The ABM Conversations Podcast - for B2B marketing professionals

In this very first episode of The Yaag Project, Yaag opens up on why he started this new show, a bit about the scope of the previous show he ran (The ABM Conversations Podcast), and why he believes that transformation is often rooted in relationships. ➡️ Key Topics in this episode 00:00 - Intro 00:25 - A bit about the previous show "The ABM Conversations Podcast" 00:58 - Why The Yaag Project? 02:24 - The story of how I met Chris (Christian Fictoor) 04:30 - The transformation in relationship 06:20 - Values are the fundamentals 06:45 - How I met Aditya, my current CEO at Avoma 07:22 - The values and philosophy match 09:00 - Making relationships as the base

In this episode, Dan Balcauski, the founder of Product Tranquility, joins us to discuss how to do SaaS pricing -- one of those topics we have wanted to discuss for a long time. Through the episode, Dan throws light on: 1. What is effective SaaS Pricing and the fundamentals that people often miss in their pricing 2. How should you identify your optimal price strategy? What is step one? Two? Three? 3. What drives pricing design? 4. In value-based pricing, how do you determine value? 5. Difference between pricing metrics and value metrics, and a lot more...

In this episode, the agile marketing leader Justin Zimmerman joins us to discuss content and partnerships – specifically the relationship between the two. He dives deep into: 1. The mindset and approach of mapping content in your partnership game 2. The role of content committees in creating content for partnerships 3. Key people to be involved while building partnerships 4. The give-first approach to partnerships 5. The Jobs-To-Be-Done based content strategy For Partners & Customer Marketing, and a lot more...

In this episode, Kara Goldin, the founder and CEO of Hint, joins us to discuss how she went about creating an entirely new subcategory of beverages- unsweetened flavored water. Through the episode, she shares her journey and insights on: 1. How she transitioned from journalism to tech to founding Hint water 2. The story of how Hint water came into being 3. Educating the market about a new category and getting people to buy-in 4. Why she wrote her latest book 'Undaunted' and the key takeaway, and a lot more...

In this episode, Stacey Danheiser, the founder and CEO of SHAKE Marketing Group joins us to discuss marketing skills needed to stand out, make an impact and of course get promoted. Some of the key factors discussed in the episode include: 1. What does being different really mean? How can a marketing leader stand out and be unique and meaningful? 2. What are some of the shifts that a marketer needs to make to gain credibility with a CEO, especially in a startup environment? 3. Top 3 things to include in a marketer's onboarding 4. What is the most common expectation of CEOs from their marketing teams? And what can marketing leaders do to align and make it a perfect Ikigai? 5. How does a marketer become the voice of the customer internally? What does it truly take?

In this episode, Seth Godin joins us to share his 40+ years of experience and insights on -- “How to be sensible in the modern marketing world ” He talks about: --> What separates a brand from the me-toos --> What's the difference between category creation, differentiation, niching down and positioning --> The misunderstanding around going niche --> The misunderstood concept of failing fast, and mistake vs blunder --> How to identify your early adopters --> The mindset that marketing professionals need to develop --> The future of Clubhouse and a lot more..

In this episode, Dan Mills, the VP of Marketing at Wistia, joins us to discuss how to level up your video strategies. Dan has a background in acting, singing, and songwriting. And then jumped to the other side of the fence and showcased his copywriting skills. Through the episode, he throws light on: 1. Marketers' top 5 most mentioned video goals and how they vary based on the orgs maturity stage. 2. Interesting trends for marketers like us to try out or experiment in 2022 3. Why video should be a continuous or ongoing investment for companies 4. Common biggest obstacles companies face in publishing new video content and tips to overcome them. 5. Actionable ways to distribute your videos to your audience, i.e., how to make it more accessible in today's higher-than-ever content noise, and a lot more...

In this episode, Breezy Beaumont, the Head of Growth at Correlated, discusses product-led revenue. It's a topic that raises many questions, differences in understanding, and debates between functions such as product, sales, marketing, and more. Through this episode, Breezy throws light on: 1. Why product-led doesn't mean zero outbound sales or marketing 2. What does product-led revenue really mean? Does it include only net new revenue, or does it also include expansion revenue? 3. What are the touchpoints in the product-led sales cycle? When and where should you insert a sales-assisted layer? 4. How marketing and growth teams can leverage product usage data to improve the buyer experience? 5. How to make a judgment call on which of your PQLs need sales assistance? What are the parameters to consider? 6. When should you involve CS teams in the whole PLG lifecycle and more...

