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How to avoid the (hidden) costs of inaccurate data in your ABM program.
The costs of inaccurate data are not always apparent. Here’s how to ensure data accuracy for improved sales effectiveness.
How well is your digital marketing doing? Turns out, that’s an incredibly difficult question to answer. We were joined by Channel99 to discuss exactly what you need to do to set yourself up for accurate marketing performance measurement that leads to actionable insights.
Originally aired on August 29, 2024
KPIs that matter.
Focus on metrics that directly impact business outcomes, such as cost per engaged account, pipeline contribution rate and how well your campaigns drive engagement.
Historical benchmarking.
Comparing your KPIs against industry standards is useful, but your own historical performance data provides the best baseline for improvement.
Efficient marketing.
Starting with a smaller, well-targeted budget can be more effective than spreading resources too thinly across multiple channels.
It comes back to the audience too. You might find that whatever program works perfectly for one segment of accounts might perform completely differently for another segment.
Chris founded Channel99 in 2022 to provide businesses worldwide with the first AI-powered decision making engine for B2B marketing investments. Unsatisfied with traditional attribution solutions and the financial inefficiency of B2B marketing, Chris’ mission is to transform how the B2B sector measures and invests in growth. Prior to Channel99, Chris founded Demandbase and pioneered the Account-Based Marketing (ABM) technology category now widely adopted by thousands of companies.
Uzair Dada is Founder and CEO of Iron Horse. Over the last 25 years, Uzair has built Iron Horse from a startup to an award-winning growth marketing agency helping global brands build scalable integrated marketing programs. His areas of expertise include building and executing B2B and Developer Marketing programs focused on emerging technology areas like AI, Big Data, IoT, game development and developer tools.
Alex Jonathan Brown
It's 11AM on the West Coast, 2PM in New York City. And wherever you are, turn off your Slack notifications, give your phone a chance to recharge, and grab a cup of your favorite caffeinated beverage. It's time for a coffee break.
I'm Alex Jonathan Brown, senior content strategist here at Iron Horse. And today, we're focusing on how to make sure the math of your marketing campaigns is really mathing and how you can identify and improve the areas where it isn't. Joining me to tackle this expansive topic, from the WiFi desert that is Chicago right now is Chris Golic, founder and CEO at Channel99.
And from the sunny, I think, West Coast of California, is Uzair Dada, our founder and CEO here at Iron Horse. Thanks for joining us, everybody.
Uzair Dada
Nice to be here.
Alex Jonathan Brown
So we got, well, hi Uzair.
We're gonna ask the first question. We got a lot of ground to cover today, but while Chris gets back online, to do a little table setting, marketers in general and performance marketers specifically are under a lot of pressure to do everything better and faster and cheaper kind of always, but paid marketing especially is such a huge part of that.
So from where you are, what are you kind of seeing the landscape currently look like when it comes to those concerns?
Uzair Dada
Yeah. I I think it's an amazing question and highly timely for this time. And by the way, guys, if Chris comes in and out, he is in Northern Chicago, and Comcast Business is having WiFi outages.
So he's back. And so we're kinda just because you may think that that may be the latency. But to me, every marketing leader and marketing performance marketing and demand gen leader I talk to is feeling a tremendous amount of pressure in a company to outperform and do more with less or do more with the same.
There is a kind of a heightened focus on, “Paid media doesn't always produce. Is this right?
Is this wrong?” There is a heightened pressure to talk about, “Is this driving the lead I want? Is this driving the attribution I want? Is this driving the conversion and the pipeline that I want?”
So, there's these massive kind of pressures and measurements, but they're not unified.
The measurements and expectations in different parts of the organization are different. Not just between marketing and sales, but within marketing and within sales, and then the leadership team.
And we, as marketers, have done, I think, historically, have done a terrible job getting the whole world wrapped around the lovely four letter word, “lead”. Right?
