Anyword

Blue Seedling and Anyword built a scalable, cost-effective demand generation machine that propelled Anyword’s growth to over 400 clients worldwide, while nurturing a thriving community of hundreds of clients, prospects, and industry leaders.

400+ Clients

Built a demand generation machine that accelerated Keywee’s growth to over 400 publisher clients worldwide

(Almost) $0

spent on online advertising

Hundreds

of digital publishing professionals joined a thriving community created through virtual and IRL events

Industry
Generative AI, Marketing Tech

Buyer Persona
Enterprise publishers

Location
Tel Aviv, New York

Services Provided:
Acting CMO / VP Marketing
Talent brand / recruitment marketing

Industry
Generative AI, Marketing Tech

Buyer Persona
Enterprise publishers

Location
Tel Aviv, New York

Services Provided:
Acting CMO / VP Marketing
Talent brand / recruitment marketing

Netta is one of the most impressive and capable managers I have ever worked with. Relentless focus, resiliency and big picture thinking make her great at what she does and a strong addition to any team. Netta makes leading teams to success look easy. I would recommend working with her without hesitation.
Yaniv Makover
Co-Founder and CEO, Anyword

When Anyword (formerly Keywee) engaged with Blue Seedling, it was a post-Series A startup, backed by Innovation Endeavors, UpWest Labs, and The New York Times. It had 20 employees in Tel Aviv and a 5-person team in NYC, and was already working with some of the top publishers in the world. Their search for an in-house marketing leader took longer than expected, and they decided to partner with Blue Seedling’s Netta Kivilis as an acting VP Marketing.

Over the course of the engagement, Blue Seedling built a cost-effective demand generation machine that accelerated Anyword’s growth to over 400 publishing clients worldwide, created an engaged community of hundreds of digital publishing professionals, and established Anyword’s category leadership position through data journalism, thought leadership, and PR.


On the heels of their Series A round of funding, Anyword was looking for a full-time, in-house marketing leader to help them accelerate growth, position them as a thought leader, and build a scalable demand generation engine. Other needs? Grow and manage the marketing team (which had one junior marketer at the time), build a robust client marketing function to support account expansion, and create a compelling talent brand to help with recruiting.

The search for the marketing leader took months and months, and Anyword decided to stop wasting time and work with Blue Seedling’s Netta Kivilis as an acting VP Marketing.

Engagement highlights

  • Built a demand generation machine that accelerated Anyword’s growth to over 400 publishing clients worldwide, utilizing cost-effective marketing channels like content marketing, webinars, email marketing, ABM, prospecting, and self-produced events while spending close to zero $ on digital advertising
  • Created a thriving community of hundreds of digital publishing professionals through virtual and IRL events
  • Established Anyword’s thought leadership using data journalism and PR
  • Grew the marketing team to 4 people and helped hiring our successor

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Anyword

Blue Seedling and Anyword built a scalable, cost-effective demand generation machine that propelled Anyword’s growth to over 400 clients worldwide, while nurturing a thriving community of hundreds of clients, prospects, and industry leaders.

400+ Clients

Built a demand generation machine that accelerated Keywee’s growth to over 400 publisher clients worldwide

(Almost) $0

spent on online advertising

Hundreds

of digital publishing professionals joined a thriving community created through virtual and IRL events

Industry
Generative AI, Marketing Tech

Buyer Persona
Enterprise publishers

Location
Tel Aviv, New York

Services Provided:
Acting CMO / VP Marketing
Talent brand / recruitment marketing

Industry
Generative AI, Marketing Tech

Buyer Persona
Enterprise publishers

Location
Tel Aviv, New York

Services Provided:
Acting CMO / VP Marketing
Talent brand / recruitment marketing

Blue Seedling is one of the most impressive and capable marketing teams I have ever worked with. Relentless focus, resiliency and big picture thinking make them great at what they do and a strong addition to any team. Blue Seedling makes leading teams to success look easy. I would recommend working with them without hesitation.
Yaniv Makover
Co-Founder and CEO, Anyword

When Anyword (formerly Keywee) engaged with Blue Seedling, it was a post-Series A startup, backed by Innovation Endeavors, UpWest Labs, and The New York Times. It had 20 employees in Tel Aviv and a 5-person team in NYC, and was already working with some of the top publishers in the world. Their search for an in-house marketing leader took longer than expected, and they decided to partner with Blue Seedling’s Netta Kivilis as an acting VP Marketing.

