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In the 22nd installment of our Tuesday open office hours on TikTok Live, Chris discusses why having an R&D function is crucial to growth, customer happiness, and success. We also opened the show up to Q&A and covered topics including: Does every B2B company need to become a media company at some point? Should marketers still be thinking about production through the funnel lens? Advice on e...

In an appearance on the Confessions of a B2B Marketer Podcast with Tom Hunt, Chris addresses some industry hot takes including: Dark social = word of mouth Lead gen is dead CEO's don't need to create content Revenue doesn’t need R&D …and more! Chris also answers audience questions on going international, creating content posts that work for you, and more. If you have questions for Chri...

“You have to remove the idea of credit”: focusing on alignment and viewing revenue as a team sport, rather than splitting up department focus, will help improve strategy. Chris was featured on the REVolution Podcast with Alex Krawchick and Mary Blanks of Klearly to discuss Revenue Generation, metrics, attribution, and more.

In the 21st installment of our Tuesday open office hours on TikTok Live, Chris discusses growing confidence and a thick skin to focus on growth and your business. We also opened the show up to Q&A and covered topics including: - How to define your own success - Eliminating scheduled one on ones - How to get access to the Refine Labs Vault - What impact AI might have on the future - Building a...

In this exclusive, invite-only event, Chris discusses Revenue Forecasting and Planning principles to use for goal setting and planning He goes in depth on: The 10 step process to complete this modeling Key mistakes he sees organizations make and how to avoid them How to use this expert guidance to set achievable revenue targets The slides that accompany this event are only available to customers a...

This week, Chris sat down to answer some big picture questions from a CEO perspective on the direction of the Revenue Vitals podcast, setting yourself and your business up for success, staying adaptable, and how to balance spending in a thoughtful way. If you have a question for Chris, you can join his TikTok Lives on Tuesdays, 2pm central, or submit your questions here ! Questions include: - How...

In the 20th installment of our Tuesday open office hours on TikTok Live, Chris describes some key details from the midst of 2023 planning. As always, we also opened the show up to Q&A and covered topics including: - How to build a valuable community - How to set goals that aren't about money - Thoughts on combining Product Led Growth with Enterprise Sales Motion - The formula to figure out...

In the 19th installment of our Tuesday open office hours on TikTok Live, Chris shows you the 2021 Refine Labs Profit and Loss Statement and how finances affect strategic decision-making at the executive level. As always, we also opened the show up to Q&A and covered topics including: - How to get a promotion if there are some gaps in your resume - The benefits of full salaried sales teams - Pa...

We've been going live every Tuesday on Tiktok for the past 18+weeks now answering real-time questions from the audience. In this episode, we pulled some of our favorite questions including: - Any tips to improve CMO/CRO Alignment? - What are your thoughts on boosting posts/putting media spend behind organic content? - Is there any truth behind the criticisms that attribution vendors have against s...

Buyers are spending more time on LinkedIn. They’re spending more time on TikTok. Communities. Podcasts. They’re spending more time on channels where they can access information from peers that is trustworthy. This is universal across all industries. Less people are going to Google to search for “the best xyz” and more people are learning about what they need through social channels or word of mout...

Category creation is something a lot of people talk about, but few execute it well. To truly create a category, you must move out of a category that the industry currently tries to place you in. In this episode, Chris and Dave Gerhardt discuss exactly how they think about category creation, how to build one, and how the category of Revenue R&D is going to change how go-to-market programs are e...

In this exclusive, invite-only event, Chris discusses Pipeline Sources - a key concept to improve planning accuracy and GTM team alignment. With this concept and by listening to this episode you’ll learn: Forecast & Planning Structure - Implement Pipeline Sources as an alternative to department-specific goals that lead to GTM team misalignments. How to Analyze 2022 Performance - Measure your b...

