CEO and founder of Postie Dave Fink joins Ryan in this episode. Postie is a software company that integrates direct mail with digital marketing to create powerful campaigns. They are a self-proclaimed ‘sneaky big company’ and have 3x their revenue year upon year upon year!
Dave talks all about this success, how Postie was built and hypothesises that sales tactics and marketing hacks aren’t enough to build a long-lasting successful company, that simply put, a great product and service builds success. He also discusses why direct mail is one of the best kept secrets in marketing and utilising this with his team’s wealth of tech and marketing experience led them to where they are today.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Through Posties own growth and profit they have been able to behave like a late series B company.
Up to a year and a half ago Postie spent $0 in marketing! They relied on a very talented sales team and reputation.
More recently, marketing and good storytelling began to back up Dave and his company’s hypothesis that they weren’t just a good sales company, they now use a variety of marketing tactics, including content marketing, which has transformed them into a marketing-led organisation.
Posties was built on the foundations of direct mail. Direct mail is an incredibly scaleable channel that is data rich but what it often lacks is speed and optimisation. So, Dave and his team built the technology to make DM dynamic!
Originally bootstrapped, Posties sourced funding in 2017 but they have built and grown to a late series b company without needing another round of funding since.
Posties recognise themselves as unique in the market, they are a channel management solution focused on software, workflow and support but with better targeting, simpler execution and better measurement.
Long hours, hard work and lots of trial and error created Posties success. They simply built a great product that solved a pain point that enough of the market had and then worked on it, providing great service along the way.
BEST MOMENTS
“We’re performance driven, we’re quant[ative] minded, we want control over the optimisation of our media spend”
“Let’s build ad-serving tech to empower marketers that expect a lot”
“If we did not have a great product market fit, the ability to deliver on what we were selling I don’t think any sales tactic would work”
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