Marketing Operations Perspectives & Hot Takes in 5 Minutes or Less.
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Behind every great revenue leader, campaign & tech stack is a Marketing Ops hero. Hear critical learnings, unique opinions, and fearless confessions from the top marketing ops leaders in B2B tech. Watch video replays: https://www.madkudu.com/mops-confessions-past-episodes
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It’s Not About the Tools, It’s How You Use Them
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Effectively managing MarTech involves careful planning and critical thinking that goes far beyond the tools themselves. It's more about strategy, setup, process, and the thoughtful structure of repeatable flows. So much time and energy go into comparing and learning tools, but we can save time and effort by thinking beyond the tool and focusing on …
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Many companies overlook the importance of thoughtful onboarding. Success at work is about much more than "hitting the ground running" or taking over high-stakes projects, it's about setting up new staff with a sustainable path for long-term success.Av MarOps Global
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Overthinking & Underthinking Lead Scoring
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Lead scoring is an invaluable tool when properly implemented, yet many companies rush to launch it without considering deeper strategies or long-term planning. This often leads to overthinking, underthinking, or creating an unsustainable model that quickly becomes outdated, ultimately making it less effective than having no scoring at all. Marketin…
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Do Your Lead Sources Provide An Apples-to-Apples Comparison?
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Many companies struggle to find a sustainable source tracking and attribution model due to a mix of legacy issues and complex end-to-end challenges. But the tools and attribution models alone can’t save us from bad data and inconsistent source hierarchy foundations. It’s time to think more critically about how we organize and construct our source l…
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Are some of the assumptions we've been making all this time serving us? Are we setting ourselves, our teams, our tools up for success? There are several times in marketing operations that it pays to seriously ask questions that help understand if the things we keep doing every day are actually working, and if not, what can we do to change that.…
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Marketing Operations & Customization Woes
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Many in marketing ops are challenged striking the balance with overly customizing or not customizing at all, both on the internal and customer-facing end. It’s a serious issue and we can learn a lot from thinking differently about our approach and mindset. Keeping it simple, but with a plan and strategy, just may be a start.…
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Success in marketing operations often hinges on time management and focus. Efficiency isn't just about tools or tech—it’s also about mindset and prioritization. Ready to rethink your approach? #marketingoperationsAv MarOps Global
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Attribution Models Can Be Great Paint Jobs On Cars That Won’t Start
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Many conversations around attribution models often miss the underlying foundations and basic oversights that can impact the overall success of any model. Without deeper thinking into how we are handling and setting up data, the attribution discussion is often useless. #marketingoperations #attribution…
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5 Things Brands Should Stop Doing In 2025
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Things brands should just stop doing in 2025: Ads before more ads Overly loud commercials Streaming charges for no ads Badly Placed Google Sign In Pop Ups Influencers pretending their advice is simple for everyoneAv MarOps Global
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Is Your Marketing Ops Focused On The Wrong Things?
