B2B Values to Solve Any Marketing Challenge

When do company values matter? Just ask today’s guest Peter Finter, the SVP and CMO at Couchbase: “It's when you have to make a hard decision, that's when values matter.” Speaking with conviction, Peter knows what it takes to prepare...

Why Purpose Matters Even More in the Post-COVID Era

Where do you go when you’re a guest on Renegade Thinkers Unite but can’t find a quiet place in the house? To the RV, of course! That’s where Ed Rusch, the VP of Marketing at Command Alkon, has set up...

Collaboration in a #WFH World

Stack Overflow, an online Q&A community for developers, has a clear #WFH advantage—they’ve operated with a largely remote workforce for over a decade, and they’ve done it well, simultaneously growing their business and earning a spot on numerous Best Developer...

CMO Mathematics with Service Express

Joshua Leatherman has been CMO at Service Express for 9 years now—during that tenure, revenue has grown from 30 million to 130 million, marketing efforts now contribute a whopping 70% of qualified leads in their sales pipeline, and their NPS...

How Spartan Race Built a Strong B2B Brand

What comes to mind when you hear “Spartan?” Probably some version of the imagery found in 2006’s blockbuster, 300. Scenes of great battle, troops acting in perfect unison to overcome odds in a gritty, ticket-selling fashion. While the Spartan brand...

Why CMO Troubles Start with the CEO

What do you get when you combine a dash of academic rigor, a hint a marketing obsession (in the best way possible), a few critiques of modern CMO tendencies, and a live audience of some of the sharpest B2B marketers...

How To Artfully Navigate B2B Media

Email is still innovative...right? One might argue that email marketing has become the Facebook of marketing strategies—it was cool at first, it hasn't declined yet, but everyone and their grandmother is now on it. So what are the trendy marketing...

How to Supercharge Your B2B Marketing with Research

When you order a pizza, you want it delivered quickly. It should be prepared, placed in one of those fancy heat-retaining delivery bags, and be at your door within a half-hour. Boom. Simple. A brand transformation is not a pizza...

How to Develop a Lean, Mean Lead-Gen Machine

About 5 years ago, Rebecca Stone joined LiveRamp and the CEO said “I want you to be as sophisticated as possible in advertising, and how you use it.” At the time, the company had two sales development reps, a funnel...

How SAP Hopes to Make the World Run Better

If you were constructing a bingo board based on the lingo in tech company discussions, you’d have “disrupt” right in the middle square, as it’s basically a freebie. What’s far less common, is seeing a company actually follow through on...