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How Marketers Can Be Better Partners with Sales (with Jen Allen-Knuth)


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#232: Sales | Dave sits down with Jen Allen-Knuth, founder of DemandJen. Jen shares her insights from her 15+ years in B2B Sales, from managing a quota to building great working relationships with marketing.

Jen and Dave cover:

  • Co-creating content with Marketing and Sales that drives better customer engagement and grows your pipeline
  • How Jen successfully built her audience using video on LinkedIn and leveraged it to start DemandJen
  • How companies should focus on genuine diversity efforts rather than superficial inclusivity

Timestamps

  • (00:00) - – Intro to Jen
  • (07:31) - – Why you should have a mentor and how to get one
  • (09:21) - – Sales experiences and becoming a Chief Evangelist
  • (12:52) - – Making the leap from side hustle to full-time
  • (17:19) - – Why your career experiences should be diverse
  • (22:21) - – The shallow impact of diversity panels
  • (26:25) - – How Jen built her personal brand
  • (29:46) - – Creating unscripted content that’s still clear
  • (33:18) - – Being authentic in marketing
  • (38:13) - – Don’t use templates for customer conversations
  • (44:35) - – Strong relationships between product marketing and sales
  • (45:22) - – Being customer-centric
  • (50:44) - – Why you need to be a good storyteller
  • (52:33) - – Challenges of data analysis

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