The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five)

Devin Reed is Head of Content & Thought Leadership at Clari and previously Head of Content Strategy at Gong. Dave and Devin talk about: - His role at Clari and what the content team does - Inside Gong's early content strategy - How to make longform content work - What type of content works on LinkedIn today - Myth busting "build your personal brand" and more Thanks to our 2023 presenting spons...

Dave takes you behind the scenes of Exit Five to talk about how the community got started, why we moved off of Facebook, why we went with Circle, lessons learned scaling Exit Five to 3,500+ paying members and more. This is a conversation with Jordan Godbey who runs Growth Community and helps experts, coaches and creators build communities on Circle and we thought this would make for a fun little "...

Dave is joined by Austin Distel , Head of Marketing Innovation at Jasper and former CMO at Proof. Austin was one of the earliest Jasper employees and we discussed the evolution of the company, lessons from building Proof, how the product at Jasper got initial traction, use cases and examples for AI in marketing today, why every B2B marketing team should be taking AI seriously, how to get beyond ge...

Dave is joined by Jeff Hardison , Head of Product Marketing at Calendly to discuss the role product marketing plays in a B2B organization.  They cover how to structure a product marketing department, the differences between sales-led and product-led motions, tips on hiring product marketers, what product marketing looks like at Calendly, setting goals for product marketing, and more. *** Thanks to...

Dave is joined by Margaret Kelsey (Founder of TatCo, Marketing Advisor), Jason Widup (VP Marketing, Metadata), and Shauntle Barley (Director of Marketing, Demandwell) to talk about the state of B2B marketing in Q2 2023 and helpful ideas for driving growth in a down economy. Layoffs, budget cuts, slower sales cycles, and a lack of urgency to buy your product right now. That's become normal in B2B S...

Dave is joined by Kyle Lacy (CMO at Jellyfish) and Shauntle Barley (Director of Marketing at Demandwell) to chat about what business is like right now Q2 2023 for B2B SaaS, Kyle's new role as CMO at Jellyfish, what the CMO does in the first 90 days of a new job, talking through marketing budget and spending on brand vs demand, and more. Send guest pitches and ideas to hello@exitfive.com Exit Five...

This episode is an overview of the role of Revenue Operations as it relates to B2B sales & marketing today. You'll get an overall understanding of why the role of RevOps is key to scaling and growing revenue inside of an organization today with guest Lindsay Rothlisberger , Director of RevOps at Zapier. We cover the things B2B marketers and future marketing leaders should know about RevOps tod...

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 authors the popular SaaS blog Kellblog ( www.kellblog.com ). He has also served as an independent dir...

Tom Wentworth is CMO at Recorded Future , a $250m+ revenue high growth cyber security company. Prior to Recorded Future Tom was CMO at Rapid Miner and CMO at Acquia. We talk about: - Running marketing at 1,000 person company doing $250M ARR - The breakdown of Recorded Future's 45 person marketing team roles & responsibilities & goals - RF's marketing operating system, campaigns, themes, an...

Kara Hardin is a mental health educator and clinician who works at the intersection of mental health and performance as CEO of The Practice Lab. She specializes in the complicated ways that mental health drives performance and how it shows up at work. She's a former practicing corporate and securities lawyer and holds a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of St. Thomas (Mi...

Lashay Lewis helps B2B SaaS companies create profit driven content strategies. We talk about why a B2B content strategy should be built from the bottom of the funnel up, why she interviews sales teams to understand "life before using the product" and why she interviews customer success teams to understand "life after using the product" and how that influences content strategy, how writing influenc...

Allison Whalen is co-founder and CEO of Parentaly , a company combines career coaching and content to help expecting parents before, during and after their parental leave. She's a former MBA who worked in private equity and then as VP of Sales before starting Parentaly and taking to LinkedIn to launch the company and build her "Founder Brand." Dave and Allison talk about her LinkedIn strategy, sta...

Dave shares five lessons from the wisdom of Exit Five community members about their lessons from reporting to the CEO for the first-time. Send guest pitches and ideas to hello@exitfive.com Exit Five on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/exitfive/ Exit Five on Twitter: https://twitter.com/exitfiveco *** This episode is brought to you by Demandwell . This episode is brought to you by Demandw...

