Cooking up GTM

What do you do after recording more than 200 episodes of a podcast? Take a break! In all seriousness, we have decided to take a quick hiatus from delivering new episodes weekly for a bit while we focus on a fresh new strategy for our content and what we add to this podcast channel. It’s been a pleasure to deliver valuable insights and actions on go-to-market operations and strategy to you every we...

You’ve identified a large amount of accounts that are a good fit for your business and fit your ICP. Now what? That’s where account tiering comes in. In this episode of The Revenue Growth Architects, we’re taking a look at how to use account tiers and how it can be an effective tool for prioritizing accounts, as well as defining what the strategy will be from marketing and sales for those accounts...

Documentation is the silent hero of operations, particularly when it’s done well. Yet many operators skip this step altogether. In this episode of The Revenue Growth Architects, we’re sharing our top 3 tips for creating documentation so that you don’t skip it and people will actually use it! We’ll discuss why documentation and project management are different, why your documentation practice shoul...

Despite the naysayers predicting its untimely demise, lead scoring as a buyer prioritization tool still has a lot of life left. But if you’re going to score your leads, you better do it the right way. In this episode of The Revenue Growth Architects, we identify three of the most common lead scoring mistakes folks tend to make and (crucially) what you can do to avoid them. For starters, we’ll look...

How’s your handle on the differences between funnel metrics and multi-touch attribution? We see a lot of confused marketers confidently referring to one when they actually mean the other, and we think it’s high time to set the record straight. In this episode of The Revenue Growth Architects, we’re quickly (in around 10 minutes) demystifying the confusion around funnel metrics and multi-touch attr...

If you feel like an order taker, simply responding reactively to incoming requests rather than taking the time to think strategically, or you struggle to get anything “valuable” completed at your org, a RevOps roadmap might be what you’re missing. In this episode of The Revenue Growth Architects, we’re working through how to build out a RevOps roadmap that is going to be valuable to the business b...

If you look at open roles in marketing operations today you will see a slew of senior manager or director titles. All of which have a mile long list of responsibilities but that is another story. If you try to look for anything VP level or above it seems like it is non-existent. So this begs the question: Is a senior-level role realistically in the cards if you stick to marketing ops, or do you ne...

With two hundred episodes officially under our belts, you’d think we’d take a victory lap. Not so! Instead, we’re taking episode 200 as a time for reflection on our marketing ops blunders, gut-wrenching mistakes, and embarrassing moments. From botched mass email sends to public speaking freeze-ups to Marketo interesting moments gone wrong, are you even doing marketing ops if you haven’t experience...

Working in RevOps can be an extremely rewarding career path, but it can also be fraught with difficulties and frustrations that can get in the way of those operators succeeding in their role or simply just enjoying it too! In this episode of The Revenue Growth Architects, we’re facing down three harsh truths about working in RevOps and discussing the best ways to navigate them. Whether you’re a ve...

Over the past 9 years of running CS2, we have worked on A LOT of funnel projects. So much so that funnel architecture is a key foundational area where we feel like we drive the most impact for clients. Why? Because most of the time organizations are not doing it the right way and we have truly taken the time to figure out the best way to operationalize the funnel and what small things should be av...

Recency Bias. Bad data. Form Friction. There are plenty of reasons to question the usefulness of self-reported attribution. In fact, Charlie once believed self-reported attribution to be pointless. So what made him change his tune? In this episode of The Revenue Growth Architects, we’re reconsidering self-reported attribution to find out what turned Charlie from cynic to supporter. We’ll debunk ou...

Building out an SDR team is costly, and frequently results in an organizational focus on keeping that team busy—not driving revenue. Partner that with the advance of AI tools and a shift in the way businesses are handling their outbound sales efforts and the traditional role of the SDR feels less clear than ever. In this episode of The Revenue Growth Architects we’re critically analyzing the role...