In this episode, Ugi Djuric, the CEO and founder at Contenthorse, joins us to discuss ROI-led content, i.e., how you get a decent return on investment from your content. Ugi has worked on some of the most exciting SaaS projects and has delivered exceptional results. For instance, he and his team have helped Lemlist go from $50k to $3m ARR in 1 year. In this episode, he talks about: 1. What is ROI-led content marketing? Why should you focus on it? 2. What type of content should a company create for the best performance at specific stages? And how can they derive it strategically? 3. What are some common mistakes you see founders making with content, and what's the alternative? 4. What is a $500k ARR article, and what is its anatomy? 5. How to achieve content market fit? 6. What are some sensible non-vanity metrics that one should measure to ensure their content marketing efforts are on the right path, and a lot more...

In this episode, Victor Eduoh, the founder of VEC Consulting, joins us from Nigeria to discuss product-led storytelling, the framework, and how it fits into the different buying cycle stages. He talks about: 1. What is product-led storytelling? 2. How product-led storytelling differs from conventional content marketing? 3. Deep-dive on the 9-step product-led storytelling framework 4. How product-led storytelling fits into the different stages of the buying cycle 5. Writing for a person vs. a persona 6. The no.1 or most important content marketing metric, and a lot more...

In this episode, Jeff Breunscbach, the Director of Customer Experience at Higherlogic and the co-founder and host of the Gain Grow Retain Podcast, joins us to share his expertise on setting up a customer success organization. He talks about: --> As a first CS hire, what should the focus for the first 90 days be? --> What processes to build during the first 90 days? --> What to do when customers use your customer success team as support? --> How does the role of a CSM look in a 50 member organization vs a 200 member org? --> The qualities to look for when hiring a CSM --> Whom should a customer marketer report to? And what does the CSM & customer marketer collaboration look like, and a lot more...

In this episode, Nelson Gilliat, the founder of Buyer Centric Revenue and the author of "The Death of the SDR", joins us to discuss 'how to build a buyer-centric revenue model' Through the episode, Nelson shares his insights on: --> Why the predictable revenue model doesn't work anymore? --> What is the Buyer Centric Revenue model, and how does it compare or contrast with the Predictable Revenue Model? --> Steps for organizations to test the Buyer Centric Revenue model --> The levels of transition in an organization when people adopt the buyer-centric model --> Top 2-3 challenges while transitioning into the buyer-centric model --> Why commission and quota are outdated, and a lot more...

In this episode, Scott D Clary, the seasoned sales and marketing executive & the host of Success Story Podcast, joins us to discuss 'Business storytelling and how to build a media company.' Through the episode, Scott shares his insights on: --> What inspired him to create the Success story podcast and the ROI Overload newsletter --> What it means to build a media company? And how you can do it yourself? --> What did the earliest versions of his newsletter/podcast look/sound like? How have they changed over time? --> Scott's storytelling framework --> His go-to method for growing his podcast and the newsletter, and a lot more..

In this episode, Benjamin Shapiro, the veteran growth marketing consultant, host of the MarTech Podcast, and a fellow podcaster from the Hubspot Podcast Network, joins us to discuss podcast monetization. Ben has dabbled a lot with podcast monetization and runs his podcast network, called “I hear everything,” a collection of daily interview-based podcasts. In this episode, he shares his expertise on: --> Common mistakes that first-time podcasters make when it comes to monetization? --> When should a podcaster start thinking about monetizing their content? What's the inflection point? --> Signs to look out for before you get to monetize your podcast --> The different ways in which you can monetize your show --> How to grow your podcast? --> Metrics/signals that advertisers look for when they invest their ad dollars on a podcast? --> The ROI of podcast advertising, and a lot more...

In this episode, Mark Donnigan, the virtual CMO & Business Development Leader at Growth Stage Marketing, joins us to discuss the process of engineering go-to-market motions. Through this episode, Mark talks about: --> As a founder, how to take your new product to the market --> Why should the CMO you hire need to be a business strategist and domain expert? --> What can founders do to ‘prepare the market' before their new product is ready to go? -->Why do some companies fail to scale to the mass market - assuming there is a mass market for their product? --> Does a category define a brand, or does a brand define the category? and a lot more...

