The Exit Five Podcast

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October 30Why We’re Retiring Drive, Betting Big on IRL, and Hiring Humans in 2027 (w/Exit Five CEO Dan Murphy)
#410 | Drive was an extremely popular B2B marketing event for three years straight - it sold out in 24 hours its first year and got 800+ people to come to Vermont. And we’re retiring it anyway. In this rare episode, Dan Murphy (CEO) and Dave Gerhardt (founder) take you behind the scenes of Exit Five’s event strategy and what we’re doing instead of Drive. You'll get a sneak peek into our next big bet: small, intimate events in cities like NYC, SF, Boston, Houston, and Toronto, plus an executive retreat. Dave and Dan also discuss Exit Five's origin story and its growth with no VC money. They also reminisce about the cold email that turned into Dan’s role as CEO. Finally, Dan shares how he runs Exit Five, why he doubled the team in 2026, and why AI won’t replace marketing jobs in the future.
Timestamps
(00:00) - Why we're retiring our super popular Drive Event (that once sold out in 24 hrs)
(04:01) - What we're doing instead in 2027: intimate events in hub cities and an executive retreat
(06:22) - Why we didn't turn Drive into a trade show
(09:45) - How to know when to kill something that works
(13:40) - The cold email that made Dan an accidental CEO
(17:48) - Growing with no VC money and doubling the team in 2026
(18:59) - Dan's leadership hacks for running Exit Five
(26:28) - Will AI replace marketing jobs? Dan's predictions
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Zoom Webinars & Events – The virtual event platform built to help B2B marketers run webinars that actually drive pipeline, with branded registration pages, live engagement features, and built-in tools to repurpose sessions into clips and content. Learn more at zoom.com/exitfive.
Convertiv - A B2B marketing agency that helps enterprise teams build an AI-powered go-to-market strategy, specializing in AEO. Podcast listeners get a free AI search review showing how you stack up against competitors. Learn more at convertiv.com/exitfive.
Optimizely - the AI platform for marketers. Build your own AI agents or pull from a directory of 50+ pre-built ones for marketing use cases. Their new Virtual Teammates can join meetings, complete tasks, support campaigns, and keep your website optimized. Learn more at optimizely.com/exitfive.
Compound Growth Marketing - A full-funnel demand gen agency helping high-growth cybersecurity and enterprise software companies show up earlier in the buying journey, combining AEO, modern paid advertising, and a dedicated go-to-market engineering team. Podcast listeners get two free media planning sessions to find out what channels are driving the best ROI. Learn more at compoundgrowthmarketing.com/exitfive.
Customer.io - An AI powered customer engagement platform that help marketers turn first-party data into engaging customer experiences across email, SMS, and push. Learn more at customer.io/exitfive.
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38 min
October 29Why You Should Slow Down and Market Intentionally to Make an Impact (with Ann Handley)
#409 | Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer at MarketingProfs and author of “Everybody Writes”, takes the Drive stage to make the case for slowing down in a marketing world built for speed. Using episode eight of a 1987 Mighty Mouse cartoon as her guide, she contrasts “cow mode” (fast, efficient, easy to measure) with “sloth mode” (slow, deliberate, harder to quantify). Ann argues that AI has scaled marketing’s cow energy as the job shifted from being seen to being chosen. She walks through her ASAP (as slow as possible) matrix for deciding when to move fast and when to slow down, and a “wallop tracker” that measures trust and resonance before a sale shows up. She illustrates her points with the story of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, where one marketer built a devoted following by choosing to matter more instead of mooing harder. Her throughline: when speed is cheap, judgment is what carries the premium.
Timestamps:
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Zoom Webinars & Events – The virtual event platform built to help B2B marketers run webinars that actually drive pipeline, with branded registration pages, live engagement features, and built-in tools to repurpose sessions into clips and content. Learn more at zoom.com/exitfive.
Convertiv - A B2B marketing agency that helps enterprise teams build an AI-powered go-to-market strategy, specializing in AEO. Podcast listeners get a free AI search review showing how you stack up against competitors. Learn more at convertiv.com/exitfive.
Optimizely - the AI platform for marketers. Build your own AI agents or pull from a directory of 50+ pre-built ones for marketing use cases. Their new Virtual Teammates can join meetings, complete tasks, support campaigns, and keep your website optimized. Learn more at optimizely.com/exitfive.
Compound Growth Marketing - A full-funnel demand gen agency helping high-growth cybersecurity and enterprise software companies show up earlier in the buying journey, combining AEO, modern paid advertising, and a dedicated go-to-market engineering team. Podcast listeners get two free media planning sessions to find out what channels are driving the best ROI. Learn more at compoundgrowthmarketing.com/exitfive.
Customer.io - An AI powered customer engagement platform that help marketers turn first-party data into engaging customer experiences across email, SMS, and push. Learn more at customer.io/exitfive.
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47 min
October 26Top 5 B2B Webinar Mistakes (and How to Fix Them) with Logan Lyles, DemandShift
#408 | Dasha talks with Logan Lyles, founder of webinar-as-a-service agency DemandShift, and winner of the Exit Five Live webinar about webinars for this very play! They break down the five mistakes that keep B2B webinars from driving pipeline. Logan shares why emailing only your own list caps your reach, and how email swaps and LinkedIn event invites bring in new audiences. He explains why your thank-you page is a wasted high-intent moment, and how a two-step survey flow books demos before the webinar even start. Logan also shares how to give your live audience a clear next step without getting salesy. They cover smarter follow-up using survey and poll data instead of just attended-versus-not, how to repurpose a webinar into newsletters and interactive lead magnets, and how he uses AI to plan and repurpose content one asset at a time with a human in the loop.

