Here are Steve Armenti's 5 tips for GTM alignment:

1. ask sales "who matches our 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗘?" to ensure marketing's hypothesis matches the people that sales regularly encounters as leads of contacts

2. get sales' feedback on your 𝗕𝗨𝗬𝗘𝗥 𝗝𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗬 - agree on the way customers actually want to learn about and purchase your product

3. Share your 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗤𝗨𝗘 𝗩𝗔𝗟𝗨𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 with sales to determine if this is the way they actually tell our story and make sure all campaigns are written with this message

4. share marketing's 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗥 with sales, so that they can help promote big events, new content, or important social media posts

5. co-create 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗨𝗘 𝗚𝗢𝗔𝗟𝗦 to ensure everyone is guided by the same North Star

Many teams do a great job with these...in silos. The goal is not to reinvent the wheel with some complex methodology...it is to work together as one team.


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Is there a way for Account Based Marketing to not be...ACCOUNT-based?

Mike Grinberg has discovered a way to market to accounts without actually targeting people in those accounts. Check out this episode of Account Based Beverages to learn how you can replicate this unused strategy with your marketing efforts!

This is much debate in B2B Marketing around where Demand Gen ends & where ABM begins. Greg Toler, an ABM consultant & head of marketing at Parsable, joins me this week to share his thoughts on the topic, as well as some of the best advice I've heard on the things marketers need to do before launching their first ABM programs.

Tim Davidson is an expert when it comes to B2B marketing. Listen to his advice on learning from customers to develop your ICP & messaging!

Sales & Marketing alignment is the #1 issue ABM teams face...and Steven Schroeyer knows why. Check out this week's Account Based Beverages episode where Steven explains the two most common ways sales & marketing teams try to align, along with the missing third piece of "The Alignment Trifecta".

Marketing is all about testing, iterating, & optimizing.

When it comes to A/B testing, Brandy knows a thing or two. With experience working for agencies, ABM platforms like Terminus & DemandBase, & for Fortune 500 companies, Brandy has run about every type of test to ensure every one of her campaigns are optimized for success.

Check out today's episode where Brandy breaks down all of the variables marketers should be testing & a simple 6 step process for executing these tests.

This week - Trinity Nguyen of UserGems joins me to talk through narrowing your target account selection due to tightening budgets, driving sales and marketing alignment down to the inidividual contributor level, & tackling the age old question "is attribution real?".

"B2B Marketing is in a State of Emergency. The way we do demand today is simple not sustainable." -Bolaji Oyejide

On this episode of Account Based Beverages, Bolaji gives practical advice & examples around how marketers can create demand in the most efficient way in 2023.

He recommends 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘 - a unique POV that makes buyers say, "THIS is what I stand for. This company does no need to be first to features or the biggest because they represent me."

Listen to the full episode below to hear Bolaji's other tips, as well as real life examples & as always, follow the podcast so you never miss an episode!

The 🔑 to unlocking your next level of ABM?

🕵️‍♀️ social sleuthing 🕵️‍♂️

Lindsay McGuire of Formstack joins us on this week's Account Based Beverages to explain this concept:

🔎 study 10-15 people at top customer or prospect accounts
📓 write down what they share, comment on, or talk about
🎙 craft your messaging to their specific interests/concerns

Listen to the whole episode to hear the full breakdown & please subscribe to the Account Based Beverages Podcast if you aren't already!

Where do you go to inspire creativity? This week I am joined by Jay Desai, founder of Swiply & Head of Marketing at Captivate Talent, to talk about where he goes for his best marketing ideas.

Marketing budget cuts?

Not with this approach.

Tyler Pleiss of Clari joins us this week on Account Based Beverages to share his greatest advice for getting executive & sales buy-in for your ABM program:


“The easiest way to gain buy-in from leadership & sales leadership is to align ABM to the company’s go-to-market strategies.”


Here is how you can align your ABM program in 2023:

🤔 understand WHERE your company is trying to grow

📈 understand the growth levers to achieve those goals

📅 meet regularly with sales & leadership to discuss progress

👂 listen to salespeople to learn where they are focusing so you can create ABM campaigns to better support them


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Many of the world's largest companies execute ABM as a highly personalized, 1:1 experience. With all of the money being spent on top customers and target accounts, one piece is often overlooked.

Listen as Jess Larkin, Senior Strategic Marketing Manager at Confluent, describes her "secret sauce" when it comes to 1:1 ABM.

Here is a hard truth many GTM teams don't want to face:
Your message isn't cutting through the noise.

So what do you do when your goals keep increasing, your budget to hit those numbers keep decreasing, & your performance is sliding?

