Nina Butler & Sarah McConnell 32 min

How Marketers Can Use AI to Generate Pipeline


You can't escape it... AI is everywhere. Learn what you as a marketer should be doing with AI today to help drive more pipeline.



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Hello everyone, thank you so much for joining us today for this webinar, how

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marketers can use AI to generate pipeline.

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I'm so excited about this topic because obviously everyone is talking about AI

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right now.

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Just a quick housekeeping note, this is actually a pre-recorded webinar, but

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Nina and I are here today in Goldcast in the chat to answer any of your

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questions.

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So as we're going through this content, if you have questions, please drop them

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either in the chat or in the questions functionality here in Goldcast.

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Nina and I are both here live right now to answer those questions via chat.

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So quick intro, my name is Sarah McConnell, I'm the VP of Demand Generation at

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Qualified, but more importantly, I'm joined today by Nina.

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Nina, thank you so much for being here.

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I'm so excited to be here, I love jamming on this topic, great to meet you all,

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my name is Nina Butler, I am the head of marketing at regi.ai

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and we are a generative AI platform built exclusively for sales teams. So

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whether you are looking to personalize one on one individual emails right from

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your inbox or you're looking to create multi touch cadences, we bring the power

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of generative AI right into where you work to help you create some really

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compelling content.

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Which I love and I'm so excited that you're here because what better I know a

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huge pipeline driver is obviously out by messaging.

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So I feel like you were just the perfect person to speak to this. So with that

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being said, quick agenda for today's webinar. First, we're going to talk about departments that need to be adopting AI in which ones can wait. And then where do you need to have humans involved? Obviously AI is big, but

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there is a lot of conversation around where do you need humans in the process

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of AI?

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Where should you be at in your AI journey? Are you behind right now at your

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company? Are you ahead of the game? We're going to help you figure out where

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you should currently be at so you know what to be aiming for.

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And then most importantly, the top 10 questions to be asking yourself about AI

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as initiatives at your own company. So we're going to give you the 10 questions

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that you need to be thinking about as you're thinking about AI at your own

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organization.

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So Nina, to kick us off, what areas of departments need to be using AI right

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now in marketing?

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Yes. So I'll caveat my real answer with this with this kind of fluffy answer.

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And I think that the teams that are most successful today are deploying AI

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against the part of their business that needs it the most.

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So there is no right way. There is no wrong place to start this journey because

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everybody is on this journey together.

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But from my experiences, the teams that are most commonly taking advantage of

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generative AI today include sales and marketing and for good reason.

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The technology that's available for right now has generative in the name. It is

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designed to generate content. And when you think about you can't do demand

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without content, you can't do outbound without content, right?

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Or maybe you can, but not as effectively as you can be when you have a really

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robust repository of relevant and relatable content for your buyer to educate

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them on.

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The teams that are taking advantage of it today is number one for pure content

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generation. And this can span the gamut, right?

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But again, only relative to where you have the biggest bottleneck or biggest in

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efficiency in your content production engine today.

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So if you are banking on pure topic of funnel content, trying to drive

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awareness for a new category that you're creating, well, maybe you want to be

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using generative AI to create blogs, to create one-players, to create scripts

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that you can use on a webinar.

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Although we didn't today, that's certainly an area that you could explore

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deploying generative AI against.

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Or maybe you're looking for more mid-fonal content or more bottom of funnel

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content to arm your sales team with.

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That is a huge application, and there are dozens of solutions out there today

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that are doing that really well.

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But I do caution folks to make sure that you are vetting your vendor or your

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provider against the UK's we're really solving for.

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So for instance, we're all about sales content, and that's what we're really

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designing a product for.

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The second area that I see a lot of teams deploying generative AI to help up

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level the skill inside their organizations is actually driving more relevancy

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and personalization throughout the marketing and sales process.

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I think that there have been over the past decade or so, we've kind of lost

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sight of the promise and the meaning of personalization at scale.

