The Social Standard

An award-winning, full service influencer marketing agency for B2C & B2B brands known for our work with top clients such as Adobe, Hinge, Fiat Chrysler, Zendesk & more. 

Current obsession: B2B Influencer Marketing Strategy.

Founder

HelloSociety (Acquired by The New York Times)

Employe #2. I led sales driving revenue from a few thousand a month to $1M.

Great Hill Partners

Responsible for investment origination, transaction execution and portfolio management for a growth-focused private equity firm, with over $2.7B under management, investing in the tech-enabled, business services & software space

Associate

William Blair and Company

Analyst

SC Johnson

Finance & Operations Intern for large consumer products company

Intern

Jessica Phillips is the Founder and CEO of The Social Standard, a full-service influencer marketing agency she created in 2014 to set the standard in the influencer space. Starting as a one-woman agency, it has now grown into a thriving company with Fortune 500 clients like Adobe, FiatChrysler, and Hinge. With a background in investment banking and private equity, Jessica's entrepreneurial journey led her to become the COO and employee #2 at HelloSociety, a Pinterest influencer agency that achieved multi-million dollar success and was eventually acquired by The New York Times in 2016. 

Alongside her professional achievements, Jessica is also a devoted mother to three young children and actively participates in discussions and programs empowering aspiring female entrepreneurs. 

Known as a thought leader in the industry, she frequently speaks at conferences, sharing insights on social media strategy, content creation, and building brand communities. Jessica's expertise in digital marketing, deep understanding of consumer behavior, and ability to balance entrepreneurship and motherhood make her a trailblazer in the influencer marketing landscape, sought after by brands across industries.

Jessica Phillips

I've noticed Influencers who are experience extreme growth do this with brand partnerships...

In their concept, they present...

1) A Hook
2) Main Script / Talking points
3) Closure message

They are crafting content like professionals. And it's across all categories from beauty to trucking.

If your influencers are submitting content like this...they probably aren't going viral. And they aren't thinking about content creation in an algorithm friendly way.

Anyone else seeing this switch?

#influencermarketing #contentcreators #b2b #b2c #influencers

Helping businesses navigate influencer marketing | 2x entrepreneur | Founder at The Social Standard | Top Voice in Influencer Marketing and Social Media | Host of Reclaim Your Magic Podcast

Corrina Owens

TripleLift

Fractional ABM

UserGems 💎

GTM Advisor

Navattic

Pavilion

Executive Member

Orum 🥇

TechnoMile

 ABM Consultant

GTM Partners

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SMA Technologies

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Strategic Advisor

chief evangelist @ purple cork 💜 | 4x B2B SaaS Marketing & ABM Leader | GTM Advisor | Podcast Host

I help B2B SaaS brands build account-based marketing (ABM) programs at scale.

Ready to move upmarket or have a new product launch? ABM could be for you. 

I'll be able to take on new clients in September—let's connect to discuss how I can help you hit your targets.

Forget touching grass, FEED A COO IN SCOTLAND.

That's it, that's the lesson.

I got asked yesterday for the first time in a while why I started my own business.

The way they asked was so sincere, I had to just be real.

Truth is, it wasn’t an active choice; I was forced to choose between my own health and my career.

Burnout doesn’t even begin to describe the state I was in
—I was beyond spent, and it was showing up in my body. I had two seizures in a month, all related to stress.

It’s not realistic to say I had nothing lined up, or no prospects in sight, but I certainly didn’t have a business name, formalized offering, or even a clue about what the difference between an LLC and an S-Corp was. I just knew I couldn’t sustain my life the way it was and that my life was worth more than my career.

And thankfully, as the universe often does, an opportunity fell in my lap. 

Within a couple of days, I had drafted an SOW, secured terms, and had control over my life again.

I love marketing, building systems and programs that scale. 
But I love my life even more. And it took longer than I’d like (almost 2 years), before I really rewarded myself with some time off, but I took it. Months in advance. With contracts in flight, because I know I need it, deserve it, and it won't happen unless I make sure it does.

There’s a lot I’m grateful for, but putting myself first in the way I have the last 2 years is not something I take lightly. And I will share it publicly. Shamelessly. Forever.

