The B2B Revenue Executive Experience – Details, episodes & analysis

RevOps is a strategic function within organizations that focuses on aligning sales, marketing, and customer success teams to drive revenue growth and scalability. It plays a crucial role in ensuring the smooth functioning of these departments, optimizing processes, and maximizing revenue generation. But how can you leverage RevOps to build a high-growth, predictable, and scalable business? To help us with this today, we have Laura Adint, Operations and Strategy Executive at Raymond James, and Sean Lane, Founding Partner at BeaconGTM, who recently collaborated to release The Revenue Operations Manual.

The rapid advancement of technology, especially in AI, has profoundly impacted all industries and is reshaping the way we work. As AI continues to evolve, the future of work presents both challenges and opportunities. The outdated business playbook must evolve. Success requires a shift in mentality, internal processes, operations, and even values. We were wondering: How is the future of work changing, and how can you adapt to these changes effectively? To help us with this today, we have Mary Shea, Global Chief Evangelist at HireQuotient. With over 25 years in business, Mary has held various roles, including CRO, Analyst, Evangelist, and, most recently, Co-CEO at companies such as Mediafly, Outreach, Forrester, and StartOut.

Winning in sales today requires more than persuasive skills and product knowledge to succeed. Experienced businesses have learned this the hard way. But what if you're just at the beginning of your sales journey? If you were to establish a sales organization from the ground up, what beliefs, mindset, and behaviors would create a customer-first culture and a highly successful selling motion? To help us with this today, we have John Westman, VP of Project Management at Citius Pharmaceuticals. John is also an Instructor at the Harvard Division of Continuing Education, where he designed and now teaches Professional Selling and Sales Management. With years of experience at companies like Fresenius Medical Care, NxStage Medical, PharMetrics (acquired by IMSHealth), Decision Resources, UROMED, and Baxter Healthcare, John brings a wealth of knowledge to his students.

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 How to create a coaching culture How to find your inspired purpose 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.

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) How to find the right buyer at the right time The trouble with traditional website metrics for analyzing buyer behavior  Check out the full list of episodes: The B2B Revenue Executive Experience.

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 The importance of page speed for Google’s new changes and as a KPI for your business How Huckabuy can help you not just survive Google’s changing algorithm, but use it to win 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.

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 Preparation Authenticity Overcoming anxiety 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. 

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. 

Your organization says it puts its buyers first — like nearly every other company in existence — and you’ve been tasked with the unenviable job of clearly articulating how. Where do you start? You know that buyer-first selling may be one of the most human goals for your business, but it’s only achieved by understanding the humans involved — which means diving into the data. Today’s guest, Carla Intal, Insights Analyst at LinkedIn, joins the show to discuss how. Using data and analytics, she’s helped create a list of 5 buyer-first principles that actually work. In this episode, we discuss: - What the data says about the most effective selling motions - The 5 buyer-first principles derived from the research - How sellers can leverage data themselves 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. 

Your latest paid-ad campaign is a resounding failure. You wanted to try and siphon off some customers from your competitors' larger customer base. As it turns out, those extra customers allowed your competition to reach far further into far deeper pockets to outspend you at every turn. Why is outbound marketing so difficult?  Today’s guest, Mark Colgan, CEO of Spea k on Podcasts, says it doesn’t have to be. He joins the show to decode the myths and mysteries of outbound marketing. In this episode, we discuss: Why outbound marketers should think like SDRs How to tackle the difficulty of attribution in outbound marketing Why helping is better than selling Now that you’ve cracked the code to effective outbound marketing are you ready to learn more about the entrepreneurial journey for women, or gain the skills to spot professional sabotage before it happens? Check out the full list of episodes: The B2B Revenue Executive Experience.