#130: Strategy | How to Measure Your B2B Marketing Efforts (With Pranav Piyush, CEO and Co-Founder of Paramark)

Dave is joined by Pranav Piyush, CEO and Co-Founder of Paramark. With 15 years of growth and marketing experience at companies like PayPal, Dropbox, Adobe, and BILL, Pranav is convinced that CMOs deserve better measurement solutions. That’s why he started Paramark, a tool to help Marketing leaders become more confident about how to invest their budget for maximum returns across all types of marketing—brand and performance, online and offline, paid and owned.They discuss things likeThe challenges of marketing measurementShort-term vs. long-term investmentsUTM tagsHow to understand the correlation between each marketing channel and pipelineMeasurement for Non-Direct Response InitiativesTimestamps(00:00) - - Intro to Pranav and Paramark (06:11) - - Marketing Measurement Challenges (12:00) - - Clicks and UTMs (15:58) - - How to think about Strategic Metrics (19:11) - - Being Data-Driven in your approach to growth (21:59) - - How to decipher marketing's impact (23:52) - - Experimentation and insights (30:13) - - Strategic forecasting (32:13) - - Short-Term Gains vs. Long-Term Investments (37:16) - - Measurement for Non-Direct Response Initiatives (40:24) - - Understanding the Relationship Between Marketing and Sales (42:55) - - Understanding the Impact of Super Bowl Ads (48:03) - - Exploring the Impact of Temu's Super Bowl Ad Join 50,0000 people who get Dave's Newsletter here: https://www.exitfive.com/newsletterLearn more about Exit Five's private marketing community: https://www.exitfive.com/***Brought to you by:Zoom Webinars & Events – The virtual event platform built to help B2B marketers run webinars that actually drive pipeline, with branded registration pages, live engagement features, and built-in tools to repurpose sessions into clips and content. Learn more at zoom.com/exitfive.Customer.io - An AI powered customer engagement platform that help marketers turn first-party data into engaging customer experiences across email, SMS, and push. Learn more at customer.io/exitfive.Vector - A contact-level ads platform that lets you build audiences from actual people on your site, clicking your ads, and checking out your competitors. Learn how to build an ABM program that scales at vector.co/exitfive.Join us in Stowe, Vermont for Drive 2026 - three days away from your desk to learn what's working in B2B marketing from the people who are actually doing it. Grab your ticket at exitfive.com/drive.Walker Sands - An integrated B2B marketing and growth services agency that helps marketing leaders turn strategy into measurable business impact through their Outcome-based Marketing model. Learn more at walkersands.com/exitfive.***Thanks to my friends at hatch.fm for producing this episode and handling all of the Exit Five podcast production.They give you unlimited podcast editing and strategy for your B2B podcast.Get unlimited podcast editing and on-demand strategy for one low monthly cost. Just upload your episode, and they take care of the rest.Visit hatch.fm to learn more