Paid social, email marketing & social media strategy
A company raises funding for team growth, data integrations and platform deployment.
The funding announcement identifies product and organizational expansion as uses of the capital.
Expand product capabilities and deployment capacity.
Those plans do not establish a need for the seller’s advertising, email or social-media services. The assessment recommends passing on this opportunity.
Do Not Pursue
“Is there evidence of a marketing initiative that actually connects to these services?”
Do not turn a funding round into an assumed marketing budget or an external-services requirement.