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Interviews with top marketers sharing tactical tips, strategies, and lessons learned to help you grow your business. Hosted by Dave Gerhardt, founder of Exit Five, former CMO, and author of Founder Brand. Learn more at exitfive.com
Dave [0:00:01]: You're listening to The Dave Gerhardt Show.
Dasha [0:00:17]: Hey.
Dasha [0:00:17]: It's Dasha.
Dasha [0:00:18]: In on today's episode, I'm talking to Frail award.
Dasha [0:00:21]: F is the associate managing director at an agency called Hen Media.
Dasha [0:00:25]: They help B2B tech companies get their content in front of potential buyers to generate leads.
Dasha [0:00:30]: But before she worked in an agency, Frey is a marketer, and she got so frustrated by how the sales team was treating her leads that she actually stopped being a marketer and enjoying the sales team instead.
Dasha [0:00:41]: So she has been on both sides.
Dasha [0:00:43]: She really gets it.
Dasha [0:00:44]: And we spent today's episode talking about a topic very near and dear to my heart, sales and marketing alignment.
Dasha [0:00:50]: We talked about whether the Sql is really dead and what Frey has been suggesting clients call the Sql instead.
Dasha [0:00:57]: But probably my favorite part is Frey shared specific tactics that you can try with your sales team today to build good alignment.
Dasha [0:01:05]: I shared some of the things that have been working on on our team as well.
Dasha [0:01:08]: I think you're gonna walk away from this episode.
Dasha [0:01:11]: With a few things that you can implement right away, especially if you're tired of the same argument from the sales team, which is just, you know, these leads are not good enough.
Dasha [0:01:19]: So enjoy the show, I hope you enjoyed this episode.
Dasha [0:01:21]: Let me know what you think.
Dasha [0:01:22]: Frey.
Dasha [0:01:23]: Welcome to the podcast.
Dasha [0:01:24]: So excited to chat with you today.
Dasha [0:01:26]: Let's get you introduced.
Dasha [0:01:28]: F, Who are you?
Dasha [0:01:29]: Where do you work?
Dasha [0:01:30]: What do you do?
Freya [0:01:31]: Amazing.
Freya [0:01:31]: Thank you, Dasha.
Freya [0:01:32]: So I am free award.
Freya [0:01:34]: I'm the associate Managing director at a company called He Media.
Freya [0:01:38]: We are based in the Uk, but we're a global company.
Freya [0:01:41]: We support marketing managers that are working at B2b technology companies who are looking to drive marketing qualified leads or Npr, whatever they wanna call them.
Freya [0:01:51]: Leads that are at that early stage in the funnel and ready for further and conversion.
Dasha [0:01:58]: Let's talk about that.
Dasha [0:01:59]: What does your typical client look like?
Dasha [0:02:02]: Who is hiring you to do this type of work?
Freya [0:02:05]: Yeah.
Freya [0:02:05]: Of course.
Freya [0:02:05]: So we work with B2b marketing professionals.
Freya [0:02:08]: It could be anyone from the head marketing.
Freya [0:02:10]: It could be media buyers, and we also work with agencies as well some media buying agencies in some instances, we work with kind of founders.
Freya [0:02:18]: It really depends on the size of that business.
Freya [0:02:20]: Our sweet spot is really in that mid market to enterprise company, but the practice of what we do is applicable to any company size really.
Dasha [0:02:31]: When you say mid market enterprise, give me, like numbers?
Dasha [0:02:33]: Like, what is the typical head at a company like that?
Dasha [0:02:36]: And then I'm also curious who on that team are you working with?
Dasha [0:02:40]: Is it the demand ad manager Who are you getting from of, like, plugged in with?
Freya [0:02:44]: So we tend to look at the marketing department as the overall head counts.
Freya [0:02:48]: For our Ic and who we're targeting who we're working with.
Freya [0:02:52]: The campaigns that we run tend to work most effectively when you've got a head count of more than three marketers, but some of the clients that we work with might have five six hundred marketers in their department.
Freya [0:03:01]: It really depends it's often more siloed when they're a larger company, so that's more of a not an individual relationship will have a global footprint with that kind of account.
Freya [0:03:11]: The job titles that we tend to work with it's anyone from demand gen into head of marketing.
Freya [0:03:17]: It could be your paid media specialists and then agency side, it's more account manager's, account directors, account execs in some instances.
Freya [0:03:25]: And, yeah.
Freya [0:03:26]: It really is split.
Freya [0:03:27]: It really depends on the responsibilities of that individual, whether they're focusing on specific emerging markets, For example, there might be a marketer that's focused purely on those new markets or it could be ahead of marketing that's just trying to pull something together globally often it's the more senior title work with us when they work on a global campaign and they're looking to then pass it down into their field marketers to run the execution of it.
Dasha [0:03:51]: Got it.
Dasha [0:03:52]: That makes sense.
Dasha [0:03:52]: And then what is the problem that they're trying to solve when they hire your company.
Freya [0:03:59]: So a couple of different problems is either they are looking to open up a new territory, and they don't really have a footprint in that territory.
Freya [0:04:05]: They're trying to understand who their potential buyers could be who their audiences that they need to target.
Freya [0:04:11]: So they'll work with us to replicate where they've already had success in one market, they'll look to replicate that, and we understand the local nuances, especially when it's local language contents indication and lead generation, it has to be done slightly differently.
Freya [0:04:23]: From a compliance angle, but also from an audience angle job titles don't always transfer too cleanly across different geo in different markets.
Freya [0:04:32]: So it could be focusing on that side, the net new acquisition, or it could be that they have had a poor experience in the past with content authentication and lead generation and they're looking for a vendor that truly understands it owns their own portfolio of publications and can support them in a trusted partnership as opposed to Over promising and under delivering, like, unfortunately, a lot of vendors in our space do?
Dasha [0:04:56]: And at these companies, what does their funnel look like?
Dasha [0:04:59]: I'm curious Like, before they start working with you, where are their leads coming from and who on the team is touching them and what does the handoff off look like?
Freya [0:05:07]: Yeah.
Freya [0:05:07]: Of course.
Freya [0:05:08]: So generally speaking, our ideal customer will have a marketing automation system in place.
Freya [0:05:14]: They will be looking for top of the funnel leads that are a little bit more educated than like, a programmatic display activity, maybe they've seen track picked on their own website, they're not generating as many inbound leads, and they need to turn something up when it comes to outbound.
Freya [0:05:29]: So they'll be reaching out to us with a gap essentially that they need to fill.
