Derrick Cramer

CMO | B2B Strategy Agency Founder

Amsterdam, Netherlands (+01:00 UTC) Englishfrom Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Bio

Hey I’m Derrick, and I’m glad you’ve found my Growth Mentor profile. I’m the founder of Gossamer Marketing agency, which I started after 16 years in the trenches of marketing for Fintech, AI and other SaaS businesses across the globe. I’ve been lucky enough to work in Europe's Fastest Growing Startups like Hawk, Unicorns like Bunq, and global AI leaders like Textkernel. The one thing they had in common - no two growth journeys looked the same. And as a founder of my own B2B SaaS I’ve been in your shoes. The uncertainty of too many strategic choices and limited growth budgets can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be lonely. Most of my greatest successes have come from discussing challenges with mentors, and I wouldn’t be where I am today without their perspective. That’s why I want to give back. My strengths lie in helping startups transition beyond “growth hacking” their success towards creating GTM engines that are scalable, measurable and efficient. Or put another way, how do we move away from single channels and efforts towards strategies and campaigns that make proven marketing science work for your specific business. Maybe you’ve hit a growth wall and your Product Led Growth efforts aren’t enough. Maybe throwing more headcount and budget didn’t move the marketing needle the way you thought it would. Maybe you’ve got a great junior marketing team in place but want confidence that they’re having a serious impact. Or maybe you just don’t know where to start. The good news is you’re not alone with these or other challenges, and I’m sure you’ll get great ideas out of our discussions. So feel free to book a session and we can discuss how you win more. Bye for now.

Expertise


  • Branding

    Branding, positioning, and the way you bring who your company is to marketer is more. Having launched 5 brand, and led multiple 6-figure rebrandiing products I know it there's always more to be done, and you risk ruining much of your established credibility and presence. Let's figure out a way that works for you.

  • Building a team

    I specialise in early-stage teambuilding where your first 1, 2, 3 or 4 hires are supported by external agencies as required. I champion T-shaped markters with broad knowledge in addition to their subject-matter expertise. Do you hire a product marketer or marketing ops next? How do you get the most out of your existing "do everything" junior team members? Let's discuss.

  • Copywriting

    Sometimes you need more than a ChatGPT summary. I worked as a journalist for 5 years before moving to marketing, where I continued content production across advertising, thought leadership ghost writing and press management.

  • Go to market strategy

    Scaling your GTM efforts after you've achieved product market fit. Let's discuss how you can move beyond growth hacking towards comprehensive campaigns that deliver short-term gain while laying the long-term growth drivers.

  • Growth marketing

    Growth marketing is more complex that just digital campaigns. And it's more than churning out endless content in the hopes your SEO will pay off. It requires the right mix of digital, offline, partnership and content marketering, all working together in campaigns to drive as many touchpoints as possible and ultimately keep you top of mind when buyers want to engage.

  • Product marketing

    Building a product marketing function is one of the most important steps your company can take, but it should be more than just a "fashionable" choice. Understanding what falls into their role (rather than product, content or sales) and giving them the mandate to be more than just an SME is crucial.

  • Revops

    Revops is the quickest way to refocus your sales and marketing efforts on what really drives commercfial growth. Having set up and run these projects, including full CRM overhauls, I understand the importance of building right from day 1 and maintaining a clear view across all commercial functions.

Toolkit


  • Squarespace logo

    Squarespace

    8 years of experience

    I've run my personal photography blog, as well as my own company website on squarespace. It can be a good option depending on your use case, and I'm happy to discuss this and other alternatives.

  • Substack logo

    Substack

    5 years of experience

    I've published my own blog, and managed blogs for other brands, on Substack as an alternative to a more public community (such as LinkedIn), or engagement channels like Discord.

  • Webflow logo

    Webflow

    3 years of experience

    I've managed client websites built on webflow, and am in the middle of relaunching my business website on webflow after many years of using Wordpress and Squarespace.