How often have you followed up with your SDRs and discovered that the prospects they were reaching out to based on content syndication efforts didn’t actually remember that white paper or perhaps never downloaded it in the first place? Everyone seems to agree that content syndication doesn’t really work. So why are we all still doing it? In this episode of The Revenue Growth Architects, we’re goin...

Ready or not, 2024 is here! What is on your 2024 roadmap? Does it include partner program operations? Or are you tackling your email strategy and deliverability? Or are you prioritizing a new AI project? In this episode of The Revenue Growth Architects, we’re looking at all these topics and more as we count down the nine marketing ops topics and projects that are top of mind for our clients headin...

What’s the best marketing automation platform? It wasn’t that long ago that when clients were looking for an enterprise grade solution they did not consider Hubspot. At CS2, for example, migrating clients from Hubspot to Marketo was commonplace. It seems the times are changing and Hubspot has stepped up to the plate to become a more robust platform that fit’s a company’s needs even as businesses g...

Third-party intent data is a buzz-worthy topic in B2B marketing and sales, but is it useful intelligence or so much snake oil? In this episode of The Revenue Growth Architects, we’re sifting through an industry report and our own anecdotes to think critically about third-party intent data. Gain insight into the challenges of using third-party intent data effectively, learn the results of a reveali...

This episode is an interesting one folks! Listen in and hear Xander, Crissy, and Charlie debate on the best way to operationalize account stages for ABM. Defining the stages for a person funnel is easy. We have that nailed down. But nailing down the BEST way to handle account stages is still a new area where we are evolving our thinking on how to advise on the best way to set it up for most organi...

Over the last year, there has been an over-reliance on using email as a channel from budget-starved marketers because it’s “free” and is the quickest way to get in front of potential buyers. But what are the hidden costs of bad email practices? Are buyers numb to email since it’s so oversaturated? And are you hurting your brand and deliverability more than the small returns you get from your “spra...

Marketing teams are working furiously to fulfill MQL quotas as the end of the year swiftly approaches. But are MQLs the best metric to determine your marketing team’s performance? What other metrics might provide a better indicator of the health of your business and the success of your campaigns? In this episode of The Revenue Growth Architects, we’re breaking the MQL myth that more MQLs = hitting...

How well are you tracking your SLAs? And perhaps more importantly, how many of them are you tracking? Measuring your speed to lead is all well and good, but focusing on it exclusively doesn’t solve all your funnel velocity issues. In this episode of The Revenue Growth Architects, we’ll examine the other SLAs you should be measuring to have a holistic view of how prospects are moving through your f...

Over the last year an interesting debate has heated up around Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs like Marketo, Hubspot, Pardot) and if they are necessary in this modern era of martech. The argument against MAPs is there are new more focused best in breed tools (like iPaaS, data warehouses, data automation, more advanced B2C emailing tools) that when architected together are more powerful than a...

Whether you’re expanding from a mighty Marketing Ops team of one or adding headcount to an already established crew, what are the best practices for growing your Marketing Operations team? In this episode of The Revenue Growth Architects, we’re sharing a framework we’ve used internally at CS2 and with our clients to determine how and when to build out your marketing ops team. Simplify your hiring...

Your website’s chatbot just might be one of your largest MarTech expenses. And this begs the question: Is it worth it? Maybe you’d be better off with a simple (and cheaper) form. How likely is it that you’ll be able to get your sales team fully enabled in chat anyway? Would those meetings with prospects come through even without a chatbot pinging them from their browser? In this episode of The Rev...

With teams getting smaller and scrappier, is tech debt more rampant as we near the end of 2023? Are the days of unlimited marketing budgets truly gone and what impact does that have on revenue analytics? Has a dependence on partner marketing grown this year? Back in January, we made a lot of predictions about how the Marketing and Revenue Ops landscape would change in 2023. In this episode of The...

With marketers moving toward ungating their content so that they can enable the modern buyer’s journey, many operators are being pressured to still inform the team on how they will report on the effectiveness of the content, even if there is no direct web conversion. In this episode of The Revenue Growth Architects, our hosts prepare you to tackle this challenge. From categorizing your content typ...