Pierce Ujjainwalla's guest appearances

Pierce Ujjainwalla

The Hard Corps Marketing Show

Canada’s Podcast

Invested in our New Reality

Humans of Martech

Corey Haines

Don Draper

Erin Blaskie

Nick DeWilde

Michael King

Brian Leonard

Adriana Gil Miner

Dave Rigotti

Jonathan Simon

Nick Donaldson

Naomi Liu

Kamil Rextin

Lauren Sanborn

Manuela Barcenas

Vladlena Mitskaniouk

OwlTail

Pierce Ujjainwalla is CEO and Co-Founder of Knak and the next guest on Invested in Our New Reality. In this episode, he sits down with host Manjula Selvarajah and shares the story behind launching and growing the company from a cost-conscious start-up to a leading tech company with $25 million in Series A funding.

Pierce Ujjainwalla is a CEO with a real knack for business

Pierce Ujjainwalla is a career marketer who has lived in the marketing trenches at companies like IBM, SAP, NVIDIA, and Marketo. He launched Knak in 2015 as a platform designed to help Marketers simplify email creation. He is also the founder of Revenue Pulse, a marketing operations consultancy. Entrepreneurs are the backbone of Canada’s economy. To support Canada’s businesses, subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to stay up-to-date on the latest #entrepreneur podcasts and news? Subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pujjainwalla" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pierce Ujjainwalla</a> is a career marketer who has lived in the marketing trenches at companies like IBM, SAP, NVIDIA, and Marketo. He launched <a href="https://knak.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Knak</a> in 2015 as a platform designed to help Marketers simplify email creation. He is also the founder of Revenue Pulse, a marketing operations consultancy. Entrepreneurs are the backbone of Canada’s economy. To support Canada’s businesses, subscribe to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/canadaspodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> channel and follow us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/canadaspodcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://instagram.com/canadaspodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/canadas-podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/canadaspodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. Want to stay up-to-date on the latest #entrepreneur podcasts and news? <a href="https://canadaspodcast.com/newsletter-signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe</a> to our bi-weekly newsletter

The Importance of Customer Success with Pierce Ujjainwalla - Toronto - Canada’s Podcast

Hey everyone, today we are joined by one of the greatest minds in Marketing automation-- Pierce Ujjainwalla. Pierce started his career in lead gen at Cognos and IBM, working in some of the largest Salesforce and Eloqua instances in the world. He then spent a few years in startups leading teams that implemented instances of Marketo. Pierce has become a 4X Marketo champion and one of the first original champions, he’s also a frequent speaker at the annual Marketo Summit. In 2013, he founded RevenuePulse, known today as one of the top Marketo agencies in the world. He’s also the founder and CEO of Knak, an enterprise no-code email and landing page creation platform for marketers. He’s recently also become a podcast host, launching the Unsubscribed podcast. He lives in Ottawa, Canada with his wife and 2 kids. Fierce Pierce, it’s an honor to have you on the Humans of martech!--Here's what we covered:Creation of Knak -- what problem did you see in the market?Email design -- is it truly the most difficult coding challenge? Why is it so hard to solve? How is Knak’s approach to email difference and so compelling?Is no code the future of marketing? How can marketers prepare for this future? Creativity in marketing and how it is currently under attack?Email and landing page templates, and why they are dead? Drink your own champagne day at Knak. Unsubscribed podcastTalk to us about your process for booking guests on your show and your journey to becoming the Joe Rogan of Marketing podcasts. Knak pagesEarlier this year the team stepped out of just email land and entered the world of CRO and landing page building. Walk us through that big change in GTM strategy and how the new product adoption has gone so far?Knak released its annual email benchmarksTalk to us about the process of building that research and what we’re some of the coolest insights?HTML in emailsOne of the longest standing debates in email marketing is HTML vs plain text. With huge research studies done by Hubspot promoting less HTML in your emails and tools like convertkit that (used to anyway) have a strong stance against html templates.Knak is a no-code email builder. Are most of your customers designing heavy html emails and do you disagree with the stance of going plain text over html?Last questionPierce, you’re a founder and CEO, you run two companies, you’re a prominent martech figure but you’re also an avid traveller, you ski, golf, play hockey--you’re a lawn care nut and you have two amazing kids…How do you find a balance between everything going in your life and how do you remain happy?--Pierce on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pujjainwalla/Pierce on Twitter: https://twitter.com/marketing_101✌️--Intro music by Wowa via UnminusCover art created with help via Undraw

Hey everyone, today we are joined by one of the greatest minds in Marketing automation-- Pierce Ujjainwalla. Pierce started his career in lead gen at Cognos and IBM, working in some of the largest Salesforce and Eloqua instances in the world. He then spent a few years in startups leading teams that implemented instances of Marketo. Pierce has become a 4X Marketo champion and one of the first original champions, he’s also a frequent speaker at the annual Marketo Summit. In 2013, he founded RevenuePulse, known today as one of the top Marketo agencies in the world. He’s also the founder and CEO of Knak, an enterprise no-code email and landing page creation platform for marketers. He’s recently also become a podcast host, launching the Unsubscribed podcast. He lives in Ottawa, Canada with his wife and 2 kids. Fierce Pierce, it’s an honor to have you on the Humans of martech!--Here's what we covered:Creation of Knak -- what problem did you see in the market?Email design -- is it truly the most difficult coding challenge? Why is it so hard to solve? How is Knak’s approach to email difference and so compelling?Is no code the future of marketing? How can marketers prepare for this future? Creativity in marketing and how it is currently under attack?Email and landing page templates, and why they are dead? Drink your own champagne day at Knak. Unsubscribed podcast Talk to us about your process for booking guests on your show and your journey to becoming the Joe Rogan of Marketing podcasts. Knak pages Earlier this year the team stepped out of just email land and entered the world of CRO and landing page building. Walk us through that big change in GTM strategy and how the new product adoption has gone so far?Knak released its annual email benchmarks Talk to us about the process of building that research and what we’re some of the coolest insights?HTML in emails One of the longest standing debates in email marketing is HTML vs plain text. With huge research studies done by Hubspot promoting less HTML in your emails and tools like convertkit that (used to anyway) have a strong stance against html templates.Knak is a no-code email builder. Are most of your customers designing heavy html emails and do you disagree with the stance of going plain text over html?Last question Pierce, you’re a founder and CEO, you run two companies, you’re a prominent martech figure but you’re also an avid traveller, you ski, golf, play hockey--you’re a lawn care nut and you have two amazing kids…How do you find a balance between everything going in your life and how do you remain happy?--Pierce on Linkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pujjainwalla/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/pujjainwalla/</a> Pierce on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/marketing_101" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/marketing_101</a>✌️-- Intro music by <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/6zZPxLiRfbGUnoEAJmfJJN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wowa</a> via <a href="https://www.unminus.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unminus</a> Cover art created with help via <a href="https://undraw.co/search" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Undraw</a>

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