There are other 4 letter words that should be associated with that term, but that four letter word has become a bane of people's existence all the way from the boardroom where everyone's like, “Why didn't we meet our lead goals? Why didn't this happen?”
And no one's really sort of questioned the, “Is that right? Does that still work in today's day and age?”
Right? And I think that's a big part of the conversation today, and Chris and I talk about this a lot. And, you know, he started 2 companies trying to solve this problem. So, you know, Chris, what are your thoughts?
Chris Golec
Yeah. Well, you're not to go back too far in time, but the reason I started Demandbase back in 2006 was because I was a frustrated marketer. Right?
I was forced to email a bunch of people that would never buy my product. I was forced to advertise to so many people that would never buy my product.
It needed to be fixed. And so Demandbase, you know, was focused on, “How do we help people market better?”
But, you know, ABM is just one approach. And fast forward to today, you know, B2B marketers are still frustrated because a lot of their investments go toward marketing to companies that are not in their addressable market.
And, and a lot of the measurements are really hard because they're relying on each vendor's KPIs, and it's hard to make comparisons. And B2B marketing is tough. Right? Because most companies are only targeting 3, 4% of the businesses out there. And most of the tools that they use are still heavily consumer oriented. So there is just, the good news is there's tons of opportunity for improvement. You just gotta be really smart about how you go about it.
Uzair Dada
So, you know, I think, Alex, one of the key areas that I feel that starts with kind of struggles of performance in the performance media part is our lack of emphasis on being audience obsessed and understanding the audiences. Right?
So I wanna target the CSO. My target account list is Fortune 2000 companies. Guess what? That's being lazy. That is being super freaking lazy. Right? We have amazing tools in our hands. We have good first party data, good third party data.
And by third party data, I don't mean ZoomInfo contact list. We have intent data that exists that we can layer in to say, “Is this the right target list?”
And even if it's Fortune 2000, we all already know if you're a SaaS company, for example, and say you have an average customer life cycle of 4 years. But at any point in time, you have, like, 25% of your TAM in market. And in any quarter, you have maybe 6 or 7% who are showing intent. So why am I spending all this time across all of them in the same way?
Right? And not just marketing dollars and marketing effort, but sales efforts, which are crazy expensive. And so us as a category, as a group, as an ecosystem, as a community need to really be very data driven and obsessed about audience insights and audience analysis. If we do that right, like, we do a lot on our team working with our customers. We go through this exercise called segment mapping.
And that's really just about saying, “Let's stick to what you have and see what you all are saying,” and then you see this scattergram of everyone's all over. And then we literally go through whether it's right or wrong.
What's my p1, p2, p3 alignment? I can't do everything to everyone.
And then, you know what? That takes the emotion out. Everyone is now saying, okay. What you sent me is actually right. The number of times we've had customers where they've given us a target account list and then we've sent that lead from the right ICP and persona to their teams, and then the salesperson will say, well, that's not an account I'm targeting. And I pull up and saying, “Here's an email from you with the target account list that this domain is on.” And they're like, “Oh, I didn't know that.” Right?
We do motions. We don't look at what we are doing. We never think about it. We never validate it. So I think back to let's stop being lazy and do the effort, do the work. We have the tools.
It's not hard. We have the discipline. It's not hard.
We just are not going through those motions. So I think data driven, audience research, looking at your 1st party and 3rd party data, driving that to alignment, and then most importantly, testing it and validating it to ensure what we are thinking about is actually working or not is super important.
And Chris and the team at Channel99 are doing some cool stuff around that. But to me, I think that's the fundamental problem of, “If I don't know where I'm pointing at shooting, then I'm gonna spray and pray.”
Chris Golec
Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's funny. It was there, like, on the point of audience, it's so important.
Because a lot of times, people will select multiple vendors going after the specific audience. And if the results don't work out, they think, oh, the vendor doesn't really and they never really peel back and understand why.
