Grant Johnson, a seasoned CMO with six tours of duty under his belt, joins the podcast to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing marketing leaders today. This episode offers practical advice and valuable insights for marketing leaders at all levels, making it a must-listen for anyone looking to navigate the evolving marketing landscape.

Jennifer Quiroz is a fractional marketing and branding expert with over 20 years of experience. She joined us to discuss the evolving landscape of marketing in a post-COVID, AI-driven world. She argues that AI and the pandemic have led to digital fatigue, making traditional performance marketing less effective.  Jennifer's insights offer valuable guidance for marketers navigating the changing dynamics of the industry and highlight the enduring importance of human connection in a technology-driven world.

Kristen Moore has helped her fair share of marketing organizations and has been seeing a disturbing trend over the years, the loss of 3 of the 4 Ps of marketing: product, pricing, and place. In this episode we dig into what that means for marketing and some ways we can get them back. Kristen also shares concrete ways to lean into our human-ness for long-term success with AI.

Paul Kuhne, a marketing leader with over two decades of experience in a diverse range of roles and industries, talks to us about the crucial role of relationship building in marketing, both internally and externally. He argues that marketers must effectively sell the value of marketing within their organizations, building alliances with leadership, peers, and other departments. Paul stresses tailoring communication to diverse stakeholders and fostering a culture of trust and empowerment within marketing teams. He champions a more creative approach to B2B marketing that resonates with the emotional needs of consumers. He challenges the industry's reliance on stale, formulaic messaging and encourages marketers to embrace unconventional ideas.

Tracy Sestili has learned a lot about collaboration from years of leading successful marketing teams and transitioning into a role that saw her also lead the sales team as the Chief Revenue Officer. Listen in as Tracy shares her experience of fostering communication between marketing and sales, and get her thoughts on how to balance leadership vision with input from your team.

Caitlin Allen has a history of building great marketing teams that get results. In this episode, she discusses how important it's been to work closely with her executive team members, especially during crisis times that require hard pivots (like the COVID pandemic). She also shares how she has learned to handle areas of perceived weakness, and the how and why we need to hire well.

Matt Anthony has helped a number of companies start growing from zero by embracing creative evolution of his strategy while staying grounded in the marketing fundamentals. We talk about how he creates that first inbound spark through to setting up more mature functions like ABM, and how he sees the current and future of some of our favorite outreach channels.

Carrie Reber, a longtime SaaS marketing leader, built an engaged, loyal customer community at Veeam and saw the tremendous value it created for the company and those involved in the community. In this episode, we dig into the story of her community building days and why she thinks it's imperative that we build love and loyalty into our communities. 

B2B SaaS marketing veteran, Russ Somers, joins us to discuss how the obsession to do more, grow more, and do it faster is leading towards to a crisis of quality and results. We talk about how there is "remarkable power in doing things that don’t scale” and how we can lean back into quality over quantity.

There comes a time in every revenue leader’s career when they look at their budget and ask, “How the !#$ are we spending that much on our tech stack??” And, well, that's not fun. So, let's figure out how we can bring some strategy into our revenue technology stack and avoid being blindsided by less-than-useful spending.

Considering the current situation where we are all inundated by the promises of GenAI and the efficiencies it will bring, we discuss with seasoned marketing executive and fractional CMO, Kim Miller, why it's so important to lean on our uniquely human skills and how we can keep the heart in marketing while still having a solid focus on driving revenue.

Marketing leaders, let’s be honest, you’ve realized that you need to hire a marketing operations professional but you kinda dread the idea of going through that process. I don't have all the answers, but here are a few things I'd look for.

Keith Finger, long-time marketing leader and the self-proclaimed Revenue Detective, talks about how he approaches troubleshooting revenue problems and why we need to consider the full go-to-market picture when dealing with what may seem like a standard "marketing isn't working" issue.

The other day I was helping someone build a workflow that required some external scripting and an API to bend an email tool to our will, and it reminded me of the importance of point solutions in our martech stacks.