The Godfather of ABM takes us through his humble beginnings in Detroit’s industrial trenches to category creation and entrepreneurial expeditions. His journey spans building magnetic company cultures, cracking the code on remote work, sharing candid hiring wisdom, and transforming marketing failures into fuel for growth. Now building Channel99, he’s rewriting attribution with a touch of AI engineering, predicting marketing ROI, using a white box approach.More
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134: Jacqueline Freedman: Former leader at Grammarly and WeWork on how to become a trusted Martech advisor
Jacqueline straps on her jetpack and invites us to soar through the martech skies, teaching us how to navigate the journey of becoming an independent martech advisor. From hands-on execution tasks strategy and advisory projects and assembling a futuristic composable martech stack, we cover a lot of air miles. More
126: Michael Rumiantsau: AI’s role in democratizing data narratives for marketers
Michael’s on a mission to make data insights accessible and useful for everyone, not just experts, by leveraging AI to provide tailored, easy-to-understand insights that boost decision-making. This episode unpacks the future of Business Intelligence, automating insights with LLMs, and the importance of anomaly detection. Michael also discusses how proprietary data gives companies a competitive edge in the AI market.More
122: Emily Kramer: The rise of pi-shaped marketers and picking future unicorns
Emily explored the convergence of marketing, investment, and startups. When picking future unicorns, she attributed timing and luck but stressed the importance of selecting startups that value marketing. She also highlighted the need for “pie-shaped” marketers who combine deep expertise in at least 2 areas but also have a broad foundation.More
121: Anthony Lamot: Why we’re all exhausted by marketing emails and what to do about it
From early stage founder advice and keeping up with the galaxy of martech tools to email fatigue and AI’s convergence with neuroscience, this episode journeys through deep marketing space. We take a pit stop in email marketing land discussing true personalization and if we’re really ready to give the wheel to AI (spoiler, we’re not).More
120: Maja Voje: Untangling Go-to-Market for startup marketers and founders
This episode with Maja is a playbook for startup marketers, growth advisors, early stage founders and anyone curious about go-to-market strategies. We untangle the most popular questions about growing early stage startups, from picking the right early channels and leveraging qualitative insights, to uncovering the limitations of willingness to pay and locking down the moving target of product market fit.More
106: Crissy Saunders: Funnel reporting, composable automation and the future of outbound
Crissy takes us through the evolution from tactical management to strategic leadership, and the adaptation to changing marketing strategies. We discuss the significance of specialized platforms in marketing automation, the critical role of the sales funnel in revenue growth, the shift in email marketing towards ‘inbox influence’, and revitalizing outbound marketing strategies. More
77: Boris Jabes: Decoding the composable CDP, the future of data activation and AI in marketing
Boris Jabes, the co-founder and CEO of Census, explains the transformative potential of composable Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) for marketers. He sheds light on the bright future of better marketer-data team collaboration by harnessing data for more effective and efficient customer engagement.More
75: Mike Rizzo: Building resilient Marketing Ops through community
Today we have the pleasure of chatting with Mike Rizzo, you’ll be hard pressed to find someone who’s done as much for the marketing Ops community. He’s the founder of MarketingOps.com, taking a community-led approach to building career resources that are purpose-built for MO Pros.More
74: Pratik Desai: A time traveler’s guide to martech and personalization
Today we have a super fun conversation with Pratik Desai, Founder and Chief Architect at 1to1. We dive into what martech and aerospace have in common as well as the speculative future of personalization. Pratik also gives us his take on the challenges that AI has to replace everything a marketer does today.More