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Discover the branding strategies of successful French start-ups as told by their CMOs
Because hiring takes time, your teams are already committed, you can’t add headcount, or because you just need a fresh perspective, getting expert help unlocks real value. The Hirondo network gathers strategic thinkers and operational superstars, happy to commit to your success.
They flew
with us
Jenna Dana, Field Marketer
Jenna, seasoned brand, product and B2B marketer, is currently in charge of the Go-to-Market strategy for the FIME and Iberia/Latam markets for Aircall.
Yannig Roth, Part-time CMO
Yannig, who had previous adtech experience from Ogury and Didomi, has led marketing & communication at IMPACT+, setting strategy & aligning people and agencies to deliver on it.
Arnaud Courtel, CRM Expert
Arnaud specializes in making marketers and salespeople more efficient through technology and data. He has implemented Hubspot as a CRM and trained sales, marketing & customer success teams to use it.
Joe Sweeney, Content Marketer
Joe, has created and ran IMPACT+ content marketing strategy through newsletters, Linkedin, Medium, and other channels. Joe is also the creator of the Content Marketing Commute podcast.
Pauline Lafontaine, Product marketer
Pauline, who helps early-stage startups build product marketing foundations and established businesses sharpen their go-to-market, has helped Electra develop a clear and differentiating messaging. She is co-founder of PMM for Good and the Customer Zero Project.
Joël Céré, Brand strategist
Joël, brand strategist working with brands and tech startups to develop blue-ocean propositions, innovate and GTM opportunities, , has helped Electra tell a compelling brand story. He is the founder of Hypehack, an innovation consultancy.
Yannig Roth, Marketing research
Yannig, with expertise in marketing research from academia and corporate worlds, has outlined target personae for the SaaS startup.
Arnaud Courtel, AI-powered growth
Arnaud, whose technical wizardry has helped hundreds of marketers, has built custom growth tools to target the right buyers, at the right time with the right message..
Bérénice Rioux, RevOps specialist
Bérénice, who has led complex RevOps projects for well-known brands and agencies, is aligning tech & revenue teams at echOpen, whose mission is to make clinical ultrasound accessible to all health professionals.
Yannig Roth, Part-time CMO
Yannig is helping The Keepers’ leadership build & execute the marketing plan for the Collector, its innovative reverse vending machine (RVM). He also brings his expertise to increase impact of demand & revenue-generation efforts.
Yannig Roth, Marketing director
Yannig joined Driveco as a marketing director to build & structure a marketing function with more impact than the previous one, when it mostly consisted of corporate communications. He managed agencies, people as well as a variety of freelancers dedicated to build & run marketing
Arnaud Courtel, Digital marketer
Arnaud has single-handedly managed the redesign and roll-out of the Driveco website, supervised ABM implementation, ran weekly performance sprint reviews, and now runs it entirely for the current marketing team. What a ninja!
Étienne Achard, UX/UI designer
Etienne has designed the new Driveco website and imagined new user experiences to make the brand more appealing to EV drivers. He worked remotely as part of the digital squad formed by Hirondo for Driveco.
Alexia Fitoussi, Communications specialist
Alexia has managed the roll-out of the new Driveco brand, managed PR and institutional relations, facilitated sales enablement, designed marketing assets and contributes in many other ways to make Driveco shine internationally.
Jean-Christophe Mauss, ABM strategist
Jean-Christophe has prepared the Account-Based Marketing strategy for Driveco’s sales & marketing teams, as well as its content agency. This allowed Driveco to target a reduced number or verticals, companies and people in highly specific roles.
Louis-Christophe Thirion, Product marketer
Louis-Christophe has supported Driveco in competitive intelligence and executed critical product marketing collaterals.
Augustin Barbe, developer & data specialist
Augustin has allowed Driveco to develop complex features on its website, and has built appropriate business intelligence for the executive committee to follow marketing metrics.
Amy Arnell, Content Marketer
Amy is a content marketer and industry analyst, helping brands improve their marketing through impactful copywriting and the best use of technology.
Joe Sweeney, Content Marketer
Joe is a marketer who enjoys making content genuinely helpful, educational and entertaining. He is the creator of the Content Marketing Commute podcast.
One of the top-performing salespeople of PROXIMUM365 (a leading physical & digital event organizer) had just been promoted to sales team leader. Not only was he still accountable for hitting his own, ambitious sales targets, but he also had to manage and motivate a team of 3 salespeople with diverse skills and experience, remote and on-site. Yannig has helped him navigate the early challenges of his role.
Yannig Roth, Mentor
Yannig has led marketing teams for various tech and service companies, generating traceable revenue and collaborating with sales & product teams. This experience
Let our clients
tell you more
Guillaume Laguette, Chief Revenue Officer
The CRO of echOpen, a company that designs and manufactures ultra-portable ultrasound probes, shares how we supported the transformation of their commercialization strategy to help them access a new market and accelerate their growth.
Ion Leahu-Aluas, Chief Executive Officer
The CEO of the EV charging pioneer Driveco, for whom we have led and ran marketing, explains how Hirondo has helped him build visibility and structure during a phase of profound transformation.
François Jaubert-Soury, Chief Executive Officer
The founder and CEO of The Keepers, which designs and operates connected machines in retail spaces, shares how we helped launch and market a new product line which addressed a new target market.
