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Most event programs are a booth, a badge scanner, and a hope that the right buyer walks past. This episode of Scrappy ABM is pulled from a webinar Mason Cosby ran on ABMifying your events, and it covers two programs from the past six months.
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One client invested two hundred thousand dollars into a single event and generated 31 opportunities in three days. Mason's own two-person team spent thirty to forty thousand dollars across a full year of events, got punched in the mouth at SaaStr with zero connections after day one, and rebuilt the whole approach around selling to sponsors instead of chasing attendees.
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Mason walks through the four reasons events fail, the five audiences you can build before the doors open, the three roles to split across the floor, and the 4D framework behind every playbook. The through-line: if your event isn't ROI positive before your flight takes off, there is a better way.
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📌 What We Cover
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🔗 Resources Mentioned
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Resources:
Scrappy ABM: Visit for more ABM tips and strategies.
Connect with Mason on LinkedIn for a conversation about ABM.
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If you enjoyed today's episode and found valuable insights for your business, be sure to subscribe to the Scrappy ABM podcast for more expert discussions. Don't forget to leave a review and share this episode with your team or fellow marketers!
Most ABM advice assumes a team of ten and a six-figure tech stack. This episode of Scrappy ABM goes the other way. Mason Cosby takes a real company with a three-person marketing team and builds their ABM program live on a webinar, with the audience following along and writing their own answers down.
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Hanna Liszniansky leads marketing at Roundtable Learning, which creates custom VR and AR training programs for Fortune 500 companies. Big expensive product, complex sale, long cycle. Mason works through how people currently find out Roundtable exists, how the team builds pain, how they prove they can solve it, and where the whole thing stalls.
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The stall is the conversion stage. Roundtable ungates almost everything, puts demo videos on YouTube, and has booking links across the site, and still can't reliably move someone from watching a demo to booking a call. Mason maps their current programs against the account progression model, names the missing stage, and builds a one-to-one conversion play out of public quarterly earnings reports.
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👤 Guest Bio
Hanna Liszniansky is Head of Marketing at Roundtable Learning, a Chagrin Falls company that has been building custom learning content since 1997 and now creates VR, AR, and eLearning training programs for Fortune 500 buyers. She runs a three-person marketing team covering content, organic search, social, and events. Before Roundtable she was Director of Marketing at Rust Belt Recruiting, where she worked on hiring pathways and workforce development for the trades.
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📌 What We Cover
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🔗 Resources Mentioned
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Resources:
Scrappy ABM: Visit for more ABM tips and strategies.
Connect with Mason on LinkedIn for a conversation about ABM.
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If you enjoyed today's episode and found valuable insights for your business, be sure to subscribe to the Scrappy ABM podcast for more expert discussions. Don't forget to leave a review and share this episode with your team or fellow marketers!
Most ABM programs stall on the list. Cindy Dubon has a fixed budget and a rule about it: don't spend a dollar on an account you aren't desperate to win. On this episode of Scrappy ABM, Mason Cosby talks with Cindy Dubon about how she built a tiered target account list at Goldcast, and why tier A comes down to whether a company already gets what she's selling.
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Cindy walks through the firmographic and technographic signals she uses, how she separates preferences from requirements when tiering, and why she can hand sales five hundred accounts instead of six thousand.
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She also breaks down the quarterly virtual event her team works like a trade show booth, where they're the only booth on the floor. Gifting boxes go only to target accounts. Reps ask attendees what questions they want put to the speakers. SDRs walk out with meetings booked before follow-up even starts.
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👤 Guest Bio
Cindy Dubon is Director of Demand Generation at Goldcast, the AI-first B2B video and events platform acquired by Cvent in December 2025. She joined Goldcast in late 2024 after demand gen roles at DroneDeploy, Perceptyx, and Greenfly, and she managed the SDR team directly out of marketing. She co-presents Goldcast's annual Webinar Benchmark Report and markets to an ICP she belongs to herself, having been a customer before she was an employee.
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📌 What We Cover
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🔗 Resources Mentioned
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Resources:
Scrappy ABM: Visit for more ABM tips and strategies.
Connect with Mason on LinkedIn for a conversation about ABM.
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If you enjoyed today's episode and found valuable insights for your business, be sure to subscribe to the Scrappy ABM podcast for more expert discussions. Don't forget to leave a review and share this episode with your team or fellow marketers!