Freya [0:05:34]: If they have a mounting automation set up, in place, then that can work really nicely with the type of leads that we generate because they need to be nurtured.
Freya [0:05:41]: They're not sales ready opportunities.
Freya [0:05:43]: They're very much marketing leads are ready for further nurture, more content, you know, multi channel exposure and everything else.
Freya [0:05:50]: But we do also work with clients that have a challenge when it comes to providing the sales team with leads.
Freya [0:05:56]: We do a lot of expectation setting, and we'll support a lot of our clients in...
Freya [0:06:01]: Sometimes just backing the marketers up.
Freya [0:06:03]: They're talking to their sales team or the Bd or the Sdr str.
Freya [0:06:05]: Whoever it is that they're now reporting into.
Freya [0:06:08]: I mean, a lot of marketers in this space are now reporting into revenue metrics, and that can be quite a tough adjustment.
Freya [0:06:13]: Our aim is to put control back in the marketers hands and help them build alignment with their sales team and generate leads that maybe when we deliver them, they're not quite ready for sales conversations, but with some further, they'll be ready to hand over with maximum intelligence, you know, they meet the Ic.
Freya [0:06:30]: They're engaging with content and Maybe we understand their challenge what they're looking to address why they're consuming that client's content so that when they do go over to sales, there's a little bit more alignment and they start to see that success.
Freya [0:06:43]: A lot of the over and above work that we do to support the marketers.
Freya [0:06:47]: I mean, we're pretty much all marketers at He.
Freya [0:06:49]: So what's the saying a wolf and sheep clothing.
Freya [0:06:52]: I'm a marketer, but I wear a sales hat really, so I did the jump from marketing over to sales.
Freya [0:06:57]: Mainly don't tell my sales colleagues, but mainly because I became frustrated that sales people weren't doing the things that I thought they should be doing as a next step with the data that I was generating.
Freya [0:07:06]: So I made that jump into sales, but with a marketing attitude and created that alignment, and I'm trying to support my clients in doing the same thing.
Dasha [0:07:16]: What were some of the frustrations that you were feeling as a marketer that maybe you make the jump.
Freya [0:07:21]: Oh, there's quite a less.
Freya [0:07:22]: I mean, I'm not gonna throw sales people under the bus or speak negatively about them.
Freya [0:07:26]: I am one of them, but I think that gives me a bit more of a pass.
Freya [0:07:29]: Right?
Freya [0:07:29]: So I would say The most common thing that used to frustrate me and I still deal with on behalf of my clients now is the salespeople people saying, you know, marketing leads don't work or marketing needs don't convert or being able to just tie them all with the same brush, all the leads with the same brush is probably the most frustrating thing because the reality is, if a salesperson is approaching a marketing lead in the way of a traditional sale, You know, if you treat a lead that's come through a linkedin campaign, for example, in the same way that you treat a lead that's filled out contact us form on your website, they're not in the same head space.
Freya [0:08:05]: They're not necessarily same things.
Freya [0:08:08]: Exactly.
Freya [0:08:08]: I've got my Am out.
Freya [0:08:09]: I wanna invest, especially when we're working with tech companies.
Freya [0:08:12]: You know, they don't necessarily want to invest and displace one of your competitors and invest in a multimillion million dollar deal just off the back of one piece of content or and, you know, a Dm on Linkedin.
Freya [0:08:23]: So the biggest frustration for me is or was.
Freya [0:08:28]: Sales people just hiring every marketing do the same brush.
Freya [0:08:32]: The biggest frustration now is probably the reputation of Q inside of not only the marketing department, but outside of that as well.
Freya [0:08:43]: It's got a terrible reputation, and it's not necessarily the tactic that's the problem of my opinion.
Freya [0:08:48]: It's just that it's a really easy thing to say that marketing leads don't work or marketing, you know, whatever marketing is doing isn't working because it's not meeting the stage that sales expect that activity to be at.
Dasha [0:09:02]: Let's talk about that Because any social media platform without seeing the M sql is dead, death to the M sql.
Dasha [0:09:09]: So for it's the M sql dead, and what do you mean when you say that it's got a bad rap.
Dasha [0:09:15]: Talk about that.
Freya [0:09:17]: Is not there.
Freya [0:09:17]: Maybe the terminology is a little bit redundant a bit tired.
Freya [0:09:21]: I believe the reputation is associated with the framing of it as opposed to the actual tactic itself.
Freya [0:09:29]: I mean, I speak with Bt marketers every single day.
Freya [0:09:33]: And every single one of them even sometimes inside of the same company has a different definition for what an Sql is.
Freya [0:09:39]: I was on a panel this week.
Freya [0:09:41]: And in that, we we debated a little bit about is the Sql dead is it not and one of the fellow panel said, well, no.
Freya [0:09:49]: We don't measure our success on Mt anymore.
Freya [0:09:51]: We measure it on qualified.
Freya [0:09:52]: They actually called it qualified opportunities.
Freya [0:09:54]: And when I pressed her a little bit harder, it's basically the same thing as an Mt.
Freya [0:09:58]: They've just called it something different.
Freya [0:10:00]: And that has had an improvement for her.
Freya [0:10:02]: We do the same thing at He.
Freya [0:10:04]: We call them qualified outbound leads.
Freya [0:10:06]: It's a psychological shift.
Freya [0:10:07]: We're not looking to just re brand, you know, as marketers, we love to rename something.
Freya [0:10:11]: We love to repurpose and rename it and brand it.
Freya [0:10:14]: But qualified outbound leads sets an expectations for the sales team, a, it's qualified.
Freya [0:10:19]: So it meets the Ic, but b, it's outbound.
Freya [0:10:23]: And if a salesperson hits a word outbound that speaking their language.
Freya [0:10:27]: They understand that it isn't something that's come to them and instead they need to treat it in the same way as they would...
Freya [0:10:34]: If they were called prospecting.
Freya [0:10:35]: So you position it in the right way.
Freya [0:10:38]: I think it can be well received.
Freya [0:10:39]: I've seen it with my own clients.
Freya [0:10:40]: They've seen an uplift in relationship, internal comm and engagement through that shift in that rename.
Freya [0:10:46]: You're absolutely right, Dasha.
Freya [0:10:48]: You can't go on any social platform without seeing some form of debate about the Sql debt.
Freya [0:10:53]: What I mean by reputation is exactly that.
Freya [0:10:56]: It's actually really damaging to the reputation of marketing as a whole.
Freya [0:11:01]: Because an Mt is a marketing qualified lead.
