Guest: Jeanne Hopkins

How Empathy from Marketers can Improve Marketing & Sales Alignment

 
This month on Revenue Rebels, Rhoan Morgan welcomes two guests from Lola.com, Jeanne Hopkins, CMO & Ryan Ball, VP of Sales. This episode will provide listeners with tips for improving alignment between two of the most important business functions–marketing and sales. It will also explore the impact that marketing and sales alignment have on both business growth and revenue.
 
About Our Guests
Jeanne Hopkins, CMO
As Chief Marketing Officer at Lola.com, Jeanne Hopkins leads both the company’s marketing organization, building a metrics-based powerhouse to fuel demand as well as its customer success organization, ensuring a great Lola customer experience.
Ryan Ball, VP of Sales
As the Vice President of Sales, Ryan is responsible for driving the organization towards its broader revenue goals by establishing the strategy, targets, onboarding, training, and career growth of the sales team.

The Four Must-Have-Tools Every B2B Marketing Department Needs

In this first of a series of interviews we interview Jeanne Hopkins about the four must-have-tools every marketing department needs. With the proliferation of software programs, processes and web-based tools marketing is no longer as simple and straight forward as it once was. Hopkins is the Senior Executive VP/CMO of Ipswich. The host is Jim Obermayer.
About our guest, Jeanne Hopkins, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Ipswitch

Women, if you want to achieve more, DO something about it.

When you want to get further in your career, position, earnings - look to those who are already there and are still growing. Let people take notice of you for your skill, to-the-point explanations, persuasiveness, confidence. Listen to Bonnie Crater and Jeanne Hopkins speak on this topic and tell you some of what they recommend and have followed themselves. All of the answers can't be found in books or motivational talks. You learn in the trenches by observing those who are ahead of you. You achieve it by asking them pointed questions as to how or why they chose a plan, a tactic or response.
Taylor Swift in her Grammy acceptance speech was heard saying, "As the first woman to win album of the year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there: there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame," And she wasn't done - at the end of the evening she continued with, 
"But if you just focus on the work and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you’re going, you’ll look around and you’ll know it was you and the people who love you who put you there and that will be the greatest feeling in the world."
Bonnie Crater is the CEO of Full Circle Insights
Under Bonnie’s leadership, Full Circle Insights gained market traction , doubled year over year and recently closed a Series A. With a steady vision, she led products to market that helped customers like Jobvite and Influitive make marketing impact visible to boards/investors this year. By intentionally building a team-first workplace culture, Bonnie created a passionate team that delivers groundbreaking martech solutions.
Jeanne Hopkins is CMO of Continuum Managed IT Services
Jeanne Hopkins has built a powerhouse metrics based sales and marketing team at Continuum that drives quality leads and revenue for MSP partners. She has been honored by SLMA with “50 Most Influential Sales Lead Management,” 2011– 2014 and “20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management” for four years.
Jeanne is always ahead of the curve when it comes to the latest in inbound marketing and lead generation strategies. And she is always sharing her knowledge with her team and others through speaking, mentorships, various advisory boards and more.
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