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Strategy that shows up in real results.

The work I'm proudest of doesn't live in decks. It lives in retention rates, pipeline conversion, launch outcomes, and teams that finally know what they're working toward. Here's what that looks like in practice.

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Case Study
Marketplace · Vendor Growth & Retention

"Growth looks like a marketing problem. It usually isn't."

What looks like a demand problem often spans marketing, sales, product, and customer success — and fixing it requires someone who can see across all of them. A national marketplace platform was seeing vendor growth decline and churn spike in the first year. The instinct was to acquire more vendors. The real problem was that most new vendors never experienced the product's value — because no single team owned the full picture.

35%
increase in vendors completing onboarding within 30 days
50%+
increase in completion within 60–90 days
~30%
improvement in first-year retention

The Situation

Vendor churn was highest in the first year. Data showed that vendors who completed onboarding within the first 30 days had significantly higher long-term retention. The problem wasn't acquisition. It was activation.

No single team owned the onboarding experience. Product, marketing, customer service, account management, and sales were each touching the vendor journey with conflicting messaging, redundant touchpoints, and no one watching the full picture.

What I Did

  • Mapped the full onboarding experience end-to-end, identifying gaps, friction points, and moments where vendors disengaged
  • Led a cross-functional initiative across five teams to align on a shared onboarding strategy
  • Eliminated conflicting messaging across channels and teams
  • Simplified product UX and clarified next steps at key decision points
  • Introduced behavioral email and in-product nudges tied to vendor actions
  • Designed segmented guidance for different vendor types, recognizing that one size wasn't working

Why It Worked

The fix required someone to hold the full picture across teams, touchpoints, and the customer lifecycle. No single team could have solved this alone because no single team owned the whole problem.

This is what integrated marketing leadership actually looks like — not launching a campaign, but making sure the campaigns mean something.

Three things that made the difference — and show up in every engagement.

Someone in the room for all of it

The onboarding problem existed in the gaps between teams. Solving it required someone who could sit with product, marketing, sales, and CS at the same time and hold the thread across all of them. That's the role I play.

Data that pointed at the real problem

Another campaign wasn't going to fix the problem. There were multiple teams affecting the vendor journey without clear goals or accountability and nobody owned the full picture. The solution was getting the organization aligned around the problem and working toward the same goals with clarity and accountability.

Results that showed up in the business

Retention improved. Completion rates improved. These aren't marketing metrics — they're business metrics. That's the standard I hold the work to, every time.

Patterns across my work.

Here are examples of situations I have helped solve across different industries, company sizes and leadership teams. The details change but the underlying issues are often the same.

The Situation

"Marketing is active but pipeline quality is inconsistent."

What Changes

Demand generation strategy gets rebuilt around the right ICP. Messaging tightens across every touchpoint from ads through sales conversations so the leads coming in actually convert.

The Situation

"We have a major launch coming and I'm not confident we're ready."

What Changes

Launch readiness gets stress-tested before it matters. Gaps are identified and closed early in positioning, cross-functional alignment, and customer-facing materials so the launch lands the way it should.

The Situation

"Our messaging hasn't kept up with what the product has become."

What Changes

Positioning gets rebuilt from the customer's perspective. The story becomes coherent across marketing, sales, and product and sales cycles get shorter because prospects understand the value faster.

The Situation

"Marketing, sales, and product aren't talking to each other."

What Changes

The friction gets named and addressed. Shared language, shared metrics, shared priorities — the teams start pulling in the same direction and results start showing up in retention and revenue, not just activity.

Recognize any of these situations?

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