Freya [0:11:03]: And what we don't always take into account is by tarnish the name of something and joining in that debate is actually really damaging for the internal stakeholders impression of the marketing department as well is an interesting one for sure.
Dasha [0:11:22]: You have this idea that as marketers, we have to be bilingual.
Dasha [0:11:26]: Talk about that a little bit.
Dasha [0:11:28]: What do you mean by bilingual in a a marketing world?
Freya [0:11:32]: Yeah.
Freya [0:11:32]: I absolutely do.
Freya [0:11:33]: So I believe Mark doesn't have to be a bilingual nowadays.
Freya [0:11:36]: What I mean by that is not other languages.
Freya [0:11:38]: I mean, drops to anyone that speaks any other language.
Freya [0:11:41]: I am terrible.
Freya [0:11:42]: I can just about order a art wine in French and I think I can order a beer in German, and that's about it.
Freya [0:11:48]: What I mean when I say marketers need to be bilingual is internal language.
Freya [0:11:52]: So marketers need to be able to speak finance.
Freya [0:11:56]: They need to be able to speak stakeholder and C suite, they need to be able to speak sales in a language in a way that they can translate marketing achievements, marketing goals, marketing tactics in a way that the recipient of that information understands.
Freya [0:12:12]: That's the biggest way that I think Marketers can win.
Freya [0:12:14]: What I mean by that is...
Freya [0:12:16]: I mean, there's a great article actually bio a gentleman called Ga James.
Freya [0:12:20]: He works at a company called Hall, and he wrote at a piece recently about Is actually it's is really good article.
Freya [0:12:27]: You should definitely check it out...
Dasha [0:12:29]: In the show.
Freya [0:12:30]: Amazing.
Freya [0:12:30]: Thank you.
Freya [0:12:31]: It's about how if you are a marketer and you're going into a budget meeting with finance, How to translate your marketing budget requests essentially into a language that finance understands.
Freya [0:12:43]: So he talks about profit and loss.
Freya [0:12:44]: You know, he talks about all of this terminology that finance will understand.
Freya [0:12:47]: And I think internal marketing is one thing.
Freya [0:12:50]: But actually articulating in a way that the recipient will understand will help you get buy in.
Freya [0:12:57]: It will also prevent the roll creep.
Freya [0:13:00]: And what I mean by that is I think everybody listening.
Freya [0:13:04]: Everyone I've ever spoken to in the marketing world has someone in the C suite or someone in the sales team, Someone in finance that thinks they're a marketer.
Freya [0:13:11]: When it comes to reviewing your budget, or the tactics, or whatever it might be.
Freya [0:13:16]: I mean, Ai is only fast track this.
Freya [0:13:19]: And someone actually referred to it yesterday as a claude.
Freya [0:13:22]: So claude audit, basically, which is their C suite using Claude to audit their marketing, and it's like, oh, I've done a claude it.
Freya [0:13:29]: That's the one of the threats for us right is there's all these Ai models that will help non marketing folk, understand a little bit more about marketing, but certainly not enough that they've done a degree in it.
Freya [0:13:41]: They've spent years in their career and they've earned their place.
Freya [0:13:44]: And this role creep comes in all too often.
Freya [0:13:48]: And I think part of that is because as marketers as we over articulate the metrics that matter to marketing almost as a justification.
Freya [0:13:56]: Because it makes sense to us, but then we find ourselves having to explain more about traffic and more about all these different measurements and share of search and everything else.
Freya [0:14:05]: And that doesn't always make sense to someone that hasn't studied it.
Freya [0:14:08]: It doesn't live and breathe that and isn't as passionate about it to you.
Freya [0:14:11]: So what I mean by marketers need to be bilingual is I think there's two different areas of marketing there's the operational and tactical, site elements, which absolutely should be discussed inside of the marketing department, but then there's the output and the results that should be discussed in a way that stakeholder understands.
Dasha [0:14:30]: I think that's so true.
Dasha [0:14:31]: Also show me any other department where a company, everyone outside of that department is, like, I think I could do that job.
Dasha [0:14:38]: Like, I'm not knowing up to finance and saying, oh, I could totally, like, a model sign me up.
Dasha [0:14:44]: You're right.
Dasha [0:14:44]: Marketing is one of those things where someone will just walk by and say, I think I can do that job.
Dasha [0:14:49]: It's harder than it looks.
Dasha [0:14:50]: But it's so true.
Dasha [0:14:52]: I mean, the metrics that I report on to our leadership team, like, in our leadership team meeting, are so different than the marketing metrics that I'm reviewing with our marketing team.
Dasha [0:15:02]: Those are far more in the leads than the ones that I'm...
Dasha [0:15:05]: When I talk to the leadership team and I give a Monday update on how we're doing as a marketing team, I haven't exclusively talking about.
Dasha [0:15:12]: This is how much pipeline we've driven because that's really all we care about.
Dasha [0:15:14]: Like are regenerating enough pipeline for our aes to hit their number.
Dasha [0:15:19]: And with the marketing team, we care about traffic and we care about share of search and we care about hand razors we care about so many metrics.
Dasha [0:15:26]: So I think you're right.
Dasha [0:15:28]: Like, the level of altitude and how much you share.
Dasha [0:15:30]: We say, especially in remote world, like, over communicate over communicate.
Dasha [0:15:34]: But I don't think that means just word vomit every single metric that you're measuring to leadership and them to care or understand how it ties to the overall business.
Dasha [0:15:43]: At least not with educating the teams why those things matter and how they apply to the broader business strategy.
Dasha [0:15:49]: So that makes a ton of sense.
Freya [0:15:51]: What I would also recommend doing is that cadence.
Freya [0:15:54]: So as I mentioned earlier, great opportunity to align at the top of the year, you would not believe the amount of marketing people I spoke to it This event I went to this week that said that they haven't sat down with that same group of people since their kick in January.
Freya [0:16:07]: We're getting close to Q four.
Freya [0:16:10]: Like, we we're pretty much in q four, and the amount that has changed in the B2B landscape in the last six months let alone nine months is wild.
Freya [0:16:21]: And if you're working off of the same definitions criteria touch points and metrics that you were at the top of the year.
Freya [0:16:27]: That might be fine for your specific niche and industry, but you've gotta check in on it.
Freya [0:16:32]: You got check in on, you know, what's going on the sales side, what is the push pushback?
Freya [0:16:35]: What's the leakage, What's happening, How do we need to refine this criteria to qualify these leads before I deliver them back over.
Freya [0:16:43]: So the cadence is probably even more important than the re brand?