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It just wasn't possible until solutions that now can incorporate generative AI

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capabilities to help fetch research on your buyers,

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understand what their pain points are, marry them to their personas and value

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props,

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pre-write that content, and then serve it right up into your workflow so you

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can deploy it at the right moment in time for them.

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That's only really been made possible in the past six to nine months.

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So those are the two biggest high-level use cases on, but I'd love to hear from

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you, Sarah.

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You're team or how you're observing it too.

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I totally agree.

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I do think to your point, I've heard a lot about content.

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Content is an area where you can be using AI.

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I love the point that you touched on.

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That doesn't mean it's your content marketer.

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I think there's content in every single part of marketing.

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And so from an area or department, it's like, really, you need those resources.

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So where's your team most strapped for time?

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If your content marketer is not strapped for time and they're just cranking out

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content just fine,

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then don't force AI on them right now.

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Obviously, they should use it.

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They can use it.

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We'll get to that in the like where are you at in your journey?

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Are you ahead or are you behind?

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But if you have someone on your team that's really strapped for resources,

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can they be utilizing this to help with more content generation?

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So I think a great example, obviously, from my background being in demand,

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you kind of mentioned campaigns is if you have a piece of content and you need

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to turn that into an entire integrated campaign,

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you need to help writing the email and the webinar script.

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And you can use generative AI to help you with prompts here.

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So it does help you with that time saver.

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And then I do think, yeah, I really think that content area to me that really

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spans the demand gen,

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the content, your opposite, that type of stuff, that to me really feels like

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the right area.

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And we're worsting the most value at our own organization is kind of in that

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like,

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where are you putting stuff out into market?

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You're going to market side is the best way to succinctly say it.

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Yep.

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And I think too, especially when we're looking at marketing, like the broad

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function of marketing and then you have all these sub disciplines.

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I see the teams that are like the field marketers, the product marketers, those

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that kind of live in the nexus between sales and marketing.

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There's such power for application there because marketers, we want to protect

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the brand, right?

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We want to make sure that every single message that's put out there, word that

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's used is really deliberate and really respectful of kind of our brand

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architecture. They are sales reps that are, you know, I can't tell you how many times in my

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career I've heard like,

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I'm not going to use this.

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This doesn't sound like me.

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I don't know how to infuse my own spin on it, right?

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In those roles where you have to straddle both of those realities, you can set

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those guardrails on your AI and then deploy it to your sales team.

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So you know that they're going to be operating within the right framework, but

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then also putting their personalized spin on it.

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So I'm seeing especially roles like a field marketing, a product marketing able

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to set those.

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They can then generate the content in those parameters and then the sales team

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feels like it's really unique to them when they go to deploy it.

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That's such a good point.

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And I think that's a good segue into the section of what departments do you

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think can wait?

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So again, maybe departments or areas not wait because we know this is coming

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fast and furious.

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But where do you think right now it's not as necessary or utilized as often?

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Yeah, I think there are roles specific to operations, for instance, where you

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might get some incremental gains, but it's not really going to transform.

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Productivity levels as much as it's going to be when you think about the

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average sales rep, right?

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And how they segment their day in terms of the jobs to be done as a full cycle

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sales rep or as an SDR.

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Prospecting is 25% of that day, right?

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If you can shrink that down to 5%, that 20% savings can now be redeployed on

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way higher level activities, right?

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That common to your more human levels of intention, and that's more going to be

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more impactful businesses than streamlining how your sales force notes get

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cleaned up, right?

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Like there are some incremental gains, but I don't think it's going to be as

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transformative as teams that are doing, spending a lot of time doing a lot of

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manually and time intensive activities, like generating content and then the

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savings they can now redeploy in other parts of their business.

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Those were absolutely the ones that I thought of too when we were brainstorming

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. This is an operational because there is a lot of work that's within

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applications there that you can't really utilize AI.

