Account-Based Marketing

To celebrate the 50th episode of our ABM Podcast, we honor the outstanding achievements of the 2022 Marketing Excellence Awards (MEA) Gold Winner Cheryl Caudill, Global Program Office Leader at IBM, and finalist Ankica Jedry, Scaling Account Based Engagement Lead at Microsoft. As the deadline for submissions to this year's Marketing Excellence Awards nears, Cheryl and Ankica share their inspirational journeys of embedding ABM within their organizations, and the approaches that led to their success. To apply for the 2023 MEA Awards, click here: https://momentumitsma.com/what-we-do/marketing-excellence-awards/

With the number of partners set to explode by 10x in the next five years, partner experience is a huge growth opportunity for CMOs. How can leaders innovate their partner marketing and maximize business impact? In this podcast, Keith Pranghofer, Director of Marketing, ISV Partnerships at Microsoft, discusses the role ABM can play, why organizations need a more outcome-based approach, and the importance of partner orchestration across the entire customer lifecycle.

With an ever-increasing appetite for ABM, 2023 is looking to be a crucial year for its development. How can you take full advantage and embed the most effective strategy? In this podcast, Rob Leavitt, Senior Vice President of Advisory, and Chief Customer Officer, Will Nicholls, share key insights from our global benchmarking study to help elevate your ABM in 2023.

"Not everyone bought into it at the beginning—but now they've seen the results a diverse team has derived, they're paying attention." Jackie McKinley knows how to build and empower effective sales teams. In this episode, NetApp's Vice President for US Enterprise Sales shares her career highlights, what she looks for in potential leaders, and why organizations should broaden the talent pool to boost their numbers.

Understanding customers' changing priorities. Devising and delivering better content. Orchestrating multichannel engagement. And remembering the importance of the human touch. In this podcast, our experts convene to discuss the key takeaways from the latest Customer Buying Index Study 2022 (CBX®). Join Robert Hollier, Partner, Julie Schwarz, Senior VP of Research and Adam Bennington, Head of Consulting, as they unpack what's changing for executives and across enterprise buying cycles.

No two ABM strategies are the same - every organization has a unique context with their customers and in their market, they're at varying stages of maturity and have a different portfolio. In this podcast, Alisha is joined by Eric Martin, Account-Based Marketing Lead at AWS, to explore the core principles of ABM and differences in developing Account-Based Marketing for two technology giants. Eric compares his own experience leading ABM across North America for SAP together with his more recent experience at AWS and together with Alisha, explore the challenges, opportunities and innovation this difference present. A must listen to episode for anyone formulating their ABM strategy.

Stephanie Winters McConnell, Managing Director – Pursuit & Reputation Marketing Lead, explains Accenture's venture into pursuit-based marketing, why it goes hand-in-hand with account-based marketing, and why the core to every good pursuit is messaging. Stephanie also tells us about her work with Connections to Success, an organization that helps ex-offenders re-enter the workplace with confidence.

Kyndryl was formed in 2021 as a spin off from IBM's managed infrastructure service business. Despite inheriting a $19 billion balance sheet, 4000 customers worldwide, and 90,000 employees, the company has high growth ambitions and a start-up mentality. Clara Belalcazar, Kyndryl's Chief Marketing Officer for the Americas, describes the challenge of assembling a new team, pivoting to an account-based growth strategy, and fine-tuning their cultural values.

Key account management is a simple idea but not so simple to execute. Diana Woodburn, Author and Chairman of the Association for Key Account Management (AKAM), breaks down the most important aspects of a successful KAM team, how it should fit with other divisions like sales or marketing, and how a customer-centric approach can drive key account growth — if done right.

Tiffani Bova, author and global growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce, discusses her best-selling book "Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business", the importance of doubling down on existing customers, taking an offensive approach to combat churn, and why all marketers should sit in on sales conversations if they want to show they truly care about the customer.