Show notes:
Paved – newsletter marketplace to find sponsorship fits by ICP/niche
Blazel – LinkedIn tool that gets a whole team active; free personal LinkedIn “report card” (12-month post analysis, benchmarks vs. peers)
Impactable – Justin Rowe’s agency; source of the LinkedIn event-invite hack
Riverside – recording platform he moved webinars onto
Higgsfield – AI ad-creative tool (Dasha’s mention)
Timestamps:
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Zoom Webinars & Events – The virtual event platform built to help B2B marketers run webinars that actually drive pipeline, with branded registration pages, live engagement features, and built-in tools to repurpose sessions into clips and content. Learn more at zoom.com/exitfive.
Convertiv - A B2B marketing agency that helps enterprise teams build an AI-powered go-to-market strategy, specializing in AEO. Podcast listeners get a free AI search review showing how you stack up against competitors. Learn more at convertiv.com/exitfive.
Optimizely - the AI platform for marketers. Build your own AI agents or pull from a directory of 50+ pre-built ones for marketing use cases. Their new Virtual Teammates can join meetings, complete tasks, support campaigns, and keep your website optimized. Learn more at optimizely.com/exitfive.
Compound Growth Marketing - A full-funnel demand gen agency helping high-growth cybersecurity and enterprise software companies show up earlier in the buying journey, combining AEO, modern paid advertising, and a dedicated go-to-market engineering team. Podcast listeners get two free media planning sessions to find out what channels are driving the best ROI. Learn more at compoundgrowthmarketing.com/exitfive.
Customer.io - An AI powered customer engagement platform that help marketers turn first-party data into engaging customer experiences across email, SMS, and push. Learn more at customer.io/exitfive.
***

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54 min
October 23[Best of B2B] Devin Reed on Content Strategy (Founder, The Reeder)
407 | Original air date: Jun 20, 2023. Devin Reed is the Founder @ The Reeder, previously Director of Content at Clari and Head of Content Strategy at Gong. Dave and Devin talk about his role at Clari and what the content team did. They discuss Gong's early content strategy, how to make long form content work, and what type of content works on LinkedIn today. They also discuss the importance of personal brand, bust some marketing myths, and more.
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Zoom Webinars & Events – The virtual event platform built to help B2B marketers run webinars that actually drive pipeline, with branded registration pages, live engagement features, and built-in tools to repurpose sessions into clips and content. Learn more at zoom.com/exitfive.
Convertiv - A B2B marketing agency that helps enterprise teams build an AI-powered go-to-market strategy, specializing in AEO. Podcast listeners get a free AI search review showing how you stack up against competitors. Learn more at convertiv.com/exitfive.
Optimizely - the AI platform for marketers. Build your own AI agents or pull from a directory of 50+ pre-built ones for marketing use cases. Their new Virtual Teammates can join meetings, complete tasks, support campaigns, and keep your website optimized. Learn more at optimizely.com/exitfive.
Compound Growth Marketing - A full-funnel demand gen agency helping high-growth cybersecurity and enterprise software companies show up earlier in the buying journey, combining AEO, modern paid advertising, and a dedicated go-to-market engineering team. Podcast listeners get two free media planning sessions to find out what channels are driving the best ROI. Learn more at compoundgrowthmarketing.com/exitfive.
Customer.io - An AI powered customer engagement platform that help marketers turn first-party data into engaging customer experiences across email, SMS, and push. Learn more at customer.io/exitfive.
***

