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This podcast is about building a strong customer experience (CX) community. Each episode will be packed with information at your fingertips. Think of this podcast as talking to the speaker right across the table and walk away with content to actually use. No more list posts because most people struggle with implementation. This is about proving CX through small, simple actionable ideas that make huge impacts.
We dive deeper in the 4 go to market (GTM) success cores to achieve and prove customer experience: Messaging, Design, Tech, and Experience. These 4 essentials don't only apply to marketing. Guests have marketing, sales, customer experience, revops, recruiting, data, and product backgrounds. Today, each business function grows either through customers or employees converging back to those 4 success cores.
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We dive deeper in the 4 go to market (GTM) success cores to achieve and prove customer experience: Messaging, Design, Tech, and Experience. These 4 essentials don't only apply to marketing. Guests have marketing, sales, customer experience, revops, recruiting, data, and product backgrounds. Today, each business function grows either through customers or employees converging back to those 4 success cores.
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  <title>Episode 7: How Startups and VCs Market Themselves</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Sean sits down with Srikar Kalvakolanu, Strategy &amp; Innovation Specialist, at High Alpha, and talk how startups and venture capital (VC) firms market themselves. They dive deeper on how High Alpha markets themselves and the startups they create. Srikar touches on how important marketing is at the beginning of creating a business.</itunes:subtitle>
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More About Srikar. https://www.linkedin.com/in/srikarvkalvakolanu/ 
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<p>More About Srikar. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/srikarvkalvakolanu/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/srikarvkalvakolanu/</a></p>]]>
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<p>More About Srikar. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/srikarvkalvakolanu/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/srikarvkalvakolanu/</a></p>]]>
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