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Now, I will say from a, maybe it's just me, but from a MOS perspective, I will

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use Gertideriv AI sometimes if I'm stuck on like a formula, if I'm doing some

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forecasting or I'm trying to figure out from a data perspective, I found it can

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be useful if I'm stuck on a formula or I want a little bit of help with that.

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But to your point, it is incremental gains. It does take a lot of time to get

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the prom dry and stuff like that. So I think from an ops role, there are small

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areas where you can utilize it, but it's not like I'm thinking about my MOS

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team right now and being like, "Oh, my gosh, we need to be on top of this."

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And then you kind of mentioned product marketing earlier. And when I think

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about product marketing and brand marketing, again, I think there are small

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areas within that org where they can start to utilize generative AI, but they

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are so dependent on human voice.

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And I think in those, to your point of like brand marketing, a brand marketer

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is so particular about the way you're using words, how you're representing the

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company.

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And I think unless those people are really good at prompting generative AI and

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really good at editing and following through, it can start to feel too scripted

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when you need that like human voice there.

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So again, I do think there are things where there's like redundancies or time

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saving opportunities where they can use generative AI, but for me, the like

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brand marketers and product marketers, for the most part in the big chunk of

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their job, it really needs that like human element.

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I totally agree. And I think to like, to kind of double click down onto that, a

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lot of brand marketers or product marketers I see using generative AI, it's

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less to do their job and it's actually more to spark inspiration.

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It is exhausting being in those roles and having to think of new ways to say

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the same thing all the time, right? You're doing a website redesign.

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You need this headline to be have seven different permutations for SEO purposes

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, right? That can just help kind of jumpstart the creative juices.

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And again, like you're still bookending that experience as the expert that you

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are, but it's just this extra level of thought that can be redeployed on ideas

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you might already be working on and help kind of give you a fresh perspective

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to look at. And I think I'm hearing a firm, a lot of folks, they kind of worry or they fear

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longer that AI is going to strip away the creativity of a lot of functional

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areas of business.

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And I say actually far from, I think it's going to reduce the mental fatigue on

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a lot of individual contributors and actually give them more capacity back to

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think creatively about things because it will just help them reimagine the same

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words with the same pieces of content that they've been having to create day in

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and day out. I think that's such a great point of everyone can be utilizing it. And I do

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think if someone, if you lean on it solely and you're like, I'm just going to

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put a prompt into generative AI and see what comes out and then just post it as

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is, whether it's to like your social media or your blog or your

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your ad or whatever it might be, it does start to lose creativity. Like I know

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we've all started to be able to like sniff out when something on social is like

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, oh, this just got popped out of chat GPT and there's no, like no one proofed

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it or anything.

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But I also think I feel it too for teams that are strapped for time and

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resources, which I can't think of a single marketing team right now that is not

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strapped for time and resources.

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You get burned out on new ideas. It can be hard to be even think of new things.

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And I do think whether you're in brand marketing or product marketing or demand

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Jen or on the sales side.

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If you feel yourself in a rut, just because you don't need AI doesn't mean you

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can't utilize those tools to start to help you think of net new ideas and help

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you get past that sort of like mental block that a lot of teams I think are

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feeling right now when they're strapped for time and resources.

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I totally agree. Which, Nina, I feel like this is such a good segue. We're

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talking about humans here. So obviously we just talked about where can you

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utilize AI, but then as you're thinking through this strategy and how you're

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bringing it into your organization.

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How do you think about humans still being involved? Obviously, yeah, jobs, but

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it is important.

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Far from actually thinking a lot of areas is going to create net new jobs. I've

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been hearing a lot of chatter that, you know, very soon there's going to be job

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postings for someone to, you know, their generative AI operations.

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It's going to be like a reimagining of a revenue operations. It's going to be

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that critical and that kind of central to business is how they conduct moving

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forward.

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So in the spirit of how do you in the world of sales and marketing preserve the

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human, we are seeing our most successful customers develop something that we're

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calling a content committee.

