Markigy: The Science of Marketing Strategy · Leanne Dow-Weimer

Cross Functional Data Driven Decisions w/ Daren Lauda

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Finance, sales, and marketing built cohort models from awareness to booking by channel, segment, and geography.

1. Markigy: The Science of Marketing Strategy centers on cross-functional data-driven decisions between marketing, sales, and finance. 2. Leanne hosts Daren Lauda, the CEO of Outsight, and Daren says Outsight exists to help people get their go-to-market plans right from the outset. 3. The episode asks how teams can break down silos with data instead of running separate plans, spreadsheets, and assumptions. 4. Daren says marketing, sales, and finance often plan independently while finance updates the company financial plan every month. 5. He uses the line “Everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the face” to describe how planning changes once reality hits. 6. He says teams then start solving for narrow departmental problems instead of the whole revenue factory. 7. A board-meeting example shows marketing claiming it crushed it while sales missed bookings by 10%. 8. Daren says that same company later quantified $6 million of inefficient sales and marketing spend in one year. 9. He argues that losing money through inefficiency matters even when the dollars were not fully wasted. 10. He says finance closes the books every month and has to report the next 11 months to the board, investors, and CEO. 11. Daren describes a CRO who brought stakeholders together monthly but still relied on separate marketing and sales spreadsheets. 12. He says the fix was bringing finance into cohort models that tracked leads from awareness to booking by channel, segment, and geography. 13. He says the team augmented those models with Python, R, and scripting languages. 14. Daren says finance got to see leading indicators and downstream impact from each conversion point. 15. He says the finance team also got the win of bookings and return on investment. 16. He says a company with three analysts later predicted bookings 24 months ahead with plus or minus 5% variance. 17. The conversation stays direct and practical, with repeated examples, a lot of back-and-forth, and a working style focused on definitions and operating discipline. 18. Daren keeps returning to finance, data definitions, and planning ahead rather than reacting month to month. 19. People building SaaS go-to-market plans with finance, sales, and marketing alignment will get the most from this episode. 20. Founders under about $1 million in revenue may find it too early for full operationalization.

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