Velocity Marketing for Astonishing Growth for Your Brand

Hey everyone. On this episode, I spoke with Jeff Perkins, the Chief Marketing Officer of ParkMobile. It's one of the fastest growing companies in the country. It's an app that if it hasn't already, it'll change the way you park your car. Just a really smart guy. And I learned a lot from our conversation, he introduced me to a concept called velocity marketing, which is already changing the way I approach a client in new business. He talked about how CMOs can gain more support in the C-suite. And of course, what it's like being the CMO, at a hugely successful startup, check it out. Welcome to Marketing Upheaval.

Transcript:
Rudy Fernandez  0:42  Welcome to Marketing Upheaval, my guest is Jeff Perkins, Chief Marketing Officer of ParkMobile, one of the fastest growing companies in the US. It's a revolutionary app that allows you to find a parking space and pay for it. They have more than 15 million users. Jeff has worked on the agency and client side. He's had tremendous success with growing startups and building a personal brand. And we're going to talk about all of that. Thanks for joining me, Jeff.

Jeff Perkins  1:05  Happy to be here, Rudy. Thanks for having me on. 

Rudy Fernandez  1:07  So just for listeners, can you give us a quick overview of what Park and mobile the company does and what the app does? 

Jeff Perkins  1:13  Sure. So Park mobile is the leading mobile app for parking in the United States and North America, we help millions of people around the country find and pay for parking and do it right from their mobile apps. If you think about the old way you would pay for parking. Oftentimes, there was that one of these meters that required change and coins, and who carries around coins anymore, right. So we took that process of paying for parking, we brought your mobile device, making it easy reducing friction in the process, and also letting you pay for parking or extend your parking time when you're away from your car. So it makes it just a lot easier than the old process paying for parking. Now we also offer parking reservations. So for sporting events, major events, concerts, you're able to book parking ahead of time. So before you drive to the stadium for a game or a concert, you will know exactly where you're going to park. So that's a really nice feature. It helps people hopefully get to the events on time reducing some of that frustration in the process.

Rudy Fernandez  2:16  So I know the company started in 2008. But that's something that wouldn't, couldn't possibly have existed not too long ago.

Jeff Perkins  2:23  Yeah, not in 2008. The reservations part of our business is relatively new, it's been around for just a couple of years. And that's something that we're working towards expanding, not a lot of venues, not a lot of parking garages actually offer reservations today, so but in the coming years, if you live in the suburbs, and you're going to drive into a city for meetings or an event, you're probably going to be reserving parking, rather than just driving in and aimlessly circling the block looking for a place to park, we think it's going to be a great way to help people just get from point A to point B and reduce friction in that process.

Rudy Fernandez  2:58  This is obviously brand new category, what kind of challenges and present being a brand new category.

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