Tarik Magra, Head of Marketing
The Head of Marketing of Driveco explains how the Hirondo squad allowed him to onboard smoothly, focus on hiring, delegate B2B marketing while building the bases of B2C brand building, an area where he excels.
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best experts
Highly efficient
You pay what you get, no unnecessary fluff, pure value
Onsite or remote
On-site or remotely, we can put the team you need together
Happy to help
Hirondo members chose you, as much as you chose them.
Specialized expertise
The world’s best talents, ready and motivated to work for you
Community-led
Our experts are connected to each other and helpful
Strong commitment
Expertise you can trust, they won’t let you down
Carefully vetted
Trust doesn’t scale, we grow only through direct referrals
Let us discuss
your project
Share your challenge with us. We provide helpful advice, share our point of view and can connect you with the best experts to crack your problem. If you just want to lurk around.
How
we work
Share your challenge
Let’s jump on a call and tell us about the challenge(s) and goal(s), what drives you, your company and your customers. We’ll bring in our expertise and experience from the start and discuss if and how we can help quickly.
Get a personalized scope
After our initial discussion and findings, we will design a custom scope with and for you, outlining a timeline, team of experts and methods to reach your goals.
We shake hands and kick-off
Once you are happy with the solutions we can bring to the table, a team of driven Hirondo experts will integrate your team in the working mode you prefer.
We fly together
If adjustments are needed as we go from your end, we can react swiftly and expand or reduce as your needs evolve. It’s important to us that you always have access to the right expertise without losing control on goals and costs (take our word for it).
Our network is here to
help you growshinebuildrise
Yes, all these expertises are currently represented in the Hirondo network, spanning over 14 countries. Reach out if you want to know more.
FAQ
What's the main advantage of Hirondo over a traditional agency?
Hirondo is a network of experienced professionals who are willing to help companies grow, shine and expand. As such, it isn’t fundamentally different than an agency, which delivers services (always) and results (sometimes) to clients with similar needs.
To do that, they have to organize & systematize their delivery, focusing on use cases that provide scale and profitability. They have various support functions & costs that cost money (usually between 40% and 100% gross margin), all of which is logically paid by clients, without then getting the concrete value from it.
Over time, this leads some agencies to staff more junior people who execute & learn, leaving the most interesting & profitable roles to agency top management. Resulting in unbalanced people, unequally distributed value and unhappy clients.
We are different, because we are build as a network of senior experts. Hirondo is meant to be a helpful, trustworthy companion connecting you to the best professionals, who take ownership of your success, bringing their energy, network and experience to the companies they are advising. We reduce the fees to a minimum (15%) and redistribute most of that value within the community, to continuously encourage sharing, helping and growing together.
Does Hirondo handle part-time positions and smaller projects?
Hirondo experts are specialized in their fields. Whether they need to support you part-time or for a very specific project, it does not matter. The level of expertise and quality we deliver will always follow the same standards.
How does Hirondo ensure the quality of experts in its network?
Hirondo is not an open community. Our goal is to gather the best experts, not all of them. Therefore, our newcomers will always be recommended by someone already in the community, or a client of ours. Some members are even clients, and some clients are also members.
Then, one of our founders will have a chat with the expert to make sure we have the same values and work standards, than they are willing to work on projects together, to bring projects themselves, to participate in community life as much as possible. Only then will they be welcome as new members in the community.
What's the main benefit of using Hirondo over a freelancer?
If you know a great freelancer in her/his field, and you are used to working with her/him, you can do so without calling Hirondo. There are many talented people out there, and we don’t aim to replace any of them.
We just happen to have gathered a select number of them, who have been proven to deliver results, whose expertise is recognized and who are willing to work individually or collectively with clients. We always make sure the members of our community are top-notch in their fields.
Moreover, Hirondo provides them access to a community of peers, to support in marketing & sales, to administrative & legal support, to project management tools and to templates that help them deliver better results to their clients.
For you as a client, if you work with a particular individual of with a squad of freelancers gathering around your project, we handle the admin to make it easy for you! One contract, one invoice, one payment, we deal with the rest!
What is the average budget for a project with Hirondo?
Hirondo’s experts all have their own daily rates ranging from 500€ to 2000€, to which we add a 15% markup. However, based on the type of project, the length of the project, and your budget, we will always try our best to work with you to find the fairest solution for everyone.
What is the average experience of your experts?
On average, our experts have between 10 and 15 years of experience in their fields. Most of them have experience managing larger teams without ever forgetting how to get their hands dirty when needed. All Hirondo community members have already consulted or worked for clients for whom they made a real impact.
How does Hirondo make money?
Everyone within the community makes money by having their own consulting clients, by drawing a salary as full- or part-time employees, or by having other personal sources of revenue.
In full transparency, we make money by taking a 15% fee on projects that get staffed through Hirondo. No podcast, no courses, no coaching, just client work. This commission, which is fair (lower than other collectives, way lower than agencies), allows us to cover Hirondo costs and reward members who refer projects.
Our community is indeed at the center of everything, and we believe great people know great people. Therefore, if one of our members brings in a new customer, the referral fee will now be distributed as follows: 5% for the referrer (you), 5% for Hirondo (us), and 5% for the person closing the sale (currently a Core Team, but it’s open to all of you). This is still a very generous offer and is available only to vetted Hirondo members.