Bobby Pinero is co-founder and CEO of Equals and previously led the finance organization at Intercom as the company scaled from $1M ARR to $150M+, and from 20 employees to 600+ employees. We talk about learning from Steve Blank at Stanford, building Equals, the mission of replacing Excel, lessons from Intercom, how he thinks about marketing as former head of finance, and more. Send guest pitches a...

Generative AI is the hottest topic we've seen in marketing in a decade. In this session Exit Five Live session we went under the hood with Samyutha Reddy and CJ Donio from Jasper to unpack "Generative AI" and share use cases and tactical examples for B2B marketers today and how team's are using Jasper and AI to create content and generate ideas at scale. Send guest pitches and ideas to hello@exitf...

Hana Jacover is an executive coach, former Director of Demand Generation, and founder of Hype House Coaching . We talk about managing burnout, fighting imposter syndrome, work/life balance, finding your right path, maintaining authenticity day to day, nonviolent communication, and how to get unstuck in your career. Send guest pitches and ideas to hello@exitfive.com Exit Five on LinkedIn: https://w...

Four marketing leaders share their lessons, learnings, mistakes, and failures from their time "in the arena" as a marketing leader. Shauntle Barley is Director of Marketing at Demandwell, Loretta Jones is VP Growth at Acceldata, Anthony Kennada is former CMO at Gainsight, Hopin, and now CEO at AudiencePlus, plus Exit Five Founder Dave Gerhardt. Send guest pitches and ideas to hello@exitfive.com Ex...

This is a little change of pace episode, with Dave Charest from Constant Contact interviewing Dave Gerhardt about his career path and some early stories working together through PR, product marketing, side projects, and bunch of marketing stories / lessons sprinkled in. Send guest pitches and ideas to hello@exitfive.com Exit Five on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/exitfive/ Exit Five on...

Stephanie Donily is Director of Corporate Marketing at Zapier . Zapier has 100,000+ customers and does over $150M+ ARR and Steph joins the Exit Five podcast with Dave to talk about brand marketing, including: - What is brand marketing? - Why brand marketing is not logos/colors/design - Steph's job running corporate marketing and managing the teams that are responsible for brand, communications, co...

Chad Knipschild is a Navy Veteran and now Senior Product Marketing Manager at Recorded Future. Dave and Chad talk about his background and learnings from his time in the Navy to getting a job in tech and working in product marketing, plus a handful of topics outside of marketing for a little change of pace. Send guest pitches and ideas to hello@exitfive.com Exit Five on LinkedIn: https://www.linke...

Dave is joined by Hillary Carpio , Head of ABM at Snowflake for a deep dive on account-based marketing. Hillary runs a 20 person team focused on ABM at Snowflake today. They discuss why Snowflake has been an "account-based organization", ABM vs. Demand Generation, how to measure ABM, what an effective ABM campaign looks like, creating a tiered ABM strategy, how marketing exists to support sales at...

Dave is joined by Adam Schoenfeld (CEO at Keyplay.io ) and Camille Trent (Director of Content & Community at Peersignal.org ). They talk about community building for B2B SaaS, what it means to "build a media company", and how creating the Peer Signal community eventually led to building a new SaaS company called Keyplay.io, the "return to rigor" and other observations from the current landscap...

Dave is interviewed by Superside VP Marketing Amrita Mathur during a live session focused on positioning and company storytelling. When it comes to driving revenue we obsess over tactics when so often the root cause is actually positioning. When sales and marketing efforts are stuck or slowing down, it's rarely because you need to unlock a new channel, or because you are not using the latest marte...

This episode is from an Exit Five live session we did with Dave Gerhardt , Betsy Koliba , and Mitch Briggs from Demandwell . Every few weeks we like to bring on subject matter experts to do Exit Five Live sessions about topics that are more tactical than the typical CMO interview. This was an hour long AMA on all things SEO, focused on what B2B marketers need to know about SEO in 2023, including s...

Dave is joined by Obaid Durrani and Todd Clouser for a discussion about content and community for B2B SaaS. Obaid and Todd met while working together at Refine Labs and co-host the "Cheat Codes" podcast for B2B SaaS marketers. They help marketing leaders and creators craft their narrative, implement new processes, and refine their content engine to reflect their product, narrative, and objectives....