Dasha [0:16:47]: It always surprises me as well when I talk to other teams how infrequent their communication is.
Dasha [0:16:54]: So I have a few suggestions that people can steal from what we do at our team.
Dasha [0:16:59]: Our team is smaller.
Dasha [0:17:00]: I will say, we are a team of about a hundred people in between marketing and sales we're there's probably, like, fifteen of us.
Dasha [0:17:07]: And what we do we have a few rituals in place to make sure that marketing and sales are working in locks up.
Dasha [0:17:13]: So the first thing that we do is I sit in, we have a weekly deal review where we review every deal at our funnel with the sales team and marketing is an active participant in that.
Dasha [0:17:23]: In fact, when we first started a deal review, I actually let it.
Dasha [0:17:26]: Which I thought was cool.
Dasha [0:17:27]: Like, you got your head of marketing, running deal review and asking reps?
Dasha [0:17:31]: Like, how's it going?
Dasha [0:17:32]: What do you need help with on the deal.
Dasha [0:17:33]: What's the risk on the deal?
Dasha [0:17:34]: I played such an active role in understanding what was happening where were deals falling apart, what stage were we struggling with?
Dasha [0:17:41]: I no longer lead deal review, which I think is fine, but I sit in on it and so do a lot of marketers on the team.
Dasha [0:17:47]: The other rich we have is a weekly show intel, which is where a rep will open up Gong and they'll play a meeting on one point two five x speed that they've done, and we paused to give feedback and ask questions, which is so important for marketers to be a part of that to see how is the sales team actually talking about the product?
Dasha [0:18:06]: How are they selling it?
Dasha [0:18:07]: What objections are they having?
Dasha [0:18:08]: Helps inform so much of our content.
Dasha [0:18:11]: And then every morning, we start with, sales stand up.
Dasha [0:18:15]: And every rep just says, here's what I'm doing today.
Dasha [0:18:17]: And by the way, like I have a question.
Dasha [0:18:19]: We're, like, I'm stuck here.
Dasha [0:18:21]: All of our marketers are part of that as well.
Dasha [0:18:23]: I think we, obviously, you know, we're a smaller team where we can have meetings like that.
Dasha [0:18:28]: But there's a version of that that can be true at every team size.
Dasha [0:18:31]: And so we are iterating on our messaging and, like, how we demo.
Dasha [0:18:36]: I'm not even joking.
Dasha [0:18:37]: Every single week.
Dasha [0:18:38]: Every single week, we are changing our messaging.
Dasha [0:18:39]: We're changing something about our strategy.
Dasha [0:18:42]: We are not waiting for a kick call.
Dasha [0:18:44]: It feels so natural now that it's kind of wild to me when I hear like, oh, we're gonna, like, revisit what we're doing a quarter from now.
Dasha [0:18:53]: Like, why would you wait when there's probably so much insight that you have that you're sitting on that you're just, like, you're just waiting?
Dasha [0:18:59]: Why?
Dasha [0:19:00]: So that's my little rant.
Dasha [0:19:02]: I think there's, like, a lot of rituals that teams can incorporate to make sure that sales and marketing are talking more often than a sales kickoff once upon time in January.
Freya [0:19:11]: Yeah.
Freya [0:19:11]: That's such a good example.
Freya [0:19:13]: I mean...
Freya [0:19:14]: Yeah, That's such a good example.
Freya [0:19:16]: And I think what you've done inside of your company is you've just normalized communication between the two departments.
Freya [0:19:22]: Right?
Freya [0:19:22]: So now, by you leading that initial one as well.
Freya [0:19:25]: It's like, oh, okay.
Freya [0:19:26]: They do respect to marketing.
Freya [0:19:27]: They understand where we're coming from, They understand Okay.
Freya [0:19:31]: They're part of the team.
Freya [0:19:31]: And now you blur the lines, which is the dream.
Freya [0:19:34]: Right, is that we all work towards one goal and we can have those conversations and give feedback both ways.
Dasha [0:19:40]: And it's so helpful because the sales team when they see marketing is part of the team and granted, like, I've always positioned marketing internally, like, our job is to make the role of the sales team easier, whether it's making more of the market aware that we exist, educating people before they show up to talk to sales, or, you know, doing something along the sales process.
Dasha [0:20:02]: So I think sales sees marketing as a true partner.
Dasha [0:20:05]: But that all sounds great.
Dasha [0:20:08]: Like, how does that work in practice.
Dasha [0:20:09]: Just this week, someone on our sales team was like, hey, Dasha.
Dasha [0:20:13]: This thing I said on a demo, I tried it for the first time and it really resonated.
Dasha [0:20:16]: You know, we already have a drafted a blog post addressing that very thing.
Dasha [0:20:21]: He was saying, I I didn't really realize this was, like, a real value add, but I've said it a few times now, and it's really landing.
Dasha [0:20:27]: Like, maybe we can do something with that.
Dasha [0:20:28]: Which is great because it's a feedback that goes both ways, and that feedback loop is so important.
Dasha [0:20:34]: So I think, gap, if you make communication regular and casual.
Dasha [0:20:38]: Like, it's just a Slack message that's in exchange now, not like a formal kickoff where we're, like, all buttoned up on a Zoom.
Dasha [0:20:44]: There's so so many benefits to doing that.
Dasha [0:20:47]: I wanted to ask you.
Dasha [0:20:49]: I'm sure you've seen a lot of Sql definitions.
Dasha [0:20:52]: Are there any that, like, really resonate with you that you think would work?
Dasha [0:20:55]: Like, let's say, a company listening to this or a market or listening to this.
Dasha [0:20:58]: Their company is struggling to define an Sql.
Dasha [0:21:01]: Is they're a starting point that you suggest, like something that would work for the majority of teams like, how individual does it have to be?
Freya [0:21:09]: I think the actual exercise of establishing it M is applicable regardless of your company size.
Freya [0:21:14]: Like, if you're a startup, if you're one man or one lady band, wherever you are in your journey or you're working for a large enterprise business, the exercise of establishing exact what criteria goes into your M q out should be universal.
Freya [0:21:28]: That mean, if you're a startup then I'm to a degree slightly en because you haven't got the historical legacy information and legacy experiences that you have to either undo or retrain.
Freya [0:21:40]: Instead, you've got that opportunity to really set those boundaries and define what success looks like and potentially be more agile and flexible with it, But it can still happen inside of large enterprise businesses and everything in between.
Freya [0:21:53]: The criteria that I would look at, the first thing I would do is visit your sales data.
