On this final episode of Beating The Drum, I had a fantastic conversation with my friend and fellow customer marketer, Pida Pairawan, where I reflect on the past three years of doing this podcast, some of my favorite conversations and how they’ve influenced my professional and personal life, and some advice for customer marketers who...
Aug 30, 2023
41 min
Irwin Hipsman is the Customer Marketing Director at Forrester and Top 100 CMA Influencer. Irwin was recently at Forrester’s B2B Summit North America, and he came away excited about the themes he noticed from the keynote sessions that are directly relevant to customer marketing, especially in encouraging marketers as a whole to be much more...
Jul 25, 2023
34 min
Sepideh (Pida) Pairawan is the Customer Marketing Manager at People.ai. Prior to that, she was the Customer Marketing and Community Manager at Rubrik for several years. We talked about how she was able to increase annual engagement in their customer community to 65%, hitting the ground running in customer advocacy as a former SDR...
Jul 5, 2023
27 min
Nick Bennett is the Host of the Anonymous Marketer Podcast and a B2B SaaS Marketing Advisor. He is also a B2B marketing content creator with over 50,000 followers on LinkedIn and has a wide variety of marketing experience ranging from customer marketing and evangelism to partner marketing to field marketing. We spoke about one of...
Jun 6, 2023
37 min
Leslie Barrett is Senior Director, Customer Marketing & Evangelism at Sendoso. She is also a Top 25 CMA Influencer and runs the customer marketing-focused newsletter, CMA Soulmate. Leslie was on the podcast more than two years ago and she came back to share how her role has evolved since, her framework for career progression and...
May 16, 2023
26 min
Pascale Royal is the Director of Executive Customer Programs at Coupa Software and has been in customer marketing for over 15 years at previous companies like ServiceNow and Citrix. Pascale believes that customer marketers have a significant level of influence when it comes to brand storytelling due to the customers that we choose to showcase....
Apr 25, 2023
47 min
Emily Amos is the Founder of Uplift Content, a boutique B2B SaaS content creation studio. She came on the show to share her favorite insights from Uplift’s recent 2023 SaaS case study report, which surveyed over 100 marketers to learn how they’re utilizing case studies. We chat about how companies are measuring the success of...
Apr 11, 2023
40 min
On this episode, we were joined by Brittany Rolfe Hillard, whom many of you are familiar with since she’s been a repeat guest on the show. She was previously running customer engagement and advocacy at WalkMe, and has since transitioned into a role as Chief of Staff to their Chief Customer Officer and is enjoying...
Mar 21, 2023
41 min
Tiffany Keel is Head of Customer Advocacy at ClickUp. Prior to ClickUp, she ran customer marketing at companies like ON24 and Nextiva. When she started at ClickUp, they’d grown tremendously through product led growth, but were still early when it came to the types of programs you typically think of in B2B marketing. She shares...
Mar 7, 2023
32 min
Kevin Lau is the Senior Director of Customer Advocacy and Experiential Marketing at F5. He previously came on the show to share his tips for running awards programs based on his experience at Adobe. In light of the current economic situation, we talked about his tips for customer marketers who are on the job market...
Feb 22, 2023
30 min