Cold outreach gets a 0.1% to 0.5% response rate. A podcast invite to the same cold audience gets 3% to 5%, and when it goes to your LinkedIn network, it climbs to 20% to 50%. That gap is the case for account-based podcasting, and it's what this week's Scrappy ABM conversation is built around.

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Mason Cosby sits down with Joseph Lewin, who has run 47-ish podcast launches in about two and a half years. They get into why a podcast invite works as a door opener instead of a sales pitch, and how to move from interview to first meeting without the bait and switch. They also cover what to do with guests after the recording ends.

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Joseph shares the story of a prospect who ghosted his client for two months, came on the show anyway, and turned into a $500,000 deal closed in under 30 days. The episode wraps with news: the podcast business is becoming its own brand, Podcast 2 Pipeline.

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👤 Guest Bio

Joseph Lewin is Head of Podcast Strategy at Scrappy ABM, where he has led roughly 47 podcast launches over the past two and a half years. He has spent about eight years in B2B marketing and content. Outside of B2B, he has built social channels with over 100 million views. Joseph builds shows designed to turn guests into pipeline rather than chase downloads, and he is now helping launch Podcast 2 Pipeline.

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📌 What We Cover

• Why straight cold outreach lands at 0.1% to 0.5% while podcast invites hit 3% to 5% cold and 20% to 50% through LinkedIn connections
• How a client targeting COOs of medical practices saw 50% of right-fit guests say yes to a first meeting over three months
• Leading with value: a guest spot is worth $250 to $750 to people who pay booking agencies
• "The podcast is not a way to sell somebody. It's a way to open a door," and how to raise your offer without a bait and switch
• Referring guests to someone else when what they need isn't what you sell
• Post-interview plays like quarterly webinars, roundtables of four to eight guests, and worksheets or calculators
• Why audience growth comes second, and why 70% to 80% of people who engage with clips say yes to a guest invite (Joseph's estimate)
• The prospect who went dark, came on the show, and turned into a $2 million+ account

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🔗 Resources Mentioned

• Podcast 2 Pipeline
• Joseph Lewin on LinkedIn
• Scrappy ABM

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Most event programs are a booth, a badge scanner, and a hope that the right buyer walks past. This episode of Scrappy ABM is pulled from a webinar Mason Cosby ran on ABMifying your events, and it covers two programs from the past six months.

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One client invested two hundred thousand dollars into a single event and generated 31 opportunities in three days. Mason's own two-person team spent thirty to forty thousand dollars across a full year of events, got punched in the mouth at SaaStr with zero connections after day one, and rebuilt the whole approach around selling to sponsors instead of chasing attendees.

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Mason walks through the four reasons events fail, the five audiences you can build before the doors open, the three roles to split across the floor, and the 4D framework behind every playbook. The through-line: if your event isn't ROI positive before your flight takes off, there is a better way.

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📌 What We Cover

• The four reasons events fail: no list visibility, booth and badge scans, the one person bottleneck, and no follow-through plan
• Why Mason and Jim Gilkey almost flew home early from SaaStr, and the single question that turned it around
• Working the empty showroom floor during sessions, and why roughly 10% of a 350-account target list was sponsoring the conference
• The five pre-event audiences: last year's list, the event app, social search, Sales Navigator plus location, and the sponsor roster
• Zero-budget floor plays: the co-branded latte, the buffet-line lunch run, and a two hundred fifty dollar taco night that produced four meetings
• Networkers, offerers, and setters, and why the setter should be on the first call
• The half a gift play: 28 of 30 executives came to the meeting suite after receiving an empty glasses case
• The 4D framework, the 10X pipeline target, and why in-person meetings cancel at a higher rate

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🔗 Resources Mentioned

• Sequel.io, whose sponsor-selling play Mason credits
• OneScreen.ai for out-of-home advertising around conferences
• Katie Ray on inviting locals to event dinners
• Rob Jones, the unofficial mayor of INBOUND
• Informa, the event company behind the executive car service
• Sales Navigator for persona plus location targeting
• scrappyabm.com/taco and scrappyabm.com/b2bmx, the event landing pages referenced
• Events discussed: SaaStr, Forrester B2B Summit, Gartner, B2BMX, Drive, Unbound, Dreamforce, Pavilion's GTM, Demand & Expand

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Resources:

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Most ABM advice assumes a team of ten and a six-figure tech stack. This episode of Scrappy ABM goes the other way. Mason Cosby takes a real company with a three-person marketing team and builds their ABM program live on a webinar, with the audience following along and writing their own answers down.