Freya [0:21:59]: So visit the success stories.
Freya [0:22:01]: I actually speak to those customers as well because it's so much that can be gained, like, I'm a big applicant of businesses is allowing their marketing people to do market research with their established relationships, You know, why do you keep coming back?
Freya [0:22:14]: Can you remember how you originally found us, what is something that we do that for you ideal customer?
Freya [0:22:21]: Is different to others in the space?
Freya [0:22:23]: Why haven't we been displaced by a competitor?
Freya [0:22:25]: What is it?
Freya [0:22:26]: Is it the relationship with your account manager?
Freya [0:22:27]: Is it the actual product and the solution?
Freya [0:22:30]: Is it the price point?
Freya [0:22:31]: What what is it that keeps you here?
Freya [0:22:33]: And also potentially incentivizing lapse accounts as well to get that same intelligence because if you only know what you're doing well, you don't know where you're going wrong.
Freya [0:22:41]: So there's opportunity there as well.
Freya [0:22:43]: But if I was building out a framework for an Mt definition.
Freya [0:22:46]: I would look initially in that success data.
Freya [0:22:48]: Interestingly, there's a big debate going on that, I'm seeing a lot about at the moment about Buyers personas.
Freya [0:22:54]: And if you've been in the marketing space long enough, then you remember CEO Colin and finance fran, and the personas that, you know, like drinking coffee, and they have two dogs and this at the other and all of that relevant information.
Freya [0:23:07]: There's a new thing or an emerging thing coming through about synthetic personas, and I think that that's quite an interesting approach.
Freya [0:23:14]: I'm certainly not an expert in it.
Freya [0:23:16]: I have only started exploring it this week.
Freya [0:23:18]: But I think that's also a really nice place to start.
Freya [0:23:21]: So check it out, do some searches on synthetic personas.
Freya [0:23:24]: The head of marketing actually in Em for Samsung is talking about it at a lot of events at the moment, And I think it's a really interesting topic?
Freya [0:23:31]: That's using L to role play your personas and to really get to know your customer and your Ic?
Freya [0:23:37]: But, yeah, the first place I would start is in that success data.
Freya [0:23:41]: How did they get there?
Freya [0:23:42]: What can you map?
Freya [0:23:43]: What can you attribute but also remember that not everything is able to be attributed.
Freya [0:23:48]: So remember the dark metrics as well, especially where we are right now with Ai and Ai models and search behavior and everything else, but try and build a picture from your success data on what good looks like.
Freya [0:24:00]: And start there and then look to find tune.
Dasha [0:24:04]: I was gonna say, I think if you're a marketer and you have the luxury of sitting on even a year's worth of data, but probably more, you can use Ai to tell you in reverse engineer, what an Sql actually means for you.
Dasha [0:24:18]: And then obviously, use your human judgment to make sure this makes sense and it's looking at all the right data, but we're living in a world where you can use Ai to actually tell you in reverse engineer what is success look like historically, and almost like package it up for you and create those definitions and then get in a room and pressure test it too.
Dasha [0:24:38]: But I think that's great.
Dasha [0:24:39]: Everything you're talking about we've done in practice, and it's worked really well for us.
Dasha [0:24:43]: I'm curious to get your opinion Our Bd sit on the marketing team.
Dasha [0:24:48]: Someone listening to this is gonna be like, whoa, what?
Dasha [0:24:50]: But we have Bd that report into marketing, which has worked really well for us.
Dasha [0:24:54]: We split our world into two universes.
Dasha [0:24:57]: So one marketing is responsible for pipeline generation.
Dasha [0:25:00]: And sales is responsible for taking that pipeline that marketing creates and converting it into closed one revenue.
Dasha [0:25:07]: And it's worked really well for us and find those two definitions, Bd, kinda like, oh, makes sense.
Dasha [0:25:12]: Yeah.
Dasha [0:25:12]: Bd helped generate pipeline they get interested people on the phone for the sales team to then convert into customers.
Dasha [0:25:18]: But in our Crm, we have everything is just to lead, and the lead is either totally cold, which we call identified.
Dasha [0:25:27]: Like, we've identified them as a lead.
Dasha [0:25:28]: Or they're aware that we exist or they're interested or they're considering or they're selecting.
Dasha [0:25:35]: And so it's kinda like your classic Ab definitions of, like, how warm is a contact or company on their buying journey.
Dasha [0:25:42]: And also, those levels indicate what is the value of reaching out.
Dasha [0:25:48]: Right?
Dasha [0:25:48]: Like, the value of reaching up someone who's interested or considering is so much higher than someone who's, like, we've just identified them.
Dasha [0:25:56]: And you're gonna do different things based on where someone is in their journey, you're not gonna use the exact same strategy for both.
Dasha [0:26:02]: So I think there's so much value in just spending time defining those things.
Dasha [0:26:05]: In building a strategy around outreach for them, rather than just treating every single contact at every single company the exact same way.
Dasha [0:26:13]: And with Ai, we actually have the ability to do that even with a small team.
Dasha [0:26:18]: But if you have a big team, even better, like, you've got more horsepower more brains to, like, come up with these definitions and put this all into action.
Dasha [0:26:26]: We spend a lot of time talking about marketing and sales alignment, and I wanted to make sure that we talk about three specific ways to fix sales and marketing alignment that you've felt in practice have actually helped.
Dasha [0:26:41]: Do you wanna kick it off and give us number one?
Freya [0:26:44]: Yeah.
Freya [0:26:44]: For sure.
Freya [0:26:44]: So the first thing that I would say, there are many ways to build sales marketing alignment, but I think three great places to start or three things that I've seen move the needle, the most or quickest.
Freya [0:26:55]: The first is get buy in from the sales leader for you to create one simple mandatory field in the sales Crm.
Freya [0:27:03]: That field has five, six different reasons for rejection.
Freya [0:27:09]: So if you are providing your sales team of a marketing lead, and they are rejecting it, it means that they can no longer reject it without putting it into one of these five or six different buckets.
Freya [0:27:19]: Those five or six different buckets should represent the most common reasons you suspect for rejection.
Freya [0:27:25]: For example, we did this at he.
Freya [0:27:27]: We have ghost, which is a gentle way of saying, or I think most people know what ghost is now, but A gentle way of saying that person just completely ignored you.
Freya [0:27:36]: So we've ghost, we have not right now.
Freya [0:27:39]: We have no budget.
Freya [0:27:41]: We have gone with a competitor, and then we have...
Freya [0:27:44]: Well, I'd say those are our top four.
