The Demand Efficiency Podcast

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Demand Generation

Growth

Acclaimed B2B marketing exec, Kasey Byrne, on avoiding marketing traps

In this episode, Elias Rubel is joined by Kasey Byrne of Rasa. A company building the standard infrastructure for conversational AI. With over half a million downloads since launch, our open-source tools are loved by developers worldwide, and Rasa runs in production everywhere from startups to Fortune 500s. Their friendly community is growing fast, with developers from all over the world learning from each other and working together to make text- and voice-based AI assistants better.

Episode Outline

[04:39] How Kasey apply big picture thinking into her career

[07:16] The trap most marketers fall into

[10:13] How to judge whether it is math question vs communications question

[12:04] Steps in developing team spirit and energy

[16:34] The process of seizing fabulous opportunity right now

[16:35] Lessons from running large marketing campaigns and listening to contextual cues

[19:22] The importance of running a good referral marketing strategy

[27:04] How Al is like chiropractic for the marketing plan

Kasey’s Inspirations:

Jonathan Cowperthwaite


Contact Kasey

www.kaseybyrne.com

LinkedIn

Twitter

The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

Episode Outline

[04:39] Mandy’s background

[07:16] Discovering that running a company, it's evident it's an emotional business.

[10:13] Take time to really take a step back and use data as your foundation.

[11:18] While that looks great in a spreadsheet, it doesn't work in real life because until you have a process that's documented and that you can measure, and that is getting consistent results.

[12:04] Think deeply what needs to happen to hit your goal and direction you’re going to, based on what you have so far, make some assumptions on conversion, what type of pipeline you need, how many new opportunities

[14:34] Consider how many demos there, do they need to have a week or how many discovery calls depending on what type of sales cycle they are, how many discovery calls?

[16:35] Where is our product actually fit right now? And how are we going to attack that?

[17:04] Figuring out how to hold people accountable and then the second part was how to implement that correctly with the team

[19:22] The way to break the sales process into the four main categories

[20:19] Why Mandy really loves mentoring people and leading a team in house


Mandy's inspirations

Mark Roberge

Jeremy Liew

Connect with Mandy

Mandy Cole

Twitter

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