And a lot of times, the why is part of the audience just isn't appropriate for the vendor. And I'll just use an example.
We had a customer here at Channel99 that was using an ABM company to target nonprofits, large to small. And the reality was, you know, the results came back very poor because most of the companies were really small nonprofits that the ABM company had a difficult time reaching.
And so the outcome, though, was we split it into 2 audiences and used the smaller companies, we used Facebook ads, which worked really well, and then we used the ABM company for the larger organizations, and that worked really well. So the outcome was really way better performance just by dissecting the audience and figuring out what's the appropriate vendors and channels for the segment.
Alex Jonathan Brown
I think that's such an important point too.
Because a lot of times when we talk about, you know, whether it's narrowing our audiences or changing the way that we're focusing, A lot of people have that instant reaction of, like, well, there is money there, and I don't wanna let that money go. And it's not just saying, oh, we're never thinking about these people again. It's saying “We're changing the way we think about both of these groups, and we're just gonna do them both smarter.” And, like so in your example, Chris, they didn't say we're never talking to small nonprofits again.
It's just how we more efficiently speak to both of these audiences in the ways they're gonna work for them. So I was really glad that you brought that up.
Is there anything else before I kinda roll into the next stuff?
Uzair Dada
Yeah. I mean, the other thing along those lines is, like, you know, we have, our appetites and our desire is always larger than what we have resources for both people, content is important, and budget. So we wanna go eat all 3 meals at a Michelin Star restaurant, but we can barely afford McDonald's.
Right? It's true. It's reality. So how do you balance that out?
Right? I think so. Again, back to reality. That just means you can't do well with a smaller budget. In fact, you should start with a smaller budget before you scale up because, otherwise, you're just wasting a lot. And there's a lot of tools, and and and the next set of conversations are all around transparency and paid media.
But I think that's an important part. So I think the audience part is amazing. It's sort of just being grounded in reality about what's there. It is the back to I'm gonna rant on us marketers doing a bad job today.
We always blame technology. That's the easiest thing to do. Easiest. It's our savior, and it's our fault. Right?
When something doesn't go right, we throw 1 technology, and we bring in almost the exact same competitor of it that just looks slightly different. That's gonna magically save the world. Right? I wanna use 6sense over Demandbase or demand base over 6¢. Really? Really? Is that gonna change the world for you? Right? Of course, Chris is gonna say yes, being the founder of Demandbase.
Chris Golec
Probably, yes.
Uzair Dada
But, you know, at the end of the day, sort of, come on. Come on, guys. Like, use the technology you have. Invest in it. There, of course, will be times where it doesn't work, but I think we are so quick to judge and throw out rather than investing in ensuring that the adoption happens, the maturation happens for us to see the real data. And I think, again, back to some of the stuff that Chris is talking about and that Chris and those guys are looking at helps with that.
Alex Jonathan Brown
Yeah. I don't I don't need to have the same tennis racket that Roger Federer has. I need to lose £15 and get better at tennis. Okay. Like, the racket's not the problem. Right? But you bring up a good transition. If we're looking at let's say we're using multiple different products.
We're in multiple different platforms. One of the things that gets so tricky, even when we look at things like what's gonna be our source of truth for how many hits our website gets? Like, we're getting different numbers from different websites. Right? How do we effectively, as we search for this efficiency, how do we make comparisons that make sense for everybody between everything that we've got going on to really see where those efficiencies can be better or to see what's really working well for us?
Uzair Dada
I think, Chris, I think you should start.
Chris Golec
Yeah. Well, I mean, I'd start with saying there's an incredible amount of vendor bias in reporting. It's just that's the way it is. So you have to, like, really step back and say, “What are the right KPIs?” And we can dive into that. But, like, I often find and I'm sure you guys see this all day long, where somebody will go with, let's just call it an ad product with a really low CPM and think that they can make it up in volume. But the reality is if they're not really looking at the efficiency of reaching the right audience, you might be spending a lot more even though you think you're spending less on the CPM basis. And until you have that transparency, you're really flying blind. And we just see so much opportunity across all these different vendors and channels.
