Brian Kardon, the legendary valley CMO behind InVision, Eloqua, and Lattice shares his strategy for creating alignment between sales and marketing and building a balance between product-lead growth and traditional operations

Episode Outline

[04:39] John’s background

[07:16] There's two types of companies and you can't have it both ways.

[10:13] How you're either a growth company or you're a lifestyle company

[11:18] What usually you going through your coaching process

[12:04] How to create an engine that consistently fills the pipeline with enough opportunities to flow through

[14:34] Segmenting roles and responsibilities and sales with kind of the inbound SDR

[16:35] How dumping shitty leads over to the sales team from marketing

[19:22] Why the sales and marketing divide for lead gen is where the biggest challenge

[20:19] What really leveraging artificial intelligence and leveraging real insights is

[21:30] How Google and Amazon and Facebook that know a lot about what the buyer's journey looks like

John's Inspirations:

Jeff Hoffman

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