On this episode of Account Based Beverages, Samantha McKenna breaks down her mantra "Show Me You Know Me" into a step-by-step process that sales & marketing teams can follow to drive TRUE personalization.

What are the important pieces of the research process?How do you connect what you learned about them to your CTA?How can you get a buyer to open/click to even see your message?

In a world where tokens no longer capture attention & open rates on sales emails hover around 6%, it is VITAL to choose quality over quantity.

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"Not every account will create an opportunity, but that doesn’t mean your campaign was ineffective. You need leading campaign-related metrics.” -Vlad

Measurement is one of the TOP pains of ABM teams right now with trying to prove the effectiveness of 2022 strategies so companies can set the 2023 budget and this episode couldn’t come at a better time.

Huge thanks to Vlad for sharing his advice on how marketers need to think about measuring ABM performance & if you aren’t already, follow him & fullfunnel.io on LinkedIn!

If you are not doing this, you are leaving money on the table.

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The whole point of Account Based Marketing is to personalize content & experiences to the specific accounts that are the best fit for your company.

𝚂𝚘 𝚠𝚑𝚢 𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗'𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜?


The process is straightforward:
🪪 IDENTIFY the accounts you'd like as customers
🎙 INTERVIEW the decision makers at those accounts
📰 CREATE articles, podcasts, videos from that interview
📢 AMPLIFY that content through all of marketing channels


The benefits are endless:
🚪 OPEN DOORS with accounts that don't respond to sales outreach
🤝 BUILD RELATIONSHIPS with buyers at your top accounts
👀 EXPANDED VISIBILITY because the account your interviewed is connected with companies that look just like them

This episode is PACKED with value - huge thanks to Sarah Noel Block from Tiny Marketing for joining me on Account Based Beverages!

Have you tried to determine whether or not ABM was right for your company? Michael Roberts explains how even if you have doubts, the process of evaluating ABM as a strategy is an exercise that will shape your marketing department for the better.

Aneesh Lal was the first Head of Community at RevGenius and grew the organization from less than 500 members to the 30,000 juggernaut it is today. Join us as he shares his advice on building a community, what lift you need to expect, and why your first goal should never be lead generation.

Sales & marketing alignment is the top ABM problem marketers are trying to solve today. So what does the other side of this alignment gap have to say? Jarred Young, SVP of Sales at Terminus, joins us today to give three practical pieces of advice to help align your GTM team today.

{first.name} and {company.name} are not forms of personalization, and most certainly not enough to move the needle in ABM. Join us as Stephanie Totty shares her strategy on how to create ABM-worthy content.

Clinton Eyong, Account Based Strategy Manager at MRI Software, shares a breakthrough in sales & marketing alignment with a strategy he's coined, "Discovery Sessions"

Are you giving up on ABM campaigns too quickly? Do you even have the right definition of ABM? Listen in as Ryan Moline, Sr Product Marketing Manager at Bombora, shares some crucial advice on ABM in this week's Account Based Beverages episode.

Faster sales follow up comes from faster signals & accurate data…don’t let stale Account Scores deteriorate your sales-marketing alignment.

On this episode of Account Based Beverages, Ryan Gunn explains why recency is important to include in scoring & how to build decay into your scoring model.

Auseh Britt of Capitol Canary joins us this week to detail exactly how you can get ABM kicked off at your company with the one campaign that all but guarantees success.

Learn what opportunity data you need to be gathering in the sales cycle & which ABM plays yield the highest success rates when targeting previously lost opportunities on this episode of Account Based Beverages!

Revenue is the end goal of marketing,but it sure isn't the point B (it's more like point Z)
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Taylor Young, Head of ABM Strategy at Terminus, spends all of her time helping marketers get started with ABM or take their ABM to the next level.

She is SO well versed in this that she built step-by-step playbooks outlining how to get from A to Z...and this week, she's walking us through her process on Account Based Beverages.

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Advertising is a $1B industry...so is fraud. Tenisha Griggs, Head of Global Media at Terminus, shares the hard-hitting questions you MUST ask advertising partners to ensure that you aren't one of the 60% that is wasting over half of their advertising budget of fraud, brand safety, or CPM inefficiency.

Check out this episode of Account Based Beverages to hear Breezy Beaumont of Correlated describe how Product Led Growth & Account Based Marketing can work hand-in-hand to drive more revenue.

ABM is more than just revenue. Check out this episode of Account Based Beverages where Marianne Schroer explains three other use cases for ABM that will impact the whole company & accelerate your career.

BDRs should not call on accounts on day 1 of a campaign. Cold calls, at this stage, are a waste of time.