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And this is a best practice, honestly, whether you're using generative AI to

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help jumpstart that creative process or not.

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What you think strategically about, okay, if we, if we as a marketing team are

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serving sales and serving them with content that can build trust, earn

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credibility, make people both problem aware and solution aware, well, you're

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bench of folks who are involved in creating all of that content, maybe even

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specific to like a sequence level deliverable.

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You need to have a nice cross section of marketing and sales and maybe field,

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maybe product marketing, right? Like whoever is responsible for making sure

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there's continuity in that experience between the one to many execution on the

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marketing side down there. So if you're like, hey, anytime we email a cold email, we like this type of

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structure. That's the best practice that we've instilled into our SDRs or into

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our account executives.

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Well, that committee decides that and then you coach the AI to only produce

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outputs that follow that structure, right? And that's going to be different

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than a chat GPT, which is like you have to have a conversation on how do you,

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how you can work with your own account.

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You can just put that in there right away if that's the use case that you want

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to invest in, right? Versus if you're like, I like more of a humorous tone. I

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like more personality to be infused into my sequences. Again, like those are

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our guardrails that a content committee can put on it.

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And then the beauty is like the human begins the process. They decide on all

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those upfront inputs. The AI then gets to work in the middle and has tremendous

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time savings and productivity boosters.

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And then a human always has to verify the output before it's published or gets

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sent, right? And we like to say, like, generative AI should be getting you

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about 75% of the way there. It is not designed to give you 100%

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You know, check free evaluation of the output at the end of the day. And while

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it can do that, we don't believe that's the best way to develop that human

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computer partnership and really make sure that there's continuity between both

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of those roles.

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Absolutely. I really like that idea of a content committee. And it made me

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think of like almost every organization I've ever worked at.

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Qualified included, we have a brand book, like you have your brand, your

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creative team helps put out on parameters of what, you know, what fonts you're

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using, what colors you're using, when do you use your stacked logo versus your

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horizontal logo.

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And I'm, I'm so curious. I feel like we're reaching that point where part of

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your brand book as an organization will have an AI component to it.

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So like, if your team is utilizing AI to help write content and helping like

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your sales team, or, you know, I just did at pipeline summit recently, I do to

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the creator led growth session.

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We talked about using it to help you write social media posts. You're going to

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have to start to put guardrails, whether it's in your brand book or with a

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content committee that says, if you're going to utilize this, you have to stay

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within these parameters.

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Because it is kind of like the wild wild west out there, and I feel like to

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your point, especially if teams right now and we'll get to this in the like

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where should you be at in your journey.

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If teams don't have tools specifically in their tech stack that have AI

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components and they're relying on a generative AI tool like a chat GPT, which a

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lot of people are.

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It can be really scary as someone that's on a marketing team because you do

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feel so much ownership over the brand and how you're putting yourself out there

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to just kind of let your teams go wild on it and not have those checkpoints.

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Yeah. So any full circling back to where should humans be involved? I feel like

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it's in everything. It has to be at the start. It has to be at the end.

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And until we start to like figure out generative AI, and we had the right tools

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and check, like there has to be a human involved in every single start and

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launch point because it's just too, I think it's too new for a lot of

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organizations to not have humans involved.

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It's really right. And it's I mean, very rarely has there been such an

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overnight sensation that is AI, right? Like maybe, you know, your cell phone,

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maybe the advent of social media, right? But outside of then there really hasn

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't been something that's captured mainstream attention.

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And the promise has been made so clear in such a short amount of time. So it's

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like every sales rep I'm sure is in their tooling around every market has been

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like downloading a free trial or something just to kind of get their hands into

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it, right?

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And to your point, Sarah, if you don't have any sort of agreed upon governance

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that gets out of control really quickly and actually starts to undermine the

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value and the promise of what AI can bring to a B2B organization.

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Yep. That's a great point of undermining is as we get into like, where should

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you be at in your strategy here, you want to make sure you're thinking about

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these things ahead of time. So if you're new in your journey, because what you

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don't want to do is start to bring it into your organization and things kind of

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go awry because you don't have these touch points.