Uzair Dada
So what do you, maybe this is a good good topic, what are the metrics that you should be looking at? So I agree. To me, the CPM, CPL, cost per cost per million impression, cost per, lead, cost per demo, cost per meeting. To me, all those are garbage metrics. Right?
Because that's still just the first step.
Chris Golec
Yeah. I usually, you know, I and then we work with, you know, various agencies and, you know, people that I've worked with over the years. And we kinda set out 5 or 6, and it's kind of, you know, from very simple to more driven business outcomes.
When I say very simple, just, like, the target audience, your Global 2,000 or whatever is, how well is this vendor channel reaching them, number 1. 2, you know, how well and efficient are in the case of media, are my impressions being used to that audience? Are 50% hitting them, or is it 4%? And believe me, we've seen 2% to 80%, so there's a huge range.
And then the next level is then is that platform contextually relevant where it's driving engagement from these companies? So am I getting visits and engagement to my properties or my sales team? So that's kind of step 3, and that could translate into dollar per visits and leads and things like that. But more important, am I driving the business outcomes that's important to the sales team, to finance? And that's influencing pipeline. What percentage of deals does this impact in my business? And, ultimately, this rolls into bookings and revenue, of course.
But you kinda look at all these things and do it consistently on an apples to apples basis. Otherwise, you know, if you're just relying on various KPIs, whether it's, you know, demand base's lift metric to, LinkedIn's metrics, it's really hard to make comparisons unless you have everything on a level playing field.
Uzair Dada
I know you're gonna show a couple in the stats from what you got to capture, but spot on. I think there's a, I sort of break it into my platform metrics. I'm looking inside Facebook. I'm looking inside LinkedIn. I'm looking inside Demandbase or 6sense or whatever I'm looking into. Then my platform metrics to make sure operationally, I'm doing what I'm supposed to. Great.
Check. Then it's the 2nd level of metrics which you just defined. Transparently.
Important point. Transparently. Am I able to see the engagement for who I'm trying to reach to? Again, better pointing and shooting, the point we talked about upfront. Am I reaching the people I'm supposed to? Because I'm less spraying and praying.
And, of course, the thing that that sort of Chris talked about, which is the ugly truth of paid media, is fraud and bots. Majority of our media spend gets subsumed by those 2 categories.
Right? And so how do I get and find things where it's better? Again, transparency becomes really important.
Then I have the mid net metrics of a CPL, cost per lead, cost per demo, cost per meeting. But then the key point at the end of the day where marketer can influence is influence on pipeline.
Because I really can't influence the final sale if that's sales process involved unless it's a PLG motion. But and then the word influence is not well defined.
Right? Is it a first touch? Is it a last touch? Is it multi, what does that mean? Right? And how does that change in the account based world? So I think there's so much clutter in that influence world as well.
But I think at the end of the day, what matters is what is the effective cost for conversion? So the effective part is a really important one. That means that if I had 4 meetings and only one of them was my ICP that led to something, my effective cost is 4 x higher than my CPL cost. Right?
And we don't all look at that today.
Chris Golec
Yeah. Well, and it comes back to audience too. You might find that whatever program works for a certain segment of accounts 100%.
Really well, and it can be totally different for a different segment.
Alex Jonathan Brown
So this kinda sets up a little bit of a question we got from the chat from Pete. And Pete, I'll I'll summarize. Hopefully, I do a good job. But it's one thing to do this work that we're kind of continually talking about and we'll talk more about, like, honing in on the metrics that matter the most.
Right? It's another thing, especially if you're in the position of being in an agency or internal marketing somewhere, to make the case to decision makers that, like, these are the good metrics Yeah. And to influence decision making based on kind of getting people to pay a little less attention to what we would, I think, call the vanity metrics and instead focus on because for a lot of people, we've been talking about email open rates or whatever for 35 years now or whatever it is.
