Ops Cast

Ops Cast

Ops Cast, by MarketingOps.com, is a podcast for Marketing Operations Pros by Marketing Ops Pros. Hosted by Michael Hartmann, Mike Rizzo & Naomi Liu

Episodes

May 22, 2023 50 mins

Today we will be talking about the concept of a maturity model for Marketing Ops and the skills MOps pros need with Simon Daniels. Simon is currently Principal Analyst for Marketing Operations Strategies at Forrester where he does research and delivers guidance and advice to clients. Prior to joining Forrester, he has held several Marketing Operations leadership roles both in-house and as a consultant. He has also co-hosted another...

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In this episode,  we talk with Sylvain Giuliani about how Marketing Ops pros can take advantage of the increasing importance of first-party cookies. Sylvain is currently Head of Growth at Census, a reverse ETL provider. He is also an active member of several communities, primarily in the revenue space. He is also an investor and mentor with experience at several startups - as a founder and leader.

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- T...

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April 11, 2023 55 mins

In this episode, we talk CMO-Ops role with returning guest, Raja Walia. Raja is the founder and principal consultant of GNW Consulting, a marketing automation and CRM consulting company. GNW is the latest in a series of marketing, marketing operations and marketing automation consulting organizations.

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- What Raja means by "CMO Ops."
- How differentiates these roles from “traditional...

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In this episode, we talk with Andrea Lechner-Becker and Drew Smith about attribution reporting. Andrea is currently the Head of Marketing at Toolio. Prior to Toolio, Andrea worked in consulting, and was CMO of Shift Paradigm. Drew is currently Founder and CEO of Attributa, a consulting firm that specializes in attribution and marketing analytics. Prior to Attributa, Drew worked in both consulting and in-house marketing roles, inclu...

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In this episode, we talk with Scott Vaughan about how to maximize the relationship between marketing ops and the CMO. Scott is currently a Fractional Executive & GTM Advisor to CXOs & Investors at Vaughan Go-to-Market Advisory - his own advisory/consulting business. Prior to that Scott was the Chief Growth Officer and CMO at Integrate. Scott was also CMO at UBM TechWeb and has held other marketing leadership roles in other ...

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In this episode, we talk about  Marketing Chief of Staff roles with Chloe Washington, Ragen Dodson, and Jim Williams. Chloe Washington is currently Chief of Staff to the CMO at Hubspot. Prior to joining Hubspot, Chloe has held several project management and operations (both Sales and Marketing) roles, and some leadership roles. She is also PMP certified. Ragen Dodson is currently Director of Marketing Operations and Analytics at Ax...

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February 10, 2023 50 mins

In this episode, we talk with Scott MacGregor about learning how to learn. Scott is the Founder of CXM Consulting Canada, a Marketing Technology and Revenue Operations consulting firm. During his career, Scott has held multiple leadership positions in and around revenue operations and marketing (and related) technology. He has also been in marketing and internet marketing roles.

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- How Scott keeps up with and fi...

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In this episode, we talk about how to continuously learn and grow in Marketing Ops with Raja Walia. Raja is the founder and principal consultant of GNW Consulting, a marketing automation and CRM consulting company. GNW is the latest in a series of marketing, marketing operations and marketing automation consulting organizations.

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- What has kept Raja in Consulting vs. In house. 
- What he sees as t...

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In this episode of Ops Cast, we discuss what has been happening across the landscape of Marketing Operations. We all take a breath for a moment and realize just how crazy it has been.

Details about MOps-Apalooza and the journey the team at MarketingOps.com has been on is shared -- Most importantly, the scheduling difficulties for the agenda and what happens with "Summer Camp" are addressed. 

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On this episode, we talk with our first returning solo guest, Lorena Morales In this series we want to talk with our guests about how Marketing Ops can work (better?) with other Ops functions.  Lorena is currently a Revenue Operations Executive at JLL Technologies. Prior to that, she has held several Marketing and Operations leadership roles. She is also currently on the advisory board with Syncari and is an active member of severa...

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In this episode, we talk with Shikha Pakhide about the impacts of the ever-growing Martech landscape. Shikha is currently Global Marketing Director with X0PA AI, a B2B SaaS platform to improve the hiring process. Prior to joining X0PA AI, she held several general marketing, product management and leadership roles. She is passionate about Go To Market strategy, Brand Awareness, Account Based Marketing, Account Based Experience and D...

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We're taking a look back at the top trends for Marketing Ops in 2022 and discussing what we think 2023 will hold. 

Tune in to hear about the top-performing episodes, what we believe your key listens should be, and what we have in store for 2023. 

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In this episode, we talk with Jay Schwedelson, the founder of SubjectLine.com which is the leading free subject-line rating tool ranked in the top 1% of all websites worldwide. Jay is also the president and CEO of Worldata Group, a multi-brand marketing services company whose portfolio includes Subjectline.com, Outcome Media and Guru Events which puts on the GURU conference, the world’s largest email marketing event. He has keynote...

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In this episode, we talk with Frank Cowell, most recently the CEO of Digitopia Agency, an inbound digital marketing agency with a proprietary methodology. Frank founded what is now Digitopia in 2004, and has evolved the agency from primarily website development and internet marketing to a digital marketing agency. Prior to founding his first agency, Frank worked in Sales and Marketing with Tandy, AT&T, and other technology comp...

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In this episode, Ops Cast Co-Host Naomi Liu leads the talk about all things women including superpowers and advocating for leadership. She is joined by guests Kacyn Goranson, Vivian Chan, and Leah Miranda. 

Tune in to hear:
- Their Super Hero origin story and subsequent super powers.
- The differences between the way women approach problem solving in the workplace?
- Why female leadership matters to them.

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In this episode, we talk with four marketing operations experts, each to talk about one of the major marketing automation platforms. Lara Black is currently Director of Marketing Operations at ExtensisHR and is a Pardot Pro, AJ Navarro is currently a Packaged Technology Operations Consultant with Shift Paradigm and is a Marketo Pro and George Samaras is currently Director of Marketing Operations and Technology at Coveo and is an El...

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In this episode, we talk with George Xing (Shing), Co-founder and CEO of Supergrain, a customer engagement platform. Prior to founding Supergrain, George held multiple roles at Lyft, including Director, Head of Decision Science Products and was a data scientist at Indiegogo. Before that he was a Fixed Income Analyst with Morgan Stanley.

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- George's career journey and how it led to starting Supergrain. 
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In this episode, we talk about  we are joined by AJ Valles to talk about his journey in different Marketing Ops roles. AJ is currently Senior Marketing Operations Manager at Saviynt. Prior to that he has worked in marketing operations and marketing technology consulting as well as in-house roles. In addition to his “day” job, AJ is also a sports enthusiast and is an NCAA basketball official. 

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- AJ&apo...

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In this episode, we talk with Omair Izhar to talk about what it is like working in Marketing Operations in Europe, especially with a US-based company. Omair is currently the Head of Marketing Operations and Technology at Ably. Prior to that, Omair had several roles in Demand Gen, general Marketing and Marketing Ops roles. He has also worked for Oracle / Eloqua.

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- His experience working in MOPs in Europe vs othe...

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In this episode, we talk How to Elevate Marketing Ops from a CMO's Perspective with Kyle Lacy. Most recently, Kyle was the SVP of Marketing at Seismic after Seismic acquired Lessonly, where Kyle was the CMO. Kyle has held several marketing leadership roles at several different companies. In addition, Kyle is an advisor to several organizations, a speaker and author of three books [this is something I just learned]. And, I thin...

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