Twelve events, roughly $30,000 to $40,000 all-in, and a plan that fell apart at the first conference.
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On this episode of Scrappy ABM, Mason Cosby sits down with Jim Gilkey to break down what happened when the pre-booked meeting play stopped working. When you're not a sponsor you don't get the registration list. Vendor-class tickets can lock you out of the attendee directory entirely, and the event app often doesn't open until the day before.
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The fix came from reading the target account list differently. At one conference, about 10% of a 350-account list was sponsoring the event, so Mason and Jim stopped chasing attendees and started walking the show floor. They cover the plays that came out of it: logo-printed lattes at Forrester B2B, a plate of buffet food at Gartner that turned into a CMO meeting, and a $250 taco night that produced four booked meetings. Even with the original plan dead, the year still produced over 40 opportunities.
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👤 Guest Bio
Jim Gilkey is Head of Sales at Scrappy ABM and the only seller on the team, as he points out in the first 30 seconds. Before joining, he spent nearly four years at Terminus across enterprise sales, customer success, and account management, and he started his career as a Salesforce BDR. He also hosts Account Based Beverages, a short-format ABM interview show he launched in 2022. He's based in Indianapolis.
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📌 What We Cover
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🔗 Resources Mentioned
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Resources:
Scrappy ABM: Visit for more ABM tips and strategies.
Connect with Mason on LinkedIn for a conversation about ABM.
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If you enjoyed today's episode and found valuable insights for your business, be sure to subscribe to the Scrappy ABM podcast for more expert discussions. Don't forget to leave a review and share this episode with your team or fellow marketers!
Most advice on building a target account list assumes you have the time to build one properly. Amanda Oles has a second answer for everyone else, and it starts with the accounts that already know who you are.
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Mason Cosby and Amanda work through both paths on Scrappy ABM: the fully structured ICP approach for when ABM is your whole role, and the two programs to run when it isn't. Pipeline acceleration and closed lost. Her case is that those two lists define themselves, so you skip signals and orchestration and get straight to doing.
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From there they get into channels for long enterprise sales cycles, why Stensul's most influential combination is trade show plus email plus paid social, the two-minute pitch rule that makes customer dinners convert, and how Amanda knows she has momentum before pipeline shows up. Her closing lesson: simple is better.
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👤 Guest Bio
Amanda Oles is Director of Revenue Marketing at Stensul, the governed creation platform for enterprise marketing teams. She stepped into the role in 2025 after two and a half years leading demand generation there, and came up through demand gen at Datto and WordStream. Her programs sell into large, highly regulated enterprises where sales cycles run long and compliance limits what marketing can say. She's active in the ForgeX ABM community.
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📌 What We Cover
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🔗 Resources Mentioned
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Resources:
Scrappy ABM: Visit for more ABM tips and strategies.
Connect with Mason on LinkedIn for a conversation about ABM.
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If you enjoyed today's episode and found valuable insights for your business, be sure to subscribe to the Scrappy ABM podcast for more expert discussions. Don't forget to leave a review and share this episode with your team or fellow marketers!
Most target account lists get built backwards. Someone writes an ICP, sales adds the logos they've always wanted, and nobody checks it against a single closed deal. On this episode of Scrappy ABM, Mason Cosby talks with Christy Behnke, VP of Marketing at Terryberry, about where that list should actually come from.
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Christy starts with Salesforce reports on closed won and closed lost, and pays close attention to the stage where lost deals fell out. From there she grades accounts A through D, loops in product to see where the roadmap is headed, and tests messaging on 10% of the target account list instead of half of it.
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The conversation also covers content mapped to funnel stage, ChatGPT ads as a new test channel, and why she treats ABM as part of demand gen rather than a separate program. Plus the measurement that happens before the MQL, her 25% of contract value rule for acquisition cost, and what she wishes she'd known before her first ABM campaign.
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👤 Guest Bio
Christy Behnke is VP of Marketing at Terryberry, an employee recognition and engagement company founded in 1918 and headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She's built ABM at multiple organizations, with prior revenue marketing leadership roles at SMG (Service Management Group), Omnigo Software, and Rittal North America. At Terryberry she led the migration onto HubSpot and pulled the company's ABM launch forward to March, grading the ICP and building the target account list from CRM data.
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📌 What We Cover
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🔗 Resources Mentioned
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Resources:
Scrappy ABM: Visit for more ABM tips and strategies.
