Revenue Marketing Raw

Jeff Pedowitz and Dr. Debbie Qaqish
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Revenue Marketing Raw is a weekly unscripted B2B marketing podcast hosted by Jeff Pedowitz and Dr. Debbie Qaqish of The Pedowitz Group. Each 20-30 minute episode tackles one topic that makes CMOs sweat: AI's real impact on marketing teams, the death of MQLs, what's broken about pipeline coverage, why most ABM is just expensive lead gen, how Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is replacing SEO, and what it actually takes to run marketing as a revenue function. The show is built for senior B2B marketing leaders: CMOs being asked to do more with less, VPs of Marketing and RevOps tired of dashboards that don't tie to revenue, Marketing Operations leaders stuck in IT support mode, and founders evaluating where AI moves the needle versus where it's theater. What makes it different: no guest pitches, no vendor sponsorships, no buzzwords, no scripted talking points. Just two senior practitioners, together representing 40+ years of advising Fortune 500 CMOs, saying the quiet part out loud. Debbie coined the term "Revenue Marketing" in 2010, TPG formalized it in 2012, and she has since authored Rise of the Revenue Marketer and From Backroom to Boardroom. Jeff has authored F the Funnel, The Revenue Marketer, AI Agents Made Simple, and The Attic and The Algorithm, and hosts CMO Insights, where he has interviewed 130+ marketing leaders. New episodes drop every Tuesday. Watch on YouTube and Vimeo, listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or subscribe to the weekly email at pedowitzgroup.com/revenue-marketing-raw.

  1. 1h ago ·  Video

    Your Next Direct Report Doesn't Have a Resume

    Marketing organizations have never held a fixed shape. They bend, split, and reform around whatever the business demands. AI agents are not changing that pattern. They are accelerating it. In this episode, Jeff Pedowitz and Dr. Debbie Qaqish examine what happens when the org chart stops listing people and starts listing agents. The execution layer is moving to machines. The question is whether the humans left standing are ready for what that actually requires of them. The conversation covers the new management capabilities this transition demands, why judgment and context matter more than ever when agents operate at scale, the governance gaps most organizations are ignoring, and the uncomfortable ROI math behind rising AI spend. It also confronts a harder truth: that no amount of technology closes a people development gap, and that gap has been widening for years.

    26 min

  2. May 26 ·  Video

    96% of Marketers Are Using AI. Only 19% Are Getting Results.

    Marketing has never had a more powerful tool. And it has rarely done less with one. Jeff Pedowitz and Dr. Debbie Qaqish dig into the number that should be making every CMO uncomfortable: 96% of marketers are now using AI, but only 19% of executives report meaningful revenue gains from it. The gap is not a technology problem. It is not an adoption problem. It is a thinking problem. In this episode, Jeff and Debbie break down why the first wave of AI in marketing went almost entirely toward content volume and cost efficiency, why that was predictable given the market conditions of the last two years, and why it left the revenue impact almost entirely on the table. They get into what the 19% are actually doing differently: asking better questions of their data, connecting their LLMs to their CRM, running real-time ICP audits against closed deals, and using AI to surface intelligence they never had access to before. Not faster content. Smarter decisions. The conversation covers how to connect an LLM to your marketing automation and CRM in minutes, what questions revenue marketers should be asking that almost nobody is asking yet, why AI has actually made sales and marketing alignment worse in its first stage, and what a new leadership model for CMOs looks like in the age of AI. As Debbie puts it: the gap between marketing accountability and revenue impact has barely moved since 2004. AI is either the tool that finally closes it, or the latest thing marketers use to produce more of what was already not working. The choice is in the questions you decide to ask.

    24 min

  3. May 19 ·  Video

    Women Built Revenue Marketing. Now AI Is Rewriting the Rules.

    Women have always driven the precision behind revenue marketing. Now AI is automating the exact work that proved their value, while simultaneously penalizing them more harshly for using it. This episode of Revenue Marketing Raw cuts through the noise on women in tech: what the data actually shows, why skepticism is a professional asset not a liability, and the 5 moves every woman in B2B marketing should make right now before the AI investment decisions get made without them.

    23 min

  4. May 12 ·  Video

    70:30 The AI Readiness Gap Nobody Is Talking About

    Gartner's 2026 CMO Spend Survey just dropped a number that should stop every marketing leader cold: 70% want to lead in AI, but only 30% have the maturity to do it. Jeff and Debbie break down what's really behind that gap — bad data, immature processes, the wrong talent, and a mindset still stuck in the old playbook. This one gets real fast: why buying AI tools before fixing your foundation is setting you up to fail, why marketing ops needs to become a data function, and why the CMO role itself may need a full identity reset. No guests, no script, just the conversation marketing leaders need to have right now.

    24 min

  5. May 7 ·  Video

    Scott Brinker is Right. Marketing is Now a Systems Design Discipline

    Marketing isn't a creative function anymore. It isn't a campaign function. It's becoming a systems design discipline — and the marketers who don't think in workflows, data layers, and orchestration are about to be replaced by the ones who do. In this episode of Revenue Marketing Raw, Jeff Pedowitz and Debbie Qaqish unpack what Scott Brinker — the guy who's been mapping MarTech longer than most CMOs have been in their roles — is saying right now, and why his current thinking should reset how every B2B marketer plans the next two years. AI isn't making the stack simpler. It's making it messier. The "stack" itself is dissolving and being replaced by data layers with AI orchestrating on top. Buyer-side AI is about to be the biggest disruption in B2B sales since the internet — your AI talking to your buyer's AI, with humans dropping in only at the high-stakes moments. They tackle why MarOps and ex-sales-process people have a structural advantage in this new world (process workflow thinking is the new core skill), why the CMO who isn't a change agent is no longer leadership material in the AI era, and the data layer architecture every marketing leader should start understanding now — before someone else does it for them.

