The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five)

Dave is joined by Tas Bober , a B2B digital marketing strategist and top voice on LinkedIn. Tas shares her experience of growing to over 10k followers on LinkedIn, starting by just posting for fun — and how it grew into a thriving niche consulting business. Tas is an expert on landing pages and websites, and she helps marketing teams at companies like Calendly drive more pipeline. Tas and Dave cov...

Dave and Dan (COO at Exit Five) go behind the scenes of the recent rebrand of Exit Five with Eli Rubel , Founder and CEO of No Boring Design . Eli shares his candid feedback on where partnerships with agencies and marketing teams often go wrong and the challenges of creative work. They also cover: How to create a killer creative brief How well-crafted design can significantly drive conversion rate...

Anthony is one of the nine LinkedIn Certified Marketing Experts in North America. He’s also the Managing Director of Speedwork , a B2B LinkedIn Marketing Agency, and hosts the LinkedIn Ads Radio Podcast . He and Dave discuss LinkedIn Ad Creative & Consistent Branding Thought Leader Ads & Organic Reach Niche Audiences & Custom Content Nurture Campaigns Expert LinkedIn Ads Tips Timestamp...

This episode is from a fireside chat Dave did with Bill Macaitis , former CMO at Slack and Zendesk during G2's 2023 "Reach" event on how to build a brand in an economic downturn. We cover what is a brand, what is brand marketing, 8 ways to fit a brand into a marketing strategy,  creating a brand centric product, and examples from Bill's work over the years. Join 50,0000 people who get Dave's Newsl...

Dave is joined by Christopher Rack , CEO of pharosIQ . Chris is a seasoned leader with a track record of driving remarkable growth. With experience spanning individual contributions to executive leadership, he's led four sales organizations to achieve 10x growth in just 2-3 years. His leadership ethos prioritizes building robust processes and fostering winning cultures rooted in a human-first appr...

Dave shares the 16 lessons he wishes he knew as a first-time marketing leader, going from marketing manager to CMO in four years. This is a recording from Metadata's DEMAND 2022 virtual event in October 2022. The lessons include: 1. Forget acronyms 2. The story is the strategy 3. Think hard about “offers” 4. Push your team past incremental thinking 5. Get on the same page as sales 6. Don’t “be” fi...

Dave is joined by John Short , Founder & CEO of Compound Growth Marketing . John spent a decade as a B2B SaaS marketer at LogMeIn, Yesware, and Workable before starting his own full-funnel marketing agency in 2018. John is focused on helping companies find the right strategy in order to grow, as opposed to just blindly picking from a menu of marketing tactics. His company helps B2B marketers w...

Dave and Dan (COO at Exit Five) share the behind the scenes on Exit Five's growth. They cover How we sold out Drive in 24 hours Why we used a waitlist strategy How much Exit Five has grown How much we're investing into the business this year Solopreneurship PS. We’d love to get your questions and feature you on this podcast. Have a hot topic, a burning question, or just want to say hi? Send us a v...

Dave is joined by Greg Isenberg . Greg is the CEO & Co-Founder of Late Checkout . Greg has started and sold 3 companies in the community space and has now invested in 50+ community-based businesses. They discuss Why you need to build an engaged community before a paid membership The importance of niching down  The difference between audience and community The tribe framework Personal brand and...

Anthony Kennada is is co-founder & CEO of AudiencePlus , a company building software, content, and community to help businesses become media companies. Prior to founding AudiencePlus, Anthony served as the CMO of Hopin, Front, and Gainsight. In this episode, they discuss What it means to be a media company Building an audience from scratch Why building community is important in B2B marketing T...

Dave is joined by Pranav Piyush , CEO and Co-Founder of Paramark . With 15 years of growth and marketing experience at companies like PayPal, Dropbox, Adobe, and BILL, Pranav is convinced that CMOs deserve better measurement solutions. That’s why he started Paramark, a tool to help Marketing leaders become more confident about how to invest their budget for maximum returns across all types of mark...

Dave and Matt (Marketing Manager at Exit Five) share this week's most popular topics, lessons, and learnings across the community. They cover Selling out our in-person event tickets Strategies for getting more online reviews How to think through structuring your marketing team Live chat on websites PS. We’d love to get your questions and feature you on this podcast. Have a hot topic, a burning que...