In this episode, Brandon Fluharty, the President of Strategic Account Solutions at LivePerson, joins us to discuss the anti-hustle guide to SaaS sales. Through this episode, he talks about: --> The difference in approach for a fortune 50 account vs. other enterprise accounts --> Why do you need to get into a better environment to closer bigger deals? --> Brandon's process to build a strategic target accounts list --> The collaboration with sales-enablement -- how to make it work --> How you become a better seller by becoming a buyer of something complex, and a lot more...

In this episode, Ross Simmonds, the founder and CEO of Foundation, joins us to discuss 'how to do content distribution the right way'. Through this episode, Ross throws light on: --> How should a SaaS startup with a small team of 2-3 marketers approach content creation and distribution? --> How to make content distribution a strategic play than just using it as a tactic --> Baking content distribution into the content creation process --> How to use permissionless co-marketing as a content distribution play? --> Should you work on intent-driven content for each buying stage (or) should we blur the lines across the funnel stages? --> How to repurpose content and distribute it in a useful manner (and not lazy work)? --> Distributing content in communities and social media without losing trust, and a lot more...

In this episode, Yoni Solomon, the CMO at Uptime.com and former Director of Product Marketing at G2, joins us to share his insights and experience on how to get your product marketing right. He talks about: --> How is product marketing different from content marketing, demand-gen, or other marketing functions? --> What's the right stage for an org to hire a product marketer? --> The five stages of product launch and GTM --> What is the role of product marketing in product positioning? --> What's a 'message house', and how does it help you uphold product positioning? --> What are the core KPIs that a product marketer is accountable for? --> Whom should a product marketer report to, and a lot more...

In this episode, Christopher Engman, the co-founder and managing partner of MegaDeals Advisory, joins us to discuss "How to win mega deals?" He has been personally involved in making hundreds of B2B deals happen, which cumulatively exceed several billion. In this episode, Chris dives deep on: --> Why mega deals are a lot like winning a political contest? --> What qualifies as a mega-deal -- is it deal value or a range? What are some common characteristics of megadeals? --> Challenges sellers face when selling to enterprises --> How to hire a mega dealer? What should you look for? --> 5 cornerstones of mega deals, and a lot more...

In this episode, Randy Frisch—the co-founder, CMO & President of Uberflip, joins us to discuss 'how to create a personalized content experience to drive demand and improve customer engagement.' He was named one of the Top 50 Fearless Marketers globally by Marketo. Through this episode, Randy throws light on: --> Why he's mad about the way content marketing is generally done in B2B SaaS? --> What are some common mistakes that SaaS content marketers do? --> What is meaningful content personalization? And how to achieve it at scale in the context of creating relevant content experience? --> Should you control the content experience? Does it truly make sense to take people to a content hub? --> Content experience framework -- what are the components and how can you apply it today, and a lot more...

In this episode, Chris Kneeland, the CEO of Cult Collective, one of North America's premier engagement marketing firms, joins us to discuss 'How to stop chasing customers and build cults?" Chris co-founded Cult in 2010 and has consulted for Harley Davidson, Canadian Tyre, Zappos, Best Buy, United Way and dozens of other brands. In this episode, he talks about: --> What exactly is a cult? How can a startup realistically build it? --> Why should you stop chasing customers and build a cult in the first place? --> Why word of mouth doesn't always start from customers? And more importantly, why have 'brand advocacy' ahead of 'brand awareness?' --> What's the right stage of the business to start a cult? --> How do you measure progress while building a cult? ---> Why is Chris against the idea of consumption metrics and a lot more...

In this episode, Kris Rudeegraap, the co-founder and CEO of Sendoso, shares his insights on two super interesting connected topics – team selling and customer retention. He talks about: --> What is a go-to-market (GTM) fit, and why does Sendoso prioritize GTM fit over product-market fit? --> What is team selling? How it works, and what's the infrastructure needed for it? --> Can startups and SMBs practice team selling? --> 3 major changes that Sendoso made over the years to improve customer retention (their net dollar retention is 120%) --> Sendoso's customer success team structure, and specifically the role of CX Ops in customer success --> What's the right time to expand the customer success team into specific roles and a lot more...

