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Clarity

Andrew Lee Miller

San Francisco, California

Organic startup growth and GTM expert. If you're an early-stage founder that needs marketing guidance we need to talk.

$1.67/min

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22 Calls

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11 Reviews

34 minutes
Avg. call

Growth Hacking Digital Marketing Startups Startup Consulting SEO User Acquisition Influencer Marketing Startup Marketing Early-stage Startups Paid Search

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How to Do PR (Public Relations) Yourself.

15 years experience in building and launching PR campaigns for startups. I will teach you the four core steps to building a successful PR campaign and how to get in large publications without paying a PR agency,

Paid User Acquisition (Paid Ads) Coaching

I've spent over $15mm on FB, Google, Pinterest, Reddit, Taboola, Quora, Twitter, IG, Linkedin and more for big brands like BBVA, Tinder, LivingSocial and many young startups with small budgets. I'll teach you best practices, tips, things to avoid, strategy and content ideas and more.

How to Do Influencer Marketing a-Z

I've done over 350 Influencer Marketing engagements and even wrote a book on it! Book this call to learn how to do influencer marketing yourself, how to find the right influencers, what to pay, what to ask them to do etc.

How to Do Search Engine Optimization Yourself

I have spent 10 years consulting on SEO for different companies from directory listings sites, to ecommerce and B2B companies. A 30 minute call with me and we can outline an exact plan of action for your SEO strategy. I consult on how to strategize SEO, onpage SEO and offpage SEO. I also offer larger SEO audits that

Expert-Level Startup Marketing/Growth Hacking Advice

Are you a startup founder, entrepreneur or small business owner that's got some marketing, growth, advertising or otherwise business questions that a seasoned startup veteran with over 16 years of experience launching small businesses can answer?

Answers 6
Reviews 11

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Andrew Lee Miller answered

What are some signs my startup may be "too niche" to ever become mainstream?

The easiest answer to this is something a mentor told me a few years ago when I was working on a niche app....she said "do you honestly feel like you could be passionate about this for the next 10 years"? That may not sound like it's relevant but it is...honestly that's the only thing that matters when starting a compay (besides the obvious of is this valuable)...That's the first thing to figure out. Then when I answered and said maybe, she said "do you think that this is the biggest thing you could be doing with your time? Why stop at helping a few thousand people, why not pour 10 years of your life into something that can help millions".....so reframe your question, is my product only helping a few people? Is there something else I could be doing that will help more people? If the answers are obvious then you know what you need to do...back to the drawing board.

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Early Adopter

Customer validation

Early-stage Startups

Andrew Lee Miller answered

I'm looking to hire someone to do PPC for me. What are some red flags when considering a candidate?

The easiest thing to ask identify an expert is what campaigns have they ran and what are some specific successes they've found....if they can answer this with exact keyword mentions...then they know their stuff.

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Digital Marketing

PPC Marketing

PPC

Andrew Lee Miller answered

What are the best practices with SEO?

Step one, spend a day researching competitors, keywords, onpage and offpage SEO...and then get yourself knowledgeable enough to find an expert who has experience in your industry and then work with them...try and implement their suggestions yourself if your team can...that will reduce cost.

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SEO

SEO Strategy

SEO Specialist

Andrew Lee Miller answered

I sell ads on my social network of 9 million+ to small businesses, but I want to sell higher priced ads to corporations. How do I start?

I would really need to see the ads that you're selling to be able to suggest what method to scale them with... but you hit the nail on the head...You have two options really...building internal sales processes or going through an agency. Usually companies go through an agency first, to get professional handholding in "sales product" development...ie. they help you scale your pricing and ad units and offerings...and get your foot in the door with bigger clients...but you can do a short term contract with most agencies...say 6 months...so that after 6 months you are in a much better spot to handle it on your own and stop paying 30% to an agency...

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Online Advertising

Sales

Sponsorship Sales

Andrew Lee Miller answered

Is it ok to use pre-existing services to build a startup on?

100% absolutely!

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Startups

Website Development

Front-end Coding

Andrew Lee Miller answered

When creating a marketplace, does it make more sense to focus on stimulating demand first or supply?

You need the supply first, but it should be a sprint effort to get the bear minimum you need to test your PMF then you focus on demand for a longer period of time.

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Start-ups

Marketplaces

Online Marketplace

Reviews

Easy to talk to
Covered things in an easy to follow way
Workshopped multiple different ideas and ways to go / improve

Callum T-R Source: Clarity

Great job! thanks for the great advice!

Naissa Scott Source: Clarity

Amazing as always. He is very intelligent. He helped me with my homepage and gave me great advice. I will book again!

Naissa Scott Source: Clarity

Great call. Probably the best call on this platform. I learned a lot in 30 minutes. He was very patient with me. He gave me a lot to think about in just 30 minutes. He is brilliant marketer. If you need help with your startup, book a call with Andrew!

Naissa Scott Source: Clarity

Great call! Got really indepth advice about my startup idea with lots of resources for me to followup on. Thanks Andrew!

John Crestani Source: Clarity

Great knowledge and very insightful.

Jack Amariglio Source: Clarity

Thanks for the chat! Some good ideas to implement!

StJohn Pearsons Source: Clarity

Tessa Thomas Source: Clarity

Awesome conversation and incredibly insightful. Looking forward to chatting again Andrew!

Ray Lui Source: Clarity

Andrew is clearly an experienced startup marketer - we're launching a fintech startup next year and was able to very quickly assess our goals/ budget/ resources for an effective go to market strategy. He answered a lot of specific qs (phased rollouts, PR, email marketing) and was able to reference other companies/ startups who faced similar marketing challenges (why it worked/ didn't) which was incredibly valuable! Highly recommend and look forward to more calls with Andrew. :-)

Shahirah Gardner Source: Clarity

Really enjoyed talking with Andrew! He really knows his stuff, and provided a lot of actionable tips that I hadn't heard anywhere else. He's also very candid so you'll hear everything that you need to know (both good and bad). Look forward to more conversations with Andrew.

Alan Park Source: Clarity

Member since February 2015