Justin Fordham of 360Learning shares his three-phased strategy for ABM campaigns. Check out this episode of Account Based Beverages to discover his "Learn, Try, Trust" campaign structure & how it can help your sales development team create more sales conversations.

On this Account Based Beverages episode, Yaagneshwaran Ganesh, Director of Content Marketing at Avoma, explains exactly HOW you can go about creating content that stands out from competition and drives more conversions.

Companies are rushing to launch ABM programs. In all of that haste, they are missing an important piece: being memorable.

In this episode of Account Based Beverages, James Gilbert, CMO of RedRoute, defines the missing focus within ABM today, along with real examples of campaigns that cut through the noise & left a lasting impression.

Mason Cosby has driven $1.44M in pipeline, about half of which has turned into revenue, through personal branding on social media.

Listen to this episode of Account Based Beverages to learn why sharing your company’s posts is a bad thing, why connecting with ideal clients will change your growth trajectory, & how to genuinely help others & invest in relationships on platforms like LinkedIn.

On this special 10th episode of Account Based Beverages, Jared Brickman shares his ABM initiative that doubled bookings, tripled average contract value, and closed 4 of the top 40 US banks in his first year.

Do you know how many companies are in your market? What % are customers? What % are in pipeline? What % are engaged? ABM Expert Torrey Dye asks some of the hard questions most CEOs can't answer & provides the solution for how to find & always know those answers.

At this point, most marketers understand how to find their Ideal Client Profile (ICP). In this episode, Andrei Zinkevich adds on a key component that many marketers are overlooking...criteria for disqualifying accounts from your ICP.

"ChatGPT is not going to replace your job, but markters leveraging ChatGPT will." -Forrester B2B Summit 2023

Daniel Englebretson is on the cutting edge of leveraging AI for Account Based Marketing. Listen as he explains two use cases for ChatGPT in ABM & how you can get ahead of the curve by using AI to save time & scale personalization.

There is a battle between the way buyers buy & the way marketers market. Buyers want to do research on their own without being bombarded by sales or added to a email drip campaign. Marketers want to run campaigns that prove their work is influencing new & existing pipeline.

But what if marketers matched the buyers behavior with their marketing?

Jacob Landsman breaks down exactly how YOU should be thinking about Buyer-Led ABM on this week’s episode of Account Based Beverages.

Think sales & marketing alignment is just showing up to each other’s team meetings? Think again. Brianna Gammons of Postal.io breaks down a strategy to both align sales & marketing while discovering brilliant new ideas for campaigns on this week's episode of Account Based Beverages!

When you constantly interview the brightest minds in ABM, what ABM advice do YOU give when asked?

Declan Mulkeen, CMO of strategicABM & host of the Let's Talk ABM Podcast, shares the top 5 challenges of ABM & his advice for how to tackle each challenge.

This is NOT an episode you want to miss!

Jennifer Leaver, Senior Global ABM Manager at BazaarVoice, breaks down exactly how she aligns sales & marketing teams before, during, & after launching ABM campaigns.

Check out this episode that covers everything from creating pilot groups, soliciting feedback from sales, & reviewing dashboard metrics - the full soup-to-nuts process on ABM campaign alignment.

What makes up a successful ABM program?


Amber Bogie, Director of Global Demand Generation at Reachdesk, lays out three crucial ingredients all programs must have:

👭 sales + marketing partnership 👬

📈 data-driven decisions 📊

🎯 a target account list 🔍


Listen to today's episode to Account Based Beverages to hear her dive in to each of those three!

Corrina Owens, Senior ABM Manager at Gong, shares her advice for "How to get started with ABM".

Nick Bennett, Director of Evangelism & Customer Marketing at Alyce & Host of the Rep Your Brand Podcast, shares his advice on sales & marketing alignment.

ABM can be a costly mistake if it is not a fit for your company. Listen in as Darryl Praill covers his main reasons why ABM may NOT be a fit for your sales & marketing teams.

How do you prove to your management that ABM really does work?

Amit Lavi teaches us exactly how to do this by leveraging both proactive & reactive ABM in this week’s Account Based Beverages episode.


Learn Amit’s recommendations for building your website into a sales insights engine & what actions to take once accounts engage on this owned property.

From campaign stacking to breaking down his revenue growth mapping framework, Daniel Zsolt Rényi covers everything you need to know to get started with ABM & to shape ABM into the engine that will take your revenue to the next level.

"That's not ABM." We hear these words from Enterprise ABM marketers when they look at a Growth ABM strategy (& vice versa). Davis Potter, founder of Humanize What You Buy, joins us this week to break down these two frameworks & discuss ways which marketers can leverage the best of both worlds.

In today’s economy, it is imperative that marketers are able to communicate their success to their executive team.

