The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

What do the sales programs at Google, Salesforce, Okta, Box, and LinkedIn all have in common? John Barrows.

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


Connect with John:

https://jbarrows.com

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The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

Episode outline:

00:34 What does Skilljar do?

01:56 How skills have evolved over time and how Sandi has evolved as an engineer leading a company as CEO

07:45 The moment Sandi decided to pull back and bring in leadership, sales and marketing

10:55 Can Sandi pack them to revenue or is it some other qualitative factor?

16:58 What would Sandi avoid, when starting her next company?

21:37 What gets Sandi really jazzed about this next revenue sprint fresh capital in the bank

23:15 People that helped Sandi get to where she is today


Connect with Sandi

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