In this episode, Karthik Sridharan, the co-founder and CEO of Flexiple – an online curated freelancing platform that empowers and connects companies and freelancers, joins us to discuss how the role of marketing evolves from the first year of a startup to how it looks at $10 mil ARR. Karthik talks about: --> How long it took for Flexiple to get to its first million from a marketing perspective --> How their marketing approach changed and evolved between 1 million ARR to $3 million --> The kind of goals and metrics they had for marketing in the early stages of Flexiple, and their current KPIs for product marketing, performance marketing, content team, etc. --> What to look for when hiring a VP of Marketing at an early stage company --> Learnings when it comes to leading remote teams and the common mistakes to overcome --> Why scale is relative, and when should one start thinking about scalability --> The difference in approach between a bootstrapping tech startup vs the one raising venture capital, and a lot more...

In this episode, Vukasin Vukosavljevic, popularly known as 'Vuk,' joins us to discuss how to build a strong product marketing team that hits it out of the park. Vuk is the head of growth at Lemlist and is a rockstar that every SaaS company would want to have on their team. He talks about: --> Why is product marketing often very misunderstood? --> What does the Lemlist product marketing playbook look like, what their goals and KPIs are --> His GTM checklist --> The process to seek customer feedback and the prioritization parameters for incorporating them --> Common mistakes when product marketers leverage email as a channel and a lot more...

In this episode, David Spinks, the co-founder of CMX, VP of Community at Bevy, and is the host of the Masters of Community podcast, joins us to discuss how to build a community and mistakes to avoid along your community journey. David talks about: --> What led him into community building, and how he had the best speakers for his first community event, even before booking the venue --> Signs/data to look at before taking the plunge to start a community --> Common mistakes most companies make when launching a community --> Roadblocks faced by David in the early stages of building CMX and how he overcame it --> The Spaces Framework for building a community --> What are the right metrics to measure the success and impact of a community, and a lot more...

In this episode, Manish Nepal, the founder of Marketing Impact, and I discuss whether it makes sense to build a B2B community. We discussed how we at The ABM Conversations podcast built one and failed badly. Here are the timestamps of the key points discussed: 3:18 Does building a community make sense for all? Everyone talks about its benefits; you hear virtue statements like “build a community before you build your product?” but the reality is far from it. The question is – can it even be a universal formula for everyone. And why you shouldn't be comparing B2C communities and B2B communities. 8:04 A Few things that led us to assume that The ABM Conversations Podcast needs a community around it – and how it wasn't to be. We talk about how it was either bad execution or flawed interpretation of data signals. We spoke in detail about how we went about our execution. 12:00 Does community building need a different skillset? What makes B2B communities like Peak Community and RevGenius work well? Summary of what we think are the top-most issues with building communities in today's date. 18:25 Are you better off focusing on your core than building a community? Or do you have a clear purpose for how your community will help people? Do you have something to offer as leverage for people? And finally, do you have what it takes?

In this episode, Claire Suellentrop, the co-founder of Forget the Funnel, joins us to discuss how to implement customer-led growth for your organization step-by-step. Here are some key timestamps you might want to jump into: 2:30 Claire talks about what customer-led growth means and how it's not yet another buzzword. She details how it's different from the PLG or sales-led or marketing-led growth motion and how customer-led is directly related to Jobs-To-Be-Done. 7:11 As companies go from startup to scale-up, how customer intimacy weakens and some of the symptoms to identify that. Claire goes into the details of how to identify the success gaps in the buyer journey. 9:23 Sparktoro case study: The specifics of the survey to understand SparkToro's customers, how they ensured they're not getting averaged-out answers, for example — identifying true sources of new customer sources (because in this case, a lot of people known Rand Fishkin and most initial customers might be founder-led) 24:20 The top 3-5 key takeaways you need to aim for, from your customer interviews 27:40 How to leverage all the collected answers to build your growth levers. Claire talks about how you can put together these answers on a spreadsheet and derive insights to help you construct growth pillars and a lot more...

In this episode, Neil Patel, the man behind CrazyEgg, NP Digital, Kissmetrics, and Ubersuggest, joins us to discuss content promotion and distribution in the B2B SaaS space. Here are some key timestamps from the conversation you might want to jump to: 3:25 Neil shares how there wasn't any specific path or solution that led to where he is today and how it is more about being patient and doing things for a long time and learning from mistakes 5:00 What to do if you have a hard time getting your content in front of the right audience or getting the right kind of reach 7:58 Is it possible to create some level of predictability into what content might take off and what might not? Neil talks about how the 'numbers game' is not about the number of visitors but the uniqueness of the content. 9:15 How influencer marketing is becoming a key part of content marketing, and what can you do when you don't have the budget for influencer marketing? 10:20 Why Display Network still works and how you can make the most out of it on platforms like LinkedIn 14:27 When we have somebody like Neil competing for, say, a set of 5 keywords -- should we still go ahead and create that content and compete? Or is there a better approach that yields a higher success rate? 16:55 With 4 massively successful companies in the backdrop, what's one key quality that Neil looks for in a cofounder?

