Public.com's Strategy For Moving Upmarket Without Losing Younger Investors | Zach Dioneda, VP Brand Marketing, Public.com

Public.com's Strategy For Moving Upmarket Without Losing Younger Investors | Zach Dioneda, VP Brand Marketing, Public.com

In this episode, Araminta interviews Zach Dioneda, VP of Brand Marketing at Public, discusses how the multi-asset investing platform deliberately rebranded to look more mature, shifting its competitive set from neo-brokers to legacy firms like Schwab and Fidelity by positioning Public as a serious, premium, digital-first investing platform. He explains how years of product expansion since 2022 set the stage for the early-2025 rollout, and how marketing supports longer consideration cycles with a trust-building mix of placements while avoiding incentives that can cheapen the brand. Dioneda also describes engaging younger audiences through authentic online presence, including active Reddit participation by Public leaders. Key topics include: 1. Why Public repositioned against Schwab and Fidelity instead of the other newer brokers 2. How they build trust across a longer buyer cycle  3. Why they're careful with the incentives of growth hacks that can cheapen a brand   4. How they made a TV ad almost entirely with AI Useful links: Find Zach Dioneda on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-dioneda-36b6989/ Find Araminta on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aramintarobertson/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aramintarobertson/]  Mint Studios website: https://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/ [https://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/] For show notes and more information about guests, head to: http://www.fintechmarketinghub.com/podcasthttps://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/podcast [https://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/podcast] This episode was produced by Orama - a video and podcast studio for B2B Fintechs.:  [https://orama.tv/] https://orama.tv/ [https://orama.tv/] About Araminta Robertson: Araminta is the Co-Director of the fintech Marketing Hub and Founder and Managing Director at Mint Studios, a content marketing agency that helps financial services and fintech companies acquire customers and position themselves as experts with content marketing. She also co-manages the 2,000+ person fintech Marketing Slack group, is the host of the Market Like a fintech podcast and co-runs the fintech Marketing Hub's events and conferences. About Fintech Marketing Lab Fintech Marketing Lab is a podcast hosted by Mint Studios, a content marketing agency specialized in the fintech and financial services industry. This podcast is where we experiment, explore and break down how fintech marketing actually works in practice. Each episode, our host, Araminta, talks with top fintech marketers about what they’re testing, what they’re learning, and how they’re pushing the boundaries of brand, strategy and team building. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:38 Meet Zach at Public.com 02:06 Rebrand Goals and Speed 03:06 Threading Trust and Innovation 05:54 From Social App to Platform 07:34 Tipping Point End of 2024 09:18 Who Public Is For 12:48 Marketing Shift and Media Mix 15:50 Trust Building and Incentives 20:34 Gen Z Credibility Signals 26:21 AI Products Generated Assets 33:35 AI Marketing and Staying Close

How to Design Fintech Conference Booths that Attract Buyers and Accelerate Deals | Rachel Verrill, Field Marketing Manager, Taktile

In this episode, Araminta interviews Rachel Verrill, about designing conference booths and successful events. Rachel shares common booth mistakes and some unusual tactics. She explains her process for vetting vendors, when to use booth design agencies, and designing around demo needs. She shares tips for side events, and how to mobilize your team to make sure that all their initiatives contribute to the pipeline. Key topics include: 1.  Why you shouldn’t care that much about foot traffic 2. Why your BDRs are the most underrated people you can bring to an event.  3. How she ties every event decision back to pipeline 4. How to build your event playbook Useful links: Find Rachel Verrill on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-verrill/ Find Araminta on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aramintarobertson/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aramintarobertson/]  Mint Studios website: https://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/ [https://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/] For show notes and more information about guests, head to: http://www.fintechmarketinghub.com/podcasthttps://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/podcast [https://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/podcast] This episode was produced by Orama - a video and podcast studio for B2B Fintechs.:  [https://orama.tv/] https://orama.tv/ [https://orama.tv/] About Araminta Robertson: Araminta is the Co-Director of the fintech Marketing Hub and Founder and Managing Director at Mint Studios, a content marketing agency that helps financial services and fintech companies acquire customers and position themselves as experts with content marketing. She also co-manages the 2,000+ person fintech Marketing Slack group, is the host of the Market Like a fintech podcast and co-runs the fintech Marketing Hub's events and conferences. About Fintech Marketing Lab Fintech Marketing Lab is a podcast hosted by Mint Studios, a content marketing agency specialized in the fintech and financial services industry. This podcast is where we experiment, explore and break down how fintech marketing actually works in practice. Each episode, our host, Araminta, talks with top fintech marketers about what they’re testing, what they’re learning, and how they’re pushing the boundaries of brand, strategy and team building. Timestamps: 00:00 Introducing Rachel Verrill - Field marketing manager 02:37 All about booths and events 10:18 Vendors And Agencies 17:27 Choosing A Booth Theme 25:43 Color Coding VIP Targets 31:28 Side Events That Work 39:37 Hosting Sporting Suite Events 42:31 Events As Product Signal 43:13 Closing Thoughts And Gratitude