Yeah. Like, how do we do that kind of change management to get them focused, or is it literally just pointing at kind of the bottom line and yelling really loudly until it connects with people?
Chris Golec
Well, I think to Eric's point, I bet you half of marketers are still measured and paid on MQLs, unfortunately, versus pipeline impact or pipeline influence.
Uzair Dada
I think I think it's a I think, unfortunately, you have to yell really hard as a smart marketer in an organization, for sure.
But the change has to be top down. That means you, your leadership team, needs to not just agree but embrace. And make sure that flows up all the way from your CMO, CRO to CEO and board. Because, unfortunately, what is happening is those metrics have been set up in strategic plans.
And so that's what's getting reported out. So even though me as a CMO or CRO agree on it, I'm still asking you for that. So that's the challenge on ABM adoption. Right?
ABM adoption, everyone gets ABM. It's mainstay, selling, Demandbase, 6sense, anything else, super easy.
But there's a maturation of market that says account based marketers and marketing is an efficient way to go to market because I'm not spraying and praying. Execution and account account maturity for adoption of ABM, completely different conversation.
Right? I don't spend time on change management with sales because me as a salesperson have been used to and accustomed to getting leads because that's a good way for me to do stuff. Trying to get you an account signal even though it's better, I just don't have the patience for it. So what do I do? I just said this is not working, and because I have so much pressure, I just move on and it fails. Right? So, the number one reason for failure of ABM initiatives is lack of change management. So you have to change it. There are creative things that are happening. Right? We marketers are known to be awesome and creative. Right?
So what are people doing? Why am I struggling with an account based funnel and a demand funnel separately? Let's merge the 2 things. “Woah. Cool. Awesome.” Like, logical. Right?
Let's not be academic that an MQA or 6QA is better than an MQL and SQL. No.
Make it the same. So I get used to seeing an MQL, SQL as part of my MQA, 6QA funnel. So it feels normal.
Right now, it feels orthogonal. So part of it is, we need to be creative to enable that to happen, but it will take brave marketers to be screaming for that change to happen. It won't just happen organically. Even though you sit here and say, “In today's day and age, seriously, I'm talking about attribution of a demand based ad or a “Stackadapt ad to driving a, come on. What are we doing, guys?
Chris Golec
Yeah. It's not predictive.
Uzair Dada
Yeah. It's not.
It's not. So I just think I just think there's a lot of they're changing. As in the industry, we're going through an evolution.
Alex, I think we should sort of in the time we have, I think we should talk about since paid media is such a big part of what all of us marketers do. And Chris and team have done some pretty awesome interesting benchmarking around the efficacy of how to look at it. And the reason we both are passionate about efficiency. I think it'd be cool for Chris to sort of talk and share some of the stuff they're seeing.
Because to me, the light bulb moment was when kinda we were chatting and he started showing what they were doing at channel lightning. I'm like, wow, this is we've been doing this for brand safety and other things in the past, and they've sort of brought that same sort of transparency to B2B, which I think is so desperately needed.
Chris Golec
Yeah. I guess I would start, thanks, Uzair.
One one thing that I felt was important for us to solve for at Channel99 was this notion of all the view through activity that happens from ads, from content syndication, from organic social. And so we developed the technology to really bring more science to lift and view through.
And one of the things we're seeing is, you know, yes, you're gonna measure the clicks and visits by UTM parameters. But guess what? You're probably getting 7 or 8 times the amount of engagement and visits without even knowing it. And it's all sitting in that bucket everybody calls direct, which typically makes up 70%.
And to me, you don't have an attribution engine if you're ignoring the largest signal on your website. And so this notion of view through, I think, will totally change how people look at, and measure marketing.
