How marketing fuels the shift from problem-market fit to product-market fit

Learn how marketing's collaboration with sales, product and customer success drives the transition to product-market fit.

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Tim Hillison

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Jul 17, 2024

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Brand Consistency Beats AI Hype for Revenue
Brand Consistency Beats AI Hype for Revenue
Brand Consistency Beats AI Hype for Revenue

As companies scale, marketing leaders face increasing pressure to deliver results with limited resources while adapting to evolving market dynamics. Marketing must drive the transition from problem-market fit to product-market fit. Here’s why it matters and how it can be done. 

Making the jump from Problem-Market Fit to Product-Market Fit (PMF) requires much more than just market awareness. The journey involves aligning marketing with a holistic Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy to deliver measurable results. In this article, Tim Hillison, Founder and CMO of Entry Point 1, explores how organizations can integrate marketing, sales, product, and customer success to build a unified revenue team. Discover how to establish clear Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs), enhance team alignment, and leverage martech investments for scalability and growth. Learn actionable insights to fuel repeatable demand generation and position your business for sustainable success in the evolving B2B landscape.

Read the full article on MarTech.org

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Entry Point 1 helps engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and grow with Agentic AI.

We focus on strategy-led execution, full-funnel architecture, and operator-level support across Product, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, RevOps, and Enablement.

Our programs include StartRight for recently funded teams, FlexScale for companies between10M and 50M ARR, Full-Stack GTM for companies between 25M and 300M ARR, and GTM Workshops for leaders shaping their next stage of growth.

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© 2026 Entry Point 1 LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Entry Point 1 helps engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and grow with Agentic AI.

We focus on strategy-led execution, full-funnel architecture, and operator-level support across Product, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, RevOps, and Enablement.

Our programs include StartRight for recently funded teams, FlexScale for companies between10M and 50M ARR, Full-Stack GTM for companies between 25M and 300M ARR, and GTM Workshops for leaders shaping their next stage of growth.

Book a call

Execution Beats Theory.

Every Time.

Point of view

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© 2026 Entry Point 1 LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Entry Point 1 helps engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and grow with Agentic AI.

We focus on strategy-led execution, full-funnel architecture, and operator-level support across Product, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, RevOps, and Enablement.

Our programs include StartRight for recently funded teams, FlexScale for companies between10M and 50M ARR, Full-Stack GTM for companies between 25M and 300M ARR, and GTM Workshops for leaders shaping their next stage of growth.

Book a call

Point of view

Execution Beats Theory.

Every Time.

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© 2026 Entry Point 1 LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Entry Point 1 helps engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and grow with Agentic AI.

We focus on strategy-led execution, full-funnel architecture, and operator-level support across Product, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, RevOps, and Enablement.

Our programs include StartRight for recently funded teams, FlexScale for companies between10M and 50M ARR, Full-Stack GTM for companies between 25M and 300M ARR, and GTM Workshops for leaders shaping their next stage of growth.

Book a call

Point of view

Execution Beats Theory.

Every Time.