavilion...
Published 09/08/22