Thanks to my friends at hatch.fm for producing this episode and handling all of the Exit Five podcast production.
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53 min
October 22Dave Unfiltered: How to Market Like You Give a Damn, Pick a Lane, plus Breakfast Ideas (and more)
406 | In this mailbag “Ask Dave Anything” episode, he gets into your most burning B2B marketing questions, concerns and challenges. There's no playbook for B2B marketing, but you can lean on the pros (like Dave) for advice when you're stuck. He shares his take on prioritizing brand or demand, then explains what he'd do in his first 90 days as a new marketing leader. He also shares his take on AI for outbound, the most underrated marketing investment, community vs. audience and whether AI is a bubble.
Timestamps:
(00:00) - A solo mailbag: Exit Five members ask, Dave answers
(05:42) - The biggest "mistake": narrowing Exit Five's ICP
(08:52) - Brand building vs. bottom-of-funnel pressure
(11:08) - AI outbound and "why you, why now"
(12:58) - The most underrated investment: giving a damn
(16:58) - Building community by showing up (10,000 comments)
(19:20) - Thinking like an exec: why incentives drive behavior
(21:51) - Your first 90 days as head of marketing
(26:21) - Life outside B2B: family, exercise, and routine
(30:42) - What younger Dave wanted vs. what he doesn't want now
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Zoom Webinars & Events – The virtual event platform built to help B2B marketers run webinars that actually drive pipeline, with branded registration pages, live engagement features, and built-in tools to repurpose sessions into clips and content. Learn more at zoom.com/exitfive.
Convertiv - A B2B marketing agency that helps enterprise teams build an AI-powered go-to-market strategy, specializing in AEO. Podcast listeners get a free AI search review showing how you stack up against competitors. Learn more at convertiv.com/exitfive.
Optimizely - the AI platform for marketers. Build your own AI agents or pull from a directory of 50+ pre-built ones for marketing use cases. Their new Virtual Teammates can join meetings, complete tasks, support campaigns, and keep your website optimized. Learn more at optimizely.com/exitfive.
Compound Growth Marketing - A full-funnel demand gen agency helping high-growth cybersecurity and enterprise software companies show up earlier in the buying journey, combining AEO, modern paid advertising, and a dedicated go-to-market engineering team. Podcast listeners get two free media planning sessions to find out what channels are driving the best ROI. Learn more at compoundgrowthmarketing.com/exitfive.
Customer.io - An AI powered customer engagement platform that help marketers turn first-party data into engaging customer experiences across email, SMS, and push. Learn more at customer.io/exitfive.
***

