How would you spend a $25,000 growth marketing budget in Q1 2022?

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Early-stage startup marketers must walk a fine line: Everyone is free to chime in on their work, and campaign budgets for pre-revenue companies are notoriously thin.

The CTO can always boast how many tickets their team has closed and the release dates they’ve met, but a growth manager’s key performance metrics may not manifest for weeks — or months.

With that in mind, we reached out to several marketing experts and asked each of them the same question:

“If you only had a $25,000 marketing budget for Q1 2022, how would you spend it?”

Here’s who we talked to:

• Cam Sinclair, director/marketeer, Ammo
• Jonathan Metrick, chief growth officer, Portage Ventures
• Tracey Wallace, director of marketing, MarketerHire
• Jonathan Martinez, founder, JMStrategy
• Maya Moufarek, founder, Marketing Cube
• Peep Laja, CEO, Wynter and founder of CXL
• Lindsay Goldman, strategic adviser, MO Pros

The detailed suggestions we received include budget breakdowns, tips for developing minimum viable brand designs and advice for how to measure success.

Even if you don’t have a marketing person on your team, there’s still enough time on the calendar to hire a part-timer by January 1 who can execute several of these strategies and tactics.

Thanks for reading,

Walter Thompson
Senior Editor, TechCrunch+
@yourprotagonist

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