Dave is joined by Jason Lemkin . Jason is the founder of SaaStr , the world’s largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs. Before SaaStr, Jason founded EchoSign, which was sold to Adobe in 2011.  They discuss Why Jason started SaaStr What makes a great VP of Marketing in SaaS and how to hire one How tech and SaaS have changed since 2020 CROs vs CMOs Importance of alignment be...

We're growing our team at Exit Five voice. This is a quick message from Dave about a new Content Marketing role we just opened up. You can read more about this role and apply here on our job board. Maybe our next great teammate is already listening to the Exit Five podcast...

Dave and Matt (Marketing Manager at Exit Five) share this week's most popular topics, lessons, and learnings across the community. They cover Reactions to our rebrand How to nurture the 99% of website visitors that don't convert Advice for shipping a new website Dark social and why you need to make it part of your strategy PS. We’d love to get your questions and feature you on this podcast. Have a...

Dave is joined by Christopher Rack , CEO of pharosIQ . Chris is a seasoned leader with a track record of driving remarkable growth. With experience spanning individual contributions to executive leadership, he's led four sales organizations to achieve 10x growth in just 2-3 years. His leadership ethos prioritizes building robust processes and fostering winning cultures rooted in a human-first appr...

Dave joins Chris Walker for a Refine Labs Expert Series event. Chris is the Founder & Executive Chairman of Refine Labs and Founder & CEO of Passetto . They discuss The principles of building a community LinkedIn personal vs. company page engagement The role of executives in thought leadership content How companies are leveraging influencer partnerships How to approach LinkedIn organic and...

Dave is joined by Dave Kline . Dave is currently the owner of SkillScouter and Co-Founder of MGMT Accelerator . He spent 20 years leading teams sized 2 to 200 at Moody's and Bridgewater before starting his own management accelerator. They talk about leadership and management for people who want to grow their careers and take on a leadership role. This is a useful episode for anyone in B2B marketin...

Dave and Matt (Marketing Manager at Exit Five) share this week's most popular topics, lessons, and learnings across the community. They cover How to start building your portfolio as a new agency owner What Sales can do to become a partner to Marketing (and vice versa) Whether podcasts are for brand awareness and lead nurturing Webinars and whether they need to be live or not The future of Exit Fiv...

Dave is joined by Jessica Hreha . Jessica is the Head of Marketing AI Strategy & Transformation at Jasper . Previously, she was the Head of Global Integrated Campaigns & Content Strategy and Founder of VMware Marketing AI Council at VMware. They discuss everything AI in B2B Marketing, such as How to use AI to ideate and refine your creation process Use cases for AI beyond copywriting Why y...

Dave Kellogg is a former CEO and CMO with operational experience across companies from $0 to $1B+. He served as GM/SVP of Service Cloud for Salesforce, CEO of MarkLogic, and SVP of Marketing at SAP / Business Objects. Today, he is principal at Dave Kellogg Consulting, EIR at Balderton Capital, and author of the popular SaaS blog Kellblog (www.kellblog.com). He has also served as an independent dir...

Dave is joined by Daniel Cmejla , VP of Community at Apollo.io . Before Apollo, Daniel was the VP of Brand and Community at Chili Piper. In this episode, they discuss How to use LinkedIn to build community The difference between building community vs. building ‘a’ community Using internal team members LinkedIn profiles to lift the companies brand Community building and how to measure the impact on...

Dave and Matt (Marketing Manager at Exit Five) share this week's most popular topics, lessons, and learnings across the community. They cover How 'edgy' B2B brands can get with their social media pages (and if they should) Advice for first-time marketing leaders Dave's advice for product launches Why marketing fundamentals are key to your marketing strategy PS. We’d love to get your questions and...

Dave is joined by Talia Wolf , CEO and Founder of Getuplift . Talia was recently listed as one of the most influential experts in conversion optimization. She’s trained companies all over the world and has taught on stages such as Google, MozCon, CTAconf, Search Love, and many more.  They discuss things like Selling with emotional benefits over feature lists How to use the stages of awareness to l...

In this new regular segment of the podcast, Dave and Matt (Marketing Manager at Exit Five) share this week's most popular topics, lessons, and learnings across the community. They cover Whether you should focus on the company or personal LinkedIn pages What the CEO can do to grow their LinkedIn profile When it's acceptable to be a marketing generalist, and when you should specialize Why money matt...