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Hanna Liszniansky leads marketing at Roundtable Learning, which creates custom VR and AR training programs for Fortune 500 companies. Big expensive product, complex sale, long cycle. Mason works through how people currently find out Roundtable exists, how the team builds pain, how they prove they can solve it, and where the whole thing stalls.

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The stall is the conversion stage. Roundtable ungates almost everything, puts demo videos on YouTube, and has booking links across the site, and still can't reliably move someone from watching a demo to booking a call. Mason maps their current programs against the account progression model, names the missing stage, and builds a one-to-one conversion play out of public quarterly earnings reports.

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👤 Guest Bio

Hanna Liszniansky is Head of Marketing at Roundtable Learning, a Chagrin Falls company that has been building custom learning content since 1997 and now creates VR, AR, and eLearning training programs for Fortune 500 buyers. She runs a three-person marketing team covering content, organic search, social, and events. Before Roundtable she was Director of Marketing at Rust Belt Recruiting, where she worked on hiring pathways and workforce development for the trades.

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📌 What We Cover

• Why Mason went into the build intentionally a little blind, and what that shows you about thinking through the problems live
• The four ways Roundtable generates awareness today: outbound sales, referrals, SEO and AEO, and walking the floor at L&D and XR events
• How Hanna builds pain without violating NDAs, using aggregated industry data and invented scenarios based on real client patterns
• Why ungated demo videos on YouTube are the right call and still not a conversion play
• Primary intent: why events can generate awareness, book meetings, and accelerate pipeline, and still only have one job
• The 4D framework broken down: data, distribution, destination, direction
• The notification game, and why the goal of a LinkedIn connection request is to open the channel rather than book the meeting
• Champion tracking on no budget, using bounced newsletter emails to spot customers who changed jobs
• Building the conversion stage from Fortune 500 quarterly earnings reports, at 20 to 30 accounts a quarter
• Customer expansion through the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie lens: every problem you solve creates the next one

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🔗 Resources Mentioned

• Scrappy ABM planning templates
• Scrappy ABM workshop
• Roundtable Learning
• ArborXR
• Apollo, HubSpot, UserGems, Clay
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff

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Resources:

Scrappy ABM: Visit for more ABM tips and strategies.

Connect with Mason on LinkedIn for a conversation about ABM.

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Most ABM programs stall on the list. Cindy Dubon has a fixed budget and a rule about it: don't spend a dollar on an account you aren't desperate to win. On this episode of Scrappy ABM, Mason Cosby talks with Cindy Dubon about how she built a tiered target account list at Goldcast, and why tier A comes down to whether a company already gets what she's selling.

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Cindy walks through the firmographic and technographic signals she uses, how she separates preferences from requirements when tiering, and why she can hand sales five hundred accounts instead of six thousand.

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She also breaks down the quarterly virtual event her team works like a trade show booth, where they're the only booth on the floor. Gifting boxes go only to target accounts. Reps ask attendees what questions they want put to the speakers. SDRs walk out with meetings booked before follow-up even starts.

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👤 Guest Bio

Cindy Dubon is Director of Demand Generation at Goldcast, the AI-first B2B video and events platform acquired by Cvent in December 2025. She joined Goldcast in late 2024 after demand gen roles at DroneDeploy, Perceptyx, and Greenfly, and she managed the SDR team directly out of marketing. She co-presents Goldcast's annual Webinar Benchmark Report and markets to an ICP she belongs to herself, having been a customer before she was an employee.

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📌 What We Cover

• Why the target account list starts with customer lookalikes instead of dream logos
• The firmographic and technographic filters that qualify an account: employee count, an actual marketing team, and investment in tools like Marketo, HubSpot, or Salesforce
• How tiers A through F work, and why geography lowers a tier rather than removing an account
• Preferences versus requirements as a tiering framework
• Mapping webinar topics to funnel stage, and why "vibe coding" became "vibe coding for webinars"
• Running a quarterly virtual event like a trade show where you're the only booth on the floor
• The AI summer camp gifting box that only target accounts received, and the social posts it generated
• Why Cindy tells her SDRs exactly which messages she would never respond to
• The insider intel you get from relationships that no third-party intent provider will ever surface
• Why she believed she needed 6sense to do ABM, and where that belief came from

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🔗 Resources Mentioned

• Goldcast
• Cvent
• 6sense
• Marketo
• HubSpot
• Salesforce
• Clay
• Cindy Dubon on LinkedIn

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Resources:

Scrappy ABM: Visit for more ABM tips and strategies.