The Fintech Marketing Playbook for Complex Products, Long Sales Cycles, and Messy Attribution | Paul Staite & James Hayward, Primer

Araminta interviews Paul Staite and James Hayward at Primer, a unified infrastructure platform for global payments and commerce. They explain why traditional SaaS marketing playbooks often fail in payments due to long sales cycles, hard-to-demo “background” products, extreme regional and vertical nuance, global-first targeting, multiple personas, and buyers for whom payments is only part of the job. Primer’s lean team succeeds through executive buy-in, data-driven prioritization, tight cross-functional collaboration, and clear goals, while using both quantitative and qualitative attribution signals. Paul describes the “GTM engineer” role and using automation/AI and Clay to surface intent signals into Slack; James shares AI workflows for tone-of-voice consistency. They also discuss Primer’s ungated Payment Pioneers research series and highlight key “first tools” like robust website forms. Key topics include: 1.  Why traditional marketing playbooks don't really work in payments 2. What’s a go-to market engineer  3. How Primer operate as a lean, high performing marketing team  Useful links: Find Paul Staite on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulstaite/ Find James Hayward on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-h-92178975/ Find Araminta on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aramintarobertson/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aramintarobertson/]  Mint Studios website: https://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/ [https://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/] For show notes and more information about guests, head to: http://www.fintechmarketinghub.com/podcasthttps://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/podcast [https://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/podcast] This episode was produced by Orama - a video and podcast studio for B2B Fintechs.:  [https://orama.tv/] https://orama.tv/ [https://orama.tv/] About Araminta Robertson: Araminta is the Co-Director of the fintech Marketing Hub and Founder and Managing Director at Mint Studios, a content marketing agency that helps financial services and fintech companies acquire customers and position themselves as experts with content marketing. She also co-manages the 2,000+ person fintech Marketing Slack group, is the host of the Market Like a fintech podcast and co-runs the fintech Marketing Hub's events and conferences. About Fintech Marketing Lab Fintech Marketing Lab is a podcast hosted by Mint Studios, a content marketing agency specialized in the fintech and financial services industry. This podcast is where we experiment, explore and break down how fintech marketing actually works in practice. Each episode, our host, Araminta, talks with top fintech marketers about what they’re testing, what they’re learning, and how they’re pushing the boundaries of brand, strategy and team building. Timestamps: 0:00 Why FinTech Content Matters 01:31 Meet Primer Marketing Leaders 02:59 Why Payments Is Hard To Market 05:44 Global ICP And Persona Complexity 10:13 ROI Proof And Data Gaps 16:31 Building A Content Culture 27:06 What Is GTM Engineering 32:45 Content Team AI Workflows 39:45 Payment Pioneers Research 45:03 Tool Picks And Wrap Up

Dark AI, AEO, and Why Content’s Real Impact Is Harder to Measure | Tom Rudnai, Founder & CEO, Demand-Genius

