Founder's Story

Believe there is good in the world. Be the good.

Janie Windmiller, founder. Fifteen-plus years turning unfamiliar industries into clear strategy.

Janie Windmiller, founder of Be The Good Marketing, standing with arms folded in a burgundy blouse and dark trousers in front of a white paneled wall
Janie Windmiller, founder of Be The Good Marketing

That's not a tagline. It's where Be The Good Marketing started.

I'm Janie Windmiller, and I've spent 15+ years learning one thing over and over: the best marketing doesn't come from having every answer. It comes from asking better questions, faster than anyone expects you to.

My career has taken me through B2B software, SaaS, product marketing, media sales, gaming, industrial manufacturing, customer advocacy, and operations, including leading a strategy as Global Content Team Manager at a software company. Along the way, I kept landing in industries I wasn't familiar with previously. This turned out to be the advantage. I learned to walk into unfamiliar territory, learn its language quickly, earn the trust of the people who know it best, and turn complexity into something clear enough to act on. I call it savviness. It's the skill that matters more than any single channel or tactic.

Somewhere along the way, I realized filling other people's cups filled mine. Watching a founder finally see their own company clearly. Watching a team rally around a message built for them. Creating a customer loyalty and employee satisfaction foundation for a hospitality team. This became the work I wanted to do full-time. So I built Be The Good Marketing around it.

BTGM exists because your brand, your marketing, your customer experience, and your bottom line are one connected system, not separate line items. I bring the outside perspective, the fast learning curve, and the strategic clarity turning my system and processes into your advantage.

Based just outside St. Louis, working with businesses across the country. There's no industry too complex and no problem too tangled. That's exactly where I do my best work.

The short version

  • 15+ years

    B2B software, product marketing, customer advocacy, operations

  • Global Content Team Manager

    Led content strategy and customer references program for software company

  • Savviness

    Learning an unfamiliar industry fast, then translating it

  • Based outside St. Louis

    Working with businesses across the country

Where the savviness came from

Industries learned from the inside

15+
Years across marketing, customer experience, and operations
8
Industries worked inside, from SaaS to industrial manufacturing
3
Products designed, built, and launched in-house
1
Person accountable for the strategy and the execution
The best marketing doesn't come from having every answer. It comes from asking better questions, faster than anyone expects you to.
Janie Windmiller, Founder

Partnership

Outside perspective, on your team.

Some businesses need one clear answer. Others need a marketing partner in the room every month. Both conversations start the same way.