We interviewed Craig for the latest episode of the B2B Marketing Podcast, where we discussed the significance of Trilliad’s strategy to build a services business that could deliver against the entire B2B growth agenda – meaning encompassing services for sales and customer success as well as marketing. We also asked him about what tempted him back out of retirement following the sale of Merkle, where he had been CEO, as well as the secret to a great acquisition.
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How Trilliad is pioneering a new generation of revenue services companies
How do you build a B2B growth services business from scratch? That was the key question that we wanted to ask Craig Dempster, the founding CEO of Trilliad, which has announced its arrival with a clutch of acquisitions (including 2023 Global B2B Agency of the Year Just Global) and the promise of more to follow.
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