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How (and Why) ThriveHive Went All-In On Small, Local Businesses

ThriveHive CMO Dan Slagen shares the challenges of marketing to the SMB, how to build a marketing strategy around those challenges, and why partner marketing has been the key to it all.

John Bonini on December 2, 2019 (last modified on November 26, 2019) • 1 minute read

Acquisition costs will be tough to keep down.

Churn will be high.

You need to build sales pipeline quickly, and… You can’t pay for it.

Imagine that *that* is your go-to-market customer profile upon starting a new job.

For Dan Slagen (and for anyone serving the SMB), this was the reality.

Dan joined ThriveHive in the midst of a product pivot a little over a year ago.

Instead of offering an all-in-one marketing automation solution for small local businesses, ThriveHive was going all-in on local SEO.

Only local SEO.

The product and overall go-to-market approach would need to change.

Most importantly, they needed to find cost-efficient channels for growing the business, as going upmarket is obviously out of the equation when your product is built on local SEO.

So, paid was out. As was long-term SEO plays like blogging.

As it turns out, Dan and ThriveHive found their area of high-leverage with a free SEO grader, partnerships to help distribute it, and….a TV show?

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John Bonini is Director of Marketing at Databox. He's passionate about building brands that tell great stories. Connect with him on Twitter @bonini84.

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