Scrappy ABM hands the mic to another show and lets the numbers speak. Mason Cosby opens this episode of Scrappy ABM by sharing a re-release from Is Anything Real in Paid Advertising?, “the show where we unpack what’s real and what’s just noise” in a chaotic world of marketing and media. Host Adam W. Barney sits down with Mason, who “lives the phrase market like you mean it” and runs a content first growth engine built on daily LinkedIn posts, weekly podcasts, cold ads, and speaking gigs at manufacturing conferences.
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Together they break down how a two-year-old business scaled through podcasts, 2,000+ target accounts with a five year conversion runway, and a four-show guest system that turns one great conversation into long-term relationships. They walk through thought leadership ads on LinkedIn focused on awareness, website de-anonymization and direct outreach, barter deals for PR and speaking, and a very real look at seasonality, CPL, CAC, and knowing your numbers when you’re an agency founder staring at your pipeline and wondering if this is even worth building anymore.
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Scrappy ABM host Mason Cosby sits down with Chris Moody from Demandbase to confront why so many ABM programs have failed inside B2B organizations that “tried ABM” over the last five or six years. The conversation centers on executives who launch impressive strategy decks and shiny new initiatives without changing real behavior, staying close to sales, or aligning on who does what when the rubber hits the road. Chris calls out the pattern of marketing introducing “ABM” as a new object to sellers who have always focused on high-value accounts, and why that tension stalls programs before they start.
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Together, Mason and Chris walk through starting with one account, proving a different, more coordinated way of working, and then scaling what actually works. They dig into buying groups, resource allocation, dedicated ABM leadership, and why celebration of wins matters. Most importantly, they offer a human test for alignment: whether sales would actually choose to spend time with marketing outside the conference room.
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Chris Moody is the chief evangelist at Demandbase and has spent years around the ABM space, including time at TOPO and Gartner. In this conversation, he brings a practical, sales-first lens to account-based programs, leadership alignment, and coordinated go-to-market execution.
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Scrappy ABM brings a focused look at business to government—B2G in the context of an ABM program. Host Mason Cosby sits down with Michelle Hanley to map the nuances of payment processing for governments across state and local. With a finite group of agencies, shifting election cycles, and long six to 24-month timelines, buying groups change and risk aversion is real. Michelle lays out a play that flips “normal B2B” on its head: events to meet new people and get contacts, email as the day-to-day touchpoint, and webinars that are completely bottom of funnel—often a sniff test for open opportunities. Listen for practical talk on RFPs, contact harvest, segmentation by state or city, stage one opportunities, and why “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” still shapes adoption—while teams have to get scrappy with budget.
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Michelle Hanley is the Senior Manager of Demand Gen at PayIt, focused on payment processing for governments across state and local. She leads programs that rely on events, email, webinars, RFPs, and segmentation of buying groups—often by state or city—with timelines ranging from six to 24 months. Michelle highlights stage one opportunities, contact harvest, and attribution to guide spend.
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“Where are the freaking meetings?” It’s the question every marketer hears — and the one that defines real accountability in B2B marketing. On this solo episode of Scrappy ABM, host Mason Cosby breaks down how to measure success across every stage of an ABM program so you can focus on the right goals at the right time.
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Rather than chasing meetings too early, Mason introduces the account progression model, a six-stage framework — from awareness through opportunity — that helps marketers understand where buyers really are in their journey. He shows how to align metrics with intent, track engagement meaningfully, and report results that earn credibility with both sales and executives.
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If you’ve ever struggled to connect marketing activity with pipeline, this walkthrough gives a clear, practical map for knowing what to measure, when to report it, and how to prove your impact at every stage.
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Scrappy ABM brings a practical playbook that doesn’t break the bank as host Mason Cosby sits down with Nick Clark to focus on the workflow side of operationalizing an ABM program. The conversation centers on program orchestration—who reaches out at what time with what thing and why—and the underestimated scope of the work. You’ll hear how ICP accounts shape targeting, how a documented workflow in Asana creates a white-glove ABM ecosystem with unique landing pages, forms, completion actions, targeted display ads, and curated email drips, and why starting simple proved out the path to a 24-email segmentation. The discussion gets specific on channel mix, geo-targeted ads around events, QR codes and vanity URLs in Ubers and Lyfts, alignment with sales, and measurement across Account Engagement (Pardot), Salesforce, and performance reports in Six Sense to see ICP accounts move through deeper stages faster.
