

Move The Needle - Real strategies. Data-driven growth. B2B results that move the needle.
Databox
This podcast will help you grow your B2B company quarter after quarter—with confidence, clarity, and data-backed decisions.
In each episode, you’ll learn proven strategies, practical frameworks, and first-hand insights from GTM leaders, RevOps pros, and seasoned B2B executives. They’ll walk you through how they use data to set smart targets, forecast accurately, overcome growth plateaus, and build high-performing sales and marketing engines.
You’ll hear stories of real challenges, real results, and the data-driven moves that made all the difference.
The best B2B companies don’t just look at metrics—they use them to take action. Move The Needle will help you do the same.
In each episode, you’ll learn proven strategies, practical frameworks, and first-hand insights from GTM leaders, RevOps pros, and seasoned B2B executives. They’ll walk you through how they use data to set smart targets, forecast accurately, overcome growth plateaus, and build high-performing sales and marketing engines.
You’ll hear stories of real challenges, real results, and the data-driven moves that made all the difference.
The best B2B companies don’t just look at metrics—they use them to take action. Move The Needle will help you do the same.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Mar 10, 2020 • 46min
71: April Dunford / Product Positioning Has a Positioning Problem––Here's How to Solve It
April Dunford joins the podcast to discuss her surprise (at least to her) hit book, Obviously Awesome. On this episode, we dig into some of the core product positioning lessons that April discusses in the book and coaches clients on, including:
- How to tell if you have weak positioning
- Where positioning should fall on a marketer's/executive's priority list
- How the approach to positioning changes depending on the stage of your company
- The 10-step process for defining your positioning, and...
- The most important positioning lessons that April has learned throughout her career
Enjoy.

Mar 4, 2020 • 55min
70: Benji Hyam / Inside Grow & Convert's Content Marketing Framework for Growing Traffic, Leads, & Sales Through Content
Benji Hyam shares his experience running content marketing for a few companies in San Francisco and how that inspired him to start 2 companies––Wordable and Grow and Convert. The latter, a content marketing agency he's run for over 4 years, takes a unique approach to offering services around content marketing. Hear about their 4-step content framework for getting client's results no matter the industry.

Feb 25, 2020 • 39min
69: Lindsay Tjepkema / Will Casted Become The HubSpot for Podcasts? Inside the First Podcast Platform for B2B
On this episode, Casted CEO and cofounder Lindsay Tjepkema joins the show to talk about its recent public launch and round of funding, how the company is growing and what's been working so far, and why genuine and helpful conversations are the next big thing for B2B brands to leverage as a driver for growth.

Feb 18, 2020 • 46min
68: Meghan Keaney Anderson / A Decade(ish) of Marketing at HubSpot
Meghan Keaney Anderson, VP of Marketing at HubSpot, joins the pod to provide what is essentially an oral history of marketing at HubSpot. Anderson has been with HubSpot for 9 years, and in her words, it's like being with 3 different companies during that span due to all the different phases of growth.
In this episode, Meghan provides all the details behind what makes HubSpot's marketing engine move, including:
- how the team is structured
- how their planning process works
- how they set goals and cascade them down to the individual contributor
- how they stay flexible to make adjustments, improve efficiencies, etc.
- the channels they're investing more in, the ones that have evolved, etc.
Enjoy!

Feb 11, 2020 • 31min
67: Wes Bush / Why Product-Led Growth Is Outperforming Traditional Marketing & Sales Teams
In this episode, Wes Bush, author of Product-Led Growth, sits down with John to discuss all things PLG, including how it's different from marketing + sales-led organizations, the key levers for transitioning to product-led, how teams can get started, and much more.

Feb 4, 2020 • 43min
66: Devin Bramhall / How Animalz Produces The World's Best Content
Today we're joined by Devin Bramhall, VP of Marketing at Animalz and previously head of content at Help Scout. Animalz is a content marketing services company that works with some of the most well-known companies in SaaS––Intercom, Wistia, ProfitWell, Zendesk, and Clearbit just to name a few.
Here, Devin takes us through her process and outlook for creating great content. Hint: It doesn't involve writing. (At least, not exclusively.)

Jan 28, 2020 • 52min
65: Daniel Waas / Lessons from 10 Years of Growing GoToWebinar
Daniel Waas spent 10 years managing and working on the same product––GoToWebinar. First with Citrix and later, after an acquisition, with LogMeIn, Waas's strength was perfecting and marketing a product that he himself knew better than anyone after hosting more than 500 webinars over the last 10 years.
Here, Waas shares lessons learned after spending more than 10 years growing with the same company.

Jan 21, 2020 • 37min
64: David Rostan / Calendly's Approach to Freemium & How Competition Sharpened Its Positioning
David Rostan, former VP of Sales & Marketing at Calendly, joins the pod to talk about how freemium helped shape Calendly's go-to-market approach and how growing market competition in the effort to own your calendar only sharpened Calendly's positioning.

Jan 6, 2020 • 53min
63: John & Pete / Company Performance Is Not A Passive Sport
We’re back! In this episode, John and Pete return for some friendly banter and conversation around how Databox approaches reporting on company performance including what gets measured, the cadence of sharing and updating others on performance, individual and team responsibilities, and much more.

Dec 9, 2019 • 39min
62: Melissa Matlins / Vimeo’s Journey to Full-Service SaaS & 1M Paying Subscribers
Vimeo's VP of Marketing, Melissa Matlins, dives deep into Vimeo's journey to become a full-service video platform and how they're repositioning the brand to support that.