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Twelve events, roughly $30,000 to $40,000 all-in, and a plan that fell apart at the first conference.

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On this episode of Scrappy ABM, Mason Cosby sits down with Jim Gilkey to break down what happened when the pre-booked meeting play stopped working. When you're not a sponsor you don't get the registration list. Vendor-class tickets can lock you out of the attendee directory entirely, and the event app often doesn't open until the day before.

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The fix came from reading the target account list differently. At one conference, about 10% of a 350-account list was sponsoring the event, so Mason and Jim stopped chasing attendees and started walking the show floor. They cover the plays that came out of it: logo-printed lattes at Forrester B2B, a plate of buffet food at Gartner that turned into a CMO meeting, and a $250 taco night that produced four booked meetings. Even with the original plan dead, the year still produced over 40 opportunities.

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👤 Guest Bio

Jim Gilkey is Head of Sales at Scrappy ABM and the only seller on the team, as he points out in the first 30 seconds. Before joining, he spent nearly four years at Terminus across enterprise sales, customer success, and account management, and he started his career as a Salesforce BDR. He also hosts Account Based Beverages, a short-format ABM interview show he launched in 2022. He's based in Indianapolis.

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📌 What We Cover

• Why a $30,000 to $40,000 event budget bought a plan that didn't survive the first conference
• The structural problem: no sponsorship means no registration list, and vendor tickets can hide the attendee directory
• Nobody reads event app messages, including the people sending them
• The shift from attendees to sponsors, and the 350-account list where 10% were sponsoring
• The opening line at a booth: "Hey, do you have a marketer here that is helping run the show?"
• Logo-printed lattes, a plate of lunch at Gartner, and the $250 taco night that booked four meetings
• Why targeting sponsors lets you go where your ICP is, from ed tech to HR tech, instead of only marketing conferences
• Networkers, offerers, and setters, plus why the setter should hold the first meeting
• Building measurement layers so a weak offer doesn't get an entire channel killed

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🔗 Resources Mentioned

• Events: B2BMX, SaaStr, Demand & Expand, ANA, Gartner, Salesforce Connections, Forrester B2B
• Tools: LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ChatGPT, Claude, Canva
• Data Axle
• Taco night landing page

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Resources:

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Most advice on building a target account list assumes you have the time to build one properly. Amanda Oles has a second answer for everyone else, and it starts with the accounts that already know who you are.

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Mason Cosby and Amanda work through both paths on Scrappy ABM: the fully structured ICP approach for when ABM is your whole role, and the two programs to run when it isn't. Pipeline acceleration and closed lost. Her case is that those two lists define themselves, so you skip signals and orchestration and get straight to doing.

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From there they get into channels for long enterprise sales cycles, why Stensul's most influential combination is trade show plus email plus paid social, the two-minute pitch rule that makes customer dinners convert, and how Amanda knows she has momentum before pipeline shows up. Her closing lesson: simple is better.

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👤 Guest Bio

Amanda Oles is Director of Revenue Marketing at Stensul, the governed creation platform for enterprise marketing teams. She stepped into the role in 2025 after two and a half years leading demand generation there, and came up through demand gen at Datto and WordStream. Her programs sell into large, highly regulated enterprises where sales cycles run long and compliance limits what marketing can say. She's active in the ForgeX ABM community.

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📌 What We Cover

• Why sales and marketing "need to be like best friends" before a target account list exists
• The two programs Amanda recommends when the company treats ABM as a tactic: pipeline acceleration and closed lost
• Using AI to analyze the past 100 Gong calls instead of relying on philosophical intent at the account level
• Getting target contacts into Salesforce and tagged so the motion can scale
• Stensul's most influential channel combination: trade show plus email plus paid social
• Mason's split of digital for existence and in-person for acceleration
• The two-minute pitch rule at customer dinners, and using an anchor customer to fill the room
• Owning your own account score instead of being married to a platform's version
• Why the procurement one-pager came out of finding where deals stall the longest

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🔗 Resources Mentioned

• Stensul
• ForgeX
• Marketo, Salesforce, Gong
• Influ2 study presented at Gartner on ABM success metrics
• Amanda Oles on LinkedIn

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Resources:

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Connect with Mason on LinkedIn for a conversation about ABM.