  • Google Ads logo

    Google Ads

    11 years of experience

    As a former Google certified professional I'm intimately immersed in the Google ads ecosystem. They offer a fantastic channel to market for many businesses, happy to discuss how they should work for you.

  • ChatGPT logo

    ChatGPT

    5 years of experience

    A core part of my professional life since launch, I've used ChatGPT as a marketing assistant for almost all areas of marketing production from SEO and competition research through to blog creation.

  • Hubspot logo

    Hubspot

    9 years of experience

    I've implemented Hubspot as either the full, or marketing-standalone, CRM in three different businesses over the last six years. This includes full revenue operations, content posting/ownership, and digital marketing management.

  • LinkedIn logo

    LinkedIn

    11 years of experience

    My LinkedIn ads are in the top 1% of all global campaigns, confirmed by LinkedIn themselves. I've used this channel as one of my primary routes to market since 2016 and am a firm believer in it's proven business value.

  • Trello logo

    Trello

    13 years of experience

    I've run my personal and professional life on Trellow for almost 10 years. This includes free versions, as well as most power-user upgrades to make it work for my own business.

Experience

  • Gossamer

    Founder and CMO
    gossamer.consulting

    Founder of Gossamer, a B2B Marketing Strategy agency that helps European B2B SaaS businesses grow globally. Gossamer is also a steal mode B2B SaaS project.

  • Hawk

    Global Head of Marketing
    hawk.ai/

    Built and scaled Hawk AI's marketing from day 1 to a commercial organisation that delivers an 8-figure annual pipeline across Europe, North America and APAC. Created Go-to-Market strategy including Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning for Hawk AI across European and North American markets. Launched and scaled all key marketing activities including brand, content, product marketing, digital, technology stack, events, market research, sales enablement and analyst relations. Reporting of strategy and performance to the board of directors and VC investors. 2022 Achievements • 12x YoY increase in marketing lead generation • Eight-figure pipeline generation • 45x pipeline generation against year-to-date marketing spend Member of the Series B capital raise team, presenting marketing strategy and deliverables that helped support a successful raise of $17m in January 2023.

  • Textkernel

    Senior Marketing Manager
    textkernel.com/

    Leading marketing in key growth markets (US and UK) for Textkernel, including end-to-end ownership of all marketing-related items for both regions. 2020 key achievements: -1452% return on marketing investment in 2020 for US and UK markets - 205% of marketing-generated revenue goal in 2020 for US market - 199% of marketing-generated revenue goal in 2020 for UK market - Increased website-generated revenue by 325% via launching a new website in January 2020 "Derrick's extensive digital marketing expertise has been a great resource for the team and company. Thanks to his strong knowledge and experience in this area, we were able to launch a new website, new branding, and new marketing channels (LinkedIn) that we had previously not maximized." - 2020 Management review. Beyond country marketing, I led Textkernel's Global Account-Based Marketing strategy and Brand strategy.

    Software
  • bunq

    Content Lead
    bunq.com/

    At bunq, I developed and executed content strategies across digital channels including Web, Social Media, Public Relations and in-app customer journey for this Fintech Startup. Experience creating content for open banking / PSD2 / open API. This involves translating business requirements into a content strategy that raises awareness and converts the audience into customers.

    Banking
  • Lesaka

    Senior Marketing Manager
    lesakatech.com/

    ZAZOO was the innovation and growth arm of NET1 (Now Lesaka), a NASDAQ and JSE-listed global corporate with a focus on financial services. In this role, I developed and executed the marketing strategy for Fintech, Cryptographic hardware, Payroll and Mobile Network Operator business lines. Fintech was finance regulated, and Mobile Network Operator was gambling regulated. As the Senior Manager reporting to the CMO, I played a key role in all marketing aspects. These included communications (external and internal), campaigns, branding and rebranding, market research, product marketing and UI/UX development.

    Financial services
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