Connect with Mason on LinkedIn for a conversation about ABM.
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If you enjoyed today's episode and found valuable insights for your business, be sure to subscribe to the Scrappy ABM podcast for more expert discussions. Don't forget to leave a review and share this episode with your team or fellow marketers!
Most product-led companies decide ABM isn't built for them and move on. On Scrappy ABM, Mason Cosby makes the opposite case with Jess Annadurai, Senior Global Marketing Director at Supermetrics, who ran customer expansion as the entry point instead of new business.
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Supermetrics is a PLG company with a land-and-expand motion, and Jess treats its existing customer base as the strongest target account list it owns. She walks through how she, the VP of Sales, and the Director of Customer Success in North America picked accounts, why they started with an advocacy approach, and how a "meet your manager" campaign moved booked meeting rates from under 1% to 13-14%.
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The conversation stays specific: product signals for targeting, gifting that feels personal instead of a $25 gift card, $150K to $200K in pipeline per send, and roughly 9X ROI on year-one spend. Jess also shares what didn't travel when she tried to take a US playbook global.
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👤 Guest Bio
Jess Annadurai is Senior Global Marketing Director at Supermetrics, where she's spent just over three and a half years, first as North American head of marketing and then across a global remit covering demand, field, partner, and customer marketing. She was an active 6sense power user around 2018 and has worked both sides of the ABM world, as a practitioner buying the tools and as a marketer at an ABM vendor before moving to the data side of martech.
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📌 What We Cover
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🔗 Resources Mentioned
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Resources:
Scrappy ABM: Visit for more ABM tips and strategies.
Connect with Mason on LinkedIn for a conversation about ABM.
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If you enjoyed today's episode and found valuable insights for your business, be sure to subscribe to the Scrappy ABM podcast for more expert discussions. Don't forget to leave a review and share this episode with your team or fellow marketers!
Most ABM target lists start the same way: sales names the accounts they want, marketing runs campaigns at them, and everyone hopes volume closes the gap. On this episode of Scrappy ABM, Mason Cosby sits down with Mahsa Malekyar to pull that approach apart. Her point is blunt: an account that will eventually need your tool is not the same as an account that needs it right now, and if you can't tell the difference, you're buying brand awareness and calling it ABM.
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The conversation covers where free intent data already lives inside the tools you own, why in-person conversations are the trust signal that digital can't manufacture, and how to capture qualitative event conversations without asking a salesperson to open a spreadsheet. Mahsa also names the mistake she'd undo from her first ABM program, and it isn't a channel or a tool.
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👤 Guest Bio
Mahsa Malekyar, PMP, brings over a decade of marketing and project management experience, with prior leadership roles at First Onsite Property Restoration and Charter Communications. She builds ABM and event marketing programs with a marketing operations lens, and she's a self-described HubSpot power user who is very clear that HubSpot is not paying her to say so.
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📌 What We Cover
🔸 Why "who sales is targeting" is a fine starting point for ABM and a bad finishing point
🔸 The three questions that separate a real target from good brand awareness: do they need it now, will they need it in three months, are they looking at contract signing
🔸 Free and low-cost intent data sources: HubSpot's intent tracking, the Apollo.io website pixel, Microsoft Clarity, and Google tracking
🔸 Why ABM campaigns have to establish or expand trust, not just educate, and where in-person events come in
🔸 The event follow-up sequence: take the photo, ask to text it, get the number, then retarget with messaging tied to what they actually talked about
🔸 Content that earns the follow-up: templated guides and industry data benchmarks instead of "let's book a call"
🔸 How to measure conversations you can't put in a dropdown: dedicated event Slack channels, voice notes from the floor, and one person turning the dump into next steps
🔸 Why getting salespeople to use spreadsheets is a losing battle, and what to build instead
🔸 Mahsa's answer to what she'd do differently in her first ABM program: collaborate across sales, customer success, and product before the list is final
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🔗 Resources Mentioned
🔸 HubSpot (CRM and intent tracking)
🔸 Apollo.io (enrichment, outreach, website pixel)
🔸 Microsoft Clarity
🔸 Canva (post-event photo collages)
🔸 Slack (event channels and voice notes)
🔸 Wispr Flow (AI voice-to-text)
🔸 Freeman (research on media mistrust referenced by Mahsa)
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Resources:
Scrappy ABM: Visit for more ABM tips and strategies.