Freya [0:27:46]: We have a couple of other ones, but they're quite prescriptive.
Freya [0:27:48]: Active for our solution.
Freya [0:27:49]: So those top four are all indicators of actually the stage that essentially they're not at the right stage to speak to sales.
Freya [0:27:56]: What happens then is our sales team are tasked with selecting one of those four different reasons.
Freya [0:28:02]: The marketing team then has workflows that compete against those or counter argue against those reasons for rejection.
Freya [0:28:11]: So ghost is like a long workflow.
Freya [0:28:13]: It's a multi channel approach.
Freya [0:28:14]: It combines email, social.
Freya [0:28:16]: It trickle them into all of our programmatic ads everything else.
Freya [0:28:20]: My favorite is not right now because that does not mean that that person doesn't wanna buy your product.
Freya [0:28:26]: Doesn't mean you're too expensive.
Freya [0:28:28]: It doesn't mean they've gone of a competitor, and they've given you intelligence.
Freya [0:28:30]: It just means something has changed.
Freya [0:28:32]: And they can't commit to working with you right now.
Freya [0:28:35]: That's the nurture.
Freya [0:28:37]: That is the warm nurture.
Freya [0:28:38]: Is for me the highest indicator for our marketing team to keep providing them with content resources and everything else, But also, we have it in our system that it automatically sets a reminder to the salesperson to re engage that contact in three months time.
Freya [0:28:53]: So we've done some benchmarking, we see that three months.
Freya [0:28:55]: We tend to book our clients quarter on quarter.
Freya [0:28:58]: So it sets them a reminder to reconnect.
Freya [0:29:00]: That actually rep prioritizes it back to sales at the right time.
Freya [0:29:03]: Hopefully, the right time.
Freya [0:29:04]: You the budget one, which, again, lots of budgets change, priorities change, that's absolutely fine.
Freya [0:29:10]: That's intelligence, so that goes back into the marketing workflows, And what happens when you add in a mandatory field, it makes sales more accountable for their reason for rejection, and it enables marketing to ask more questions.
Freya [0:29:23]: So if you have a fracture relationship, and you're not gonna be able to get that regular cadence.
Freya [0:29:28]: So the sales team or maybe the sales team is huge and remote, your remote and your a solo marketer.
Freya [0:29:33]: There's a lot of barriers that potentially in the way.
Freya [0:29:35]: If you can convince the sales leader to put this mandatory filled in, it then brings that what do we say?
Freya [0:29:42]: Maybe your rejection rate is sixty percent.
Freya [0:29:44]: It brings out sixty percent down into smaller buckets that you can then actually do something with and nurture back into a later opportunity for sales team.
Dasha [0:29:53]: Yeah.
Dasha [0:29:53]: I think that's like a note brainer in such a low lift way.
Dasha [0:29:56]: Like, sales already filling out fields, What is one more field, especially if it...
Dasha [0:30:01]: I think the reason to, like, if I was positioning to my sales team, you can already hear the irr rolls.
Dasha [0:30:06]: Like, one more field.
Dasha [0:30:07]: But mh.
Dasha [0:30:08]: The promise is like, look, like, this is gonna help me understand.
Dasha [0:30:11]: Why things are not landing so that I can get you the best leads ever so that you're not wasting your time Like, your time is valuable.
Dasha [0:30:18]: I wanna make sure I'm sending you the right leads.
Dasha [0:30:20]: This is a feedback loop for you.
Dasha [0:30:22]: So, yes, I get it.
Dasha [0:30:23]: It's one more field.
Dasha [0:30:24]: But this field is actually gonna help me and my team like, calibrate so that we're sending you leads worth your while.
Freya [0:30:31]: Just before we jump into number two, we also communicated it to our sales team that they would retain that leads.
Freya [0:30:37]: So If marketing are then able to re engage that lead, it comes back to the salesperson that rejected it.
Freya [0:30:42]: So there is that benefit for the salesperson and it will come back warmer, it will come back more engaged and you've already potentially built a rapport with them if they're not in the ghost field.
Freya [0:30:52]: Right?
Freya [0:30:53]: So it's not a case of you're just helping marketing.
Freya [0:30:55]: So the perception for sales is more positive because it's okay.
Freya [0:30:59]: Well, if I give you this feedback if I can get you a reason and give you this feedback, that could be a much blow hanging fruit for me at a later stage, you're gonna do the nurturing for me.
Freya [0:31:08]: That worked really really well for us, and it encouraged that feedback loop.
Freya [0:31:12]: In the absence or the addition of conversation because if it just becomes what like your example, Dasha, you've made your regular cadence and check with your sales team a habit.
Freya [0:31:24]: And that field isn't even noticed by our sales team now.
Freya [0:31:27]: Like, it's just part of the process when they're rejecting a lead.
Dasha [0:31:30]: They love that.
Dasha [0:31:31]: Yeah.
Dasha [0:31:31]: I mean, getting the keep the lead.
Dasha [0:31:33]: That is a gift to the route.
Dasha [0:31:35]: Rather than, like, having it be round robin to someone else.
Dasha [0:31:39]: Like, you already had the touch point.
Dasha [0:31:40]: The momentum is there, you get to keep it.
Dasha [0:31:43]: I love that.
Dasha [0:31:44]: Alright.
Dasha [0:31:45]: What's number two?
Freya [0:31:46]: So number two is assigning a manager.
Freya [0:31:49]: So I'm not trying to add more responsibilities to marketing bulk.
Freya [0:31:53]: I know that we're stretched we're, you know, overworked undervalued all of the things.
Freya [0:31:58]: But assigning a nurture manager.
Freya [0:32:00]: So what I mean by that is you set up the mandatory field you set up the process.
Freya [0:32:05]: Now someone has to nurture these leads.
Freya [0:32:07]: If you make it nobody's responsibility, then they will just go into a workflow, whatever cadence you set up for that workflow, say it's for emails, certain number of impressions and then they're done off of that workflow.
Freya [0:32:20]: If that doesn't re engage that audience, then those leads turn into lead leakage, and they're just throwing away.
Freya [0:32:27]: They're just wasted.
Freya [0:32:27]: If you sign a manager, they become part of their responsibility is to dive into this data.
Freya [0:32:33]: So it is to evaluate those workflows, it's to optimize that campaign.
Freya [0:32:38]: It's to check him with sales as well and say, hey, Bd a.
Freya [0:32:43]: I noticed that forty percent of your leads are being rejected because not right now or not the right fit.
