The DGMG Podcast

On this quick episode of the DGMG podcast I'm sharing a few thoughts on the power of branding, how to build yours, why reputation matters, and why it pays to be an expert.

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Martin Gontovnikas (@mgonto) is Co-Founder and GP @ HyperGrowth Partners & Ex SVP, Marketing & Growth at Auth0.

Autho0 was acquired by Okta for $6.5B in March 2021.

We talk about the differences between a growth team vs. marketing team (he managed both at Auth0), when to bring on growth, why buyer personas matter for your marketing strategy, how to market to developers, why he hired engineers to write for the Auth0 blog, product-led growth, why demand gen. is just about tapping into habits, where brand and PR fit in the puzzle, why his first two hires...

Kyle Lacy (@kyleplacy) is CMO at Lessonly. Prior to this he served as VP of Marketing at OpenView Venture Partners, Director, Global Content Marketing at Salesforce, and Senior Manager, Content Marketing at ExactTarget. We talk about his 40 person team at Lessonly, breakdown of inbound and outbound marketing strategy, the role of customer marketing, why community always wins, splitting the budget 70/30 demand and brand, and more.

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Dave Woodward is CEO of ClickFunnels. Since 2014 ClickFunnels has grown to $137M in ARR with 100,000 customers using their marketing automation products. I wanted to have Dave on because ClickFunnels bootstrapped their way to the $100M+ ARR mark and they don't do marketing like typical B2B companies. Instead of spending to acquire customers, they have thousands of customers spending money to get in their funnel. We talk about customer acquisition, creating sales funnels, creating a break-even funnel, the power of being an expert in marketing and more.

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Sara-Beth Anders is VP of B2B Marketing at Guild Education and was previously Director of Product Marketing at LinkedIn and Director of Product Marketing at Greenhouse. We talked about goal setting, OKRs, how to get better at hiring marketers with the case-study method, why marketing needs QBRs like sales, the modern ABM playbook, making full-time hires for engagement and community, presenting to the board, and how she's spent her first three months at a new company as VP of Marketing.

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Chris Walker is CEO at Refine Labs and host of Demand Gen Live. We talk about wasting B2B marketing budget, understanding how people buy, how to think about the ROI of your podcast, short term vs long term marketing, why not all MQLs are created equal, and how to drive more inbound demand.

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Patrick Moran @patrickmoran is Chief Revenue Officer at Calendly.

Marcus Andrews (@marcus_andrews) is Director of Product Marketing at Pendo.io

Dave Rigotti (@drigotti) was VP of Marketing at Bizible, Head of Enterprise Demand Generation & ABM at Marketo, and Director of Acccount-Based Marketing at Adobe.

Ursula Ayrout is CEO at Measure and Former marketing leader at Pantheon, Salesforce, and SAP.

Iris Shoor (@IrisShoor) is Founder & CEO at Oribi.

Josh Allen is CRO at Owl Labs and Former Drift CRO and CarGurus SVP.

Tara Robertson (@taraerobertson) is CMO at Teamwork.

Robin Daniels (@robin_daniels) is CMO at Matterport and former CMO at WeWork.

April Dunford (@aprildunford) is a globally recognized leader in positioning and author of the book Obviously Awesome.

Devin Bramhall (@devinemily) is CEO at Animalz.

Ross Simmonds (@thecoolestcool) is the Founder & CEO of Foundation, a B2B content marketing agency.

Chris Walker is CEO & Founder at Refine Labs

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My take on the fundamentals of B2B marketing. WARNING: traditional B2B marketers will be uncomfortable.

How to think about B2B creative (ads, videos, landing pages, design). Plus five tips to help you break through the noise and do B2B creative that doesn't suck.

Lauren Vaccarrello is CMO at Talend and previously VP Marketing at Box and Sr. Director and Head of Digital Marketing at Salesforce.

Sara Varni (@saravarnibright) is CMO at Twilio.

Peter Mahoney is CEO at Plannuh and the former CMO at Nuance Communications.

Leela Srinivasan @leelasrin is CMO at SurveyMonkey.

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Heidi Bullock is CMO at Tealium. Before that she was CMO at Engagio, and VP of Marketing at Marketo where she led demand gen for the SMB and Enterprise business units, content, and events globally.

Bill Macaitis is the former CMO at Slack, CMO at Zendesk, and SVP of Marketing at Salesforce.

Christopher Lochhead is a #1 charting Apple podcaster, a #1 bestselling Amazon author, a 3x CMO.

Tom Wentworth is CMO at Recorded Future.

Udi Ledergor is CMO at Gong.

Allison MacLeod is EVP of Global Marketing at Flywire. We discuss: - What is your role? - What does your company do? - What is the company’s marketing strategy? - What is the handoff between marketing and sales? - What are the marketing channels you’re using today? - What metrics do you report on? - How many people are on your team? - Who are your direct reports? - What regular “rhythms” do you have as a marketing leader? - What is your marketing budget? - Do you have marketing goals? - What are the biggest marketing challenges you have...

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