From B2B Customers to B2B Advocates 

Weather any storm with a strong customer marketing motion. In today’s episode, Drew and our CMO guests explore what it means to build and facilitate a successful customer marketing program. Tune in to learn why you should set up a CAB ASAP, how retention can lead to growth, how much of the budget should go to marketing, and a whole lot more.   

Featuring CMO Huddlers: 

Coaching ChatGPT: Pragmatic AI for B2B Marketers

B2B marketers: This is the ChatGPT episode you’ve been waiting for.

Get ready to save 5 hours a week and increase productivity with Nicole Leffer, your go-to AI consultant. Nicole joined a recent Bonus Huddle to share a myriad of pragmatic ways marketing teams can leverage generative AI, like training it to use your brand voice, transforming webinars into blog posts, and prompt crafting.

We also cover what Google thinks about the whole AI thing, why you need to fact check, and what to do about potential security concerns. Get this in your ears ASAP—AI is evolving fast and this is a train you don’t want to miss.

What You’ll Learn 

  • How to train ChatGPT to use your voice 
  • How to craft prompts in AI 
  • How to use AI to save time and increase productivity  

Salient Sales Enablement Solutions

How can CMOs better enable Sales teams? Can marketers create content that Sales will actually use? What is the meaning of life?

These are just some of the questions we ponder in this episode of Renegade Marketers Unite, recorded while Drew was off the grid in the Galapagos. But how could we air an interview without our steadfast host, you ask?

Enter Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale of the Advanced Selling Podcast, who bring their A-game as they enter the world of CMO Huddles, leading the conversation on Sales Enablement with three savvy CMO guests: Peter Finter of CyberGRX, Sara Larsen of Wolters Kluwer Health, and Carlos Carvajal of Q2.

Tune in for a really fun episode, as Sales and Marketing worlds collide and seek common ground. Let’s get to it!

What You’ll Learn 

  • What’s working in sales enablement for 3 CMOs 
  • How to create content that sales will actually use 
  • How to measure sales enablement  

What B2B CMOs Need to Know about Career Management

Searching for your next CMO gig? Need help educating your CEO and the board? Wondering how you can expand in your current role to set you up for the next one? 

This episode with expert executive recruiter Erica Seidel has it all. Erica founded The Connective Good, a boutique recruiting firm that specializes in CMOs, and with over a decade of experience, she has one of the strongest reputations in the industry. 

Tune in to hear all the wisdom she shared with CMO Huddles in a recent Bonus Huddle—with practical takeaways and pithy insights and ensure a long, happy career. 

What You’ll Learn  

  • How to approach CMO interviews 
  • How to improve CEO and board relationships  
  • How to expand in your current role  

Strategic B2B Sales Enablement: The 10,000 Foot View

How are elite marketers helping Salespeople (and the prospective customer) make the buying journey fruitful (and not frustrating)? 

We take a broad, strategic look at the question in this episode with experts Rebecca Stone, SVP Customer Solutions Marketing & CMO at Cisco Meraki, and Marni Carmichael, VP of Marketing at ImageSource. It’s full of strategic gems that B2B marketers can use to better support and align with their sales teams. 

As you’ll learn, synergy between Sales and Marketing is about a synergy between consistency and spontaneity, brand and individual style, art and science. Tune in to get your Sales Enablement plan in tip-top shape for 2023.  

What You’ll Learn  

  • What’s working in sales enablement (and what’s not) 
  • How to align marketing and sales plays  
  • How to scale customization and personalization 

Evolving the CMO Dashboard with Forrester

The economy is turbulent and marketing budgets are down. But growth goals are up… What’s a marketer to do?! Listen to this episode with Forrester’s VP and Principal Analyst Ross Graber

He returned to CMO Huddles to share Forrester’s recommendations for marketing in a downturn. Tune in to learn why customers are the dominant growth engine in 2023, how to solve the problem with sourcing, what the idea marketing dashboard should look like, and a whole lot more. 

What You’ll Learn  

  • What KPIs matter most during a downturn 
  • How to measure efficiency 
  • What’s on an evolved B2B CMO dashboard