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Today, I happen to be sitting down here with the CEO and one of the cofounders, Olof Mathe. That happened when I started using Mixmax about a month and a half ago. Note: this transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.Īnder: It’s not every day that I try a new SaaS product, a new tool, platform, or whatever else you might call it, and it completely changes my workflow and the way I do things. The video will play directly inside of the message and you can embed a whole other host of rich media, be it articles, surveys, polls, gifs, you have it… Not only does it actually look better – so it’s more eye-catching – but it actually has real meaning.Ĭreating a rich and fun experience beyond quality aesthetics and an intuitive user experience is an excellent way to break through the noise whether engaged in cold outreach, or finding your product market fit. That’s trivial to do you can do it with a slash command in Mixmax. How can you send a message that really engages someone? A wonderful way, as an example to engage someone is embedding a video in a message. This goes to the core issue of email as a medium being so dry. Sometimes, no matter how powerful the new features or value proposition are, adopting a new product is simply replacing one stale solution for another. It’s easy to take for the granted all of the many the tools, technologies, and experiences that use and encounter daily as professionals and consumers.

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Even during standard non-work hours, advertising professional tools can match the immediate needs by creating messaging more relevant to an off-hours context.

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As you’re talking to people in other organizations or, as it is in this case, people who are trialing your product, how do you get them everything they need during their trial to be successful? And so we all know that people spend a ton of time on Facebook, actually incidentally especially when they’re at work… It would be silly for us not to offer them the kind of resources they might be looking for while they’re also on Facebook, right?Ī product that improves on professional communication is best advertised or introduced while the target audience is at work. The other thing that we’re really excited about with regards to Facebook ads, and we think about this kind of holistically, even when it comes to how we think about Mixmax as a product is. Match The Moment of Need for Your AudienceĪ central component of advertising personalization is providing your audience with the right solution to an immediate problem at the exact moment they are experiencing that pain point. This is especially true when introducing new technology or a new concept that had not previously been considered. In this case, it’s essential to do everything within your power to fit into the existing workflows or processes of your target audience. That just introduces a lot of overhead for the user or the buyer of the product because they have to recognize this thing and start using it as a stand-alone product no matter how awesome it is.

Most apps that launch are like some kind of stand-alone product. You’re building something that perhaps didn’t exist before. I think that’s a challenge every entrepreneur has.

Whether you are marketing a business or consumer facing product, it’s likely that you are providing an opportunity that dramatically alters a process or workflow instead of replacing an existing product. Accommodate Existing Behavior and Workflows Here are some of the topics discussed in this episode. He also helped grow Inkling Habitat, a cloud-based authoring environment for writers and publishers.

Mixmax was founded in 2014 and received a $1.5 million seed investment round from a number of individual investors in April 2015.Īfter finishing his engineering degree in France, Olof previously worked at Skype and McKinsey. Olof Mathé is the CEO and a co-founder of Mixmax, a company that is “bringing the power of the Web to email” by creating richer email experiences with embeddable Slack-style commands to trigger polls, video, calendar invites, and more without leaving the message.