Tamara Niesen

AMA: Shopify Director (Head of) Global GTM & Demand Generation, Tamara Niesen on Demand Generation Soft and Hard Skills

August 25 @ 10:00AM PT
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Tamara Niesen
WooCommerce CMO | Formerly Shopify, D2L, BlackBerry3y
Creating an environment where we have trust, pysocholigical safety, and fun is key, but it's trust that allows team members to have autonomy and agency. Celebrating wins...
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Tamara Niesen
WooCommerce CMO | Formerly Shopify, D2L, BlackBerry3y
Successful demand gen marketers have a broad skill set, from creative thinking to critical thinking. Some of the most important things I look for: Project management an...
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Tamara Niesen
WooCommerce CMO | Formerly Shopify, D2L, BlackBerry3y
Network and seek advice. Getting to know people in the field, genuinely asking about their roles, responsibilites, what keeps them up at night, recommendations on where ...
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Tamara Niesen
WooCommerce CMO | Formerly Shopify, D2L, BlackBerry3y
As an engineer, I suspect you have deep product and user knowlege, and this could be a huge asset in marketing! I would start with getting to know the demand gen team at...
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Tamara Niesen
WooCommerce CMO | Formerly Shopify, D2L, BlackBerry3y
Operating in a silo from sales and not treating them as my first team. B2B demand gen marketing- developing pipeline for sales is our job. If we are not in lockstep wi...
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Tamara Niesen
WooCommerce CMO | Formerly Shopify, D2L, BlackBerry3y
This is a difficult question to answer, I would love more context in order to respond thoughtfully, but I will share this- a work enironment that is build around psycholo...
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Tamara Niesen
WooCommerce CMO | Formerly Shopify, D2L, BlackBerry3y
The answer here is nuanced. I have a background in product marketing, so I am biased, but if this role is the first marketer overall, I would actually prioritize a produ...
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Tamara Niesen
WooCommerce CMO | Formerly Shopify, D2L, BlackBerry3y
Demand generation is to create pipeline, and transparently, it's easy to cheat and create volumes of leads. Accountability lies in quality, and so measuring teams on the ...
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