
Best Practices for Aligning Sales & Marketing - Ally Brettnacher - Hard Corps Marketing Show #240
How do we promote sales and marketing alignment? What can we do better to support each team?
A Thought Leader, Partner of Linking Indy Women, Co-Founder of Ride & Raise, Ally Brettnacher, delves into the four easy steps towards sales and marketing alignment.
Takeaways:
The first step to marketing alignment is understanding each other. Straightforwardly communicate your goals and what you need from each other to achieve the objectives.
Having the marketing team sit in on sales calls allows for first hand exposure to what the sales team experiences and their challenges day to day.
“Sales, if the marketing team is trying to enable you on the amazing content they have put together, then show up and learn about the content. Enablement is key to success!” ~Ally Brettnacher
When it comes to marketing and sales alignment, we need to be involved in the conversation from the beginning. Understand why ______ has value.
Prevent sales and marketing silos by asking for feedback on how people are responding to what marketing is doing and showing appreciation to each other.
Career Advice: You are so much smarter than you think. Speak up more, you are good enough!
Links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allytbrett/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/allytbrett
Ride & Raise: https://rideandraise.org
Linking Indy Women: https://linkingindywomen.com
Personal Website: https://allytbrett.com
Brandon Rhoten Episode: https://www.hardcorpsmarketing.com/e/where-s-the-social-brandon-rhoten-hard-corps-marketing-show-237/
Shout Out:
36:04 Todd Caponi
Busted Myths:
Sales and marketing alignment is not as difficult as it seems. Communicating goals, sitting in on sales calls, asking for feedback, and showing up for each other makes all the difference in breaking down those silos.
Ways to Tune In:
iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hard-corps-marketing-show/id1338838763
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1vVLpNI1LssMTiL6Kdsamn
Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-hard-corps-marketing-show
Google Play - https://play.google.com/music/m/Im7mytmu2wa2mekhoeixlja5hpe?t=The_Hard_Corps_Marketing_Show
YouTube - Full video - https://youtu.be/2uoF1ob1F-Y
How do we promote sales and marketing alignment? What can we do better to support each team?
A Thought Leader, Partner of Linking Indy Women, Co-Founder of Ride & Raise, Ally Brettnacher, delves into the four easy steps towards sales and marketing alignment.
Takeaways:
- The first step to marketing alignment is understanding each other. Straightforwardly communicate your goals and what you need from each other to achieve the objectives.
- Having the marketing team sit in on sales calls allows for first hand exposure to what the sales team experiences and their challenges day to day.
- “Sales, if the marketing team is trying to enable you on the amazing content they have put together, then show up and learn about the content. Enablement is key to success!” ~Ally Brettnacher
- When it comes to marketing and sales alignment, we need to be involved in the conversation from the beginning. Understand why ______ has value.
- Prevent sales and marketing silos by asking for feedback on how people are responding to what marketing is doing and showing appreciation to each other.
- Career Advice: You are so much smarter than you think. Speak up more, you are good enough!
Links:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allytbrett/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/allytbrett
- Ride & Raise: https://rideandraise.org
- Linking Indy Women: https://linkingindywomen.com
- Personal Website: https://allytbrett.com
- Brandon Rhoten Episode: https://www.hardcorpsmarketing.com/e/where-s-the-social-brandon-rhoten-hard-corps-marketing-show-237/
Shout Out:
- 36:04 Todd Caponi
Busted Myths:
- Sales and marketing alignment is not as difficult as it seems. Communicating goals, sitting in on sales calls, asking for feedback, and showing up for each other makes all the difference in breaking down those silos.
Ways to Tune In:
- iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hard-corps-marketing-show/id1338838763
- Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1vVLpNI1LssMTiL6Kdsamn
- Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-hard-corps-marketing-show
- Google Play - https://play.google.com/music/m/Im7mytmu2wa2mekhoeixlja5hpe?t=The_Hard_Corps_Marketing_Show
- YouTube - Full video - https://youtu.be/2uoF1ob1F-Y
Creators and Guests

Host
Casey Cheshire
CEO & Founder of Ringmaster Conversational Marketing. Casey Cheshire is a marketer, serial entrepreneur, and adventurer. He has been in EO for close to 10 years and counts his relationships as a key reason for his continued success. Casey’s passion for podcasting led to him founding Ringmaster Conversational Marketing. Ringmaster helps B2B businesses launch podcasts that drive growth and revenue. Previously, Casey founded and ran Cheshire Impact for 10 years. It became the top Salesforce Pardot marketing automation solutions partner in the world before a successful exit in 2021. He is also a US Marine Corps Veteran where he served in the Infantry and deployed to some very hot climates. In his free time, Casey likes to skydive, climb mountains, and pretend to be a hungry bear for his two kids.