Jen Allen-Knuth

Founder, DemandJen | Sales Trainer & SKO Keynote Speaker | Dog Rescue Advocate

I help B2B revenue teams stop losing pipeline to buyer status quo. I'm a former Enterprise seller who carried quota for 18 years, closing 7-figure deals with Fortune 500 brands. Now, I run DemandJen, a sales-training firm trusted by Autodesk, GE, G2, IBM, Bloomberg, Instructure, Sprout Social, and more.

From conference stages to company Sales kickoffs, I'm known for:

- Buyer-Centric Frameworks – Practical playbooks for defeating buyer status quo in outbound pipeline generation, running executive-level discovery, building a point of view on cost of inaction (COI), and gaining consensus with larger Enterprise buying groups. 

- Story-First Messaging – Techniques that replace product pitches with problem-centric narratives that buyers remember.

- Engaging Delivery – A direct, humorous style that keeps even your most tenured reps taking notes.

Featured in Forbes, Sales Hacker, and 200+ podcasts, I combine real-world stories with data-driven insight to move audiences from inspiration to application. When I'm not on the road, you’ll find me in the Chicago suburbs chasing my 4 rescue dogs and 4 step-kids.

Head of DemandJen

Delivering SKO keynotes & virtual workshops that won't put your teams to sleep.

B2B Sales & Marketing teams have tried to earn buyer time and attention with a strategy of "more". 

More dials.
More emails.
More content.
More "value" and ROI.

But, 2023 showed us "more" is expensive and no competition against today's risk-averse B2B buying teams.

Instead of motivating the team to do “more”, I help empower teams to defeat customer status
quo and to make their sales conversations a competitive advantage.

Last January, I posted about how I collected social proof from 51 clients in 4 simple steps. It costs $0. I started doing this when I was an AE, but now I do it religiously as a solo business. 

Alejo P. turned the post into this cartoon carousel. 

(If his fun artwork looks familiar, it's because he created my website illustrations & the DemandJen logo cartoon 🤗 )

How I Gather Social Proof 

Revenue Attribution◾️ Dreamdata◾️ Sales leader with a crush on marketing

👩🏻‍💻 Professionally :
- Sales leader with a flavour for Marketing 🤝 
- Sales Pathfinder
- Doubling my LinkedIn followers base each year through content creation here.
I generate all my sales leads inbound from Linkedin Social Selling.
How do I know that Linkedin delivers Revenue?
Follow my Linkedin course on how to measure Linkedin Social Selling to Revenue: 

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/how-to-measure-linkedin-social-selling-to-pipeline/[…]g-and-adjusting-strategies-based-on-performance?


💃 Personally:
- Interested in B2B Influencer marketing.
- Morning 5K runner
- Appointed as an upcoming talent in Denmark u34
https://www.berlingske.dk/karriere/til-kamp-for-kvinder-i-it

Currently testing out the hypothesis: 
If you want to work in the past - join an enterprise.
If you want to work in the future - join a startup.

Fun fact: I was a weekend radio DJ for 2 years in my teen years 🎧

Laura Erdem

We are hiring! 
I am hiring! 

Account Executives in New York!

You will love to sell Dreamdata
- Amazing team
- Market winning product
- Inbounds that are not just qualified, but close within the quarter! 
- Competitive pay

Ping me!

B2B Attribution & Activation◾️ Dreamdata◾️ Sales director with a crush on marketing

🟠 - Marketing
⚪️ - Sales 

Organic Search and Direct are the least favourite sources for Inbounds. Both means "something is working" but we can't put the finger on it due to:
- No proper website tracking
- Deals not joined to Linkedin engagement
- Buyers just not clicking on the sponsored Google link you pay for.

As soon as you see an overview over a full customer journey, it gets so much easier to aggregate the data and understand which channels help educate the prospects and which of those are helping them to convert. 

This specific deal came through Organic - Straight to the pricing page! 
Seems like those LinkedIn targeted ads have worked out after all!

Please, you don’t need more intent signals. 
You need the right ones, the kind that actually lead to revenue.

That’s what we’ve been solving with Dreamdata Signals.

"Show me which Signals became Closed Won opps?"

Since launch, I’ve been watching how teams use it to sharpen their go-to-market. And the difference is wild.

Here’s how I’ve seen B2B teams use it best:
- Build precise audiences around signals and instantly sync them to ad platforms
- Create customized engagement scores to define what “intent” means for your business
- Trigger notifications to sales (on Slack/Teams) when an account shows intent 
Use AI to scan all your Go-To-Market data to uncover hidden intent signals that actually correlate with pipeline and revenue. 

Now you have a loop of success

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