Marketing Trends

How can a brand make itself a go-to source for thought leadership in an industry? To find out, we talked with Chris Cartrett. Chris is currently Executive Vice President at Aderant, a software company providing legal business solutions to firms around the world. Chris joins Ian to discuss how to add value through thought leadership, the unique challenges of marketing in the professional services industry, his best tips for sales and marketing alignment, and much more.

Marketing operations is often seen as unimportant backroom work. But what if it was actually the key to unlocking alignment and growth? It certainly can be, according to Kurt Stoll, Director of Marketing Automation at 3D Systems. On this episode of Marketing Trends, Kurt joins Ian and Lauren to discuss how to align revenue operations, how this can lead to higher retention and faster growth, and how Kurt handles the unique challenges of marketing in the 3D printing industry.

From founding their first company in 2006 to becoming top executives at Salesforce, Kraig Swensrud and Sean Whiteley have achieved a lot together. Most recently, they have helped introduce the world to the new category of conversational marketing by co-founding their latest venture, Qualified. On this episode, Sean and Kraig sit down with Ian Faison and Lauren Vaccarello to discuss early days at Salesforce, successful business partnerships, and implementing conversational marketing.

Marketing has always been about more than just marketing for Paul D'Arcy. Throughout his entire career, Paul has sought to understand the purpose behind the messaging that he delivers. That passion for purpose has led Paul to serve as the CMO of MessageOne, Executive Director of Americas Marketing and Global Demand Gen at Dell, and now serves as Senior Vice President of Marketing at Indeed.  On this episode, Paul discusses his entry into marketing and what he has learned thus far in his career.

Marketing has undergone many phases of change. Four phases since 1900, to be exact, according to Erik Newton (LinkedIn | Twitter). Erik is the Vice President of Growth Marketing at BrightEdge.  On this episode of Marketing Trends, Erik walks us through the phases of marketing as he sees them and describes what we should expect to see in the next couple years during the rise of "Marketing 5.0".

Jonathan Mildenhall knows a thing or two about building a great brand. He has helped lead one of the world's great legacy brands as SVP of Coca-Cola, as well as one of the world's great new brands as CMO of Airbnb. He is now the co-founder and CEO of TwentyFirstCenturyBrand. On this episode, Jonathan discusses his journey into marketing, how he learned to drive conversation at Coca-Cola and Airbnb, and what it takes for a brand to achieve success in the 21st century.

Every marketer knows that customer experience is important. But Thomas Butta, CMO at SignalFX, takes it a step further. According to Tom, experience is the new brand. On this episode, Tom explains what he means by this, and discusses how to succeed as a challenger brand. He is also joined by SignalFX Chief Architect Rajesh Raman, who talks about their collaboration together.

Should all marketers be quants? Tim O'Connor has suggested that the answer to that question is "yes." Tim is the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Excelligence and the CEO of LifeCubby, one of their subsidiaries. Tim has also served as a Marketing VP at Siemens and Unisource Worldwide. On this episode, Tim talks all about quantitative marketing, and explains why he believes that every marketer should have an understanding of basic quantitative tools and methods.

This episode of Marketing Trends features an interview with Ryan Bonnici. He is currently the CMO of G2, and previously served as the senior director of global marketing at Hubspot, and the head of marketing of APAC at Salesforce. On this episode, Ryan discusses his background and how he turned a job as a flight attendant into a career in marketing. He also dives deep into how he has been able to successfully drive growth, including how he was able to generate $64 million with a $6k campaign.

Many marketers operate one quarter at a time. Andy Bertera is someone who has found enormous success by taking the long view. In his decade leading the marketing efforts at New England Biolabs, he has helped establish them as an authoritative voice in biotech industry. On this episode of Marketing Trends, he also discusses how to build a marketing team, why an experimental mindset is key for marketers, and the unique aspects of biotech marketing.

No one knows Account Based Marketing better than Jon Miller. As the CEO and co-founder of Engagio he has helped define the market. And marketing innovation is nothing new to Jon. He also co-founded Marketo and served as a VP at Epiphany. On this episode, Jon talks all about ABM, including most common mistakes and best practices for getting started. He also gives advice of how more marketers can become successful founder and what he thinks the next big innovation will be in marketing.

On this episode of Marketing Trends, we talked to Ryan Green, Senior Vice President and CMO of Southwest Airlines, about what makes Southwest so effective, and how he helped get them to where they are. Ryan opens up about how Southwest is able to garner best-in-the-industry customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, as well as how he helped transform their marketing organization to meet the demands of the digital age.

CMO is one of the most difficult job positions. It is typically associated with low levels of trust and short tenures. On this episode, Sara Varni, CMO of Twilio, joins us and opens up her CMO playbook. She discusses what to do in your first 90 days as CMO to set yourself up for success, best practices for streamlining budgeting and approvals, how to deal with imposter syndrome, and more.

Jennifer Johnson is a category design expert. As the CMO of Tenable and a startup advisor at Play Bigger, Jennifer puts into practice the principles of category design every day. In this interview, Jennifer discusses all things category design, from best practices and case studies to pitfalls and cautionary tales.

Shannon Pruitt has helped forge partnerships between some of the greatest brands in the world and some of the best original programming. Shannon is the President of SMPI Marketing Group, and she previously served as the CMO of The Honest Company, President and CEO of The Story Lab, and VP of Integrated Solutions of Warner Brothers. She joined the show to tell us best practices for these kinds of partnerships, what she learned from being a CMO, and how to get the most out of influencer relationships.