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Nick Clark is the Marketing Automations Director at Basis Technologies. In 2025, he’s focused on ICP accounts, email-intensive automation, and event-driven go-to-market with sellers “boots on the ground.” Find the team at basis.com.
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Scrappy ABM shares a repurposed conversation where Mason Cosby is interviewed by Rohan Karunakaran on Founder Led. Mason started in sales, learned account based marketing by selling to a very specific niche, and built programs using a really good list, a really good value proposition and offer, and a basic CRM and a marketing automation platform. He launched Scrappy ABM as a side hustle, did about $300,000 in sales in three weeks, and now runs about $200,000 a month with a team of about 14. The conversation covers product market fit, the account progression model (awareness through reengagement), the 4D framework (data, distribution, destination, direction), and a six-hour workshop that delivered 300 slides and eight templates with a 9.4 out of 10 rating. Discover how LinkedIn, podcasts, and webinars drive discovery, why bangers should be recycled, and how to use negotiation levers to keep pricing cards face up.
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Rohan Karunakaran hosts Founder Led, where he dives into the minds of today’s successful entrepreneurs. He first connected with Mason Cosby on LinkedIn and invited him to share the story of starting Scrappy ABM, launching it when he just had his daughter, and the opportunity ahead for account based marketing and business building.
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Scrappy ABM spotlights practical playbooks that don’t break the bank, and Mason Cosby welcomes Steven Tripp to focus on what actually moves revenue when sales and marketing aren’t on the same page. Steven’s stance is simple: pick the right accounts, prioritize first-party engagement data, and be brave enough to let buyers pull themselves through their own funnel. He lays out how a 100% inbound motion can evolve without jumping back on the expensive ad hamster wheel, why de-anonymizing late works when HubSpot lights up, and how ungating content led to a 5x traffic jump. You’ll hear the SAP “sunset” story—one search a month, one perfect lead—and how a matrixed buyer’s-journey approach ensures the right content shows up on Google and YouTube at every point. The punchline: marketing’s “product” isn’t leads—it’s SQAs—and alignment gets real when teams listen, act on behavioral signals, and measure what sales actually values.
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Steven Tripp is the marketing director at Wynne Systems. A full-funnel marketer who “went back to sales roots,” Steven prioritizes first-party engagement, behavioral signals, and building a content flywheel over ads. He champions ungated content, content mapped to every step of the buyer’s journey, and measuring marketing on SQAs with high intent and close rates. Connect with Steven Tripp on LinkedIn.
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“Do more with less.” Every marketer has heard it — and probably rolled their eyes. But on Scrappy ABM, Mason Cosby flips that phrase from frustration to fuel. Drawing from his experience generating $25 million in direct revenue — and leading a team responsible for over $100 million — Mason breaks down exactly how to turn limited resources into real growth.
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He exposes why overloaded task lists kill impact, how to identify what truly drives results, and the mindset shift needed to earn more resources by proving you can deliver greater results with fewer programs. This episode delivers a clear, repeatable framework for diagnosing what’s working, aligning programs to measurable goals, and building a marketing machine that sustains predictable growth.
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Scrappy ABM brings practical playbooks without breaking the bank as Mason Cosby digs in with Sidney Waterfall from OpenBrand. The conversation opens on poor targeting—often the reason ABM fails—and moves straight into a vertical-specific motion with ABM, high touch, and a land and expand play. Sidney shares how using product data as a “cheat code” helped build and tier a thousand-account list—Premier ~38 and Tier 1 ~100—guided by category, product and data coverage, revenue potential, white space, and churn and retention signals.
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The team audits the list, checks in every six months, and adapts to the economy, overseas production, and renewals. On engagement, they start simple and clean with LinkedIn and outbound, validate that the audience is there, and test problem content, helpful how-to, and industry data and insights. Measurement focuses on hand raisers, target account website engagement, and a single meeting goal across the org—brand vs. demand connected in one ecosystem.
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Sidney Waterfall is the VP of Marketing over at OpenBrand. She’s pumped up, focused on a high touch ABM motion with land and expand, and actively connects with the target account list on LinkedIn. She also mentions a substack (“gone to the wayside… maybe I’ll resurrect it”). Find her on LinkedIn and shoot her a DM.
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The only thing worse than getting no customers is getting the wrong ones. In this solo episode of Scrappy ABM, host Mason Cosby breaks down how misaligned targeting can destroy profit, waste marketing effort, and frustrate every department in the business. He reveals why most B2B programs fail when they focus only on personas, and how to shift toward account-based targeting rooted in real data, not wishful thinking.
