Episode description

What a cool company! I recently spoke with Mitch Wainer, Co-Founder and CMO at Welcome Homes. Prior to Welcome Homes, Mitch was CMO at Clubhouse (renamed to Shortcut, a Series B SaaS startup), CMO and Co-Founder at DigitalOcean, and he's also a Techstars alum.

Welcome Homes was founded in 2020, has 49 people, and is based out of New York. They've raised Seed funding ($5.4M). Order your dream home, online! Build the home you want, where you want for a guaranteed, all-in price. Right now it's available in the NY metro area, with more cities coming soon.

Here's what we hit on:

Mitch's 2022 Marketing Plan - budget, channels, content and resources;

Online AND offline channels;

Paid is faster, sure, but here's why you need to invest in organic from Day 1 (HINT: it takes time, the content compounds, and your audience grows);

Why it's important to have reps and sets on a daily basis;

The content we're leaning into (HINT: create value without asking for anything);

The last 1-2 really good, creative marketing ideas we've come up with (HINT: brand partnerships and the broker/agent channel. One big creative idea is great but it's more important to do reps and sets);

Why we're treating home buyers (B2C) as B2B;

Mitch's goals for 2022.

You can reach Mitch on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchwainer/

Find out more about Welcome Homes: https://welcomehomes.com/

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