Thanks to my friends at hatch.fm for producing this episode and handling all of the Exit Five podcast production.
They give you unlimited podcast editing and strategy for your B2B podcast.
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36 min
October 19Why the Next Era of ABM Targets the Person, Not the Account (with Casey Patterson, Snowflake)
#405 | Dasha sits down with Casey Patterson, who runs North American ABM at Snowflake, to talk about what ABM looks like as AI reshapes it - live from Drive. Casey explains why the next era of ABM moves past the account to the individual, how her team goes from an account’s intent spike to a personalized gift in four days, and what she means by “tokenomics,” matching the right AI tool to each job. She shares how she inspires her team to disrupt their work a little every week so they never fall behind. Casey dives into her “database washing machine” project for cleaning expired marketing data and an agent that tells sales which event to invite each account to. In the end, Casey names one thing she won’t let AI replace (the direct sales connection), and her 2027 bets on account-based billboards and CMO-to-CMO video.
Timstamps
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Zoom Webinars & Events – The virtual event platform built to help B2B marketers run webinars that actually drive pipeline, with branded registration pages, live engagement features, and built-in tools to repurpose sessions into clips and content. Learn more at zoom.com/exitfive.
Convertiv - A B2B marketing agency that helps enterprise teams build an AI-powered go-to-market strategy, specializing in AEO. Podcast listeners get a free AI search review showing how you stack up against competitors. Learn more at convertiv.com/exitfive.
Optimizely - the AI platform for marketers. Build your own AI agents or pull from a directory of 50+ pre-built ones for marketing use cases. Their new Virtual Teammates can join meetings, complete tasks, support campaigns, and keep your website optimized. Learn more at optimizely.com/exitfive.
Compound Growth Marketing - A full-funnel demand gen agency helping high-growth cybersecurity and enterprise software companies show up earlier in the buying journey, combining AEO, modern paid advertising, and a dedicated go-to-market engineering team. Podcast listeners get two free media planning sessions to find out what channels are driving the best ROI. Learn more at compoundgrowthmarketing.com/exitfive.
Customer.io - An AI powered customer engagement platform that help marketers turn first-party data into engaging customer experiences across email, SMS, and push. Learn more at customer.io/exitfive.
***

Thanks to my friends at hatch.fm for producing this episode and handling all of the Exit Five podcast production.
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19 min
October 16[Best of B2B] ABM with Hillary Carpio (Head of ABM at Snowflake)
#404 | Dave chats with Hillary Carpio, VP of Growth Marketing at Snowflake, about account-based marketing. Hillary runs a 20 person team focused on ABM at Snowflake today.
They discuss why Snowflake has been an "account-based organization", ABM vs. Demand Generation, how to measure ABM, what an effective ABM campaign looks like, creating a tiered ABM strategy, how marketing exists to support sales at Snowflake and why it works, how tools like ChatGPT and Jasper can help ABM marketers, and more.
Timestamps
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Zoom Webinars & Events – The virtual event platform built to help B2B marketers run webinars that actually drive pipeline, with branded registration pages, live engagement features, and built-in tools to repurpose sessions into clips and content. Learn more at zoom.com/exitfive.
Convertiv - A B2B marketing agency that helps enterprise teams build an AI-powered go-to-market strategy, specializing in AEO. Podcast listeners get a free AI search review showing how you stack up against competitors. Learn more at convertiv.com/exitfive.
Optimizely - the AI platform for marketers. Build your own AI agents or pull from a directory of 50+ pre-built ones for marketing use cases. Their new Virtual Teammates can join meetings, complete tasks, support campaigns, and keep your website optimized. Learn more at optimizely.com/exitfive.
Compound Growth Marketing - A full-funnel demand gen agency helping high-growth cybersecurity and enterprise software companies show up earlier in the buying journey, combining AEO, modern paid advertising, and a dedicated go-to-market engineering team. Podcast listeners get two free media planning sessions to find out what channels are driving the best ROI. Learn more at compoundgrowthmarketing.com/exitfive.
Customer.io - An AI powered customer engagement platform that help marketers turn first-party data into engaging customer experiences across email, SMS, and push. Learn more at customer.io/exitfive.
***

Thanks to my friends at hatch.fm for producing this episode and handling all of the Exit Five podcast production.
They give you unlimited podcast editing and strategy for your B2B podcast.
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47 min
October 15AI-assisted creativity: 6 plays from real B2B teams (Exit Five Live)
#403 | We asked six B2B marketers a simple question: what’s the most creative way you’re using AI in your process right now? What tools you reach for, which prompts you run, and where you refuse to relinquish control to AI.

Each marketer shared their best creative AI workflow, from start to finish. Then, they answered questions live.

