The B2B Revenue Executive Experience

We often use the words marketing and advertising interchangeably. But while advertising is a component of marketing, marketing itself refers to your ability to attract and keep a customer.

Which are you investing time in?

In this episode, I interview Wayne Mullins, Founder at Ugly Mug Marketing, about why your marketing strategy is messed up, how to turn customers into evangelists, and an ancient marketing framework that works every time.

Listen in as we discuss:

• Why marketing doesn’t have to be the confusing mess it often is

Check out this resource we mentioned:

• Wayne’s book is Full Circle Marketing 

Now that you know that marketing doesn’t have to be so frustrating, are you ready to learn some practical strategies to implement to make it start running smoother? Check out the full list of episodes: The B2B Revenue Executive Experience.

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• Episode 189: 5 Things CRM Software Should Help You Do w/ Jeroen Corthout
• Episode 299: How to Break the Used Car Salesperson Stereotype with Harry Spaight
• Episode 301: From Tech Sales to Business Conversation with Eric Shaver

You’re in college and (other than the vaguely threatening hairspray bills your Mötley Crüe tribute band has racked up) things are going pretty well. You passed that calculus class you’ve been worried about all semester — and managed to forget basic arithmetic before the celebration keg was even cracked. If forgetting is so much easier than learning, even in academia — how can you ever expect to upskill a whole organization?

You know you can’t just give up. Especially when it’s something everyone needs to know — like data.

When you want data literacy across a whole organization, you turn to today’s guest, Matt Cowell, CEO at QuantHub, an organization dedicated to helping you imbue every part of your own organization with the dark data arts.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why longform learning fails

Now that you know how to infuse data literacy into your team, are you ready to learn how to build trust and confidence with your content strategy or how to optimize your tech stack? Check out the full list of episodes: The B2B Revenue Executive Experience.

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• TuneIn

• Episode 189: 5 Things CRM Software Should Help You Do w/ Jeroen Corthout
• Episode 299: How to Break the Used Car Salesperson Stereotype with Harry Spaight
• Episode 301: From Tech Sales to Business Conversation with Eric Shaver

It’s the mid-70’s and you’ve just purchased your first new car — a Ford Pinto. The commercials convinced you that this car was built to survive a demolition derby, while the salesman in the lounge suit convinced you it didn’t matter that you couldn’t drive stick. Now you don’t know what’s worse — grinding the gears and stalling every 200 yards or that the bike messenger who bumped into your fender last time you did sent the entire car up in flames. Could anything make you trust a brand’s content (or yourself) again?

If anyone could, it would be today’s guest, Margot Bloomstein, author of Trustworthy and Brand & Strategy Consultant at Appropriate, Inc, who joins the show to discuss how effective content strategy is for building customer confidence and trust in your brand.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why customers need to be confident in you and themselves

Now that you know how to build trust and confidence with your content strategy, are you ready to learn how to optimize your tech stack or dive into how Google’s new rules impact your SEO? Check out the full list of episodes: The B2B Revenue Executive Experience.

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• Apple Podcast
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• TuneIn

• Episode 189: 5 Things CRM Software Should Help You Do w/ Jeroen Corthout
• Episode 299: How to Break the Used Car Salesperson Stereotype with Harry Spaight
• Episode 301: From Tech Sales to Business Conversation with Eric Shaver

You’ve been speaking to a salesperson about a new piece of software that’s going to revolutionize your tech stack. It’s AI-powered. It’s shiny. It has an all-leather interior and chrome trim. It helps grandmas cross the street and carries their shopping bags. You’re daydreaming about all the things you can do with it… and somewhere along the way, you’ve forgotten what you’re trying to do in the first place.

Today I’m joined by Asa Hochhauser, VP of Sales for McGaw.io, to discuss the almighty tech stack and how to avoid the pitfalls — like the one above — many companies find themselves falling into when trying to optimize theirs.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why you need to understand the product before you buy

If you want to easily visualize and find new ways to optimize your tech stack, all in one place, be sure to check out the McGaw.io stack builder. 