Mason walks through building a Best Customer Profile (BCP)—a data-backed approach that replaces idealistic wish lists with clear evidence of which customers are actually happy, profitable, and sustainable. Using examples from his own experience, he outlines how to partner with finance, customer success, and sales to define “best,” prioritize accounts, and align your marketing programs with revenue and profit.
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Leadership hears “ABM” and brings years of baggage. Scrappy ABM flips the script by cutting the re-education and moving straight to results. Host Mason Cosby welcomes Myles Madden to break down how he built ABM from the ground up—again and again—by starting with a sales-led use case, running a quiet pilot with a few reps, and only socializing the wins after pipeline appears.
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Myles lays out the pattern: meet with a tenured sales leader, ask for the one use case that’s driving revenue right now, pull five to ten real accounts, review the opportunities, and become an expert through Gong calls and external reading. From there, distribute across many channels for coverage, go deep on one or two “big bat” channels, and map one really good piece of content per stage—then validate with data. Simplicity wins: show pipeline amount and count, plus efficiency like cost to acquire $1 of pipeline, and keep teams aligned so messaging doesn’t drift.
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Myles Madden has built ABM from the ground up across multiple organizations—most often in Series B and Series C environments. He focuses on enterprise programs, specializes in cybersecurity, and emphasizes becoming an expert in the buyer’s use case through Gong calls, external content, and close partnership with sales and product marketing. At One Password, he collaborates with leaders and practitioners to launch focused, repeatable programs that create pipeline and prove efficiency.
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Most agencies are stuck in a cycle of referrals, one-off Google searches, or being carried by a few loyal clients. That reality often leaves growth out of your control, pricing in a race to the bottom, and revenue unpredictable. In this live episode of Scrappy ABM, host Mason Cosby sits down with Joseph Lewin, head of podcast strategy at Scrappy ABM, to reveal how agencies can flip that script through account-based podcasting.
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With data, real client results, and behind-the-scenes process, Mason and Joseph walk through the exact steps to generate conversations with best-fit decision makers, build strategic relationships, and predictably drive revenue. This isn’t about chasing downloads or fluffy brand metrics—it’s about creating $2M in sales within two years by building a system that works even if you start with zero listeners.
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Joseph Lewin is the Head of Podcast Strategy at Scrappy ABM. Since 2021, he has launched 38 podcasts, directly helping hosts generate over $6 million in trackable revenue from their shows. Beyond B2B strategy, Joseph also runs a YouTube channel where he experiments with building, burning, and creating from logs—showcasing his creativity both in and outside of business.
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Scrappy ABM is all about practical playbooks that don’t break the bank. In this conversation, host Mason Cosby welcomes Ryan George, CMO of Docupace, to break down how cohort analysis reshapes both sales strategy and long-term customer expansion.
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Ryan explains how a board-driven request turned into a framework that now guides sales focus, ABM campaigns, SDR targeting, and even M&A decisions. Together, Mason and Ryan explore the balance of quantitative data and qualitative insights, the challenges of execution and alignment, and why sometimes the most important outcome is knowing where not to invest.
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Listeners will hear first-hand how Docupace built four customer cohorts, used them to inform revenue forecasting and cross-sell strategy, and applied the same lens to merger evaluations. The discussion shows how cohort analysis can simplify a complex market and provide a clear cipher for resource allocation, product journeys, and long-term planning.
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Ryan George is the Chief Marketing Officer at Docupace, a leading digital operations technology provider for the wealth management industry. With deep expertise in financial services marketing, Ryan has led strategies for growth, retention, and profitability. He brings a unique perspective on aligning teams, using data for expansion, and turning complex markets into clear opportunities.
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Leadership isn’t taking marketers seriously because the conversation isn’t happening in their language. On this episode of Scrappy ABM, host Mason Cosby lays out a practical framework to shift how marketing programs are presented to align with executive priorities. Drawing from his experience generating $25 million in tangible revenue and leading a team responsible for more than $100 million, Mason explains how to reframe your work around six core leadership concerns: sustained organizational growth, efficiency, profit, attracting and retaining top talent, fostering a positive culture, and continued innovation.
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Listeners will walk away with clear, repeatable ways to prove marketing’s value, tie programs to measurable business outcomes, and protect budgets when inevitable cuts arise.
