How a top enterprise salesperson and agency went to market together successfully w/ Jill Rowley and David Lewis
13 March 2024

How a top enterprise salesperson and agency went to market together successfully w/ Jill Rowley and David Lewis

HOW THEY DID IT! Unique stories partnerships-led sales and success.

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Situation: It’s early days at Eloqua and David Lewis sees a huge opportunity to build an agency focused on helping companies adopt marketing automation - specifically on Eloqua to start. He allies with Jill Rowley who is a top salesperson at Eloqua at the time. 


Result: Together they close huge deals with Eloqua - building David’s agency while making Jill the top salesperson - then shifting focus to Marketo and adding other platforms until David’s successful exit in 2021.


Agency guest: David Lewis, Founder of DemandGen


His GTM partner: Jill Rowley, Nearbound Strategist 


Companies referenced: DemandGenEloquaMarketo


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Listener takeaways: 



    Why David decided to launch DemandGen as a power partners



    Why Jill chose to sell against “Smart Starts” internal service packages



    The partner playbook they created used to succeed



    How David’s partners lifted his exit



    Why and how salespeople should bring partners into the deals



    Why in-house service packages are a bad idea



    Pre-selling software with partners



    Why your solutions partners are (or should be) the insurance policy for your largest customers




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