This episode is a Takeover Episode, where a valued listener of The ABM Conversations Podcast takes over as the host. Katheriin Liibert, Head of Marketing at Outfunnel, takes over as the host (from Yaag).Merily Leis, the Head of Marketing at Klaus, one of the fastest-growing B2B SaaS companies in Europe, joins the show to share her insights on how any B2B SaaS company can do ABM without having a dedicated ABM function. In this episode, she talks about:--> How practicing ABM has helped Klaus land big brands like Wistia and Wordpress--> How to get the entire sales and marketing function to practice ABM--> How to decide on channels and the right sales enablement initiatives to win accounts--> Why making your B2B marketing and sales 'over-the-top silly and fun' can be worth the risk--> How to build strategic partnerships with the giants in your fieldMerily's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/merily/Jobs at Klaus in case you are interested

In this episode, Steve Watt, the Marketing Director at Seismic, the global leader in sales enablement, joins us to discuss how to get 1% better every week at social selling and sales enablement. Steve talks about: --> What is social selling? And how it connects to ABM? --> How to be authentic on social platforms? --> How to connect social selling and brand advocacy --> Setting goals for social selling and sales enablement and measuring it --> Why and how does Challenger Sales aid your sales discovery?

In this episode, Sangram Vajre, the Chief Evangelist and co-founder of Terminus and the host of The FlipMyFunnel Podcast, joins us to discuss the MOVE Framework -- an actionable framework for Go-To-Market (GTM). He talks about: --> Why is GTM not a strategy but rather a product of its own --> 6 major truth bombs about Go-To-Market --> Stages of market maturity, and how GTM transforms at each stage --> What is the MOVE framework? What's the right maturity stage for applying it? --> Who are the stakeholders in executing GTM and what are their responsibilities?

In this episode, Katelyn Bourgoin, popularly known as 'The Customer Whisperer,' the CEO and lead trainer at Customer Camp, joins us to discuss Trigger Events --i.e., what triggers people to buy. She talks about: --> The synergy between marketing and psychology, and how can marketers leverage it --> Why is the 'when' and 'why' more important than who bought your product --> How can marketing make the best of Jobs To Be Done? --> Why is there a general resistance for marketers talking to customers, and how to overcome it? --> What is Endowment Effect, and a lot more...

This episode is a Takeover Episode, where a valued listener of The ABM Conversations Podcast takes over as the host. Scott Marker, the Chief Evangelist Officer & Founder at MSA², takes over as the host (from Yaag). Megan Bowen, the COO & CCO at Refine Labs, joins the show to share her insights on building the customer success function during the early stages of your startup. She talks about: --> Why is it not enough to ensure the marketing and sales alignment but include customer success from the get-go --> How people success = company success = customer success --> 5 simple rules to align people's success to the company's success --> 8 keys to building your customer success function, and a lot more...

In this episode, Rafi Ozick, the founder and CEO of Privatise, the company disrupting cybersecurity with one click enterprise network security, joins us to share his expertise on marketing cybersecurity products. He talks about: --> How cybersecurity can be marketed for its benefits rather than always being seen as a pain reliever --> The need for investing in securing remote workers --> How cybersecurity can be positioned as a productivity tool --> Competing with bigger brands with larger budgets --> Making cybersec understandable to non-technical decision-makers, and a lot more...

In this episode, Khalid Saleh, the founder and CEO of Invesp, joins us to discuss Conversion Optimization and shares his decades of experience on how to get it right. He talks about: -->What conversion optimization is and is NOT? And why is conversion optimization prioritized way more in ecommerce than B2B SaaS companies? --> What to expect as an outcome from Conversion Rate Optimization? --> How to layout a conversion optimization plan and the factor to account for? --> The conversion framework and its principles --> How to optimize for the different stages of the buying cycle, and a lot more...

In today's episode, Sam Mallikarjunan, the CEO & Co-Founder of OneScreen, an AI-powered Market Network, joins us to share his insights on what a market network is, and how it bridges the gap in today's marketing and advertising. He speaks about: --> The clever campaign that got him hired at Hubspot back in the day --> What a market network is, and how it works? --> How Out of Home (OOH) advertising can bridge the marketing and advertising gap --> What are micro-moments? How to capture them and why it's important, and a lot more..

