Over the last 20 years, I achieved a doctorate in communications and used my digital marketing expertise to help grow two SaaS startups to $50M+ ARR, one of which was acquired for almost $1B.
While it would be nice to say I burned out, the truth is that I just wanted to use my skills to help other startups grow and thrive.
So I left my high-powered executive job, and went out on my own.
Since that time, I’ve developed two marketing companies:
Lynn Langmade Advisory (LLA)—An advisory that provides fractional CMO services for companies who need marketing leadership to grow, but not full-time
Verge Marketing Agency—An inbound marketing agency dedicated to helping SaaS startups grow and increase brand awareness. We make marketing look and feel easy for our clients.
Portfolio:
→ Built a six-figure marketing agency on my own
→ Landed three world-class brands as clients—Apple, Johnson & Johnson, and Amazon
→ Advised early-stage startups in the contech, healthtech, insurtech and martech verticals
→ Helped two clients grow to millions in ARR ($16M and $4M)
→ Enabled three clients to achieve $168M in funding
→ Taught digital and growth marketing to business executives
Achievements:
→ Doctorate in English and rhetoric (art of communication)
→ Built inbound marketing engine from the ground up at 4 successful startups, including one acquired for almost 1B
→ 12K social media followers
→ Hundreds of articles published in selective marketing publications (under my byline and ghost-written)
→ Featured speaker at marketing and academic conferences around the globe
→ Multiple academic and professional awards
If your company can’t find a path to revenue generation, your growth has plateaued, or you can't scale your organization to keep pace with growth, I can help by serving as an advisor or fractional CMO to your company.
If you need a team to help you execute, not just advise, my marketing agency, Verge, can create and execute campaigns that will deliver predictable revenue and real growth.
What I've Achieved
Marketo Revenue Performance Excellence (“Revvie”) Award, Socializer, April 2014 for “driving a highly innovative and successful social campaign resulting in massive reach and an ongoing social following”
Collaboration Award, Certain Inc, August 2015
Innovation Award, Certain Inc, December 2015
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ASUCD Awards for Excellence in Education, Nominee, May, 2011
Allen G. Marr Prize for Distinguished Dissertation, Nominee, April, 2011
Postdoctoral Fellowship and Dissertation Fellowship, University of California-Davis, 2010-2011; Oct 2009
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, University of California-Davis, April 2007