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60-Minute B2B Blitz: 9 Marketers Share Their Best Plays from 2026 (So Far)

60-Minute B2B Blitz: 9 Marketers Share Their Best Plays from 2026 (So Far)

The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five) · Jul 2, 2026

9 B2B marketers share their top plays in a rapid-fire blitz. Winning tactics include AE-led video ads, AI-powered ad management, and more.

Podcast Promos See 6x Engagement When Repurposed as Comic Strips Instead of Video Clips

Vector's VP of Marketing found that turning podcast clips into simple, 3-panel comic strips dramatically increased impressions. This visual format grabs attention better in social feeds than standard video clips and piques curiosity to hear the full conversation context.

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60-Minute B2B Blitz: 9 Marketers Share Their Best Plays from 2026 (So Far)

The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five)·3 months ago

Center B2B Messaging on Customer "Buying Triggers," Not Just Pain Points

Instead of asking "what's your pain," ask "what was going on in your world that led you to look for a solution?" This focus on the initial trigger event allows for more resonant and specific messaging adapted for different customer segments, even for the same product.

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60-Minute B2B Blitz: 9 Marketers Share Their Best Plays from 2026 (So Far)

The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five)·3 months ago

Win-Loss Research Can Resurrect Dead Pipeline by Identifying Outdated "Loss" Reasons

A significant portion of lost deals are unavailable for reasons that are no longer valid (e.g., a missing feature that's now built). Systematically analyzing win-loss data allows sales teams to re-engage specific cohorts of lost accounts with targeted, newly relevant messaging.

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60-Minute B2B Blitz: 9 Marketers Share Their Best Plays from 2026 (So Far)

The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five)·3 months ago

Build a Custom MCP Server on Gong Call Data to Quantify Customer Insights

By connecting the Gong API to a database and LLM, you can move beyond anecdotal insights from sales calls. This creates a queryable server to test messaging, quantify feature requests, and even build an AI-powered customer simulator for sales training using hard data.

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60-Minute B2B Blitz: 9 Marketers Share Their Best Plays from 2026 (So Far)

The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five)·3 months ago

Your Internal Team Is An Untapped Demand Gen Channel That Requires Its Own Content Calendar

Before launching external campaigns for a major event, market it internally with a dedicated cadence of updates. This creates co-ownership, leading sales, product, and executives to organically promote the event through their own channels, amplifying reach far beyond the marketing team's efforts.

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60-Minute B2B Blitz: 9 Marketers Share Their Best Plays from 2026 (So Far)

The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five)·3 months ago

Plan Marketing Budgets With a Matrix That Allocates Spend to Revenue-Producing Segments

Instead of ad-hoc campaign planning, use a matrix with solutions on one axis and ICP segments on the other. Each cell gets a priority rating and a percentage allocation tied directly to revenue targets, ensuring budget is weighted toward the most valuable opportunities first.

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60-Minute B2B Blitz: 9 Marketers Share Their Best Plays from 2026 (So Far)

The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five)·3 months ago

Use ABM Campaigns to A/B Test Messaging for Product Marketing Before a Broad Rollout

Instead of guessing which value props will resonate, marketers can run small, targeted ABM campaigns to test different messaging angles (e.g., product-heavy vs. outcome-led). This provides product marketing with real-world data on what works before they invest in a full-scale launch.

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60-Minute B2B Blitz: 9 Marketers Share Their Best Plays from 2026 (So Far)

The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five)·3 months ago

Feature Account Executives in Video Ads to Build Prospect Familiarity Before the First Sales Call

Instead of brand-centric ads, this play puts the AE who will eventually run the deal in long-form video content. This creates a sense of a continuous relationship and familiarity at scale, so when the first sales call happens, the prospect feels like they "already know" the salesperson.

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60-Minute B2B Blitz: 9 Marketers Share Their Best Plays from 2026 (So Far)

The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five)·3 months ago

Connect an LLM to the LinkedIn Ads API for Automated Bid Management and Budget Pacing

By creating a LinkedIn developer app and connecting it to an AI tool like Claude, marketers can automate routine campaign optimizations. This includes prompting the AI to analyze performance, recommend bid adjustments to control spend, and maintain budget pacing through busy and slow periods.

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60-Minute B2B Blitz: 9 Marketers Share Their Best Plays from 2026 (So Far)

The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five)·3 months ago