Shawn Conahan and Tristan Barnum, the CRO and CMO of Wildfire, explore vital aspects of aligning marketing and sales in B2B. They stress trust, collaboration, and customer success while ensuring incentive plans emphasize long-term over short-term rewards. They underscore team building and fostering a positive company culture as vital for driving success.
Shawn Conahan and Tristan Barnum, the CRO and CMO of Wildfire, explore vital aspects of aligning marketing and sales in B2B. They stress trust, collaboration, and customer success while ensuring incentive plans emphasize long-term over short-term rewards. They underscore team building and fostering a positive company culture as vital for driving success.
Warren Zenna is the founder and CEO of the CRO Collective, a company that focuses on helping CEOs build CRO-ready organizations. Warren discusses how multiple C-suite executives informing revenues creates silos and hinders alignment, proposing a single C-suite role for streamlined revenue development across departments.
Hear directly from the CEO of Maxio, Randy Wootton, a 3x CEO, former CRO, and Chief Strategy Officer, about the evolution of the role of the CMO, emphasizing that today, greater focus needs to be placed on revenue generation, customer marketing thought leadership, self-serve buying, and overall value creation for the company.
Introducing special guest Dayna Rothman, a 2x CMO, former CRO, and currently the CMO at Censys. Dayna dives right into the challenges faced by B2B CMOs (who suffer the shortest tenure in the C-suite) and the importance of content in driving growth from Dayna's POV—informed by her tenure running content for Marketo, pre- and post-IPO.
In this 3:52 video summary, 3x B2B CMO Jamie Gier discusses their company's focus on selling healthcare solutions to large hospitals and health systems as an analogy for all B2B account-based marketing (ABM) companies. She emphasizes the complexity of reaching various departments within these systems, each with different decision-makers and objectives.
In this 4:32 video summary, 3x B2B CMO Jamie Gier emphasizes the importance of simultaneously focusing on short-term and long-term strategies for building a successful sales pipeline. They stress the significance of establishing a recognizable brand to make prospecting and outreach more efficient. Ensuring the brand is familiar to buyers reduces the need for extensive outreach efforts, ultimately speeding up the sales cycle.
Introducing 3x B2B CMO Jamie Gier as she delves into the why and how of reversing the rapid turnover trend for B2B CMOs. We cover topics such as “Stopping the friction, getting early wins, today's brand is tomorrow's demand, why your customer’s voice should be out ahead of yours, and how to create your highest performing campaigns.”
Neil Morrison is the Global Head of Measurement at Signal AI, who works with four of the world’s top ten consulting firms. Neil has witnessed the evolution of AI and its impact on businesses. He helps clients track their brand reputation and thought leadership content to make data-driven decisions that significantly impact the bottom line.