Over the course of the engagement, Blue Seedling built a cost-effective demand generation machine that accelerated Anyword’s growth to over 400 publishing clients worldwide, created an engaged community of hundreds of digital publishing professionals, and established Anyword’s category leadership position through data journalism, thought leadership, and PR.


On the heels of their Series A round of funding, Anyword was looking for a full-time, in-house marketing leader to help them accelerate growth, position them as a thought leader, and build a scalable demand generation engine. Other needs? Grow and manage the marketing team (which had one junior marketer at the time), build a robust client marketing function to support account expansion, and create a compelling talent brand to help with recruiting.

The search for the marketing leader took months and months, and Anyword decided to stop wasting time and work with Blue Seedling’s Netta Kivilis as an acting VP Marketing.

Engagement highlights

  • Built a demand generation machine that accelerated Anyword’s growth to over 400 publishing clients worldwide, utilizing cost-effective marketing channels like content marketing, webinars, email marketing, ABM, prospecting, and self-produced events while spending close to zero $ on digital advertising
  • Created a thriving community of hundreds of digital publishing professionals through virtual and IRL events
  • Established Anyword’s thought leadership using data journalism and PR
  • Grew the marketing team to 4 people and helped hiring our successor

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Bonobo.ai

A compelling go-to-market strategy, integrated launch campaign, and demand generation engine helped Israeli startup Bonobo.ai gain rapid market traction – and ultimately get acquired by Salesforce.

8 Weeks

from start of Blue Seedling engagement to full website relaunch

$0

in PR budget to secure top US media coverage (including TechCrunch)

Services provided
B2B Marketing Team

Industry
Conversational AI

Buyer vertical
Enterprise SaaS/B2C

Company location:
Tel Aviv

Services provided
B2B Marketing Team

Industry
Conversational AI

Buyer vertical
Enterprise SaaS/B2C

Company location:
Tel Aviv

The Blue Seedling team helped us tremendously with our marketing strategy and execution on all fronts, including leading the launch of our product with great success. They’re an invaluable asset for every B2B company.
Efrat Rapoport
Co-Founder & CEO, Bonobo | Current Head of Salesforce Israel R&D Center

Israeli startup Bonobo.ai, founded in 2017, pioneered a unique artificial intelligence (AI) technology that helps enterprises serve their customers better by analyzing unstructured voice and chat interactions. But in a saturated and hype-filled landscape, they needed a differentiated path to bring their product to market. Bonobo partnered with Blue Seedling to define their personas and positioning, build a killer launch campaign, and hack their way to a repeatable demand generation strategy.


A Promising Concept

Israeli startup Bonobo.ai was founded in 2017 with a simple mission: to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve how businesses interact with their customers. Bonobo enjoyed unique IP, high-profile investors, and a promising group of early design partners. But the team needed to flesh out their launch strategy. What market segment should they go after? How would a startup from Tel Aviv make a dent in the crowded, hype-filled global market for AI? The Blue Seedling team knew that working with Bonobo would require an approach that spanned strategy to execution.

From Strategy to Nuts and Bolts

Blue Seedling began by staging a go-to-market workshop with the Bonobo leadership team. Bonobo’s leaders came from a diverse set of backgrounds and had divergent ideas about the company’s direction. But through an intensive, participatory design thinking workshop (read more on our approach here), the group aligned on core elements of Bonobo’s strategy:

  • Positioning and messaging
  • Personas
  • Pillars of brand identity
  • Key use cases

Armed with a go-to-market strategy, Blue Seedling laid the foundation for launching the startup. The team developed the specs and content for Bonobo’s website, and worked with a design and development team to launch the site. And Blue Seedling generated all blog content and sales collateral the team would need in order to educate and engage prospects.