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I know who needs to hear this: Marketing departments who obsess over tools and tactics but are missing the mark when it comes to consistency strategy or long term sustainable mindset for success. Time for corporate to think differently. #marketingoperationsAv MarOps Global
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What the Uncanny Valley Taught Me About Marketing Ops
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You know those moments where there's a photo or video that's almost right but just a bit off? That's what a lot of marketing ops can feel like when dealing with a broad range of systems, processes, circumstances, and mindsets. The question is, how do we work in a way that doesn't distract focus from the point and value of the underlying operations …
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"One size fits all" often becomes "one size fails all." Obsessing over perfect attribution overlooks foundational and unquantifiable brand influences. Attribution models should adapt and evolve rather than remain rigid or distract from proven strategies. Effective tracking, like great editing, works so seamlessly we forget it's there. Time for a ne…
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What The Matrix Taught Me About Marketing Operations
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What good is a phone call if you’re unable to speak? Or what good is an email without sufficient segmentation strategies and practices? We often obsess over the minutia of marketing ops or busy work without understanding the underlying reality of how things actually work. Good marketing ops is often reading the room and helping to innovate and prob…
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Focusing On Symptoms Over Causes Will Burn Out Marketing Ops
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We often spend much of our time proactively fighting the same small fires instead of focusing energy on the larger root causes of those issues. Marketing Ops teams can find long-term success when they fight against the grain to focus on larger systematic issues that can help mitigate these daily fire drills. Think different, approach different, and…
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Customers Would Spend More If Brands Would Just Listen
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Not enough brands understand that they could increase profits by simply giving people more of what they want, including a good user experience and real value. And short-sighted business practices don’t align with effective marketing operations or long-term success. We need to shift our focus and approach to deliver the value people want and need. t…
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Mindset & Approach in Marketing Operations
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Changing our approach and mindset is more important than obsessing over the easter eggs, side quests, and references. Great marketing ops can also be boring and we should be fine with that. Marketing ops matters when you focus on the things that matter. #marketingoperationsAv MarOps Global
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It's not about the tools, the tech, the techniques, staffing, or budgets, as much as it is about consistent and positive leadership who is setting up all of these areas for success. We get so caught up in doing things that we forget a lot of bad habits get established from the top down. Time to rethink how we approach MarOps.…
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What the Alien Movies Taught Me About Marketing Operations
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We spend much of our time warning the company about the dangers of bad decisions and lack of planning while they prioritize getting Xenomorph eggs on the ship. Be Ellen Ripley, not Weyland-Yutani. #marketingoperationsAv Marketing Ops Global
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Marketing operations relies on tech and tools but it's much more about our mindset and approach to problems and goals than it is the MarTech.Av Marketing Ops Global
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Good User Experiences = Good Marketing Operations
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The overlooked importance of user experience in marketing operations and how investing in seamless, end-to-end processes ensures your operations aren't just functional, they're essential for long term success.Av Marketing Ops Global
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Building a MOPs Team (ft. Garrett Erny)
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MOPs teams are expected to include members with a variety of backgrounds and skill sets to cover multiple responsibilities. Garrett Erny covers how to build teams with members who have different competencies, how to assess skill sets, building teams, and the best way to create realistic expectations with sprints and roadmaps.…
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How to Get the Most of GTM Operations (ft. Richard Wasylynchuk)
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Richard Wasylynchuk discusses the relationship between marketing ops and revenue ops and how to organize people, processes, and technologies to get the most out of a full GTM operations organization. He covers the importance of Ops pros facilitating communication, understanding the Ops charter to enable flexibility to redefine it, and having an ope…
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Untangling Processes (ft. Carissa McCall)
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MOPs has the ability to enable progress by using a strategic approach of untangling and improving processes. Carissa McCall covers how to translate technology mind mapping to stakeholders, communicating the value of ops, simplifying complex concepts for your audience, and how to manage the balance of maintenance and innovation.…
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The Parallels of MOPs and Football (ft. Daniel Zacks)
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Like the center position in American football, marketing operations is ensuring plays and programs are launching according to plan and analyzing ways to improve. While often underrated or unnoticed, they understand the importance of their work. Daniel Zacks talks about how to enable sales with data from multiple funnels, his preferred method of ups…
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Rise Of The Strategic MOPs Function (ft. Dr. Debbie Qaqish)
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Marketing technology has changed the role of marketing and has fully enabled marketing in brand new ways. Dr. Debbie Qaqish explains how a strategic marketing operations organization can support marketing to deliver on that promise of being a revenue driver by using technology to make a business impact. Follow Dr. Debbie on LinkedIn. Download a cop…
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Operations Fuels Go-To-Market (ft. Ben Pollack)
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It's important to have your operations and demand generation teams in lockstep to facilitate alignment and to understand what’s working for your GTM motions. According to Ben Pollack, the operations team is fueling these data-informed decisions. He shares how ops supports automated vs. targeted approaches and helps marketing and sales speak to vari…
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Paradigm Shift: A Different Approach to MOPs (ft. Chris Rodriguez)
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The MOPs landscape is constantly changing, as well as constraints on the MOPs world. Over the last ten years, Chris Rodriguez has worked with a diverse group of companies with very different go-to-markets. He explains how to apply the lessons he learned through experiencing these paradigm shifts. Find Chris on LinkedIn or his website.…
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Creating Intentionality With Data (ft. Drew Smith)
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Many organizations do not have an intentional motion around data. This leaves GTM teams in situations where they're sometimes not able use to their data to make decisions. Drew Smith discusses how to create a plan for building a data architecture and developing a measurement strategy.