This week's CEO Office Hours on Tik Tok Live brought about some timely questions around year end planning and 2023. Some viewers were curious about the future of AI in B2B and content creation. Will a machine ever be able to make the same qualitative insights a human can? Chris then goes into figuring out the CS, Sales and Marketing alignment trifecta. Through mindset and the right goals & met...

When the economy is uncertain and budgets are being cut left and right, how do some companies continue to grow while others don’t? What’s the unlock to adapting to the market in difficult times to avoid being in the latter group? “When the economy is tough, being an undifferentiated SaaS vendor is the easiest way to go under.” - Sahil Mansuri In this episode, Chris and Sahil break down the recent...

Chris is back on our regularly scheduled programming of CEO Office Hours at 2PM CT, 3PM ET @chriswalker171 . Moving forward he'll be bringing more business and executive-level topics to these Office Hours while still leaving time to answer your wide ranging questions. This week's segment is about revenue-based financing; with the right cashflow and profitability, is it a viable option for your bus...

Chris has returned with another round of CEO Office Hours on Tik Tok Live. This weekly installment brought a wide variety of questions from career advice to revenue growth. Some questions were: What was the one piece of career advice that really stuck with you? If you were a one-person marketing team, what would your tech stack look like? What's the best way to use social media to scale your busin...

A key component of Revenue R&D is the Pipe™ Go-To-Market Framework. The framework is focused on empowering independent buying journeys at qualified accounts as they come directly to you and actively engage their buying process with you. In this Vault leak from the private event, Chris goes over key measurement stages and definitions, a new approach to revenue attribution, and simple guidelines...

In this private event to Refine Labs customers and Vault waitlist members, Chris lays out the groundwork for his new Revenue R&D framework. He went through each of the five-step process to launch new programs to drive revenue the same way you drive new product innovation: Step 1 - Experimentation New experiments are launched into market with proper data collection and analytics Step 2: Positiv...

Most companies have a very methodical approach to the way they roll out product features. However, when it comes to their go-to-market strategy, they don't have any structure in place to generate revenue. Everything is expected to work immediately, otherwise, it gets terminated. In this private event that Chris did for  ABMLA, he talks about the new revenue R&D playbook and how to create a...

Chris joined Cameron Brain on the Social at Scale Podcast (by EveryoneSocial) to talk through: Determining where you should be focusing resources as a marketing org,  Evaluating your own intent when approaching a social content distribution strategy,  Refine Labs' process for stacking growth,  Dark social, and The Revenue R&D process

Nick Bennett (Director of Evangelism & Customer Marketing @ Alyce) joined Chris live in the Boston studio last week to talk through what's changed with field marketing and in-person events. They talked through: optimizing your events for content, owning your own events, delivering an elevated experience by raising the bar, why marketers should make commission, and the state of evangelism.

Daniel Murray (Head of Media @ Sales Impact Academy and Founder @ The Marketing Millennials) joined Chris live in the Boston studio this week during Hubspot INBOUND. They talked through what the current state of LinkedIn is, how to make a company page work better than a personal profile, current pulse on live events, repurposed distribution, and what’s working right now on TikTok.

Every Tuesday, Chris goes live on TikTok to answer rapid-fire Q&A. This week, he talked for an hour on some higher-level and business-growth topics including LinkedIn being the new resume, customer research changing the course of marketers' careers, building a distributed workforce, being a generalist vs. a specialist, and why marketers need to focus on revenue. Join us every Tuesday to ask yo...

Today's episode features a recording from Erin Balsa's The Notorious Thought Leader podcast. What is a thought leader? Someone with a large audience that speaks on a niched-down topic? That's basically what the definition has come to mean in most circles. And that's why we've come to dislike the term. It's not uncommon for "Thought Leaders" nowadays to not even be...

Every Tuesday, Chris goes live on TikTok to answer rapid-fire Q&A. This week, he went deep for over an hour on some high-level topics like developing your personal brand, what the ideal sales team looks like, and tactical advice for creating your revenue engine. Join us every Tuesday to ask your question on TikTok by following @chriswalker171