The Growth Hub Podcast

Pinja Virtanen - Marketing Manager at Swarmia - Being the First Marketer in a Fast-Growing Company


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In this episode, Reeta and Seija sat down with Pinja Virtanen, Marketing Manager at Swarmia; a fast-growing company founded just 3 years ago. In the past 6 months alone, Swarmia doubled its customer count and MRR.
What makes Pinja’s journey particularly interesting is her eclectic experience. Before Swarmia, Pinja worked as a Content Marketing Strategist at Advance B2B, and she was also in charge of Demand Gen later at Supermetrics. With both in-house and agency experiences, she became the first marketing hire at Swarmia.
We invited her to hear her thoughts on what it's like to start as the first marketer in a fast-growing company.
During the episode, you’ll hear about:
- What motivated Swarmia to hire their first marketer
- How Pinja onboarded herself to create her role
- What she decided to focus on at first (and why)
- How to prioritize when there’s so much you want to do
- How to experiment pragmatically to get relevant results
- Pinja’s views on the eternal “hire a Generalist vs. Specialist” debate
Happy listening!
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Visit Swarmia >> swarmia.com/
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Book recommendation:
Founder Brand: Turn Your Story Into Your Competitive Advantage by Dave Gerhardt >> https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60227444-founder-brand
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