OnBase: Smashing Sales and Marketing Misalignments

Episode Summary This episode features Sylvain Awad discussing strategies to optimize demand generation for sales success. Sylvain emphasizes simplifying messaging, aligning marketing and sales goals, and prioritizing lead quality over quantity. He advises repurposing content across verticals for common pain points, validating leads before passing to sales, and generating quality leads through webs...

Episode Summary In this episode, Joshua Hoffman discusses strategies to align sales and marketing teams for better business outcomes. He emphasizes focusing on partnership and shared metrics, using data throughout the sales process, involving marketing in forecasting and pipeline discussions, and creating a culture of cross-team collaboration. Hoffman also highlights the importance of leveraging c...

Episode Summary Rebekah Gardner and Jason Keever discuss how the tax industry has evolved significantly in recent years to keep up with digitalization and changing client needs. They explore how Ryan is leveraging technologies like artificial intelligence to improve efficiency and deliver exceptional client value. The speakers highlight the importance of breaking down silos between professional se...

Episode Summary Vinod shares insights from growing revenue by 40x in 7 years. Some key strategies include understanding customers thoroughly, offering a diversified portfolio of solutions, and networking extensively. Vinod also emphasizes the importance of building effective relationships with decision-makers through mutual respect, problem-solving focus, and self-awareness. He recommends staying...

Episode Summary This episode provides insights into effective global marketing strategies and cultural considerations for international expansion. Manuela Furtado shares best practices for localizing content and campaigns to resonate with target audiences in different countries and cultures. She emphasizes the importance of understanding local markets through research and tailoring strategies for...

Episode Summary This episode discusses account-based marketing strategies with guest Amanda Dyson. She shares insights on personalizing ABM approaches based on customer understanding rather than focusing on features. Amanda emphasizes the importance of collaboration between sales and marketing in areas like account nomination and campaign planning. She also outlines how ABM can support customer re...

Episode Summary This episode discusses how buyer behavior is changing, especially in manufacturing, and the challenges companies face in aligning their sales and marketing strategies as a result. The guest, Kathy Macchi, shares her insights from over 25 years in the industry on how buyers are younger and want more control over the process. She highlights culture, technology, and data silos as majo...

Episode Summary In this episode, host Chris Moody talks with John Common of Intelligent Demand about the ongoing challenge of aligning sales and marketing teams. They discuss why misalignment often stems from a lack of clear strategy and leadership guiding the organization. John emphasizes that B2B growth requires cross-functional collaboration but most companies still operate in silos. John also...

Episode Summary Randy Welch talks about mission-driven sales in the education sector. He discusses his background in school psychology and administration, and how it led him to a career in education technology focused on school safety solutions. He emphasizes the importance of truly understanding customer needs through active listening. Randy also provides insights into navigating the challenges o...

Episode Summary This podcast episode discusses how Jodie Woodworth implemented an agile marketing framework to improve efficiency and productivity at her company. She shares how she overcame resistance from her team by empowering them and introducing agile principles gradually. Originally the team struggled with slow project completion due to perfectionism, but agile practices helped deliver value...

Episode Summary Kara Alcamo and Rachel Cursai discuss how the deprecation of third-party cookies in 2024 will impact B2B marketing. They cite privacy concerns and regulations driving this change. Leveraging first-party data through tools like identity resolution and focusing on personalized experiences are recommended strategies. The episode provides insights on adapting to a cookieless future thr...

About the guest Matthew is a strategic marketer specializing in technology marketing for B2B and B2C blue-chip corporates. He has been involved in shaping and implementing brand strategies and communications for most of his career. He has driven brand marketing for FTSE 100 and NYSE-listed businesses in the UK, USA, and several countries. Connect with Matthew Leopold Episode Summary Matthew Leopol...

Episode Summary This episode discusses the evolving role of marketing and how it is adapting to changes in buyer behavior and new technologies like AI. Jens Olivarius shares insights from his extensive career in marketing leadership roles. Key topics include the importance of understanding buyer intent, being relevant and creative in communications and aligning sales and marketing efforts through...

