Posts by Matt Sornson

Location still matters for startups. If you are in fashion you should probably be in Paris or New York. If you're in film you most likely need to be in Los Angeles. And if you're in tech, you should still probably be in Silicon Valley (based on the data below). San Francisco, and the greater bay area, is still the dominant hub for tech startups. Other hubs around the world are growing rapidly, and even surpassing SV in some categories, but Silicon Valley still reigns supreme by almost every met

Sending personalized drip campaigns to your signups can have a huge impact on conversion. It's something that's been especially effective here at Clearbit. We improved conversion by 40% just by sending different welcome emails to people in sales, marketing and engineering [https://customer.io/blog/personalized-welcome-emails.html]. One of our favorite tools for sending automated emails is Customer.io [http://customer.io]. It lets you set up rules to automatically send emails to your users based

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When you’re in the API business, marketing can be tricky. Your product is built for developers, but they may not always be the decision makers. To make the sale, you often have to win over a whole organization. That means getting all key stakeholders (not just developers) to try your product. At Clearbit, we've found that the best way for people to try us out has not been directly through our API—it's been by giving away free tools that show what's possible. Heads up - this is a long one. We'l

Every customer that comes to your product is different. They have different needs, job titles, work habits, budgets—the list goes on. Wouldn’t it be awesome to give each of them a personalized experience right from the start? Well, you can. And it’s not as hard to implement as you might think. There are a number of cool ways to use data to remove friction from your product and improve the experience for your users. Here are a few ways to finally put all that data you’ve been collecting to work