So that's one piece. The other piece, if we wanna just kinda flash up the benchmarking that we did. This was kinda early on with customers, and we looked at, you know, 5 or 6 KPIs.
And we looked at, “What does high performance look like?” and “What does low performance look like?” And I don't know if you have that.
It would be the previous slide, actually. Yeah.
There you go. And so these are kind of the metrics that I described earlier, like, how well how efficient are my impressions reaching the audience, and what's my actual cost per CPM for reaching that audience? So take out all the waste.
And then the ability to reach the companies, engage, and impact pipeline. And so I don't wanna really dive into any individual numbers other than to say, look at the range. That's what we see out there. And, you know, I just highlight too some of this low performance, you know, it's not picking on any one vendor. It's really an audience to vendor kinda match. And I would say the kind of a lower line is, you know, people trying to use consumer technologies for broad B2B.
And the upper line is typically, like, you know, the LinkedIns, the ABM companies, and even, you know, Microsoft has done some great work around, you know, business audiences and getting more functionality around that. So this was kind of the variation that we saw.
But then customers said, okay. So what? Like, what do I do? How do I fix it?
And so we started kind of productizing some of this stuff to make it more relevant for the customers. So the next slide is an example of, you know, taking those same metrics kinda left to right across the top, you know, reach, engagement, dollar per visit, pipeline impact.
But instead of just saying broad brush, we said for a specific audience. And so in this case, we use the enterprise 1,000 high intent audience, And we got a particular answer.
And so the numbers are green, are kind of best in class, and then the red is kind of worst in class. And so one would argue, “If you're spending a bunch of money on that lowest vendor and you're not impacting pipeline whatsoever, put the dollars up above and/or dive into that audience and find out, is it the whole audience or a segment of the audience?”
And so by doing that, you can make huge impacts. And you'll get a totally different answer if you've, you know, did this for an SMB healthcare audience or whatever. So it's really important to think about who you're selling to and then kinda dive into it that way.
Uzair Dada
Yeah. And I think, you know, I hope you guys start and ignite a trend of being measured and, as a result, paying based on transparency for organizations. Right?
We did that on the mode and IAS side in the world of brand safety where we said, okay, “If my impression is not to who I wanna go to and it's not brand safe, I'm not gonna pay you for it.”
It doesn't exist today. I mean, some of the stuff you were showing me about, like, bot traffic versus not. I'm like, my god. That's scary. Like, you know and and and you talk to the vendors, and vendors will tell you, “Oh, yeah. We are not charging you for that.” How do I know that?
So it's just there's just so much opacity in the paid media landscape, especially when it comes to a lot of sort of broad scale paid media. And so I think, you know, having something like this is super important.
One thing I think you are doing too is don't over index on a specific metric by a channel because sometimes you do need a waterfall strategy for everything to work. So if you take one thing out, it may falter your results.
So, as in, you don't have brand awareness programmatic because LinkedIn is performing so well and you've turned off your programmatic to sort of drive awareness that warms up the audience, your downstream metrics may falter. So I think one of the challenges we have in this back to the efficient marketing category, if they're like, “Well, this in this ain't working. This is performing so much better. Turn it off.” It's not that black and white. It's a balancing act.
Chris Golec
Well and what's fascinating is this is a static snapshot. So think of change of spend to change of business outcome. And that's a messy spreadsheet, but you layer AI on top of it. It then starts learning. And so instead of trying to figure all this out, you'll be able to ask the questions of, “Hey. How do I improve my LinkedIn campaign?” And have it give you guidance. Really, really cool stuff coming down the road. Awesome.
Alex Jonathan Brown
We're coming up on time. We do have one more question from chat, and I'll be interested in the answer as well. But as we're kind of looking at these numbers, and this is maybe for Chris especially, like, do you have kind of standardized benchmarks for, like, this is what we would kind of classify as low performance, and this is our mid grade, and this is really where we like to see things above.
