Episodios

  • Pipeline Growth Through Customer Success With Kristi Faltorusso
    Jul 2 2025

    Kristi Faltorusso, Chief Customer Officer at ClientSuccess, shares how customer success can do more than retain accounts. It can build and accelerate pipeline. From success probability scoring to social-led growth, this conversation is packed with bold ideas for driving expansion and alignment across GTM teams.

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    11 m
  • Bridging Brand and Demand to Drive Enterprise Growth
    Jun 26 2025

    Frannie Danzinger, VP of Sales, Strategic Accounts at Integrate, to explore how aligning brand and demand drives scalable enterprise growth.

    What you'll learn:

    • Why demand marketers must also think like brand builders

    • How to influence enterprise buyers long before they fill out a form

    • The evolution of go-to-market motions in complex sales cycles

    • Practical advice for sellers navigating multiple buyer personas

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    17 m
  • Building Enterprise Pipeline on a Bootstrap Budget
    Jun 11 2025

    Randi-Sue Deckard, SVP of Growth at BESLER, who shares her unique journey from scientist to go-to-market leader.

    Randi unpacks how her data-driven mindset shapes everything from defining the ideal customer profile (ICP) to deploying AI thoughtfully, and why refining pipeline strategy quarterly is non-negotiable. Learn how BESLER leverages community, referrals, and events to accelerate its pipeline, and discover where Randi invests her “100 pennies” to maximize growth in a resource-conscious world.

    If you’re building a pipeline in enterprise sales or healthcare tech or just trying to do more with less, this episode is packed with insight you won’t want to miss.

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    16 m
  • Let’s Go After The White Whale To Rebuild The Pipeline
    Jun 5 2025

    Alex Grace, VP of Sales at Arta, returns with a masterclass in pipeline strategy. What happens when your ICP is over defined? Alex walks us through how he inherited a total addressable market of just 130 companies, and what it took to expand it to over 2,000 viable targets.

    From redefining ideal customer profiles, leveraging AI as a strategic assistant, to doubling down on high-ROI marketing and event investments, Alex shares real, unfiltered insights on how to scale a modern B2B pipeline, especially in industries still catching up with SaaS-level sophistication.

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    16 m
  • From Content to Conversion: Building Sales Pipeline Using The Librarian Mindset With Jonathan Gandolf
    May 7 2025

    Jonathan Gandolf, Founder & CEO of Audience Plus (formerly The Juice), to talk about building pipeline the founder-led way that includes boots on the ground, field events, and dinners that convert.

    Fresh off a major acquisition, Jonathan shares how Audience Plus evolved its ICP from brand marketers to demand gen leaders, what it takes to align product, sales, and marketing around that shift, and why “breaking bread” may just be the best marketing strategy out there. From the field to the funnel, Jonathan reveals how startups can build momentum in a challenging SaaS market without leaning on expensive sponsorships or outdated tactics.

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    13 m
  • Less Is More: Kristie Jones on Narrowing ICP, AI for Outreach, and the New Rules of Pipeline
    Apr 30 2025

    Kristie Jones, Founder and Principal of Kristie K. Jones and author of Selling Your Way In. Kristie shares fresh perspectives on why a tightly defined ICP (even as narrow as 250 accounts!) is the foundation of a successful go-to-market strategy, especially for early-stage SaaS startups.

    She dives into how AI is transforming top-of-funnel research and outreach, offering real-world examples of how tools like ChatGPT can turn hours of manual work into minutes of personalized outreach. Plus, Kristie plays the "100 Pennies" game, revealing where she'd invest across sales, marketing, product, and events in 2025 to generate the highest pipeline ROI.

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    14 m
  • Fixing the Leaky Funnel: How Sandy Yu Turns Customer Retention into a Pipeline Growth Engine
    Apr 23 2025

    Sandy Yu, Founder and Growth Executive at Revenue Retention Advisors, explores a refreshingly unconventional path to pipeline growth. The one that starts after the sale.

    Sandy shares how she helps B2B SaaS companies generate "second-order revenue" by reducing churn, doubling down on upsell and cross-sell opportunities, and aligning product, marketing, and sales around the real pain points of their ideal customers.

    Tune in to hear how Sandy diagnoses pipeline problems like a doctor before prescribing fixes, why she prioritizes marketing over sales when resources are tight, and what her unique "100-penny framework" reveals about breaking away from the status quo.

    If you’ve ever felt like you're pouring leads into a leaky bucket, this one’s for you.

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    12 m
  • From Chaos to Clarity: Building Outbound Pipeline from Scratch with Akshaya Ravi of Storylane
    Apr 18 2025

    Akshaya Ravi, Sr. Founding SDR & Evangelism at Storylane, to explore how she’s helping Storylane evolve from an inbound-only engine to a balanced, outbound-powered revenue machine.

    Akshaya shares her experiences of building outbound motion from scratch, defining the ideal customer profile (ICP) in fast-moving environments, and how her team is leveraging AI to stay lean and scalable by automating what should be automated and protecting the human moments that truly move deals forward.

    What you’ll learn in this episode:

    • How to build an outbound engine in an inbound-heavy org
    • The evolving definition of ICP (and why it’s not just your “target customer”)
    • Real-world examples of using AI to accelerate but not replace sales efforts
    • Her “100-penny” framework for distributing pipeline generation efforts across channels
    • Why Storylane doubles down on product-led, founder-led, and social-led growth
    • Tactical tips on staying agile and system-aware in a fast-scaling team

    Whether you're scaling your first SDR team or fine-tuning your go-to-market playbook, this conversation is full of first-hand insights, practical strategies, and a refreshing perspective on the power of experimentation in modern pipeline generation.

    Tune in now to learn how to build a pipeline that’s not just big but built to convert.

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    14 m