    27 min

  6. May 7 ·  Video

    AI is the Forcing Function Marketing Ops Has Been Waiting For

    For two decades, MarOps fought to be seen as strategic. AI just settled the argument. In this episode of Revenue Marketing Raw, Jeff Pedowitz and Debbie Qaqish make the case that AI is the forcing function MarOps has been waiting for — the moment that either elevates the team to the central nervous system of marketing or exposes that the leader hasn't made the shift. They argue that what gets built, how marketing operates, and what insights drive the strategy should now be coming from MarOps, not landed on MarOps as another execution ticket. AI agents become the new team members. The MarOps leader becomes the architect of what the team — human plus agent — can do. Skills built in Claude, ChatGPT, and other LLMs compound and chain together. The strategic position MarOps deserved a decade ago is finally available. They tackle the fear running through demand gen and content teams (yes, it's real, and yes, it's justified), why the marketing leader who isn't already running a MarOps reset is behind the eight ball, and the blank-sheet-of-paper exercise every MarOps leader should be doing this month: "If you were building MarOps from scratch in an AI world, where would it sit and what would it own?" If your MarOps team is still buried in tickets, this episode is the escape route.

    26 min

  7. May 7 ·  Video

    The Org Chart is Lying to You

    The functional org chart — product marketing here, demand gen there, MarOps over there, brand off in a corner — was built for a world AI just replaced. The departments that defined marketing for thirty years are about to dissolve, and most leaders are still trying to fill open roles inside a structure that no longer makes sense. In this episode of Revenue Marketing Raw, Jeff Pedowitz and Debbie Qaqish introduce the Amoeba Organization — a new model for how marketing teams should be structured, staffed, and led in the AI age. Instead of functional silos, you build outcome-driven pods. Sales, marketing, customer success, and product working as one unit, organized around a revenue outcome instead of a department. AI does the cross-functional connective tissue that used to require six "alignment" meetings a week. They tackle the new dual job description for the modern CMO — chief change agent and chief AI strategist — and the thought experiment every marketing leader should run this quarter: "If you were starting a marketing org from scratch today, knowing AI would do half the work, what would the structure actually look like?" The answer isn't your current org chart. If you're hiring, restructuring, or planning headcount for 2026, this is the most important episode of the season.

    45 min

  8. May 7 ·  Video

    Your Buyers Are in Reddit Threads. Your Brand Isn't.

    AEO gets you found. AXO gets you chosen. Most revenue marketers are stuck between the two — getting cited by ChatGPT but not actually winning the deal — because their content was built for a website nobody visits anymore. In this episode of Revenue Marketing Raw, Jeff Pedowitz and Debbie Qaqish introduce a new piece of vocabulary the industry needs: AXO — AI Experience Optimization. AEO is the mechanism (getting cited inside LLMs and AI search). AXO is the strategy (making sure when you do get cited, the buyer chooses you). They walk through the 4-6x improvement they've seen in pipeline and revenue conversion when marketers rebuild their content around the 100 questions a buyer actually asks across the buying journey — in the buyer's language, not the brand's. They tackle why your buyers are already living in Reddit threads, peer communities, and Slack groups your brand has zero presence in. Why most B2B websites still talk about products instead of problems. And why every CMO needs to start collecting different data — questions asked, content cited, intent signals from where buyers actually congregate — to do this job in the age of AI.

    23 min
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Revenue Marketing Raw is a weekly unscripted B2B marketing podcast hosted by Jeff Pedowitz and Dr. Debbie Qaqish of The Pedowitz Group. Each 20-30 minute episode tackles one topic that makes CMOs sweat: AI's real impact on marketing teams, the death of MQLs, what's broken about pipeline coverage, why most ABM is just expensive lead gen, how Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is replacing SEO, and what it actually takes to run marketing as a revenue function. The show is built for senior B2B marketing leaders: CMOs being asked to do more with less, VPs of Marketing and RevOps tired of dashboards that don't tie to revenue, Marketing Operations leaders stuck in IT support mode, and founders evaluating where AI moves the needle versus where it's theater. What makes it different: no guest pitches, no vendor sponsorships, no buzzwords, no scripted talking points. Just two senior practitioners, together representing 40+ years of advising Fortune 500 CMOs, saying the quiet part out loud. Debbie coined the term "Revenue Marketing" in 2010, TPG formalized it in 2012, and she has since authored Rise of the Revenue Marketer and From Backroom to Boardroom. Jeff has authored F the Funnel, The Revenue Marketer, AI Agents Made Simple, and The Attic and The Algorithm, and hosts CMO Insights, where he has interviewed 130+ marketing leaders. New episodes drop every Tuesday. Watch on YouTube and Vimeo, listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or subscribe to the weekly email at pedowitzgroup.com/revenue-marketing-raw.

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