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What made you decide to choose demand generation over sales?

Erika Barbosa
Counterpart Marketing Lead | Formerly Issuu, OpenText, Webroot3y
I actually started my career in sales and transitioned over to marketing and demand generation. What made me decide to make the switch? Personally, it felt like a better ...
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Keara Cho
Salesforce Sr. Director, Field Marketing6mo
I always say marketing is the perfect blend of brains and heart—the science and the art. You get to dig into the data and analytics to see what’s working, but then you ge...
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Camila Cook
8x8 Vice President, Global Demand Generation6mo
I’ve always been a marketer at heart; drawn to creativity, storytelling, and understanding the buyer’s journey. What excites me about Demand Gen is that it sits right at ...
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Justin Carapinha
Salesforce Senior Director, Global SMB and Growth Campaigns8mo
This one is easy for me. I just don't have a sellers mentality and I think most people know that early on. Don't get me wrong, the idea of working directly with customers...
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Kexin Chen
Harvey Vice President Marketing2y
My first job out of college was an account executive role selling advertisement to SMB. Ultimately I leaned towards marketing because I liked that 1) it was an at scale p...
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Katie Jane Parkes
Apollo.io Director of Social, Community & Customer Marketing | Formerly Shopify1mo
I never chose demand gen over sales, demand gen kind of chose me.I didn't come from sales. I came from film sets and nonprofit arts organizations and a deep obsession wit...
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Moon Kang 🚀
Showpad Director, Growth Marketing | Formerly a child6mo
I always wanted to give sales a try but never really had the opportunity. Honestly, I don’t think I’d thrive under the pressure of quotas – that level of intensity isn’t ...
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