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Most target account lists get built backwards. Someone writes an ICP, sales adds the logos they've always wanted, and nobody checks it against a single closed deal. On this episode of Scrappy ABM, Mason Cosby talks with Christy Behnke, VP of Marketing at Terryberry, about where that list should actually come from.

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Christy starts with Salesforce reports on closed won and closed lost, and pays close attention to the stage where lost deals fell out. From there she grades accounts A through D, loops in product to see where the roadmap is headed, and tests messaging on 10% of the target account list instead of half of it.

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The conversation also covers content mapped to funnel stage, ChatGPT ads as a new test channel, and why she treats ABM as part of demand gen rather than a separate program. Plus the measurement that happens before the MQL, her 25% of contract value rule for acquisition cost, and what she wishes she'd known before her first ABM campaign.

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👤 Guest Bio

Christy Behnke is VP of Marketing at Terryberry, an employee recognition and engagement company founded in 1918 and headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She's built ABM at multiple organizations, with prior revenue marketing leadership roles at SMG (Service Management Group), Omnigo Software, and Rittal North America. At Terryberry she led the migration onto HubSpot and pulled the company's ABM launch forward to March, grading the ICP and building the target account list from CRM data.

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📌 What We Cover

• Why pulling closed won and closed lost comes before anything else in building a target account list
• What the stage a deal died at tells you about product fit versus a test segment worth running
• ICP grading with A, B, C, and D tiers, and why a bloated C tier is a signal to investigate
• Mapping the product roadmap against firmographics when there's no historical closed won data
• Using content syndication and 10% of target accounts to test messaging without risking budget
• Why ABM is a play for demand gen rather than a separate program
• The Engagement Maturity Map, and mapping content to top, middle, and bottom of funnel
• Top-of-funnel measurement, cost per lead, the 25% of contract value rule, and three to one CAC

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🔗 Resources Mentioned

• Salesforce (closed won and closed lost reporting)
• HubSpot, including the smart content feature for personalized landing pages
• Forrester and Gartner analyst reports
• ChatGPT ads, Bing, and Google paid search
• Terryberry's Engagement Maturity Map
• Christy Behnke on LinkedIn

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Resources:

Scrappy ABM: Visit for more ABM tips and strategies.

Connect with Mason on LinkedIn for a conversation about ABM.

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Most product-led companies decide ABM isn't built for them and move on. On Scrappy ABM, Mason Cosby makes the opposite case with Jess Annadurai, Senior Global Marketing Director at Supermetrics, who ran customer expansion as the entry point instead of new business.

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Supermetrics is a PLG company with a land-and-expand motion, and Jess treats its existing customer base as the strongest target account list it owns. She walks through how she, the VP of Sales, and the Director of Customer Success in North America picked accounts, why they started with an advocacy approach, and how a "meet your manager" campaign moved booked meeting rates from under 1% to 13-14%.

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The conversation stays specific: product signals for targeting, gifting that feels personal instead of a $25 gift card, $150K to $200K in pipeline per send, and roughly 9X ROI on year-one spend. Jess also shares what didn't travel when she tried to take a US playbook global.

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👤 Guest Bio

Jess Annadurai is Senior Global Marketing Director at Supermetrics, where she's spent just over three and a half years, first as North American head of marketing and then across a global remit covering demand, field, partner, and customer marketing. She was an active 6sense power user around 2018 and has worked both sides of the ABM world, as a practitioner buying the tools and as a marketer at an ABM vendor before moving to the data side of martech.

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📌 What We Cover

• Why a PLG customer base is the best target account list you already own, and how much context it hands you for free
• How Jess, the VP of Sales, and the Director of Customer Success agreed that customer education was the real gap
• Starting with an advocacy approach: 10 customer case studies, and the new use cases and retention lift they uncovered
• Segmenting customers by whether they had an account manager, then running two different motions
• The "meet your manager" campaign, with personalized gifting instead of gift cards
• Booked meeting rates going from under 1% to 13-14%
• $150K to $200K in pipeline per send, ~$35K total gifting spend for the year, and roughly 9X ROI
• A small agency at ~$10K that expanded to $140K within six months
• Why gifting norms differ by region, and what Jess would scale differently next time

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🔗 Resources Mentioned

• Supermetrics
• 6sense
• Postal (now Sendoso)
• Looker Studio
• Google Sheets
• Connect with Jess on LinkedIn

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Resources:

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Connect with Mason on LinkedIn for a conversation about ABM.

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