Now that you know how to optimize your tech stack, are you ready to dive into how Google’s new rules impact your SEO or learn the secrets to establishing credibility? Check out the full list of episodes: The B2B Revenue Executive Experience. 

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• TuneIn

• Episode 189: 5 Things CRM Software Should Help You Do w/ Jeroen Corthout
• Episode 299: How to Break the Used Car Salesperson Stereotype with Harry Spaight
• Episode 301: From Tech Sales to Business Conversation with Eric Shaver

You’re throwing an office party now and you need to get noisemakers, silly hats and confetti. You know you can find all of these things on Amazon, but lately, you’ve also been fielding increasingly-aggressive office visits from a door-to-door party clown from the local clown college trying to sell you all of these very items — and he warns that, if you don’t, you’re a terrible manager and hate puppies. Who do you go with… and why is it Amazon?

Today’s guest, neuroscientist Dr. Terry Wu, Owner at Neuromarketing Services, says you choose Amazon not because of John Wayne Gacy or the movie IT, but because our brains are wired to love buying but hate feeling like we’re being forced.

This is just one of many examples Dr. Wu shares in the latest episode of how neuroscience influences buying behavior — and how understanding the science helps you make a sale.

We discuss:

• The difference between helping a customer buy and selling to them

And be sure to check out:

• Terry’s speaking 

Now that you know why the brain buys, are you ready to learn how to foster human connection to build high-performance teams, or how to overcome buyer resistance? Check out the full list of episodes: The B2B Revenue Executive Experience.

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• Spotify
• Apple Podcast
• Stitcher
• TuneIn

• Episode 189: 5 Things CRM Software Should Help You Do w/ Jeroen Corthout
• Episode 299: How to Break the Used Car Salesperson Stereotype with Harry Spaight
• Episode 301: From Tech Sales to Business Conversation with Eric Shaver

Your organization has successfully made the transition to remote work. The pandemic proved you don’t need the expensive office lease to get the job done. But something is missing. There’s no more awkward attempts to side-step around each other in the hall. You can no longer visit the jar on Sheryl’s desk in HR and sneak enough candy to make Wilford Brimley tear up. There’s no more spontaneous conversation. No more office culture. How do you build human connection in a digital world?

Today, I’m speaking with Tony Martignetti, Chief Inspiration Officer at Inspired Purpose Coaching and Author of Climbing the Right Mountain, about how to foster real human connection remotely and how to nurture high-performance teams.

We discuss:

• How to foster connection in a digital world

Now that you know how to foster human connection to build high-performance teams, are you ready to learn how to overcome buyer resistance, or how Google’s new rules impact your SEO strategy? Check out the full list of episodes: The B2B Revenue Executive Experience.

• YouTube
• Spotify
• Apple Podcast
• Stitcher
• TuneIn

• Episode 189: 5 Things CRM Software Should Help You Do w/ Jeroen Corthout
• Episode 299: How to Break the Used Car Salesperson Stereotype with Harry Spaight
• Episode 301: From Tech Sales to Business Conversation with Eric Shaver

You try shopping out in the real world again for the first time since before the pandemic made the whole world play a game of The Outside Is Lava. You’re about to head into a store to finally treat yourself to that fancy air fryer that your friends’ and family’s screams assure you you can’t live without. Then, you see the salesman at the door salivating and rubbing his hands together like some cartoon villain, so you leave. You’ve just experienced buyer resistance. How can you make sure that your reps aren’t the salesmen in the doorway, chasing off your buyers?

Today I’m speaking with Kerry Cunningham, Senior Principal, Product Marketing at 6sense, who says the key to overcoming buyer resistance is understanding buyer behavior — and he shares a ton of behavioral insights in this episode.

Kerry covers:

• Why the buyer is more in control than ever (and can smell BS a mile away)

Check out the full list of episodes: The B2B Revenue Executive Experience.