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You don't have humans involved. You don't have any governance around it. And

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you don't want to undermine the confidence in the organization of Sunday.

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That can be so beneficial to your team to save time and effort on all these

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things that are taking up a ton of resources for your team and have it taken

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away from you.

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When everyone else is going to be ahead of the game and they're utilizing it.

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So I really do want to like emphasize that point of think about that governance

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first and where humans are involved before you get anything going to make sure

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you're not undermining confidence.

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It's right. It's like the governance, but then it's also like, how is whatever

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platform you're using reinforcing great usage and great behavior, right? When

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you think about, there's again, there's a lot of misconceptions or maybe, you

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know, fears about AI or resistance to adopt.

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And one thing that I hear really often is like, hey, I'm realizing that this

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can create all of my sales ready content, but I don't want that muscle to atro

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phy in my sales reps, right? I don't want them to forget how to research their

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buyers and understand how to drive relevancy in their outreach.

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Those are like core DNA of a great sales professional, right? And it's like, I

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totally respect that. Therefore, when you're thinking about how can use AI to

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speed up that process, you should also give yourself as a manager or yourself

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as an IC, a window into like, what am I doing well and what do I need to

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improve so you can re enforce those coaching moments, right?

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To say like, hey, you're talking about yourself too much when you use it, right

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? Like your IDU ratio is off. Like, where are all those different moments where

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you can start to better coach and the, you know, the AI can help surface those

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insights in real time to the rep to.

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Absolutely. So I think moving here into, we kind of mentioned it a lot. I've, I

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've foreshadowed that this is coming, but where should you be at in your AI

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marketing journey? And for context here, I feel like everyone feels behind.

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No matter where you're at your journey, like everyone is feeling like they're

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behind. So I'm hoping to give the audience today is where do you think Nina as

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someone who's very much in this space right now? Where do you think is a good

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place to be right now if you're looking at bringing AI into your organization

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and specifically your marketing and your sales team?

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Yes. So nobody is late to any party. Everybody. Everybody is in figure it out

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mode. Even some of the most sophisticated brands that we get the pleasure to

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interact with are like these types of things.

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They're like these have real positive but potential detrimental side effects of

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implementation. And we want to be really careful with how we introduce this to

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our org. Right. So everybody is in figure it out mode.

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But what I will say six months from now, if you are still kind of hemming and

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hon or like, let me see the proof point. Let me, let me quantify the value

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through a POC better. Right. You're late to the party at that point.

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So what I encourage folks to do now is again, identify the area in your

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business that stands to have the most improvement or most upside by the

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productivity gains of AI. And that's really like AI right now is like very much

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a productivity boosting way to evaluate impact.

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And not so far from now, I think there's going to be more execution based AI.

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Like there's a lot of chatter around agents and like how can you actually like

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write scripts that do the work for you. And that's like a whole other can of

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worms. Right.

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But for today's conversation, it's really around productivity gains. So like

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figure out where do you want to boost in productivity and then start small and

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by small can either be contained to one team.

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It can be contained to a subset of a team. It can be contained just to one

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project. Right. Start in a way where you can figure out like, what's the impact

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I want to drive? How will I measure if I was successful or not?

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Who are the people that need to be on my governance council now to make sure

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that we're going about this in a methodical way.

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And then how do we test and prove it out? And then most importantly, what's our

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success plan? If this goes well, how do we take it from here? Right. So that's

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really where I encourage people to start and don't let your eyes get bigger

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than your stomach because we're all figuring it out right now.

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I'm very guilty of always doing that. But I do. I think you're with the AI in

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your marketing journey. You're so right that the only way I would say you're

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behind right now is if you're just not thinking about this at all, which if you

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're on this webinar, you are obviously thinking about it.

