I was the head of marketing for Tailor Brands, and I joined the startup day 0. Tailor is an automated logo design tool - you come to Tailor, enter some information about your brand, and we would design a logo instantly. The market didn't exist, so I had to carve out our niche.

1. Bringing a product to market requires months of strategy and research into the target market. Slinger Bag hit the market for the first time with their portable tennis ball launcher, so our understanding of the U.S. tennis player and general consumer sports goods market was imperative. The product was also set to launch in the U.K, which required a separate strategy.  
2. Generating brand awareness, especially for a new brand, requires an essential mix of paid search and social campaigns and an effectively designed landing page to optimize traffic for sales. 
3. COVID-19 initially shut down manufacturing and continued to add unforeseen manufacturing and shipping delays throughout 2020

Octopai is an online platform for data mapping and discovery. Our main source of lead generation came from live events and when corona hit we needed to act fast to to continue to bring in the same amount of leads.

AEJuice operates in the unique space of video-editing. As a result, most of their consumers have a common passtime and passion -- creating. AEJuice is an established platform that puts a lot of effort in educating and spreading editing knowledge, but many consumers weren’t aware of these additional ways to connect.