What you’ll walk away with:

Six real creative workflows you can steal – from brainstorm to final production
The specific tools that have earned a place on these teams (and the ones that got cut)
When to trust AI for speed and when to protect the work with human judgment

Speakers:

Josh Mendelsohn, Pendo: Turn your persona research into a prep doc sales looks forward to
Caitlin O. Bigelow, Blazel: Build a lead magnet that grades a year of LinkedIn posts against 30,000 peers
Alexandra Franco, Empact: Turn hiring posts and public signals into a plan for reaching your ICP
Jessica Rosenberg, Gamma: Build one Skill file that lets any team member prototype an on-brand landing page
Mike Fredrick, Walker Sands: Refresh campaign creative by testing 200 AI models at once
Maya Shah-Ceccotti, Passage Health: Turn your positioning into the context every AI tool starts from

Timestamps
(00:00) - Intro: making more content without losing creativity
(05:30) - The survey: more content, but only 18% think it’s better
(08:52) - Josh, Pendo: an AI skill for sales call prep
(15:37) - Caitlin, Blazel: AI lead magnets and a LinkedIn report card
(22:00) - Alex, Empact: an AI chain to find and qualify accounts
(29:44) - Jessica, Gamma: a brand skills library for the whole company
(36:37) - Mike, Walker Sands: node-based AI production
(43:50) - Maya, Passage Health: nine positioning questions behind an AI system
(48:55) - Voting on the winning play
(50:04) - The Exit Five community and the Experts Network
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Zoom Webinars & Events – The virtual event platform built to help B2B marketers run webinars that actually drive pipeline, with branded registration pages, live engagement features, and built-in tools to repurpose sessions into clips and content. Learn more at zoom.com/exitfive.
Convertiv - A B2B marketing agency that helps enterprise teams build an AI-powered go-to-market strategy, specializing in AEO. Podcast listeners get a free AI search review showing how you stack up against competitors. Learn more at convertiv.com/exitfive.
Optimizely - the AI platform for marketers. Build your own AI agents or pull from a directory of 50+ pre-built ones for marketing use cases. Their new Virtual Teammates can join meetings, complete tasks, support campaigns, and keep your website optimized. Learn more at optimizely.com/exitfive.
Compound Growth Marketing - A full-funnel demand gen agency helping high-growth cybersecurity and enterprise software companies show up earlier in the buying journey, combining AEO, modern paid advertising, and a dedicated go-to-market engineering team. Podcast listeners get two free media planning sessions to find out what channels are driving the best ROI. Learn more at compoundgrowthmarketing.com/exitfive.
Customer.io - An AI powered customer engagement platform that help marketers turn first-party data into engaging customer experiences across email, SMS, and push. Learn more at customer.io/exitfive.
***

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54 min
October 12Turning Events Into a Revenue Channel, plus Employee Advocacy, and Personal Brand (with Colin Kendall, CMO at SC&H)
#402 | Dasha interviews Colin Kendall, CMO at SC&H, live at Drive. They discuss how a brand that isn't a household name can build a brand and pipeline. Colin attributes the success to events - his team turned them into a measurable revenue channel by going beyond the sponsor booth. They focus on getting their own experts on stage, and repurposing that content afterward to build touchpoints with people who'd never heard of them. He explains how to get time-strapped executives to build a real LinkedIn presence and why standing out in the age of AI slop means having a point of view that's uniquely yours. He also dives into how his team scales their CEO's voice by turning his Slack posts into LinkedIn content. Plus, why he's betting on employee advocacy and personal branding in 2027, and how gamifying it (like Exit Five's Clout Cup) makes it stick.
Timestamps
(00:00) - Marketing a firm that sells expertise, not software
(01:31) - Inside SC&H: a hands-on alternative to the Big Four accounting giants
(04:13) - SC&H's biggest 2026 win: proving events drive real revenue
(05:04) - Why a sponsor booth isn't enough: get your experts on stage
(06:04) - Make one speaking slot last all year by repurposing the content
(07:01) - Turning in-house experts into credible LinkedIn thought leaders
(09:02) - The AI slop problem: why your point of view has to be your own
(11:04) - Repurposing leader's Slack messages as LinkedIn posts
(11:53) - The 2027 bet: employee advocacy and personal branding
(13:48) - The Clout Cup: using competition to drive LinkedIn growth
Join 50,0000 people who get Dave's Newsletter here: https://www.exitfive.com/newsletter
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Zoom Webinars & Events – The virtual event platform built to help B2B marketers run webinars that actually drive pipeline, with branded registration pages, live engagement features, and built-in tools to repurpose sessions into clips and content. Learn more at zoom.com/exitfive.
Convertiv - A B2B marketing agency that helps enterprise teams build an AI-powered go-to-market strategy, specializing in AEO. Podcast listeners get a free AI search review showing how you stack up against competitors. Learn more at convertiv.com/exitfive.
Optimizely - the AI platform for marketers. Build your own AI agents or pull from a directory of 50+ pre-built ones for marketing use cases. Their new Virtual Teammates can join meetings, complete tasks, support campaigns, and keep your website optimized. Learn more at optimizely.com/exitfive.
Compound Growth Marketing - A full-funnel demand gen agency helping high-growth cybersecurity and enterprise software companies show up earlier in the buying journey, combining AEO, modern paid advertising, and a dedicated go-to-market engineering team. Podcast listeners get two free media planning sessions to find out what channels are driving the best ROI. Learn more at compoundgrowthmarketing.com/exitfive.
Customer.io - An AI powered customer engagement platform that help marketers turn first-party data into engaging customer experiences across email, SMS, and push. Learn more at customer.io/exitfive.
***

