Part 8: Top Marketing Leaders Share Their Most Uncuttable Demand Gen Budget Items

Every week on Demand Gen Visionaries we sit down with marketing leaders from some of the world’s largest and fastest-growing companies to uncover the demand gen strategies that have been fundamental to their skyrocketing success.In each episode, we ask our marketing-leader guests which three areas of investment are most important to their demand gen initiatives. Tune into this special mini-series to hear the budget items our CMO guests can’t live without!Find parts: one, two, three, four, five six & seven---Episode Timestamps: Part seven of this special mini-series features 10 CMOs and marketing leaders from some of the world's fastest-growing companies, including:*(02:07) Dylan Steel, CMO of Coalition*(03:56) Chris Lynch, CMO of MindTickle*(04:47) Marie Hillion, Head of marketing at Livestorm*(06:25) Dan Verley, SVP of Sales Workplace Technologies at Canon Solutions America*(10:18) Cindy Knezevich, SVP of Brand and Communications at SalesLoft*(12:48) Micheline Nijmeh, CMO at JFrog*(14:53) Ryan Bonnici, CMO at Gympass *(16:37) Palmer Houchins, VP of Brand Marketing & Communications at G2*(17:55) Rich Donahue, CMO of IBotta *(20:38) Maria Pergolino, CMO of ActiveCampaign---Quotes:“Data can get you really helpful insights and tell you if you’re way off base, but sometimes magic is figuring out the combination of what your customer says they want and what’s aligned to their value, how much you have to shift their perception and change their mindset of what your product can be and can do and then find the sweet spot.” - Dylan Steele, CMO of Coalition Inc.People respond well to strong storytelling, no matter if you’re in a consumer context or you’re in a B2B context because even in B2B, there are people making decisions.” - Chris Lynch, CMO of Mindtickle“Adapt and try to not have the same approach, not only the language but also try to adapt to the mindsets of the region, the countries that you’re going to enter in and you’re going to target.” - Marie Hillion, Head of Marketing, Livestorm"Marketing is an invaluable tool and partner. When done well and when paired well, and we all consider the needs of the organization and what role we each play, it’s really a powerful tandem when you go to market if things are aligned." - Dan Verley, SVP of Sales, Canon Solutions America"Brand is who you are, product marketing and demand gen is what you do. And so those two things work really well together when they’re aligned, when they’re not aligned, it can be pretty painful." - Cindy Knezevich, SVP of Brand and Communications, SalesloftThere's an old saying, the content is king and there's a reason for it. Organic search is all about content, same with paid search, but organic much more so, and the nurture you’re building