Connor discusses the biggest problems facing GTM - and they all have to do with data across GTM systems. In fact, according to Aptitude8’s research, the #1 implementation challenge for CRMs is data migration and data management. Listen to Connor’s expert insights about the history of the Lead Object, the importance of data models to your business model, and the need for centralized data management owned by RevOps teams.

Connor Jeffers is the founder and CEO of Aptitude8 and Hapily and is basically a Jedi of making HubSpot work for companies of all stages and sizes. Connor has spent his career in marketing and revenue operations leadership, as well as startup incubation.

TRUTHS OF THE DAY

CONNOR: THE NUMBER ONE CONCERN WITH MOVING DATA SYSTEMS

“I think the core of data migration is, 'migrating data is hard.' Sure, that's true but also not, you export it and import it. The problem is, normalizing it, transforming it, making it useful in the new system, and usually where it's coming from is it's dirty and unstructured. And that's the root cause of all these issues.”

EVAN ON FIRST UNDERSTANDING YOUR COMPANY APPROACH

“Business model matters for your data model. In other words, if you're B2B then you need to know companies and if you're B2C you don't necessarily. Though, you can argue, there's a concept of a household that B2C companies are now trying to aggregate to particularly for media, entertainment, and even CPG. They do this with tons of data in the back end and CRMs struggle to keep up with these needs.”

Connect with Connor and learn more about his work:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connor-jeffers/

Aptitude 8: https://aptitude8.com/

Connect with Evan to learn more about Syncari and The Distributed Truth podcast:

Evan Dunn | Syncari | Syncari.com

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