
Revenue Champions
The ultimate B2B podcast, brought to you by Cognism. A podcast where we interview leaders, experts, and entrepreneurs in the B2B space. Giving you the tips, tricks, and hacks for you to grow and scale your B2B business. Our aim is to share insightful knowledge so you can implement practical strategies in your journey to accelerate your revenue growth today!
Latest episodes

Dec 1, 2021 • 49min
25: Cold Calling Live #2 (with Josh Braun, Founder at Josh Braun Sales Training and Ryan Reisert, Founder at Reisert Consulting)
Welcome to another Revenue Champions cold calling special. This episode is being hijacked by Josh Braun, Founder @Josh Braun Sales Training and Ryan Reisert, Founder @Reisert Consulting. They will be putting Cognism’s Joe Harlowe to the test by challenging him to cold call prospects live, whilst giving actionable training tips along the way.
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Nov 24, 2021 • 33min
24: Constructing your tailor-made marketing mix (with Mark Huber, Director of Growth at Metadata.io)
This is the first episode of Revenue Champion’s Marketing Hall of Fame. Alice de Courcy, CMO @Cognism speaks to Mark Huber, Director of Growth @Metadata.io on constructing your tailor-made marketing mix. Alice and Mark discuss what strategies from B2C are successful in B2B, how to create a strong rebrand, the dark funnel and more.
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Nov 5, 2021 • 1h 5min
23: Cold Calling Live #1 (with Morgan J Ingram, Director of Sales Execution and Evolution at JB Sales Training)
Welcome to a special episode of Revenue Champions with David Bentham, Inside Sales director @Cognism joined by Morgan J Ingram, Director of Sales Execution and Evolution @JB Sales Training and Jonty Jewels, Account Executive @Cognism. In this episode, David, Morgan and Jonty share how to craft cold calling scripts, handle objections and ultimately take prospects from cold to meeting booked. Followed by a live analysis of real-life cold calls.
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Oct 27, 2021 • 52min
22: How to run a productive remote sales team (with Nicolas Vandenberghe, CEO of Chili Piper)
Jon talks to Nicolas Vandenberghe, CEO @Chili Piper about building a successful sales team. Jon and Nicolas discuss sales processes, the future of sales and how to build and manage a team in a remote-first environment.
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Sep 29, 2021 • 21min
21: Bespoke marketing leadership with Doug Bell, CMO @LeanData
Alice de Courcy, CMO @Cognism speaks to Doug Bell, CMO @LeanData about marketing leadership. In this episode, Alice asks Doug about his focus for his first 90 days at LeanData, how to approach marketing and sales alignment when you come in new to an organisation, movement from lead generation to demand generation and more.
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Sep 15, 2021 • 50min
20: Scaleup Marketing: maximise performance with Pete Van Neste, Head of Marketing @Pinpoint
Alice de Courcy, CMO @Cognism and Pete Van Neste, Head of Marketing @Pinpoint talk about all the tips and techniques when it comes to scaling your marketing team. Alice and Pete discuss how to reduce customer acquisition cost, building a strong marketing team, KPIs for account growth and reducing churn and more.
00:00 Intro
02:55 Maintaining rate of growth
05:52 Customer Acquisition Cost
07:03 How to reduce CAC
08:35 Should you split inbound and outbound?
11:32 Building a strong marketing team to reach revenue targets
13: 54 KPIs for account growth and reducing churn
16:59 Channel saturation
22:55 Gated vs. ungated content
25:40 How targeted should your content be?
27:54 How marketing can support sales
30:47 The role of a Marketing Development Representative
34:29 The career trajectory for an MDR
35:32 SDR and AE pairing and alignment
37:56 Compensation structure for marketing
41:32 Effective marketing team growth
45:14 In-house vs. outsourced marketing
47:17 Hiring remotely
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Sep 1, 2021 • 38min
19: Unlocking SDR potential with Sam Nelson, SDR Leader @Outreach
Jon talks to Sam Nelson, SDR Leader @Outreach all about unlocking the potential of a Sales Development Representative. Jon and Sam discuss how to build and manage an SDR team, the best SDR tips and techniques, the future of sales and more.
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Aug 18, 2021 • 39min
18: Scaleup Marketing: Prioritisation with Francesca Rock, Content Marketing Manager @kleene.ai
Alice de Courcy, CMO @Cognism and Francesca Rock, Content Marketing Manager @kleene.ai discuss the best practice for scaling marketing. Alice and Francesca discuss partner marketing, which channels to prioritise when scaling B2B SaaS, measuring content success and more.
03:50 - Partner marketing
05:05 - Prioritisation
17:44 - Retargeting campaigns
22:18 - Tech stack
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Aug 4, 2021 • 37min
17: Breaking down silos: integrating sales and marketing with Alice de Courcy, CMO and Jonathon Ilett, Global Head of Sales @Cognism
Alice de Courcy, CMO @Cognism speaks to Jonathon Ilett, Global Head of Sales @Cognism all about the ways they integrate sales and marketing at Cognism. Alice and Jon discuss the ways sales and marketing can learn from each other, Marketing Development Representatives bridging the gap between sales and marketing, RevOps and more.
Podcast Slides: https://f.hubspotusercontent00.net/hubfs/2340453/Breaking%20Down%20Silos-1.pdf
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Jul 21, 2021 • 57min
16: The dark funnel and what it means for marketers with Chris Walker, CEO @Refine Labs
Alice speaks to Chris Walker, CEO @Refine Labs all about his take on the dark funnel. This episode explores real-world examples on paid ads, creating content that demands attention, measuring the dark funnel and more.
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