Tom Rudnai from Demand Genius and Araminta discuss why content is often not viewed as a revenue driver due to attribution challenges, despite its broad impact across the funnel, the rising pressure to make content measurable as AI makes creation easier, the need for “information gain” (tiered from reframing to empirical and conceptual novelty), how AI reshapes discovery and AEO beyond an SEO lens, and why citations appear mostly at conversion-stage prompts. They also cover using content to accelerate deal velocity, enabling sales distribution by removing friction and embedding content into workflows, and how Demand Genius connects web engagement to CRM data to measure content’s pipeline impact. Key topics include: 1. Why most content fails to drive revenue 2. What information gain really means in the AI era  3. How AI is reshaping content discovery 4. How to use content to support sales conversations and actually accelerate deal velocity Useful links: Find Tom Rudnai on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-rudnai-0539b6151/ Find Araminta on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aramintarobertson/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aramintarobertson/]  Mint Studios website: https://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/ [https://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/] For show notes and more information about guests, head to: http://www.fintechmarketinghub.com/podcasthttps://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/podcast [https://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/podcast] This episode was produced by Orama - a video and podcast studio for B2B Fintechs.:  [https://orama.tv/] https://orama.tv/ [https://orama.tv/] About Araminta Robertson: Araminta is the Co-Director of the fintech Marketing Hub and Founder and Managing Director at Mint Studios, a content marketing agency that helps financial services and fintech companies acquire customers and position themselves as experts with content marketing. She also co-manages the 2,000+ person fintech Marketing Slack group, is the host of the Market Like a fintech podcast and co-runs the fintech Marketing Hub's events and conferences. About Fintech Marketing Lab Fintech Marketing Lab is a podcast hosted by Mint Studios, a content marketing agency specialized in the fintech and financial services industry. This podcast is where we experiment, explore and break down how fintech marketing actually works in practice. Each episode, our host, Araminta, talks with top fintech marketers about what they’re testing, what they’re learning, and how they’re pushing the boundaries of brand, strategy and team building. Timestamps: 00:00 FinTech Content Ebook 01:13 Ebook Launch Details 01:49 Episode Setup Tom Ruay 03:12 Podcast Intro 03:41 Content Attribution Problem 07:55 Information Gain Framework 10:07 Creating Tier Two Content 13:39 Tier Examples And Distribution 15:50 AEO Beyond SEO Lens 18:09 Demand Genius POV 22:24 Bottom Funnel Debate 25:10 Balancing Trackable Impact 36:49 Dark AI Explained 40:19 Future of Content

What Sales Actually Wants From Marketing (A Fintech Salesperson's Perspective) | Cristina Ciaravalli, Founder & CEO, Valli Ventures

Cristina Ciaravalli talks about why sales and marketing often misalign in FinTech and how to build revenue teams that close. Cristina explains what makes FinTech sales uniquely complex—regulation, tri-party deal dynamics, and the need for reps who understand compliance—and highlights common early-stage mistakes such as hiring only one rep, doing shallow discovery, and targeting an overly broad ICP. She outlines how marketing should support sales through assets, storytelling, SEO, targeted campaigns, and events, emphasizing tight feedback loops, shared pipeline reviews, and access to call recordings. They discuss effective ABM as a true sale–marketing partnership with highly tailored experiences, the risks of ABM too early, and why warm outbound and community-driven events outperform AI-driven high-volume outbound that sacrifices trust. Key topics include: * Why fintech sales is different and what it requires.  * The biggest mistakes founders make when building early stage sales teams. * How sales and marketing should work together to drive revenue.  * Why warm outbound and ABM are more relevant in today's market. Useful links: Find Cristina Ciaravalli, on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristinaciara/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristinaciara/] Find Araminta on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aramintarobertson/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aramintarobertson/]  Mint Studios website: https://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/ [https://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/] For show notes and more information about guests, head to: http://www.fintechmarketinghub.com/podcasthttps://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/podcast [https://www.mintcopywritingstudios.com/podcast] This episode was produced by Orama - a video and podcast studio for B2B Brands:  [https://orama.tv/] https://orama.tv/ [https://orama.tv/] About Araminta Robertson: Araminta is the Co-Director of the fintech Marketing Hub and Founder and Managing Director at Mint Studios, a content marketing agency that helps financial services and fintech companies acquire customers and position themselves as experts with content marketing. She also co-manages the 2,000+ person fintech Marketing Slack group, is the host of the Market Like a fintech podcast and co-runs the fintech Marketing Hub's events and conferences. About Fintech Marketing Lab Fintech Marketing Lab is a podcast hosted by Mint Studios, a content marketing agency specialized in the fintech and financial services industry. This podcast is where we experiment, explore and break down how fintech marketing actually works in practice. Each episode, our host, Araminta, talks with top fintech marketers about what they’re testing, what they’re learning, and how they’re pushing the boundaries of brand, strategy and team building.