Obviously, there are a lot of vectors that that can kind of, like, go against. Right? And you can look at that from a lot of different ways. But is there a ballpark for kind of where you kinda set those marks, or is it really just super dependent on audience, industry, company, etcetera?
Chris Golec
You know, it's a great question. And I would say, initially, you know, our benchmarks are, like, industry averages, which is okay, but not good enough. Right? Because the next level is, what should it be based on who I'm trying to sell to? And then there's another cut of it, who I'm trying to sell to, and I'm a small company with this ASP product.
So, as we get to more scale with 100 and thousands of customers, that becomes possible. And it also helps inform investment decisions. Right? And because the AI can learn from that as well, making recommendations on where to shift dollars and understand what's possible. Like, if customers are assuming or planning that they're gonna be best in class at a certain thing when they never have been average, it's like, you shouldn't plan for that. Right? You know, your CFO will kill you. So, but it's an exciting opportunity. It's a great question, and that's, you know, obviously, where we're headed with all this.
Uzair Dada
I'd say that if you don't have your own baseline, which I think is your best benchmark, then using industry benchmarks is useful.
Industry benchmarks are so broad, and it's very rare to be able to codify them based on your type of product, your type of industry, your type of ASP, all that good stuff. Right? And I feel in some cases, vendor benchmarks for programmatic or other things are layups because vendors naturally don't wanna look bad. So they just say, “Oh, yeah. It's 0.04% for a programmatic ad.”
When? In 1980?
Like, no. No. Like, it's so I think there needs to be a cognition of, like, okay. If I don't have anything, I'll use that. And but our goal as we sort of talk internally at our team, our goal is to get better today than we were yesterday. If we just sort of have that continuous improvement mentality of what can we do and with the tools we have in Mutinies and Intellimize and Optimizes of the world for personalization in Demandbase and 6sense of the world and on on sort of ABM side now with things like these guys are doing in Channel99 from a transparency perspective, we really have amazing tools to be able to do what we've been hoping to do.
Chris Golec
Yeah. It's make them all better, not just
Uzair Dada
Exactly. And they're and they're and then they're interconnected.
Right? They're so so I'd say, unfortunately, to Pete's, you know, dismaying, there is no magical answer. But I'd say make sure you have your baseline and you're sort of improving against best practices around those things.
And the other thing that's good is because of the competition, the tools and across the board, these categories are becoming more affordable, approachable, accessible. So what used to be only available for people with massive budgets is now accessible.
I mean, personalization platforms if you're doing paid media and you're not using a personalization platform, shame on you. Like, you're just wasting away. So, again, I think it's fascinating where we are, Alex. I know we're out of time, but, you know, passion.
Alex Jonathan Brown
We are my favorite example of how prices have come down is you can get a HubSpot free account now. And when I started, that was at least $10,000. So it's just all over the place. We are seeing this become much more accessible, and it's wild how quick that's going.
Chris, Uzair, thank you so much. Monique's asked us to go an hour.
Monique, we'll try to do this again, but this has been an incredible conversation. Chris, if people wanna learn more about you and what you and Channel99 are doing, where can they go check that out?
Chris Golec
Certainly, go to channel99.com, and my email is chris@channel99.com. Happy to have a conversation or meeting or go through the product.
Alex Jonathan Brown
Awesome. Uzair, do you wanna do our plug?
Uzair Dada
Happy to: Hey, we love working with awesome companies that are passionate about growth and awesome marketers that wanna do more. And, you know, our focus is looking for interesting cool solutions that can help make it better. So we are geeks at heart. We're nerds at heart. We're labbing it up every day internally and working with cool companies like Channel99. So reach out to us if you have any questions, and happy to connect.
Alex Jonathan Brown
And if you wanna get in touch, our website's ironhorse.io. We also do this once a month.
I'm usually on. I host. We have amazing smart guests like these two.
But we ran a little over time, which means break's over. Let's get back to work. See you next time, everybody. Bye.
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