In this episode, Guy Bauer, the Founder and Creative Director at Umault - a B2B video marketing agency based out of Chicago, joins us to share his insights on how B2B marketers can get better at video marketing and the key mistakes to avoid. He talks about: -->Why it's important to focus on the ideas more than the video production --> How is writing a script for a web page or any piece of written content different from writing a video script? --> The process of developing ideas for videos --> What goes into validating the ideas before presenting to customers or executing them? --> Common mistakes B2B marketers make with videos --> How to simplify a complex message in a way the target audience understands it, and a lot more...

In this episode, Kevin Maney, the founding partner at Category Design Advisors (CDA), a bestselling author, and an award-winning columnist, joins us to discuss CEO Storytelling, i.e. how to build a narrative. He talks about: --> How does a narrative really work especially when you are competing with a better product? --> The process to identifying your strategic PoV --> 5 step process to translate a PoV into a narrative --> Do narratives come with an expiry date? --> What holds back a CEO or a business leader from investing their energies on building a narrative --> Existing solution and 'adjacent possible', and a lot more...

In this episode, the Obviously Awesome April Dunford, the positioning hegemon with 25+ years of experience, joins us to discuss and debunk all possible confusions and misunderstandings around positioning. She talks about: --> What exactly is positioning (in the SaaS context), and why are very few companies able to nail it? --> How positioning is different from messaging? --> Signals that tell you that it is time for you to reposition --> The 10 step positioning process --> Why category design isn't going to work for everyone --> How positioning for the market is different from positioning for investors, and a lot more...

In this episode, Raul Galera, the Chief Advocate at ReferralCandy, joins us to discuss how you can leverage referrals and partnerships the right way for customer acquisition. Raul has been leading ReferralCandy's partnership efforts for the past five years, working alongside marketing agencies, media and tech companies. He throws light on: --> How loyalty and referrals improve customer acquisition and retention --> The right time or stage to adopt a referral system --> The set of things you need to do, to be partnership ready --> Steps to setting up a referral program and staying on top of customer's minds --> Mistakes to avoid in your partnership and referral programs, and a lot more...

In this episode, Brett McGrath, VP of Marketing at The Juice (a curated discovery platform for B2B content), joins us to share his insights and experience on reducing friction in B2B content experience and earning prospect's trust. He talks about: --> What is frictionless content, it's anatomy and how one can leverage it --> 1:many content vs 1:1 content --> What content curation really means and how to leverage curation to reduce the friction between consumers and content --> The differences in user experience in terms of content access and content experience, comparing the traditional way of content creation and distribution vs. the Netflix like curation --> The need to drop the 'Me-centered' marketing and how it makes practical sense (especially for the skeptics) to focus content on customers and not yourself, and lot more...

In this episode, Nir Eyal, most known for his book 'Hooked' and 'Indistractable', joins us to discuss some interesting facets of Consumer psychology, product engagement, and ways to keep yourself away from distractions.Nir talks about:--> How tech and social media are not necessarily 'addictive.'--> How shows like 'Social Dilemma' are selling you the wrong narrative, despite knowing the antidote--> What is a placebo button, and how it helps?--> The difference between 'being manipulated' vs. being addicted vs. overuse by one's own volition--> What does Minimum Enjoyable Action (MEA) mean, and how it works?--> How can you keep yourself from getting distracted, and a lot more...---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are some amazing additional resources from Nir that you might want to checkout:If you want to provide a link to the book, it's: http://geni.us/IndistractableIndistractable summary article: https://www.nirandfar.com/skill-of-the-future/Distraction guide here: https://www.nirandfar.com/distractions/Habits vs routines article here: https://www.nirandfar.com/habits/Why schedules are better than to-do lists: https://www.nirandfar.com/todo-vs-schedule-builder/Timeboxing article: https://www.nirandfar.com/timeboxingValues article: https://www.nirandfar.com/common-values/Also, Nir's schedule maker tool : https://nirandfar.com/schedule-maker/

In this episode, Hiten Shah, the founder of Nira, who also co-founded CrazyEgg and Kissmetrics, joins us to share his observations and insights on "How user research can help your product become more relevant to your customers and sometimes even pivot to a new direction?" He talks about: --> What should one look for in user interviews? --> Why did he and his team pivot from FYI to what is now called Nira? --> The 3 different types of pivots --> The EAT method/framework for prioritizing feature requests or pivoting to something net new --> How user research ties into building your value proposition, and a lot more...

