
John Rougeux VP of Marketing Strategy: How to Create a Category Design Business Strategy
In today’s episode, we have a very special guest John Rougeux, VP of Marketing Strategy at Bomb Bomb, where he’s focused on re-humanizing the way people do business through personal, 1-1 video. As VP Marketing Strategy, he’s leading their content team on category design, strategic messaging, positioning, and content strategy. We discuss his entrepreneurial background which includes being a successful founder of Causely, where he built the world's first SaaS platform to help SMBs generate referrals using cause marketing. He oversaw all growth efforts and recruited over 6,000 SMBs to join our community, raising over $2 million for charity in the process. He built our marketing processes and the team from scratch. They were awarded #1 Place to Work in Kentucky in 2016 and received recognition from Entrepreneur and Outside Magazine for having a great company culture. Causely was acquired by SkyFii a cloud-based software helps you streamline operations, drive marketing results, and improve the visitor experience. In 2018 he led the team as VP of Marketing North America, before his recent role as VP of Marketing Strategy at BombBomb. He is also the co-host of the B2B Growth podcast. We have a very real and candid conversation around his view of Category Design as a unique path to differentiate your organization in an ever-increasingly competitive and noisy market. He also dives into his founder journey using Category Design with Causely and how he’s shaping Bomb Bomb's strategic marketing growth via the lens of Category Design.
Smart Chickens A B2B SaaS Demand Gen Drives Innovation & Growth Podcast · Gianni Quintana, John Rougeux
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Show Notes
John Rougeux Bio and Show Notes:
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbrougeux/
B2B Growth Podcast Co-Host
FlagandFrontier.com Category Design Strategist
Book Recommendations to get 1% better:
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
- Marketing High Technology by William H. Davidow
7 Category Design Business Strategy Criteria & What CD is Not:
- Category Design Isn't Necessarily Being First to Market
- Category Design Isn't Winning Awards on Gartner, G2Crowd, or Forrester
- Category Design Isn't a Gimmicky Slogan or Advertising GTM campaign
- Don't Vilify Something that is Good at Another Context as Nemesis to base Category Design
- There Has to Be a Significant Business Pain Identified by your ICP or Buyer Personas
- You Should Be Able to Solve a Problem in Meaningful way Not Just Surface-based, but Deeper
- You Need Buy-in from CEO/Founder C-level stakeholders To Launch a Category Design Business Strategy