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• Apple Podcast
• Stitcher
• TuneIn

• Episode 189: 5 Things CRM Software Should Help You Do w/ Jeroen Corthout
• Episode 299: How to Break the Used Car Salesperson Stereotype with Harry Spaight
• Episode 301: From Tech Sales to Business Conversation with Eric Shaver

Your SEO strategy has been paying off: You’ve won some key rankings and, more importantly, they’re generating leads. But then the infamous internet autocrat, which prefers to be called Google, decides to implement some changes to its algorithm — and they require technical expertise on your end. Do you have the technical SEO capabilities to meet the challenge or are you doomed to share the fate of Ask Jeeves and MySpace?

If you weren’t already aware, this is not merely a hypothetical — Google really is changing its algorithm to punish slower pages in its rankings. If you aren’t sure what this means for your business, today’s guest, technical SEO wizard Geoff Atkinson, Founder and CEO of Huckabuy.com, has the answers you seek.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The changes Google is implementing and what they mean for you

Now that you know how Google’s new rules impact your SEO, are you ready to learn the secrets to establishing credibility or crack the code to effective outbound marketing? Check out the full list of episodes: The B2B Revenue Executive Experience.

• YouTube
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• Apple Podcast
• Stitcher
• TuneIn

• Episode 189: 5 Things CRM Software Should Help You Do w/ Jeroen Corthout
• Episode 299: How to Break the Used Car Salesperson Stereotype with Harry Spaight
• Episode 301: From Tech Sales to Business Conversation with Eric Shaver

It’s late in the sales cycle and suddenly a bunch of your reps develop a new superpower for giving BS excuses — my buyers all went on vacation, they’d buy us if we weren’t so expensive, my dog ate their key decision-maker. How did this happen? Were they bit by a radioactive liar?

Late-cycle excuses usually mean early-cycle mistakes. One of the biggest ones? Failing to establish credibility.

This week, we’re trying something a little different — and there’s booze involved. Lisa Schnare, Natalie Pitchford, and Carlos Nouche join me for drinks to discuss why credibility matters and how to build it fast. Pour yourself a drink and strap in for a B2B Revenue Executive… Experiment?

In this episode, we break down what it takes to quickly establish credibility, including:

• Personalization

Now that you know the secrets to establishing credibility, are you ready to crack the code to effective outbound marketing or learn more about the entrepreneurial journey for women? Check out the full list of episodes: The B2B Revenue Executive Experience. 

• YouTube
• Spotify
• Apple Podcast
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• TuneIn

• Episode 189: 5 Things CRM Software Should Help You Do w/ Jeroen Corthout
• Episode 299: How to Break the Used Car Salesperson Stereotype with Harry Spaight
• Episode 301: From Tech Sales to Business Conversation with Eric Shaver

Who owns the Go to Market strategy, and why is the correct answer marketing? 

Before you get into the octagon to fight this out, it’s important to look at revenue and the go to market strategy through a different lens. 

Which is exactly why our guest on this episode of the B2B Revenue Executive Experience was such a huge get. Christina del Villar is the author of Sway: Implement the G.R.I.T. Marketing Method to Gain Influence and Drive Corporate Strategy, and in this episode, she dropped so many knowledge bombs on us. 

Among the things we talked about: 

- The G.R.I.T. marketing method

- Getting rid of the grey areas of dollar attribution

- Turning marketing into a revenue knowledge center

- Why marketing should own the Go to Market strategy

Now that you know how to employ buyer-first principles, are you ready to take a deeper dive into the role data should play in your organization, or learn all about sales enablement 3.0? Check out the full list of episodes: The B2B Revenue Executive Experience. 

• YouTube
• Spotify
• Apple Podcast
• Stitcher
• TuneIn

• Episode 189: 5 Things CRM Software Should Help You Do w/ Jeroen Corthout
• Episode 299: How to Break the Used Car Salesperson Stereotype with Harry Spaight
• Episode 301: From Tech Sales to Business Conversation with Eric Shaver