ABM Done Right - A Personal ABM Podcast

Long sales cycles, low win rates, low deal sizes, limited impact to ARR, GRR and NRR. What's causing this... Misalignment with accounts and buyers as there is a lack of customer research. There's a lack of data so there are misaligned messages, content, interactions and experiences. In this podcast, Vladimir Blagojević, cofounder of FullFunnel.io, discusses with Kristina Jaramillo and Eric Gruber 17+ ABM data sources that...

As Kristina Jaramillo and Eric Gruber have mentioned many times on the ABM Done Right Podcast: ABM is about changing the interactions teams are having and the experiences they are delivering across all channels and across the buyer's journey and customer lifecycle. This includes each touchpoint and each interaction.

In this ABM Done Right Podcast. Eric Gruber and Impactable's CEO and CMO will discuss full-funnel...

In this podcast, Julija Noskova (a GTM and Growth Marketing Consultant) shares the ABM lessons she learned from working as a VP of Marketing for Medallia, SoftChoice and other companies. These lessons include:

1. ABM requires change management across the organization, otherwise, you're just doing marketing as usual just more targeted.  This includes changes in mindset, measurement/KPIs, how we go to market, the conten...

ABM Needs to Be Personal to Drive Enterprise Account-Based Growth – Not Just Personalized,

 When you have complex solutions, lengthy sales cycles, accounts going dark after sales engagement, high annual contract value and “at risk” enterprise accounts, you need a more personal account-based approach that focuses on the individual social, digital, email, and live interaction. You need less automation, more humanization, and...

In this quick, 9-minute podcast, Kristina Jaramillo shares why a call center conversational AI firm was challenged with accounts going dark. As you will hear, the content, messaging and outreach did not align with where target accounts were in their AI and digital transformation journey.  Our client wasn't aligning with the strategic priorities of the organization and showing target accounts their specific unconsidered gaps ac...

In Blue Ocean Strategy, INSEAD business professors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne argue that the solution to business growth and success is to operate in an uncontested market. They use the metaphor of a blue ocean to represent an uncontested market, and they contrast it with a red ocean, a marketplace where fierce competition has stained the water with the blood of the combatants. 

According to Kim and Mauborgne, crowded...

During an ABM Done Right Podcast on Rebooting Content to Support ABM & Sales, Cassandra Jowett (PathFactory’s Senior Director of Marketing) mentioned that she likes to compare the buyer’s journey to the “floor is lava” game that kids play. This kids game also became a popular Netflix game show. 

Just like the game show you have all these jumping points to get buyers to the safe harbor and you want to make sure they don...

82% of B2B customers are indifferent, disengaged or are actively looking to replace a vendor. Yet companies are still focused on applying ABM to just source the funnel. 

For example,  Kristina Jaramillo (Host of the ABM Done Right Podcast and President of Personal ABM) was having conversations with a SaaS firm that recently got growth funding. They put a heavy focus on the pipeline and getting more opportunities. But...when looking ...

Initially, Kristina Jaramillo and Eric Gruber asked Christina Handy (VP of Account-Based Marketing) at FIS to be a guest on the podcast to talk about the enablement that’s needed to ensure stage progression and wins with target accounts as Christina was responsible for deal support in past roles. But then we found out in pre-podcast conversations that ABM is treated as a privilege at FIS, which is very rare. 

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Declan Mulkeen (CMO at strategicabm and host of the Let’s Talk ABM Podcast) recently posted on LinkedIn that his firm just won a new client - a billion dollar business. And, the source: his Let's talk ABM Podcast.

At Personal ABM, we also recently won a new client, Uniphore, a conversational AI firm with a 2.5-billion-dollar valuation, and the source was our ABM Done Right Podcast. Vijai Shankar (VP of Global Marketing at Uniph...

Davis Potter managed ABM programs for Google, Pegasystems and is now managing Scale.AI's ABM program. The program at Scale is very new (almost 4 months in from the start) and he's focusing first on the 1:1 with the company's most strategic accounts before going for scale. 

As many teams first focus on 1:few and 1: many BEFORE implementing 1:1, listen to this podcast with Davis, Kristina Jaramillo, and Eric G...

Leslie Cocco Alore is the Global Vice President of Growth Marketing at Ivanti - an ITSM platform that helps teams find, heal and protect every device, everywhere – automatically. She spoke at ABM events like B2B SMX in Boston and now she joins Kristina Jaramillo and Eric Gruber at Personal ABM for this podcast on the Do's and Don'ts of ABM. 

After you listen to this podcast with Leslie, sign up for the upcoming A...

Kristina Jaramillo recently asked on LinkedIn - what role aligns the closest to ABM: demand generation, field marketing or product marketing. She asked this question because Nick Bennett at Alyce mentioned that field marketing should be focused on the middle and bottom of the funnel.  They capture the demand that the demand generation team created. As ABM should be about accelerating higher-value deals to revenue -- and not sourcin...

In this ABM Done Right Podcast, Kristina Jaramillo (President of Personal ABM) shares why you should not focus just on in-market accounts. This is something that the intent data platforms like 6sense, Bombora and others do not want me to talk about. In fact, in her book, “No Forms, No Spam, No Cold Calls – The Next Generation of Account-Based Sales and Marketing”, Latane Conant tells GTM teams to wait until there’s intent. 

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Studies from eMarketer show that only 17% of B2B marketers worldwide say their ABM program was mature and driving strategic growth. The other 83% mentioned that their biggest challenge is ensuring you have the right content for an ABM approach. 

In a recent article, Dan Rosenberg at Octane11 mentioned that he’s surprised that “ensuring you have the right content for an account-based approach” is at the top of the list of c...

When you hit the core the right way, that’s when win rates go up, stage progression accelerates, sales cycles go faster and deal sizes increase. When you build relationships and align with your core, you build retention, you drive customer lifetime value and expand with your core as you provide greater value to them. ABM is about building customer lifetime value with the 20% of accounts that can deliver 80% of your revenue growth. ...

Loyal listeners of the ABM Done Right Podcast know that Personal ABM believes that ABM and the Challenger Sale go hand-in-hand as ABM is not about sourcing the pipeline. It's about how are we going to win with those tier 1 accounts that do not respond to campaigns. It's about accelerating stuck accounts to revenue and how are we going to get a higher deal size and then expand accounts. This requires sales, marketing, and ...

Many of the GTM teams we talk to are already using ABM platforms like Demandbase and Terminus, predictive analytics platforms like 6sense and intent data tech like Bombora. They are driving the top-of-the-funnel and increasing pipeline KPIs. 

But, the common thread we're seeing across the different companies in different industries is that they are challenged to drive stage progression even though the accounts they ar...

Declan Mulkeen mentioned on LinkedIn that ABM + demand gen = a winning team. He’s right, it is a winning team together as demand gen should have a role in an ABM program. The problem is that most ABM programs are nothing more than demand gen. Leadership, sales, and marketing teams do not understand the difference between the two motions – and they don’t understand how the “two” should work together.  

Kristina Jaramillo, President o...