Connect with Mason on LinkedIn for a conversation about ABM.
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If you enjoyed today's episode and found valuable insights for your business, be sure to subscribe to the Scrappy ABM podcast for more expert discussions. Don't forget to leave a review and share this episode with your team or fellow marketers!
Most people are three to five years into account-based marketing. Ed VanderBush has been doing it for over a decade, and he's watched the whole thing move from a concept Bev Burgess was talking about in the early 2010s into an integrated mindset across a marketing team. On this episode of Scrappy ABM, Mason Cosby sits down with Ed, Senior Manager of Account-Based Marketing at LiveRamp, to get into what actually moves ABM forward when you don't have an unlimited budget.
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They cover the three inputs Ed uses to build a target account list, why "sales, please go after Google" is how programs fail, and how framing existing content beats building bespoke assets for every account. Ed also walks through going from "the ABM guy off in the corner" to an integrated ABM motion, plus the accidental CIO deal acceleration he hammered out with a seller over Slack in under 20 minutes.
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👤 Guest Bio
Ed VanderBush is Senior Manager of Account-Based Marketing at LiveRamp, the data collaboration and identity platform. He happened into ABM by accident at LexisNexis in the early 2010s, picking up a project a colleague had to hand off, and it turned into the last decade-plus of his career. At LiveRamp he built the ABM function from the ground up and now runs it as part of the integrated marketing team. He's based in southwest Ohio.
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📌 What We Cover
🔸 The three inputs Ed uses to build a target account list: sales priorities, signals that validate them, and whether marketing actually has a story to tell
🔸 Why "sales, please go after Google" is the wrong way to pick accounts, and the rocket-ship example of saying no when you have zero resources for a segment
🔸 Building a first ABM program off existing CRM data and existing content instead of creating everything bespoke
🔸 Why framing an asset for the audience beats custom reports, and the client who built a one-off report for a single CIO
🔸 Customer stories as Ed's favorite content, and how a recognizable logo closes more than a stronger but unknown one
🔸 Industry groups and subject matter experts as a sourcing channel that never shows up cleanly in a dashboard
🔸 The "Anatomy of the Deal" conversations Ed ran to mine internal stories and build early evangelism
🔸 The accidental deal acceleration: spotting a CIO engage with an ad, then closing the loop with the seller over Slack
🔸 The Kroger coupon mailer that taught Ed what relevancy and value actually mean
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🔗 Resources Mentioned
🔸 Bev Burgess, an early voice in account-based marketing referenced from the practice's infancy
🔸 LiveRamp, the data collaboration and identity platform where Ed leads ABM
🔸 LexisNexis, where Ed first picked up account-based marketing
🔸 BambooHR, the recognizable customer story Mason credits with lifting close rates
🔸 Salesforce and Slack, the tools behind the accidental deal acceleration story
🔸 Kroger, the personalized coupon example behind Ed's lesson on relevancy
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Resources:
Scrappy ABM: Visit for more ABM tips and strategies.
Connect with Mason on LinkedIn for a conversation about ABM.
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If you enjoyed today's episode and found valuable insights for your business, be sure to subscribe to the Scrappy ABM podcast for more expert discussions. Don't forget to leave a review and share this episode with your team or fellow marketers!
For almost a year, the Scrappy ABM team has run a full-day workshop called ABM in a Day, with over 900 marketers coming through it. In this solo episode, host Mason Cosby pulls the best of the best from that workshop's survey feedback and condenses roughly seven hours of material into about 15 minutes.
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The thing marketers rated most helpful was a clear structure and system for their ABM program. Mason walks through the two core frameworks behind that structure: the account progression model and the 4D framework. Then he gets into the best customer profile, a look-back method for finding the accounts you actually want more of.
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If you're heading into H2 and trying to figure out where to make an impact in the second half of the year, this one hands you a starting exercise you can run with a sheet of paper today.
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📌 What We Cover
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🔗 Resources Mentioned
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Resources:
Scrappy ABM: Visit for more ABM tips and strategies.
Connect with Mason on LinkedIn for a conversation about ABM.
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If you enjoyed today's episode and found valuable insights for your business, be sure to subscribe to the Scrappy ABM podcast for more expert discussions. Don't forget to leave a review and share this episode with your team or fellow marketers!
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