Using a real example as our guide, Rob Willingham walks us through the three most important questions in his framework for executive communications:

What’s working?
What’s not working?
How to translate that into success metrics for your executive team?

Listen to the full episode to hear this framework in action & how Rob was able to prove his ABM efforts drove 11% more opportunity creation.

The biggest temptation in ABM? Trying to boil the ocean. Jim Gilkey knows that fast results don’t mean massive programs. That’s why he sat down with Katie Frank, growth marketer at Shortcut, to show you how proof-of-concept starts with targeted, one-to-one campaigns. Katie explains why you need to push back—respectfully—on leaders demanding “big bang” ABM, and how virtual events (think wine tastings or cocktail classes) turn your brand champions into your best salespeople. You’ll walk away knowing exactly how to launch a small ABM pilot, iterate on early wins, and build momentum before scaling to one-to-many.

👤 Guest Bio

• Katie Frank is a growth marketer at Shortcut, where she helps product and engineering teams build better together. She’s all about fresh ideas and bold campaigns—coffee in the morning and champagne whenever.

📌 What We Cover

• Why “don’t boil the ocean” matters more in ABM than anywhere else
• How to push back on leaders and start with one-to-one or one-to-few campaigns
• Turning targeted virtual wine or champagne tastings into networking, not pitches
• Letting your brand champions shine in front of prospects
• Measuring proof-of-concept before scaling to one-to-many

🔗 Resources Mentioned

• Scrappy ABM: Build repeatable account-based plays and bring ABM in-house—book a chat at scrappyabm.com/bev
• Jim Gilkey LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgilkey/
• Katie Frank LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katiefrank/

Before you drop big dollars on an ABM platform, make sure you can actually make it work. Jim Gilkey (LinkedIn) sits down with Mary Batchelder—revenue marketing lead at CaliberMind—to unpack why “your ABM success starts way before the first campaign goes live.” Mary’s eight years at the intersection of ABM strategy and marketing ops taught her that skimping on ops investment leads to shelfware, lack of adoption, and murky metrics. You’ll learn how to surface action-ready insights for sales, align your teams with a unified account timeline, and enforce account-and-lead rigor so you can report on clean, reliable data. Walk away with a pragmatic roadmap for auditing your systems, tapping free community resources, and deciding whether to lean on an agency or hire in-house—all without buying new tech.

👤 Guest Bio

• Mary Batchelder leads revenue marketing at CaliberMind and has spent eight years at the intersection of ABM strategy and marketing ops, making ABM work in the real world. Previously, she marketed Triblio and now brings deep attribution and ops expertise to every ABM initiative. Connect with Mary on LinkedIn.

📌 What We Cover

• Invest in marketing operations before investing in an ABM platform
• Surface sales insights with an account timeline view for personalized outreach
• Break down data silos to get a complete buyer’s journey—across sales and marketing
• Enforce rigorous lead-and-account structure to avoid duplicate domains and cluttered metrics
• Audit your data scope with a partner to size up cleanup work
• Leverage free HubSpot community resources and LinkedIn experts
• Decide when to hire in-house vs. work with an agency for long-term ops stability

🔗 Resources Mentioned

• ABM in a Day Workshop: Free, one-day ABM fundamentals by Scrappy ABM → scrappyabm.com/workshop
• Mary Batchelder on LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/marybatchelder/

The secret to winning in ABM? It’s not pipeline. Not content. Not even attention. According to Joseph Lewin, it’s something you learned back in kindergarten: make friends. In this episode of Account-Based Beverages, host Jim Gilkey sits down with Joseph Lewin, the podcast pro behind over 30 successful show launches and millions in closed revenue. Together, they unpack how starting a show can do what cold outbound never will — build authentic relationships that lead to faster deals and long-term influence. If you’re looking for a refreshingly effective ABM strategy that puts connection over conversion, this one’s for you.

👤 Guest Bio

• Joseph Lewin has launched over 30 shows in the past few years, helping clients generate millions in revenue and pipeline. He now leads podcast strategy at Scrappy ABM, using shows as a relationship engine to drive business outcomes.

📌 What We Cover

• Why making friends beats chasing pipeline
• The #1 method Joseph Lewin recommends to build influence
• Why starting a show is more effective than cold outbound or masterminds
• How podcasting creates warm intros, faster deals, and inbound attention
• Why your guest’s audience is just as valuable as the guest
• Jim Gilkey shares his 70–80% show acceptance rate
• How Scrappy ABM helps launch your show in 30 days
• The account-based beverage of choice: a homemade vanilla latte

🔗 Resources Mentioned

• ScrappyABM.com/bev — Book time with Jim Gilkey and get your drink of choice