Vidya Peters
CEO, DataSnipper · 1 appearance on the record.
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Vidya Peters leads DataSnipper, an intelligent automation platform for audit and finance that achieved unicorn valuation under her tenure following a $100 million Series B round. She previously served as Chief Operating Officer and CMO at Marqeta and CMO at MuleSoft, helping scale both companies through their IPOs.
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Vidya Peters: Email marketing and database outreach will be redundant by 2026
“I think that email will be completely redundant. This whole idea of a database and having outreach will be a very archaic method.”
Direct Sales and Marketing Programs Actively Repel Software Developers
“If you have a developer marketing program, scratch that. If you have a developer sales program, scratch it, because the moment you do that, you'll actually repel them.”
Peters: Early-stage startups should hire PR agencies instead of building in-house teams
“My advice, if you're just starting to dabble in PR at the company is try not to do it, building an in-house team from the get go. And the reason is, is that it takes a minimum number of people. It takes certain network reach for PR to be effective.”
Peters: Seed-stage startups should not invest in PR
“Now, the caveat I would say is that if you're so early stage that your seed level, please don't invest in PR. It tends to be expensive. And at the seed stage, you're still trying to determine who your product is for, what the product does. So at that point, I …”
Raw Leads Mean Nothing Without Marketing and Sales Alignment
“Leads today mean almost nothing, and so the question is, how many of those actually get qualified into opportunities? How many of those opportunities actually progress? And so there's this whole mindset shift that needs to happen in marketing where it's not a …”
Marketing's Metric Is Closed Revenue, Not Marketing Qualified Leads
“Marketing's metric is no longer about marketing qualified leads. It's really about closed revenue for the business.”
90 Days Is Too Long for Leaders to Present Their Plan
“In a high growth company that's doubling year on year, 90 days is too long to come back with your plan.”
Allocate 80% of Marketing Resources to ABM and 20% to SEM/SEO
“20% of my marketing goes there. 80% should be focused on ABM, which is, don't be just fishing in the ocean.”
ABM Tactics from Three Years Ago No Longer Work
“Technology is so quickly evolving in the marketing tech space that what worked for ABM three years ago doesn't work anymore.”
Peters: Marketers must engage prospects during initial consideration before buying begins
“You need to engage prospects when they are even considering a solution so that you can ensure that your company is top of mind when they start to think about the shop by process.”
Marqeta CMO: Homepage direct traffic must outpace revenue growth
“In addition to that, to measure brand, we measure the direct traffic to the homepage, the monthly unique traffic,
And ensure that is growing at a much faster pace than our revenue. This is the tip of the spear in terms of leading indicator.”
Vidya Peters: Intent signals have replaced traditional inbound lead forms
“Intent is the new lead. It's not about the lead form anymore. It's about capturing that customer when they exhibit the first intent, wherever that may be, wherever that channel may be.”
Peters: Never market to developers when building developer communities
“The important part with developer community though is, is not necessarily the tool, but it's really about how you're going to make it valuable for developers because developers hate any form of marketing. So please don't market to your developers.”
Peters: Vendors overestimate C-level software buying authority
“People overestimate the decision-making power of a C-level executive. And here's why, because when we talk about decision-making for say marketing technologies in the organization, I, what I, the way I approach is I lay out the problem for my team... It's a ve…”
Go-to-Market Strategy Is a Continuous Conversation, Not an Annual Process
“It's a live And living conversation that needs to ensure that your go to market is aligned with the realities and the learnings that the revenue team is seeing on the ground. And that I think has been a huge learning is the conversation is continuous. It's not…”
Intent Data Has Replaced Web Forms as the Primary Lead Signal
“The third one is intent is the new lead. It used to be many years ago that we would just sit and wait for those forms to be filled out. And we say, Hey, we have a lead.”
Customer and Developer Advocacy Is Your Most Powerful Marketing Asset
“Nothing is more powerful in marketing than hearing from a customer or a developer on your behalf, rather than you speaking about your own benefits of the platform.”
Modern Revenue Professionals Must Be All-Around Athletes
“I now believe revenue Team members are almost all around athletes, and you have to be in order to do that job well, because not only do you have to market and sell, but you have to have a deep understanding of the platform and product, not just some high level…”
Marketing Must Offer End-to-End Enablement, Not Just Sales Collateral
“In order to effectively help and support a revenue organization, you need to be thinking more end to end. So for example, if they are trying to fill skills gaps on the customer teams, Should we be thinking about training and certification? If they are thinking…”
Fill Critical Leadership Hires Before Going on a Listening Tour
“You will never be successful unless you have your critical hires on both teams that you're leading filled in, because you need to be leaning on them now more than ever. So before you go on a listening tour, before you set the strategy for anything, make sure t…”
Shortchanging Hiring Is the Biggest Mistake Leaders Make
“Hiring is your most important job. And if you do hiring well, then it makes it infinitely easier to do the rest of your work. And most people shortchange that. And I think that's the biggest mistake that people make. If you're not getting the leverage that you…”
Enterprise B2B Companies Should Avoid Expensive Brand Awareness Campaigns
“And you're not going to run a brand survey for a 100,000 dollars to see how your brand is doing. You don't have millions of dollars to run a brand campaign. And I would also say in enterprise B to B marketing, nor should you. You are not targeting everybody in…”
High-Growth Companies Need 100% YoY Growth in Direct and Organic Traffic
“And for a high growth company, A minimum growth that you should be seeing is a hundred percent year on your growth in direct and organic, and if it's not growing at that rate, either you don't have the right content on your site to draw the right traffic, or y…”
Developers Act as Secret Shoppers for Enterprise Buyers
“Because I guarantee you, that when you reach out to that person to have a sales conversation, they will turn to the developer and say, Hey, have you heard of Marquetta? Have you heard of this technology? What are your thoughts? Developers are the secret shoppe…”
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Secrets to Aligning Marketing and Revenue Strategies with Marqeta's CMO Vidya Peters | Aug 22, 2021 | 37m |
Played on the show (1)
Episodes where a recording of Vidya Peters was played rather than Vidya taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.
| Episode | Date | On tape | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 2021 State of Marketing Technology with Marqeta CMO, Vidya Peters | SaaStr Software Co | Nov 3, 2021 | 36m | aired address |