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Patrick Bradshaw

Patrick Bradshaw

Sr. Director, Acquisition and Growth Marketing at Highspot; B2B marketing executive based in Seattle focused on pipeline generation and sales-marketing alignment.

Jul 21, 2026

5:16
What would you say are the most common breakdowns that you see between the handoff between marketing and sales?
5:23
Yeah, I mean, I always kind of joke that like really the easy part of marketing is running the event or getting the lead.
5:28
The hard part of marketing is getting sales to engage with it and follow up with it and stay on top of it the way you'd want them to.
5:35
And so for us, we found a couple of things that work really well for like really supporting that handoff.
5:42
So one, we eat our own dog food at Highspot.
5:43
So Highspot is a sales enablement platform.
5:46
So every lead we deliver on the back end, we use Marketo.
10:49
So then our last question, but if you were advising a marketing leader, one of your peers, who's also trying to build a predictable pipeline engine at the moment, what's the first thing you'd tell them to focus on?

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