Episode Summary In this episode, Ruth Zive, CMO of LivePerson, discusses how to successfully navigate the AI landscape with business leaders. She shares LivePerson's conversational flywheel framework for understanding customer needs and implementing AI in a practical way. Ruth also emphasizes the importance of aligning sales and marketing teams through shared goals and data-driven strategies....

Episode Summary This episode discusses how Devo implemented account-based marketing (ABM) and aligned its marketing and sales teams. Greg Aquavella from Devo shares how they overcame challenges through Demandbase training sessions with sellers and weekly one-on-ones. He emphasizes the importance of aligning sales and marketing efforts through collaboration and providing insights that matter to sel...

Sunny Side Up Podcast is now OnBase, where hosts Chris Moody and Paul Gibson tackle B2B challenges weekly with top experts. For most companies, the gap between sales and marketing isn’t just a crack—it’s a chasm. And ignoring this rift? It’s not just risky; it's practically business sabotage. So that got us thinking, just why are so many sales and marketing teams, well, off-base–and what can w...

Episode Summary This episode of the Sunny Side Up podcast discusses overcoming challenges faced by women in their careers, with a focus on imposter syndrome, advocating for career advancement, and maintaining work-life balance. Hardeep Kaur shares her experiences and advice on these topics, emphasizing the importance of authenticity, mentorship, and addressing unconscious biases. About the guest M...

Episode Summary This episode of Sunny Side Up features an interview with Jill Canada, VP of Commercial at Mendaera, about her experience creating new markets and implementing disruptive technology. Jill discusses the challenges of market creation, especially in healthcare, and emphasizes the importance of change management. She also shares insights into building effective teams, lessons from both...

Episode Summary This episode discusses Google's new email policies that will classify companies as bulk senders if they send over 5,000 emails per day. Guests Liam Moroney and Graceanne MacDonald provide best practices for staying under the threshold, including database audits, custom tracking domains, and adding unsubscribe links to all emails. About the guest Graceanne (Domino) MacDonald Gra...

Episode Summary Brian Finnerty of Udacity discusses effective strategies for aligning content to different stages of the buyer's journey. He stresses the importance of investing in lower funnel proof points like customer success stories and third-party reports. Finnerty also provides tips for validating content assumptions directly with customers. Additionally, he emphasizes optimizing the con...

Episode Summary Emily Butler discusses balancing brand and demand generation, sharing insights from her transition from agency to corporate life. Emily also provides tips on understanding customers and measuring success. The discussion covers marketing strategies in the complex aerospace industry and building brand awareness internally. About the guest Emily is a Sr. Director of Marketing at Honey...

Episode Summary Shelley Morrison shares her insights on mastering marketing through experimentation, creativity, and building an innovative culture. She discusses how her background in advertising and marketing has prepared her to thrive in an ever-changing industry. She emphasizes the importance of embracing risk, testing new ideas, and fostering psychological safety to encourage idea-sharing and...

Episode Summary This episode of Sunny Side Up discusses scaling marketing at a fast growing tech company with Sally Winter, Marketing Director at Benefex. Sally shares insights on implementing AI strategies to stay competitive and challenges in the B2B landscape. She details how her company effectively measured ABM campaigns through a repeatable model leveraging existing content and targeting pers...

Episode Summary This episode of Sunny Side Up Media discusses fostering professional communities and networking in tech. The speakers share their career journeys in roles like operations, enablement, and sales. They emphasize building relationships through open communication and understanding. Advice includes finding mentors, embracing new opportunities, and focusing on quality connections over qu...

Episode Summary This podcast episode of Sunny Side Up discusses the impact of Google's removal of third-party cookies on digital advertising and marketing strategies. Tom Keefe, a marketing ops expert, provides an overview of third-party cookies and Google's plans for a "privacy sandbox." The discussion focuses on how this change will affect account identification, personalizatio...