Marketing Trends

"Content only succeeds when it is helpful or resonates emotionally." That is the central thesis of Camille Ricketts' content strategy. Camille is the Head of Marketing at Marketing at Notion. She helped revolutionize content marketing in the VC industry with her work at First Round Capital. On this episode, Camille talks about what it takes to create and scale a great content marketing strategy. She also talks about her start in marketing, work styles, marketing leadership, and much more.

"Marketing is not fluff." Or at least it shouldn't be, according to Laura Luckman Kelber, SVP of Marketing at Flexera. According to her, not enough marketers focus on how to make themselves useful to the people they are trying to reach. On this episode, Laura discusses how to be more useful as a marketer, as well as the power of aligning your entire organization around marketing, why good technology is essential for creating good work, how to rebrand a unicorn, and much more.

From Apple’s first mouse to Palm’s first Personal Digital Assistant, IDEO has helped design some of the world’s most famous and important products. Across the world, and especially in Silicon Valley, they have been looked to as the gold standard for innovation and creativity. So what can marketers learn from this unique organization? To find out, we interviewed Whitney Mortimer, CMO and Partner at IDEO.

Few things a CMO does are as important as creating or transforming a culture within their team. And yet few things are as poorly understood as how to lead cultural transformation. To learn more about it, we brought on Alexandra Morehouse. Few people understand how to lead cultural transformation like Alexandra. She is the CMO of Banner Health and has previously served in senior marketing leadership roles for Kaiser Permanente, AAA, Charles Schwab, and American Express.

Customer feedback is more readily available than ever before. So how do brands use that feedback and transform it into actionable insights? To find out, we talked to Leela Srinivasan. Leela is currently CMO of SurveyMonkey. Previously, she served as CMO at Lever. Prior to that, Leela served as VP of marketing at OpenTable, where she built product marketing from scratch and established the foundations of a B2B marketing team.

The Marketing Trends team sat down with some marketers at the SiriusDecisions B2B Marketing Summit 2019, and have compiled the highlights on these recap episodes. For this episode, we wanted to talk to people who are a little closer to the action for more tactical insights. Part 2 of our recap features interviews with three practitioners, as they discuss their most important insights and lessons learned from the SiriusDecisions 2019 B2B Marketing Summit.

This episode features an interview with Jay Baer. Jay is the founder and president of Convince & Convert, an analysis and advisory firm that creates digital marketing strategies. Jay is a multi-time founder, a global keynote speaker, and multi-time author. His latest book is called Talk Triggers and it comes highly recommended from the team here at Marketing Trends.

Chandar Pattabhiram is CMO of Coupa, a business spend management platform. Jennifer Johnson is the CMO of Tenable, a Cyber Exposure Company, and is a Category Design Evangelist/Startup Advisor at Play Bigger. On this special CMO Roundtable episode, Ian and Lauren join Chandar and Jennifer to discuss what a new CMO can do in their first 90 days and beyond to ensure a successful tenure.

Meagen Eisenberg is the CMO of TripActions, a corporate travel solutions provider. Prior to TripActions, she spent more than 20 years in high-tech and was previously CMO of MongoDB and VP of Demand Generation at DocuSign. Meagen was recently named Top 50 most retweeted by mid-sized marketers according to AdWeek and Top 25 for B2B Marketing Influencers. She is also on the board of G2 and advises over a dozen tech companies, four of which were acquired this past year.

Keith Messick is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Dialpad, a digital communications technology company. Previously, he served as the CMO at Lucidworks and also held senior leadership roles at Topsy (acquired by Apple), Get Satisfaction, and SuccessFactors.

The Marketing Trends team sat down with some CEOs at the SiriusDecisions B2B Marketing Summit 2019, and have compiled the highlights on this episode.

Harsh Jawharkar is currently Head of Enterprise Cloud, Platform, & Ecosystem Marketing at Atlassian. He also has experience in product and marketing at PayPal, Zendesk, and Slack, among other leading technology firms.

More data is being generated than ever before, and as data grows, so does the need to analyze and understand it quickly. To find out how marketers can better take advantage of real-time data, we brought in Jennifer Grant, CMO of Looker, a business intelligence platform that helps people explore, analyze, and share data insights. On this episode, Jen sits down with Ian Faison and Lauren Vaccarello, to discuss her marketing journey, the origins of Looker, and the future of real-time business intelligence.

Marketers have to master a variety of skill sets in order to excel. New platforms, tools, and technologies are constantly emerging. So how can they keep up? To find out, we talked to Yvonne Chen, VP of Marketing at Udemy for Business. On this episode of Marketing Trends, Yvonne joins Ian in studio to discuss the marketing skills gap, how to bridge it, and how to build a culture of learning at your organization.

In the past 6 months of the Marketing Trends podcast, over 50 interviews have been conducted and countless insights gleaned from some of the top marketing executives in the world. Some of these have been mentioned by more than one guest and are worth going back for a second listen. On this episode, Host Ian Faison and Producer Ben Wilson discuss their top 5 takeaways from the first 50 interviews on Marketing Trends.