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Internet Basics
Online CommoditiesConsumer and Creator
1. Creator = Consumer2. The Active Consumer3. “Creator-GTM”3.A. Where the Viral Things Are4. The Anonymous Economy5. Pre-founder: People-focused investingContent is King -- Bill Gates, 1997
Things To Do.
Work to Be DoneStatements; No MissionUntraditional TalentVillains/Heroes, Love/TechnologyCreator Extras
A Spectrum of InfluenceInfluencing InfluencersInvestment
Total Content Market (TCM)/Content TAM (C-TAM)“Organic” = unpaid?Rethinking Consumer LTVIntroducing: On-Page Collaboration, LiveWriting, anti-Press PublishVC Managers: Finding your styleWomen’s Consumer (2022)Translation
“GenZ”Personal Journal
An intro to Personal JournalHow to be JealousNot On Your Side“Pedigree”“Levers”“Cleanup”“Examples”My love letter to JournalistsUnfortunately Why I dropped outAdvice for a Y1/Y2 woman in VCAdvice for a Y3 woman in VC Women and Wikipedia Invest in the Opposition Forced Content.Me & PaulVery Specific AdviceYoung PeopleContent vs. JournalismTo Be Free© EM 2024
What is Creator GTM?
How the creator economy changed modern GTM.
Creator GTM is a go-to-market strategy that builds a team and initiatives around non-traditional online marketing (not through traditional ads.) Instead, relying on production/content, community, creator-relations, and influencer marketing. Creator GTM affects directly two buckets of a business: CAC and Retention %.
Creator GTM initiatives can be segmented as the following:
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In all honesty, I just want for you to care about the segmentation shown above. It’s not too deep, it’s just the modern “growth team.”
What’s changed?
- Expectations. Marketing, in startups, is a process that is expected to scale as fast as SWEs can build. When founders present that $XB slide, even though they’re reasonable, it’s expected that the founders can actually hit at least $1B in volume.
- Costs. Anecdotally, famously, my old boss used to say, “At [top-tier firm], we quickly realized [in the 2010s] that at least 1-cent to every dollar spent at the early-stages was on customer acquisition.” And that is absolutely not the narrative presented by founders within the last ten years.
- Trust. Simply put, for a bunch of historic reasons, people trust people more than companies. People now have incredible reach, so attention is following that preference accordingly.
Creator Team Segmentation
These functions are similar to those hired on successful creator teams, separate from personal staff and entrepreneurial projects for software or CPG side businesses. This is the mental segmentation of a core creator team.
How to get started
So you want some of the Creator GTM goodness, but don’t know where to start. Here are some questions to get you prioritized on
- Retention vs. Reach. Which number are you not happy with?
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