Next, the Blue Seedling team staged Bonobo’s launch. Through strategic packaging and pitching of the story (and without using an external – and expensive – PR agency!), the team scored coverage in both the Israeli and US markets (including coverage in TechCrunch).

Finally, Blue Seedling turned its attention to creating a high-performing demand generation machine for Bonobo. By leveraging content hacking tactics (like a survey of customer experience leaders already in the database) alongside webinars and events, Blue Seedling built a robust and repeatable sales pipeline in months.


A New Beginning

While Bonobo did not set out in search of an exit strategy, the company’s rapid success led to unexpected opportunities. In May 2019, the company was acquired by Salesforce. Bonobo’s IP is now the engine powering Einstein’s conversational AI products portfolio.

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Ambition Data

Supported by Blue Seedling, predictive customer analytics provider Ambition Data nailed the launch of its SaaS platform with the perfect market segmentation, positioning, and marketing mix.

6 Weeks

From engagement start to successful product launch

Industry
Analytics, Retail / e-commerce, Marketing Tech

Buyer Persona
Mid-market B2C brands

Location
Portland, Oregon

Services Provided
Go-to-market strategy & Product marketing

Industry
Analytics, Retail / e-commerce, Marketing Tech

Buyer Persona
Mid-market B2C brands

Location
Portland, Oregon

Services Provided
Go-to-market strategy & Product marketing

The Blue Seedling team helped us tremendously with our marketing strategy and execution on all fronts, including leading the launch of our product with great success. They’re an invaluable asset for every B2B company.
Efrat Rapoport
Co-Founder & CEO, Bonobo | Current Head of Salesforce Israel R&D Center

Israeli startup Bonobo.ai, founded in 2017, pioneered a unique artificial intelligence (AI) technology that helps enterprises serve their customers better by analyzing unstructured voice and chat interactions. But in a saturated and hype-filled landscape, they needed a differentiated path to bring their product to market. Bonobo partnered with Blue Seedling to define their personas and positioning, build a killer launch campaign, and hack their way to a repeatable demand generation strategy.


A Promising Concept

Israeli startup Bonobo.ai was founded in 2017 with a simple mission: to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve how businesses interact with their customers. Bonobo enjoyed unique IP, high-profile investors, and a promising group of early design partners. But the team needed to flesh out their launch strategy. What market segment should they go after? How would a startup from Tel Aviv make a dent in the crowded, hype-filled global market for AI? The Blue Seedling team knew that working with Bonobo would require an approach that spanned strategy to execution.

Solution

Ambition Data brought on Blue Seedling to guide the launch of their new software platform. Blue Seedling began by conducting a product strategy workshop to forge a common “language” for the launch with Ambition leadership. The workshop included:

  • Qualitative research with potential buyers to map key needs and consideration dimensions (tapping Blue Seedling’s Retail Practice)
  • Mapping of the competitive landscape based on buyer needs and use cases to identify “white space”
  • A day-long design thinking-inspired workshop with the Ambition leadership team to solidify positioning and messaging.

The upfront strategy work paid off. Within two weeks, Blue Seedling had everything needed to begin actual work on the product launch – confident that the team was aiming for the right market segment, with the right message.

For the launch itself, Blue Seedling tackled two core challenges. First, the team wanted to create noise in the market to bring qualified prospects into Ambition’s funnel. To do this, Blue Seedling orchestrated a “surround sound” launch announcement amplified through email, social, podcast, and Ambition’s website.

Second, Blue Seedling wanted to empower Ambition to convert qualified prospects into sales opportunities – and ultimately deals. Blue Seedling created a full suite of sales materials for the launch, including a sales presentation and customer nurture flow.


The Results

The product launch was a major success, driving substantial social engagement from Ambition’s extended network and record traffic to the website, quickly converting to pipeline opportunities of high-intent prospects from its target market.

It quickly became clear that the launch had positioned Ambition for long-term success. Within months, the company had exceeded its sales targets.

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