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So you are probably not behind and people are starting to play with it, test it

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out, try to figure out what is this being for you and your team because every

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team is different. And we talked about it earlier in this webinar, but every

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team is going to need help in different areas.

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So if you're starting to identify those areas starting to play around with Gen.

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of AI and think about how it can help these areas that are struggling within

20:55

your organization, you're where that you need to be.

20:57

And I think if you walk away from this webinar with one thing of where can you

21:00

go next to make sure you're staying on this AI for marketing journey and you're

21:04

in the right place is start to think about that governance.

21:07

Like, what does that mean for your organization? Once you start to feel

21:10

comfortable with it, trying to get the guardrails in early of what it means for

21:13

your Oregon, what it means, how you're going to implement it and scale it and

21:17

put it out in your go to market plan.

21:19

And start to think about that now because I think the teams that do that right

21:22

and then take Nina's advice of having these like contact committees and the

21:26

governance committees are going to be light years ahead when everyone's

21:29

starting to catch up because they're not going to have to go back and change

21:32

anything because they've set those guardrails so early and really set that

21:36

foundation.

21:37

Mm hmm. Exactly.

21:39

Okay Nina so this is the good stuff here. There are 10 questions that Nina

21:43

helped us come up with here that you need to be asking yourself about AI and is

21:46

Nina obviously has done a fantastic job she works at a company that has AI as

21:50

part of its obviously core business model.

21:52

So we wanted to have 10 questions here that as you're thinking about that AI

21:56

journey and where you're at you can start to look at these 10 questions.

21:59

Now we're going to share this recording out afterwards so you'll have access to

22:03

this and you can go back and pause it here and look at these questions but for

22:06

the sake of time and not boring everyone here today we're going to pick our

22:09

like top three here and sort of dig into them a little bit more.

22:12

So the first one being question number one, the business impact.

22:16

What business impact are you trying to make with an AI strategy or you just

22:20

jumping on the bandwagon and I think this is like the first question everyone

22:24

should be asking because I am guilty of this.

22:26

A lot of times it's the latter. So Nina how do you think about setting a

22:30

strategy versus just jumping on the bandwagon when it comes to AI and marketing

22:34

Yep, again I think start with with the end in mind right so in our particular

22:38

instance we have a good fortune of getting to use Reggie in our own album lot

22:42

ion.

22:42

But there is a subset of our total addressable market that we were having a

22:46

hard time penetrating right and so we thought about like is there a way in

22:50

which we can use generative AI to create more specific content for these folks

22:54

to then better operationalize.

22:55

How and when it gets distributed to hopefully intercept that interest at a

22:59

better time right so again we started with a business problem.

23:02

We then figured out like how can we reverse engineer using AI a way to help

23:06

provide a better experience which ultimately will provide a better outcome

23:10

relative to the problem.

23:11

And then we started with a small team right like we didn't take 12 weeks to

23:15

incubate a strategy right like we started small.

23:18

We started to see some really good early indicators and then we put more fuel

23:22

on the fire so that's when I think about like how do you make sure you're not

23:26

just doing this to do it but you're doing it with a specific end goal in mind

23:30

and then you're formulating your hypothesis and you're testing plan to make sure that you can

23:33

prove it out really quickly and then hopefully you can go full force with it

23:37

once you get those early lead indicators of success.

23:39

Absolutely and I think here at qualified and obviously this is more about like

23:43

marketing and how you as a marketing organization can be using generative AI

23:47

but I do think a great example here of thinking about business impact first is

23:51

at qualified we're thinking about AI obviously like last November December we

23:55

're realizing like okay this is becoming bigger and

23:57

it did feel very bandwagon at first like are we just jumping on the bandwagon

24:00

but when we started to look at like what are the problems we're trying to solve

24:04

from a pipe gen perspective.

24:05

And one of the things we pinpointed and this goes back to the like using it

24:08

from a creativity standpoint is some of our reps that we're using our chat

24:12

functionality they were really struggling to come up with props is someone

24:15

comes on the website and we have all this what we call like digital body

24:18

language.

