Paris Talks Marketing

The early-stage startup journey is a mess! As you strive to validate your vision and achieve growth, you encounter a chaotic mix of challenges. 

Gaining customers becomes a hit-or-miss scenario that impacts both your progress and marketing tactics, leaving you unsure who your best-fit audience truly is.

You need to bring order to this startup mess. And that's where repositioning steps in: a strategy to focus on your best-fit customers and niche down your product for targeted growth.

In our Marketing Strategy Theme, we've invited the growth marketer Andrej Persolja to discuss the power of product repositioning.

Tune in to learn how at his last startup, Andrej repositioned the product and managed to lower the cost of user acquisition (CAC) by 52%, which led to doubling their growth.


👉 Andrej is a growth marketer, helping tech startups who experience stagnant growth reposition their products to attract, convert, and retain customers. His experience comes from co-founding 2 startups, where he learned about the challenges founders face on the path to growth. 

Andrej has worked with more than 30 startups, and today he is a consultant and fractional CMO, helping startups grow.


Here are some of the key topics that Andrej and Paris discussed in this episode:

00:00 Intro
02:21 How early-stage startup journey is a mess
04:25 Should you limit your targeting to best-fit customers in the early-startup lifecycle
05:36 Investors pressure & hitting user acquisition goals
08:29 How personal branding can help with testing a Product-Market Fit
09:51 Where does the need for repositioning kick in?
12:11 How repositioning led to a 52% lower Cost of User Acquisition (CAC)
15:06 How to understand you have a product positioning problem
19:42 Don't rely on ChatGPT for product positioning
23:41 Focus on doing more organic marketing
25:01 How to get people onto Zoom calls
31:20 Why marketers should experience agency or small startup life


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Creators and Guests

Host
Paris Childress
Founder & CEO of Hop Online, Performance Marketing Agency | Ex-Googler
Producer
Desislava Arnaudova
Podcast Marketing Operations Manager | Marketing Specialist of Hop Online

What is Paris Talks Marketing?

Cybersecurity & MSSP Growth, Unlocked.

We’re the performance-marketing team that helps cybersecurity firms and MSSPs capture demand, fill pipelines, and pile on predictable MRR. As a Google Ads Premier Partner and a Moz-recommended SEO agency, we blend paid media precision with search authority to dominate the buyer journey end-to-end.

Why us?
• Transparency first. You see every task, test, and metric in real time via ClickUp—no smoke, no mirrors.
• Agility at scale. AI-powered workflows slash busywork and surface insights faster, so campaigns evolve at the speed of threats.
• True partnership. We’re not vendors—we’re an extension of your growth team, and our case-study portfolio proves it.

Whether you need razor-sharp PPC, technical SEO, conversion-obsessed CRO, or demand-fueling content, we build the mix that moves the needle for cyber and MSSP markets.

Ready to outpace the competition? Drop us a message and let’s get rolling.