What Changed? Why Winning New Customers Feels Harder Than Ever

Episode #264: Tetiana Gorbunova, Chief Sales Officer at Jooble, introduces her sales leadership journey across multiple roles and transformations. She shares how leading more than 40 sales professionals requires focus, structure, and a clear team direction. She explains what it takes to operate across six countries while staying consistent in execution. She sets up the episode focus on what is changing in B2B sales and how leaders should respond.

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(4:43 Q&A Video) “Planning With Flexibility and Strategic Optionality”

In this 4:43 video, Tetiana Gorbunova explains why long-term forecasting has changed in today’s volatile economy. She contrasts how planning worked five to seven years ago with how fast markets can now shift in a single week. She explains why leaders must build flexible plans with checkpoints and adjust quickly when assumptions prove false. She also explains why rapid testing beats waiting for complete data.

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What Changed? Why Winning New Customers Feels Harder Than Ever

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Episode #264: Tetiana Gorbunova, Chief Sales Officer at Jooble, introduces her sales leadership journey across multiple roles and transformations. She shares how leading more than 40 sales professionals requires focus, structure, and a clear team direction. She explains what it takes to operate across six countries while staying consistent in execution. She sets up the episode focus on what is changing in B2B sales and how leaders should respond.

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CMOs: How to Forecast for your CFO with Confidence

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Marie-Laure Carvalho, CMO at Portnox, discussing how Chief Marketing Officers can effectively forecast with confidence for their CFOs. She emphasizes the significance of fostering relationships within the C-suite, especially between CMOs and CFOs, given marketing’s role as a substantial cost center.

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Part 6: Why Do B2B CMOs Fail So Quickly?

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Mark Stouse is the former CMO of a large enterprise organization and the current CEO of Proof Analytics, a software analytics company. Mark discusses the importance of being a data-driven CMO and how most CMOs do it wrong. He emphasizes that data is always about the past and not predictive of the future, making it crucial for marketers to focus on forecasting and understanding causality. He also shares insights from his interviews with CEOs and CFOs, highlighting their frustrations with marketing. He concludes by discussing the time lag in B2B marketing and the importance of using analytics to prove the value of marketing investments.

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“Why CMOs Need To Be Great Forecasters”

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Gayle Nixon, a multiple-time B2B CMO with 20+ years of experience, shares her insights on why CMOs need to be great forecasters and how she has flipped the traditional marketing attribution model. Instead of looking at marketing results after the fact, she focuses on predicting marketing spend and ROI before implementing any tactics.

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