24:18

What are they browsing what are they looking at and when you look at that all

24:21

day longer for like our inbound reps when you're looking at that for a couple

24:25

hours a day it's really hard to be creative and say something good and when we

24:28

pulled all this data and analytics and we're like you know the most impactful

24:32

reps that are driving pipeline.

24:34

They find something personalized in that like digital body language and they're

24:38

using that instead of saying like hey how can I help you today I'm down you

24:41

know it felt very robotic.

24:43

So when we started to build that into our own product is we're like we need

24:46

something here from an AI perspective to help not just our reps but now as it's

24:50

in our product any reps that are using the product because they're stuck in

24:54

that creativity so we identified like when you're strapped for resources it's

24:59

hard to be creative or when you're looking at the same thing over and over

25:01

it's hard to get that creativity and how can we now start using AI to spur that

25:05

creative inspirational moment to help them drive pipeline and after that took a

25:09

couple of months and I was like okay I don't feel like we're just on the

25:12

bandwagon anymore I actually feel like we have a real use case that's valuable

25:16

and that our team can rally around as opposed to just like I'm just hearing AI

25:19

and I don't know what it is.

25:21

It's totally right.

25:22

I love that example.

25:23

I love that example.

25:24

Okay another great question here I'm going to jump ahead to question number

25:28

seven which is how we measure the effectiveness of our AI initiative.

25:31

It's so new we care so much about data and analytics.

25:34

How do you think about measuring how it's working.

25:36

Yeah.

25:37

So the top three measurements of our why relative to our customers who are

25:41

marketing and sales teams together.

25:43

It's number one is there a boost in productivity and the way that you quantify

25:47

that is based on time savings right so he used to take my marketing team X

25:51

amount of hours to create this campaign.

25:53

You know why amount of feedback sessions to make sure that everybody's agreed

25:57

that this is the right language for a sequence right and now am I seeing

26:01

improvements because not only am I having a mechanism to help create that

26:05

content more quickly.

26:06

But I've also applied the guard rails I have the governance in place so the

26:09

output requires a whole heck of a lot less editing than normal.

26:12

And I think that's especially interesting in when we think about content

26:15

creation and marketing and sales.

26:17

Content is so chock full of emotion right people are really attached to the end

26:22

product.

26:23

And if you can strip away the emotion and instead replace it with facts replace

26:28

it with performance data replace it with things that we know already work in

26:32

your buyers already respond favorably to right if we can cut out that mental

26:36

gymnastics that is tremendous

26:36

time savings in and of itself.

26:38

The second area of measurement is improvement in campaign performance so again

26:42

depending upon how you measure your campaign efficacy if it's opens replies

26:46

responses meetings booked again like whatever that ultimate goal is you should

26:51

see an improvement because you should be able to drive not just more relevant

26:54

content but more personalized content with your buyers.

26:56

And then the third thing which I really love we're seeing dramatic improvement

27:00

in terms of campaign sentiment.

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So when you think about this digital inundation that we've all found ourselves

27:07

in in the past decade especially with the hand and make or necessarily on

27:17

personalization and relevancy.

27:20

And so the thought here is if you actually can now introduce that at more

27:23

points in the buyer journey whether you get a reply that's like hey just now is

27:27

not the right time you're going to be getting a reply right you're going to be

27:30

leaving a better brand impression.

27:31

You're going to be delivering more moments of joy and happiness within your

27:35

buyers and even in these wild macro climate that we live in when the time is

27:39

now right for the buyer they're going to have that positive impression that's

27:42

been left on them so that improvement in campaign sentiment has been this

27:46

beautiful residual benefit of the application of generative

27:49

AI as we've seen it. I agree and I think I'm in sort of this phase right now of

27:53

just because you can measure something doesn't mean you should all the time and

27:57

I think that comes back to like as a team where your resources best spent so

28:01

where I always keep coming back to you from that just because you can measure

28:05

something brand new to your organization like AI but to point to that you made

28:11

is it improving the metrics you already have and that's sort of where I've

28:16

grounded myself is if it's working the metrics that our whole go to market team

28:20

is centered around like pipeline like revenue like deal progression

28:22

deal size like those will never change those are always the backbone of our

28:25

business how we're going to measure ourselves on success so yes there are other

28:29

indicators of AI effectiveness like time saving which is super important and I

28:32

love your idea

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like campaign sentiment and how are you improving that but if you're listening