Thanks to my friends at hatch.fm for producing this episode and handling all of the Exit Five podcast production.
They give you unlimited podcast editing and strategy for your B2B podcast.
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17 min
October 09[Best of B2B] How To Drive Revenue Through Content with Lashay Lewis (Founder, BOFU.ai)
#400 | Lashay Lewis helps B2B SaaS companies create profit-driven content strategies. We talk about why a B2B content strategy should be built from the bottom of the funnel up, why she interviews sales teams to understand "life before using the product" and why she interviews customer success teams to understand "life after using the product" and how that influences content strategy, how writing influences buyers, the power of a strong company POV, training in-house writers and freelancers in a way that scales, where podcasting fits in a B2B content strategy, why search volume can be misleading, and thoughts on how content marketers can use AI.
Timestamps
(00:00) - Why timeless marketing fundamentals still beat chasing new tactics
(03:45) - Why bottom-of-funnel content actually converts
(06:57) - Why search intent matters more than search volume
(13:06) - The customer research questions that make content convert
(15:14) - How to write content without interviewing experts every time
(24:36) - Feature mapping: turning product features into customer pain points
(31:55) - Companies that get bottom-of-funnel content right
(35:41) - Repurposing one converting article across every channel
(43:03) - Wrap-up and where to find Lashay
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Zoom Webinars & Events – The virtual event platform built to help B2B marketers run webinars that actually drive pipeline, with branded registration pages, live engagement features, and built-in tools to repurpose sessions into clips and content. Learn more at zoom.com/exitfive.
Convertiv - A B2B marketing agency that helps enterprise teams build an AI-powered go-to-market strategy, specializing in AEO. Podcast listeners get a free AI search review showing how you stack up against competitors. Learn more at convertiv.com/exitfive.
Optimizely - the AI platform for marketers. Build your own AI agents or pull from a directory of 50+ pre-built ones for marketing use cases. Their new Virtual Teammates can join meetings, complete tasks, support campaigns, and keep your website optimized. Learn more at optimizely.com/exitfive.
Compound Growth Marketing - A full-funnel demand gen agency helping high-growth cybersecurity and enterprise software companies show up earlier in the buying journey, combining AEO, modern paid advertising, and a dedicated go-to-market engineering team. Podcast listeners get two free media planning sessions to find out what channels are driving the best ROI. Learn more at compoundgrowthmarketing.com/exitfive.
Customer.io - An AI powered customer engagement platform that help marketers turn first-party data into engaging customer experiences across email, SMS, and push. Learn more at customer.io/exitfive.
***

Thanks to my friends at hatch.fm for producing this episode and handling all of the Exit Five podcast production.
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46 min

About The Exit Five Podcast

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The #1 resource for B2B marketing professionals. Each week, hosts Dave Gerhardt and Dasha Shakov sit down with B2B marketers to break down everything from strategy and leadership to the channels and tactics that drive growth, plus what it takes to build a career in marketing. You'll find real ideas you can put to work right away, and the gut check and inspiration to keep getting better at your job.