Freya [0:32:49]: Can we dive into those in a bit more detail and just get a bit more intelligence and insight.
Freya [0:32:53]: And then maybe they find that actually were just putting them into that bucket because it was the first one in the list, and it was convenient for them.
Freya [0:32:59]: That starts to walk the marketing data.
Freya [0:33:01]: Right?
Freya [0:33:02]: So having a nurture manager that is assigned and responsible for re engaging this, what would otherwise just be lead leakage.
Freya [0:33:10]: Can really change the game.
Freya [0:33:12]: When my clients have done this and where we've done it ahead, we have seen an uplift in re engagement.
Freya [0:33:17]: That has brought our overall cost per lead down that has brought the cost per acquisition costs down, That has also built more of a rapport with sales because sometimes an entire marketing department or ahead of marketing, talking to Bd r's talking to the sales team talking to the Aes, especially if you've already got that friction in your relationship.
Freya [0:33:34]: It can create a lot of push and pull.
Freya [0:33:36]: Whereas if you have someone that is accountable for this part of it, and they start getting wins in for sales.
Freya [0:33:42]: And, you know, these leads are coming back around.
Freya [0:33:43]: Again, they've done some tweaking here, optimization there.
Freya [0:33:46]: It maybe create some specific content for these four, five, six rejection reasons.
Freya [0:33:50]: That's a win for marketing.
Freya [0:33:52]: And overall, it's a win for sales.
Freya [0:33:54]: It's a win for the overall revenue and the overall business?
Dasha [0:33:58]: Who is this person in the marketing org?
Dasha [0:34:00]: Is this a new hire or is this an additional kind of half that a marketer starts to wear?
Freya [0:34:07]: I don't think it has to be an additional hire.
Freya [0:34:08]: It depends on the size and scale of your marketing team, of course.
Freya [0:34:11]: If you are a one man or one woman band and you are already really stretched, then maybe work with Ai a little bit to build out some of the workflows to build out, you know, that side of things.
Freya [0:34:23]: That can be a real assist and a real help.
Freya [0:34:25]: If you are able to make a higher than absolutely.
Freya [0:34:28]: This is a great hire, but I would be expecting them to do a lot more than just nurture the lead leakage.
Freya [0:34:33]: So I think it's an additional responsibility, but I think it is a worthwhile investment of time because you only have to look at benchmark reports.
Freya [0:34:41]: I can't...
Freya [0:34:42]: I'm not gonna quote them off top my head, but you look at benchmark reports when it comes to lead leakage, is the lowest hanging fruit and there is such a was.
Freya [0:34:50]: That individual if it was an additional hire could also focus on legacy data within your Crm, re engaging that.
Freya [0:34:58]: We work with clients that only focus on net new contact and net new accounts.
Freya [0:35:02]: Some of those clients are the largest enterprise businesses in the world.
Freya [0:35:06]: There are only so many net new companies and accounts that don't already know and aren't already in the Crm of x enterprise company.
Freya [0:35:15]: So what are they doing with that data.
Freya [0:35:17]: How many people actually mining that data, nurturing it, re engaging it, re profiling it.
Freya [0:35:23]: They're sitting on an awful lot of data And I think every marketing department, Every Crm is sitting on so much data?
Freya [0:35:29]: You only have to have a subscription with a Crm system to see just how much data you're sitting on and how much that data is actually just sat their stagnant not moving.
Freya [0:35:38]: And probably not even in a workflow.
Freya [0:35:40]: So if it is an additional role, then I would be giving them the response but of being the nurture manager, but that expands to more than just lead rejection and instead, it's focusing on legacy data and cross sell upsell, the low hanging fruit in the B2b space.
Dasha [0:35:57]: Yeah.
Dasha [0:35:57]: No.
Dasha [0:35:58]: That makes sense.
Dasha [0:35:58]: I'm just thinking loud.
Dasha [0:36:00]: If it's me, I think I'm having a hard time in general, like, getting head count approved.
Dasha [0:36:05]: Based on what you're describing, if it were me, I would probably just create a cloth agent inside of Slack, get up to Hubspot, which is our Crm, and then have it run a weekly cadence where it's looking at the reasons, tagging the rep responsible and just asking the questions.
Dasha [0:36:23]: We've set up similar agents inside of our Slack for, like, sales competitions, it's so easy to set up.
Dasha [0:36:29]: I do think you have to be a claude admin to do exactly what I'm describing with Claude tag.
Dasha [0:36:34]: But what you're describing sounds like a great role for an agent to roll up to a human to review.
Dasha [0:36:40]: And so the work of collecting the data aggregating the data looking through it, even even a hundred percent delegate that to Ai, but then just have, like, a human oversee it.
Dasha [0:36:48]: And it sounds like, a big responsibility and it is, but I don't think it has to come with, like, a lot of demand on someone's time to actually run something like that.
Dasha [0:36:56]: I'm taking that back to the team.
Dasha [0:36:57]: I'm gonna do that.
Freya [0:36:58]: Well, before we jump into number three, I think that is a great idea, and I think it is...
Freya [0:37:02]: There are so many different places for Ai inside of the business.
Freya [0:37:05]: Right?
Freya [0:37:06]: And there's so many different ways that it can be used and leveraged as an assist.
Freya [0:37:09]: And I think one of my favorite ways is something like that.
Freya [0:37:12]: So it is, okay.
Freya [0:37:13]: Well, I'm gonna need to sense check this.
Freya [0:37:16]: Of course, anything Ai should be sent checked.
Freya [0:37:18]: But the data exists is already there.
Freya [0:37:21]: This is already happening.
Freya [0:37:22]: They're already being reject.
Freya [0:37:23]: I've set up the mandatory field.
Freya [0:37:25]: All I need to do is get some more action happening around that particular account, those contacts and Ais...
Freya [0:37:34]: Yeah.
Freya [0:37:35]: I think, I'm excited to hear how you get on with it inside of your company.
Dasha [0:37:39]: I'll I'll circle back.
Dasha [0:37:40]: Maybe I'll do, like, Linkedin most on it.
Dasha [0:37:42]: But, yeah, I think it's like, a a no brainer.
Dasha [0:37:43]: I'm d a lot of, like, number crunching and data analysis that lives inside of our Crm two Ai and having an agent roll it up to me.
Dasha [0:37:51]: Just things that I always kinda knew in the back of my mind would be helpful to look at, but didn't have the time to collect is now just being pushed out to me.
Dasha [0:37:58]: It's great.
Dasha [0:37:59]: Okay.