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Mason Cosby, host of Scrappy ABM, shares the tale of two marketers: one stuck on the treadmill of being overworked, underappreciated, and afraid of being fired — and another thriving with creativity, freedom, and consistent results. Drawing from real career lessons, Mason lays out the five biggest reasons most B2B marketing programs fail and what it takes to escape the cycle of frustration.
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From leadership alignment to sales buy-in, from consistent targeting to reporting on the right metrics, Mason highlights the shift from task management to system building. These lessons aren’t hypothetical — they’ve led to promotions, freedom, and even a tenfold income increase. For marketers who feel like they’re running in circles, this episode offers a practical playbook for building repeatable systems that create engagement, pipeline, and revenue.
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On Scrappy ABM, host Mason Cosby sits down with Jeff Hardison, CRO at CaseMark, to cut through tool-first thinking and get back to the fundamentals: pick the ideal customer profile that buys, retains, and expands—then run ABM to get more of your best. Jeff draws a sharp line between ICP and a target audience (the hunch you’re “pushing up a hill”) and shows why alignment breaks when leadership confuses the two.
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They map old-school account-based playbooks to today’s stack, using intent, tasteful personalization by industry or growth stage, and PLG motions that convert free usage into organization-wide adoption—the classic “come over the top” expansion. From Calendly’s surprising webinar signal (“please self-promote the product more”) to building lists with AI agents and wiring product + checkout data to measure PLG ABM, this conversation stays grounded in experiments, feedback, and outcomes.
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If you’re testing a new segment, scaling a hybrid PLG + sales motion, or correcting an over-automated program, this is a practical blueprint to run scrappy without breaking the bank.
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Jeff Hardison is the CRO at CaseMark and previously served as VP of Product Marketing at Calendly. He’s also worked at Clear Bet and led programs that connect old-school account-based fundamentals with modern platforms, PLG activation, and expansion motions.
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Have you ever crushed your marketing goals, only to find sales lagging far behind—and then still gotten in trouble for it? Mason Cosby, founder of Scrappy ABM, has been there too. In this episode of Scrappy ABM, Mason shares how account-based marketing creates alignment across marketing, sales, and customer success so everyone wins together.
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With over $25 million in sourced revenue generated from ABM in just three years, Mason breaks down a practical definition of account-based marketing that focuses on shared target accounts, best-fit customers, and building a unified strategy across teams. From why ABM is exclusive to B2B, to how to identify your most profitable and happiest customers, this episode gives you a clear, simple framework you can start applying today. And for quick buy-in? Mason even shares a toddler-friendly definition that reframes ABM as inviting only the best people to your party.
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Scrappy ABM brings together Mason Cosby and Natalie Marcotullio for a conversation that keeps ABM grounded in practice: build hyper-specific verticals, show buyers their future state with interactive demos, and measure success on pipeline.
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Natalie, Head of Growth and Product Marketing at Navattic, explains why one-to-many ABM works best when the product is visual and prospects can say, “suddenly it clicks.” From narrowing beyond G2 categories to stacking signals across LinkedIn ads, Slack alerts, and PLG activity, this episode highlights the fundamentals of focusing lists, consolidating signals, and ensuring ABM efforts don’t burn cash.
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Natalie Marcotullio is Head of Growth and Product Marketing at Navattic. She also co-hosts Revenue on the Rocks with her head of sales, a podcast built around sales and marketing alignment — complete with a drink in hand.
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A slightly provocative title sets the tone: the old way versus the right way. On Scrappy ABM, host Mason Cosby brings together leaders who’ve been in the belly of the beast—people who built ABM programs at technology vendors and across startup, mid-market, and enterprise realities. The panel aligns on a clear definition: a B2B revenue strategy that aligns marketing, sales, customer success, and rev ops around a shared target account list that reflects best customers, with data-driven decision making.
From pre-COVID tool stacks (Engagio→Demandbase, Terminus, Uberflip/PathFactory, Marketo, Salesforce, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, Google Ads) to unbundled, signal-driven programs, the group contrasts platform-led decisions with strategy-first programs. Costs spiraled—$200k+ in tools and team lift pushing some stacks to $910k—while teams chased account-level intent that often came from one contact or disappeared inside the ICP filter. Today’s shift centers on signals, precision, and orchestration: pick the right accounts, design plays around triggers, personalize experiences, and measure contribution, not just source. The takeaway: get the foundations right, then add tech that plays nicely together.
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