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Kudu Confessions: The Maturity Ladder For Product Led Sales
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Why is product-led sales so challenging? Are you really doing a product-led growth motion or just looking at different reports? Listen to this discussion between Sam Levan and Sasha Samoilov as they discuss how MOPs can utilize a maturity model to align teams, drive change, and combine meaningful insights from product and sales.…
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Special 50th Episode: Family Feud, Fighting Friction and Measuring what Matters (ft. Crissy Saunders, Asia Corbett & Jeff Ignacio)
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We brought together a panel of popular past speakers to play Family Feud. But it wasn’t all fun and games (actually it was a lot of fun) they shared some insights and introspection on how MOPs professionals can improve alignment across the company, what metrics matter most, and what makes some teams easier to work with than others. We even had a ho…
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Proving The Value of MOPs (ft. Monique Lemieux)
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In this episode we talk with Monique Lemieux, Head of Marketing Ops at Drift about scaling an ops team and how to go from being viewed as a service organization to a strategic partner. She shares how to build a roadmap for a growing MOPs team, ways to create a business case showing your impact, and how to get face time with leadership…
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10 Things MOPs Leaders Should Know (ft. Angela Cirrone)
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In this episode, Angela Cirrone, Senior Director, Marketing Operations, at Sauce Labs, talks about how to confidently grow your Marketing Ops career - from participating in communities, building internal relationships, and determining what's essential. She shares how participating in communities can build your confidence, proving your value while e…
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Creating Process Efficiencies Across the Tech Stack (ft. Vish Gupta)
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In this episode, Vish Gupta, Marketing Operations Manager at Databricks, talks about the project management side of MOPs and how to successfully implement a new tool. She shares three takeaways for successfully implementing a new tool, how she built a streamlined intake process that solves for multiple stakeholder needs, and the benefits of adding …
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The Role of MOPs During an Acquisition (ft. Sam Lee)
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Sam Lee gives us an inside look at a few of the projects he's supported at DocSend including enabling his marketing team to use their MAP and report on data, using integrations to enable data actionability and data exploration, and MOPs role during the DocSend Dropbox acquisition. He also shares why the most difficult skill a MOPs professional can …
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Optimizing People, Processes and Technology (ft. David Kreitter)
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In this episode we talk to David Kreitter, Head of Makrketing Operations at Workato, about structuring systems architecture and teams. He talks about the potential of a master data management system, the optimal organization of people, processes, and technology, and centralizing operations.
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How MOPs Facilitates Sales and Marketing Alignment (ft. Maria Velasquez)
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In this episode we talk to Maria Velasquez, Director of Demand Gen at Feroot Security about sales and marketing alignment. She shares what to consider when looking for a new role, the importance of SLAs in marketing (they're not just for sales!), and actually getting sales buy-in.
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MOPs as Internal Customer Success (ft. Robbie Whetzel)
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In this episode Robbie Whetzel, shares why MOPs is all about supporting your teams. We discuss MOPs as internal Customer Success, the importance of knowledge transfer, using documentation and learning from your team to level-up. He also challenges if you really need all those certifications.