Dasha [0:38:00]: Round us out with the third thing I'm excited to chat about this one, tell me about it.
Freya [0:38:05]: The third thing I would say is basically find your friend.
Freya [0:38:09]: And what I mean by that is building sales and marketing alignment.
Freya [0:38:14]: Is it's like, okay.
Freya [0:38:15]: My job apartments are so far apart.
Freya [0:38:17]: Right?
Freya [0:38:17]: This is just an example.
Freya [0:38:19]: But if you're sat there thinking, my departments are so far apart.
Freya [0:38:22]: We're so disconnected.
Freya [0:38:23]: I'm just one marketer in a band of many marketers, we all feel the same, but the salespeople people aren't listening, we've got all of this traditional and legacy team, and they selling in us certain way.
Freya [0:38:35]: We can't influence that marketing is way down the hierarchy.
Freya [0:38:38]: I can't do this.
Freya [0:38:40]: I'm here to tell you?
Freya [0:38:42]: You can.
Freya [0:38:43]: You can do it in small tiny pieces.
Freya [0:38:46]: So...
Freya [0:38:46]: And this is actually the same if you are a small team and you have great harmony as well, but find your person.
Freya [0:38:52]: So what I recommend in any of this is find an Sdr or a Bd, and I love the Bd feed into your marketing department.
Freya [0:39:00]: I think it's so smart, and it makes total sense.
Freya [0:39:03]: If your business is set up in the way that you explained Dasha, then it makes total sense for them to set on that side.
Freya [0:39:09]: It's like the pre and post.
Freya [0:39:11]: It's the before and after, and it it just makes sense.
Freya [0:39:13]: But I think a lot of businesses don't have the opportunity to set that up.
Freya [0:39:17]: So I would say, find your friend, find an Sdr find a Bd speak to the sales manager and say I wanna run a pilot with this individual for three months, six months.
Freya [0:39:26]: Look at your sales cycle see how long that is, take that into account in the time frame that you're suggesting that you run this pilot for as you probably should with most activity, especially if we're talking about pipeline and things like that.
Freya [0:39:37]: But work with that individual to support them.
Freya [0:39:42]: So build an ally, basically.
Freya [0:39:43]: You know, we're here we're marketing?
Freya [0:39:45]: I'm a marketing person.
Freya [0:39:46]: You're a bd.
Freya [0:39:47]: What's going on when you're making these calls, Who are you speaking to and build that and invest that time in that individual, explain the content that you've got the resources not just send them an email with the Sdr enable piece and say, his piece of content because somebody asks for it.
Freya [0:40:02]: Instead, it's if somebody comes through to you because they've engaged with this piece of content, this is what it was written for and this is what it indicates stage that they're at, what they're researching and why what their pain points might be?
Freya [0:40:12]: Really build that relationship with them if they're having a call, ask them if you can either shadow?
Freya [0:40:17]: If you can't shadow, can you watch it back?
Freya [0:40:19]: Can it be recorded.
Freya [0:40:20]: Can you have the transcript?
Freya [0:40:20]: If nothing else, but show them along the way why letting you in helps them in turn.
Freya [0:40:28]: Because they're starting to get richer data or they're getting, You know, you might add in a profiling question into one of the campaigns that you're currently running to build intelligence about the stage of that lead and then you're gonna articulate that to that individual and explain it.
Freya [0:40:40]: Treat them as a really close colleague and as a friend and as an ally.
Freya [0:40:43]: It's only gonna take that individual, starting to get success starting to book more meetings whatever metric they are held accountable for, The Ae then praises that Bd Sdr because they're getting richer prospects coming through.
Freya [0:40:56]: And suddenly, the Sdr goes well, I've been running this trial with or this partnership with marketing, and this is how they help me.
Freya [0:41:05]: You're then gonna have a seat at the table because the sales manager is gonna go, okay.
Freya [0:41:08]: Well, how do we turn this up.
Freya [0:41:10]: So if you can pilot it, find your friend, pile all of the nurture, all of the support, the ideal sales and marketing alignment with that individual.
Freya [0:41:19]: Only gonna take a couple of really positive outcomes for that to then, you know, the other at Bd or want a piece of it, the Aes will then want a piece of it, and then that friction starts to break down a little bit.
Dasha [0:41:33]: They love that.
Dasha [0:41:33]: Every marketer needs an Sdr best or a Bd vest whatever you call it at your company.
Dasha [0:41:38]: They're also on the front lines.
Dasha [0:41:40]: You can learn so much by being close to the Bd.
Dasha [0:41:43]: That's another reason I love having them report into marketing is because They're hearing the objections, the real objections on cold calls.
Dasha [0:41:50]: So much earlier than the rest of the company and they're having a volume of conversations no one else is having.
Dasha [0:41:56]: So so helpful.
Dasha [0:41:57]: I love that tip.
Dasha [0:41:58]: For.
Dasha [0:41:59]: I can talk to you all day.
Dasha [0:42:01]: I think you're navigating in a world that is so interesting.
Dasha [0:42:04]: Like, sales and marketing.
Dasha [0:42:05]: I think it's a tale as old time.
Dasha [0:42:07]: Like, there's always gonna be a healthy amount of friction there.
Dasha [0:42:11]: And, yeah.
Dasha [0:42:12]: I mean, there's, like, so many different tangent I wanted to go on during this conversation.
Dasha [0:42:16]: If people want more f, where can they find you?
Dasha [0:42:19]: What's the best place to link up with you in your company?
Freya [0:42:22]: Yeah.
Freya [0:42:22]: Of course.
Freya [0:42:23]: So you can find me on Linkedin.
Freya [0:42:24]: I'm super active on Linkedin.
Freya [0:42:26]: So just search up for award.
Freya [0:42:28]: I'm the associate Managing director at Head Media.
Freya [0:42:31]: And if you wanna check out the company and the work that we're doing, then look up Head media, which is h e a d l e y Media.
Freya [0:42:38]: Dot com, and you'll find everything about us.
Freya [0:42:41]: We also run a podcast, which is called B2B marketers off the record, which is all about honest conversations with B2B marketers, talking about shifts in buying behaviors.
Freya [0:42:50]: It's not very tactical to call, but it's more so opinion based and experience base so you can check us out there as well.
Dasha [0:42:57]: Awesome.
Dasha [0:42:57]: Thank you so much for coming on the show for out.
Dasha [0:43:00]: This is a lovely lovely chat.
Freya [0:43:02]: Thank you so much for having me.
Freya [0:43:03]: It's been a real pleasure.
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