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Leslie Venetz: Why Your B2B Outbound is Killing Your Brand

Attributed - A podcast by Dreamdata

Show Notes

Most B2B outbound today is "Legacy Outbound", a high-volume, low-value strategy that assumes a prospect owes you their time. AI-generated spam and guarded inboxes are failing to book meetings and actively destroying your brand’s reputation.

In this session of Attributed, Laura Erdem, Sales Director US at Dreamdata, sits down with Leslie Venetz, Founder of The Sales-Led GTM Agency. Leslie is a corporate sales trainer and enterprise selling expert with experience from companies like Walmart, ExxonMobil, and JPMorgan. She’s here to show us how to stop "talking AT" prospects and start earning the right to a conversation.

What you’ll learn in this session:

✅ Why your outbound strategy must shift from "pushing a product" to "solving a problem" before you ever ask for a meeting. ✅ How to use the data in the "Dark Funnel" to categorize prospects into Problem, Option, or Vendor Aware, and how your message must change for each. ✅ Why knowing a prospect’s "alma mater" is useless, and how to focus on the business triggers that actually get a C-suite response. ✅ How PMMs can build "Problem-Centered" collateral that sales reps actually want to use. ✅ How to use human-centric strategies to cut through the noise of AI-automated outbound.

Follow Leslie Venetz on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leslievenetz/ Follow Laura Erdem on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lerdem/ Thanks for tuning in to the Attributed Dreamdata Podcast! We hope you enjoyed this episode as much as we enjoyed creating it.

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