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Building a PLG Tech Stack (ft. Jacob Levinger)
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In this episode we talk to Jake Levinger about his experiences building a tech stack for PLG motions and the lessons he's learned from his sales team along the way. He shares the important of getting buy-in from your end users, the tools he uses for implementing a product lifecycle campaign, and why Retool is consolidating OPs roles to bring more c…
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The Need for Additional MOPs Support (ft. Courtney McAra)
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Have you been thinking about moving into consulting? Or maybe you're interested in outsourcing your MOPs support? In this episode we talk with Courtney McAra about the different approaches to hiring MOPs, how to manage clients and projects, and where operations support is most requested.
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Marketing Operation's Accountability is to the Funnel (ft. Jan Aclan)
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In this episode with Jan Aclan,we discuss the importance and value of MOPs being cross-functional. He shares how to build cross-functional relationships, his move from demand gen to marketing operations, and being accountable to the funnel.
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All Business Deals Are Influenced By Marketing (ft. Chris Walker)
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In this episode we talk to the one and only Chris Walker, CEO of Refine Labs. We talk about measurement, marketing supporting revenue, and so much more! He shares key insights about alignment vs. collaboration, marketing contributing to revenue, MOPs as a critical function, and why every deal is marketing influenced.…
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The Challenges in Finding MOPs Professionals (ft. Toby Murdock)
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In this episode, we talk with Toby Murdock about why he created Highway Education, a digital marketing training program. Toby shares why it's important to learn marketing fundamentals before tech, the demand vs. the current supply of qualified MOPs professionals, and if Ops should own no-code tools?
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Growing the Next Generation of MOPs Professionals (ft. Andy Caron)
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In this episode, we chat with Andy Caron about the various learning opportunities for newer MOPs professionals and what it's like moving into consulting. She shares why it's important to be curious and scrappy in Ops, how to create a MOPs internship or become a mentor, and advice for transitioning from in-house to consulting.…
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Building the MOPs Professional Funnel (ft. Chris Wilis)
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In this episode we chat with Chris Willis about the importance of building out the MOPs professional funnel. He dives into the qualities & skill sets needed in a MOPs role, how managers should train new MOPs hires, and mental health for MOPs professionals.
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Why Operations Should Be The First Marketing Hire (ft. Jenna Molbly)
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In this episode, we talked to Jenna Molby, Marketing Operations Manager at Dooly to discuss all things building a MOPs function from scratch. She discusses critical interview questions to ask the hiring manager, why Marketing Ops should be one of the first roles hired, and the challenges of being a team of one.…
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Bridging The Gap Between Marketing Ops and Analytics (ft. Peter Kirk & Stephanie Cameron)
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We talk with Peter Kirk and Stephanie Cameron at Lucid about how marketing ops and analytics teams can work together more effectively. Listen to learn how to utilize project briefs and turn user stories into tech specs to facilitate a better cross-functional relationship between marketing ops and data teams.…
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Marketing's Responsibility Within the PLG Funnel (ft. Carolyn Hayashi)
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In this episode, we talk to Carolyn Hayashi, Senior Marketing Manager at Bill.com about experimenting with content to expand the top of the funnel when it comes to converting free trials, scrappy approaches for building campaigns, why data is important for setting yourself up for success, and working cross-functionally to engage with customers.…
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Creating Multi-Layered Lead Source Tracking (ft. Brad Couture)
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In this episode with Brad Couture, Marketing Operations Architect at Tulip, we discuss multi-layered lead source tracking, streamlining your campaign operations, and MOPs misconceptions. *Brad has some great examples of processes that he's created, so this is a great one to also watch.
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Managing Product and Marketing Data (ft. Jesus Requena & Ben Lewinsky)
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In this episode, we talk with Power Duo Jesus Requena and Ben Lewinsky about the big issues when aggregating data, what are the big problems to solve when pushing data to marketing channels and sales efforts, and what is product telemetry?
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The Benefits of Marketing Ops Owning Revenue Ops (ft. Jerine Erice)
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In this episode, we talk to Jerine Erice from Reciprocity Labs about learning the RevOps side of the business. She provides insight into some of the things you'll be exposed to and how your thinking may change.
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