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The best marketing advice usually comes from someone who just ran the play, not someone theorizing about it. This Friday, we're getting that straight from the source(s). 8 B2B marketers. It's our 2x/month world famous EXIT FIVE LIVE back again. One real play each - something they've actually run in 2026 and can prove worked. Two minutes on the clock. If they go over, we hit the buzzer and move on. This means each play will be tactical and useful for you (and we've vetted and prepped with everyone, it's legit). You'll get ideas that move the pipeline, demand, or brand, from people at top companies like AirOps, Customer.io, Markup AI, Coram AI, Exiger, and more. Featuring: Aditya Vempaty Holly Enneking Brianna Doe Jessica Rosenberg Brendan Hufford Austin Fuller Molly Evola Anthony Blatner Hosted by ME and my new friend the great Dasha Shakov After round one, you get to vote for your favorite. Top 5 come back for round two and go deeper. It’s basically like The Voice but for B2B marketing. (I've never watched that show, but my team wrote this copy; I'm more of a Verzuz Dipset vs. The Lox kinda guy, but I am sure The Voice is a great show, no disrespect to any Voice fans out there) Join us here: https://lnkd.in/gfe4aKEM

I've spent the last 15 years in B2B marketing. From PR intern to CMO. And now through Exit Five my job is to talk to (wicked smaht) marketers about what they are doing. What's working? What's not? I share it in our newsletter twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday) if you're interested. Real plays from real marketers. Names, numbers, examples you can take straight back to your team and implement if you want. If you're a B2B marketer who wants to know what's actually working and need to take a little space from talking to Claude all day, our newsletter is for you. Made with ❤️ by the real humans at Exit Five. Subscribe here: exitfive.com/newsletter

When I say "we're building the top community for B2B marketing professionals" this is what I mean. It's not about how many people are in the private community, or subscribed to the newsletter, or listening to the podcast, attending our webinars, or going to our IRL events. It's stuff like this! Having a member text me this, from an industry event. How do you know if something is working? People will tell you. You just know. I don't have my MBA. I don’t know how to quantify this and the “impact” on our business - but someone texts you this and you can see what is happening behind the scenes beyond a metric in a spreadsheet. Is our newsletter working? How do you measure it? This counts as measurement to me. __ Learn more about Exit Five if you work in B2B marketing and want to be around a group of people who understand what you do for a living :) exitfive.com

I got this reply from growth leader at a $50B IT infrastructure company: "My favorite newsletter you’ve put out. Loved this one!" So I turned it into a cute little graphic for LinkedIn to convince you to check it out too. We're putting out a really useful 2x/week email for B2B marketing professionals; something different than spending the day hearing back from Claude and ChatGPT. You might like it too. "Dave's Newsletter" Subscribe here ➡️ exitfive.com/newsletter

What's the ROI on an Exit Five membership? It's not about how many likes and comments a post gets in our community. It's about THIS. Meet Sara Ajemian -- a marketing exec, been a member of E5 for a bit. She's in the community. On some of the calls and live sessions. Writing comments. Sure. But this is the perfect example. We did a dinner in NYC back in October. She came in, sat in the middle of the four other women that were also B2B marketing leaders and they hit it off instantly (I know because Anna and I were sitting right there and we couldn't get a word in). That night led to a follow up conversation, which lead to a lead on a new job, which led to - well, a new job. And I don't know the math on exactly how much money she's making now, but I can make the ROI math work on the E5 membership 10 different ways. We just wrapped up filming a bunch of these real customer stories and I'm going to publish them here to convince you to join Exit Five in 2026. Whether that means getting an online membership, attending one of our in-person events, or even just starting to get our newsletter and listening to the podcast. Real stories, from real people. Because earlier this year I saw another community running ads on LinkedIn with FAKE customer testimonials; WTF is that??? 🚩 🚩 🚩 PS. We are different in two ways: 1. We focus exclusively on B2B marketing. Not sales, not rev ops. We're a community of marketers. We believe in the craft of marketing. 2. If you talk to our best members, they will tell you there isn't one secret feature. They might say something like: "I dunno, they just have a certain way of doing things that I like better." A CMO messaged me last week and she said: "Hey was just chatting with [redacted] who is also here in [redacted]. We both went to a conference here last year, you know the one. We were debating attending again not because it wasn't good but because it feels so bro-y and vendor heavy. Kinda got an ick, tbh. We both agreed that your conference is much less bro-y, more normal, dare I say, less annoying probably because you seem pretty normal. Anyway, thought I'd pass on this compliment. Also, i'm sending a direct to Drive this year."