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in and you're like I don't really know how to measure that or I don't feel like

28:39

I have the resources are not able to measure that ground yourself in the

28:43

metrics that matter to your business because no matter what if you're using

28:46

AI to save you time if you're using AI to be more effective in your go to

28:49

market strategy and driving pipeline you should see those numbers go up no

28:53

matter what so you can always ground yourself there

28:56

and then we're going to jump last one here we want to dig into is number eight

29:00

which are there any areas specific to our business where a human touch is

29:03

necessary for optimal results

29:05

yes again I love this book and analogy right do not let your AI run wild right

29:13

make sure that you have your committee up front to make sure you're setting the

29:17

right parameters and frameworks to apply to your AI models including like how

29:21

you want to continue to train them so they get more accurate for you

29:24

let AI do all the busy work in the middle and then end it with the right type

29:28

of approval process and again that's going to be relative to whatever your

29:31

internal approval processes are today but you always want to make sure that you

29:35

have a human verifying those outputs

29:36

other things that people are often like okay you know with this in mind when I

29:41

'm looking across the extensive vendor landscape which is just totally exploded

29:45

overnight like the Martek 9000 was already unwieldy now it's like oh gosh you

29:49

know infinitesimal

29:50

some of the things I also like to make sure people are considering vendors or

29:54

partners through is like one how easy is it going to be not just to create that

29:59

content but collaborate and store and edit it

30:01

so again when we think about like a potential pitfall of a chat GPT is like

30:05

that might be great for an IC but all those great learnings can't go anywhere

30:09

else right they can't be shared in a team wide repository your manager can't

30:13

validate those outputs at the end right so thinking about like the storage and

30:16

the mechanism for collaboration

30:17

number two is like integrations right I love sales I feel for them when

30:24

marketing brings them another fancy piece of tech and they're taken out of

30:28

their workflow and they have to go to a different tab right that is so

30:32

incredibly disruptive especially to something like an SDR that is like that is

30:36

all about the reps and sets and how efficiently you can get through your

30:38

workflow so make sure that your solution can work where your reps natively work

30:43

or your marketing team natively works

30:43

the analytics I talked on this a little bit but like how do you validate if

30:47

this is even making a difference right we talk a whole heck of a lot about the

30:51

importance of personalization as often as we can in a marketing and sales go to

30:56

market motion but how can you trust and verify that that's making the impact

31:00

you want and how do you course correct when it's not

31:01

and then the last thing here is really thinking about like what's the scal

31:05

ability component again like can one rep use this or can your hundreds of reps

31:09

use this and hopefully it's the latter and you're making smart choices to help

31:13

put you down a path for scale or else you're never really going to get those

31:17

productivity gains that AI promises

31:18

those are all such great points I mentioned before we're not going to dig into

31:22

all 10 of these questions but we will send this recording out afterwards so you

31:26

can always come back to this slide annotate these down and come back to these

31:30

as you're thinking about your AI strategy so with that being said that is all

31:36

we have for you today however we're going to hang around in the chat here for

31:38

about five ish minutes to answer any questions that might have come up in that

31:42

last slide in the 10 questions so feel free to hang out interact with us in the

31:45

chat or the the Q&A functionality here in Goldcast and we will hang out as long as you guys want to

31:49

answer your questions thank you so much for joining me Nina this has been

31:52

fantastic you are such a wealth of knowledge as always and I appreciate you

31:57

joining thanks for having me qualified team.

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me qualified team.

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