Stacking Growth | The B2B Marketing Podcast

Today’s episode was recorded live, featuring Refine Labs’ VP of Creative: Triana Mills. Triana leads Cassidy and Carl through a Creative Teardown of Recurly, looking at their design choices in three programs: website, email, and paid social.  She assesses the use, effectiveness, and consistency of color, graphics, messaging, and more, sparking productive discussions on possible reasons behind each choice and suggestions for improvement. This walk through is an incredible opportunity to ask yourself the same questions and analyze your own materials for the same qualities.

Cassidy and Carl got to sit down and chat with Talin Koutnouyan, VP of Strategy & Analytics at Influential, about the past, present, and future of Influencer Marketing.  She outlines some main differences between strategy in B2C versus B2B, and what each could stand to learn from the other. Finally, she outlines a plan for “Carl’s Friend” who wants to get into Influencer Marketing – what to expect and how to approach brands!

Cassidy and Carl got to sit down and chat with Peter Walker, head of Insights at Carta, about building insights and leveraging them to boost both marketing and sales functions. The cover collaboration with marketing, knowing what insights to look for and which hold the most resonance, surprises Peter has encountered along his journey, and a hint at what’s coming next for the insights strategy at Carta!  Make sure to listen to the end to hear Peter break down his “Lattice” Approach to an insights framework!

Cassidy and Carl chat today with Grant Duncan (VP of Marketing) and Omar Hamoda (Senior Brand Designer) at Zingtree about the role of AI - in particular, generative AI - and its impact on marketing & sales. They address the decision to jump into AI, individual workflows, different tools and their benefits/drawbacks, implications and ethics, and more. For reference, here are some of the posts and ads discussed through the episode: Post that kicked this off - here. Zingtree Ads - here. MidJourney - here.

We're kicking things off in Season 3 with a brand deep dive featuring our Chief Growth Officer, Cassidy Shield, and CMO of Zappi, Yvonne O'Brien. Key questions to ask yourself: Do your prospects have an emotional connection to your brand, and how do you build that connection in a space with huge competitors? A few more topics include brand activation, foundation, how to consistently test & learn, and what you can translate from B2C to B2B. Take a listen and make your brand more valuable and distinctive after absorbing this marque episode.

Welcome back! Cassidy, Carl, and the rest of the Refine Labs crew have returned for Season 3 of Stacking Growth. This "State of the Union" episode features Cassidy Shield, Chief Growth Officer, and Carl Ferreira, Director of Sales, setting the table for whats to come this season. Brand, creative, differentiation in B2B, coaching, alignment are just a handful of the topics we'll chop up for this third season. We're excited to be back and hope you are, too!

There’s no better way to start the year than by setting intentions and resolutions for the year ahead. Most people do this in their personal lives, but we find it pretty affirming for work as well. Today, we’re excited to chat through just a few of the actionable things you can do to refocus and reset priorities for the year ahead.

Companies today don’t have a process for executing research and development (R&D) within their revenue system. There’s a lack of structure and internal common ground between teams on defining and understanding what programs are working for new business acquisition. It results in chaos. Today we’re going to chat through 3 things you can start working on today, to make a meaningful impact on structuring your revenue programs to nail your 2023 goals.

Cassidy has gone on record stating that marketing-sales alignment is largely a marketing problem. However, let's not drop all the blame on marketing. In this episode, Cassidy and Carl go over 5 ways sales leaders can demonstrate leadership in aligning marketing with sales. 1 - Quality over quantity If the leads "suck" - it's as much on sales as marketing. Stop insisting on lead volume when the leads don't convert to pipeline and revenue. Instead, empower marketing to focus on high-quality leads. 2 - Encourage building awareness It's not news to anyone that it's easier to sell when prospects know who you are and what you stand for as a company. The best sellers I know are huge advocates for building awareness and are pushing marketing to be more innovative.  3 - Invite marketing into the sales process There is no better place to learn about what works/doesn't work than in the sales process. Explain the sales process and how deals are done. Get your marketing team licenses to your call recording software. Invite product marketing to sales calls. Take time to structure your learnings so they are actionable. 4 - Align outbound sales with inbound marketing There is a good chance that your outbound sales efforts are fishing in the same pond as your marketing efforts. Therefore, spend time sharing learnings and aligning campaign efforts, so the positioning and messaging are consistent with prospects. 5 - Lead by example & don't let sales off the hook Leaders don't make excuses. If marketing isn't carrying its weight, get in the game and help. If your sales team isn't following through, take your team to task. When you show that your goal is the company's success and not the success of one organization over another, you are a leader others will respect.   Join Stacking Growth Live every other Wednesday at 1:00 PM ET by Registering here.

"How in the world are you getting rockin' and rollin' building a new category here?"  Carl Ferreira doesn't waste any time kicking off this conversation with Jenn Davis, Co-Founder and Head of Marketing at Gradient Works. Jenn has been instrumental in designing and building the Dynamic Books category, a new way to handle sales territories. In this episode, Jenn takes Carl and Cassidy through: - Identifying when/if a new category is needed - Doing research to get "message-market-fit" prior to building out a product - Creating a strategic narrative around that new category and building it out - and much more.