In this episode, Andrei Zinkevich, the co-founder of Fullfunnel.io, joins us all the way from Croatia to share his insights on the misconceptions around Account Based Marketing and some of the mistakes we can avoid. He talks about: --> What ABM is and isn't, and the fundamental misconceptions --> The common mistakes in B2B, when it comes to demand generation --> A framework and approach to account-based demand generation --> Case study: The ABM campaign that resulted in 2320 signups, 34 qualified opportunities, and 5 customers (immediately) --> Prerequisites of a cold-outreach --> The blueprint of his all-bound LinkedIn sales machine --> The weak links in the B2B sales journey, and lot more...

In this episode, Eddie Yoon, the founder of Eddie Would Grow, the world's leading expert on super consumers and the co-creator of Category Pirates joins us to share his insights on 'How to identify your super consumers and also be thoughtfully aggressive?' He talks about: -->Who are super consumers and how are they different from what we call ‘power users' in Saas? --> How should one go about identifying their superconsumers? --> Transitioning from selling rationally to selling to aspirations --> What being thoughtfully aggressive means --> How spikes in data are where you find the good stuff, and lot more...

In this episode, Anco Scholte her Horst, the CEO of Freedom Internet, joins us to discuss how to build a marketing organization that has customer privacy embedded in their DNA. He shares his insights on: --> Building privacy by design --> The kinds of information that companies collect about their customers that aren't actually necessary --> The balance between personalization and privacy --> Their lawsuit against Salesforce and Oracle --> Their marketing dossier that doesn't push a lot of data collection --> Org structure and it's impact on the privacy DNA of the company

In this episode, Nemanja Zivkovic, the CVO of Funky Marketing joins us on the show, to discuss how to best leverage LinkedIn for demand generation and growth. He talks about: --> How he used LinkedIn to go from a solopreneur to the fast growing Funky Marketing team they have today --> Their approach to content creation and distribution on LinkedIn --> The trade off between ads and organic marketing, and what could be an ideal balance --> How can you leverage LinkedIn pages the right way --> Why is it a misconception to believe that consumers who have the least amount of complaints are the best, and a lot more...

In this episode, Dennis Yu, the CEO of BlitzMetrics, who also has held leadership positions at Yahoo! and American Airlines, joins us to break the myths around personal branding. He talks about: --> What a personal brand means, and more importantly what it is not --> How perceived authority is not equal to 'fake-it-until-you-make it' --> The myths around personal branding --> A framework for building a sensible personal branding that's not all 'me-me' --> 3x3 method for content creation --> Measuring the impact of personal brand on business outcome

In this episode, Matt Johnson, the founder and CEO of Pursuing Results, a Done-for-You podcasting agency for business coaches, consultants and thought leaders joins us to share his insights on how can introverts channel their energies into marketing effectively and not get drained by being on social media all day. He talks about: --> How you can cut through all the noise without being bombastic, personality-driven or showing up louder and more frequently than your competitors --> His micro famous system and framework --> What influence building means in terms of content creation and distribution --> The process that goes into niche building --> Why you should review your values once in a while, and a lot more...

In this episode, Pierre Custeau, the CTO at MRP, the only enterprise class predictive ABM platform, joins us to share his insights on how to execute ABM the right way for enterprise accounts. He talks about: --> What is enterprise ABM and how the execution differs compared to SMBs --> What piece of the ABM puzzle does predictive analytics solve for --> The use of real-time AI in ABM campaigns --> Common pitfalls in enterprise ABM --> Capturing one-off and asynchronous conversations for account intelligence --> Parameters to select the right marketing channel, and lot more...

In this episode, the legendary Rory Sutherland, the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK and the founder of the Behavioural Science Practice joins us to share his insights on leveraging behavioral economics for better marketing. He talks about: --> The fundamental logic behind branding and how the approach towards it has changed since January 2020 --> The purpose of ads and how it's not merely transactional --> How marketing contributes to revenue --> Why the biggest progress in marketing, in the next 50 years may not come from improvements in technology but in psychology and design thinking --> Spotting butterflies and the impact of butterfly effect on consumer behavior --> How the frame of reference dramatically changes the actual value of something, and a lot more...