Deal with it, LinkedIn. 😉

Why can't I take my own advice? So damn good at giving it. 🤣

Don't be so hard on yourself, Apple can't even get targeting right.

random morning thoughts:

Can you imagine a world where we praised people’s work as much as we praise/share AI’s? 🤔

Sales is going to be sensitive of their accounts. And they have every right to be.

The best ones handle multi-threading like they’re High Lords of the Night Court [or whatever high stakes political reference, enter that here].

What your sellers often aren’t aware of is that marketers have the ability to give them air coverage that goes beyond their accounts, far beyond entering their contacts into email sequences.

It’s our job to expose them to what’s possible and to show them how we can take their insights and be the secret assassin who delivers the right message to the right person at the right time, all while they can act oblivious to their points of contact that this is even happening.

We can be that shield for them, protecting them from ruffling feathers or going over their point of contact's heads, while extending their message far and wide. Undetected.

This is the light bulb moment for reps every time we talk about account coverage and how that will look across channels, teams, and people. Get that point across, and you’re already ahead of most.

You’ve (finally) finalized your target account list, but realize you’re missing all relevant buying persona contacts and routing logic.

Default let me build a workflow for that. ☝️

 → Enrich with Apollo/ZoomInfo
 → Assign via round-robin (even with complex logic)
 → Notify reps with Slack alert for immediate follow-up

We’ve all been there, it’s ok. No shame! If you want the template, I’ll send it your way. 

#DefaultPartner

Brand partnership • making ABM a reality for B2B

STOP SPINNING YOUR WHEELS ON PROMPTING.

AI prompting isn’t this elusive party trick we keep making it out to be.

After analyzing prompts to figure out what made them work and what got me to a usable output in as few iterations as possible, the best prompts reflect judgment, your judgment. They work only because you’ve embedded context, intent, and tone.​

Before I prompt, I ask myself:
→ What type of person am I trying to emulate?
→ What am I trying to accomplish?
→ What is my desired output?
→What model will deliver the most optimal results?

And it's how I’ve been building prompts inside Tofu for repeatable, scalable campaign content:

🪄  Prompt = Signal Context + AI Role + Job + Output Format + Tone

Elaine Zelby & I built a prompt library for marketers who are ready to ship—and are done wasting cycles trying to “get the prompt right.”

And the library of prompts is growing, with a new one from Morgan J Ingram for market research.

Have one we should add? Let us know...no gatekeeping here. 🙅‍♀️ 

https://lnkd.in/etRE5Qqp

There’s a through-line across every ABM motion I’ve built in the last four years and it always came down to this:

> the signals that actually create pipeline are people signals <

When we built the enterprise ABM motion at Gong, we could have tracked hundreds of signals. But the programs that consistently delivered qualified opportunities—and helped us bring deals to market a full quarter faster—came from just a few:

• Former champions from SBM accounts moving to ENT orgs
• Champions at closed-lost opps resurfacing

Those patterns became the #1 driver of qualified opportunities for the Enterprise org.

And here’s the part that most ABM vendors never understood: if your model can’t reflect the humans behind the account, the entire motion breaks down.

Not because the tools are inherently flawed, but because they were built for an era of one-channel activation and vague “intent” that reps stopped believing years ago.

*AND* because the intent models we were paying six figures for were black boxes—literally and figuratively.

Marketers know this so well, we decided to start calling it out, directly, and even built an activation around it at one of the biggest AI events this year: a literal black box.

Because that’s what these big box platforms had become: mysterious, opaque, and deeply frustrating.

Here’s the part I know firsthand—because I’ve watched this product evolve from the inside:

UserGems 💎 didn’t start as “ABM software.” UserGems started where ABM actually works: tracking people and transforming those signals into pipeline.

And that’s why their launch of Gem-E by UserGems 💎 for ABM is so much bigger than a feature. Your team will instantly get:

👉 Names of the people at the accounts that matter.
👉 Context on “the why” to reach out.
👉 And clear recommendation on next actions to take.

This is the version of ABM I always wished existed while trying to maintain overly complicated intent models across multi-product lines and acquisitions.

And now that AI has finally democratized data, we no longer need to wait quarters to retrain a model. We can act—immediately—across the channels that actually create pipeline for B2B SaaS companies today.

If you want to understand what actionable, trustworthy, human-level ABM actually looks like from people who have built it, join them tomorrow (Dec 4) for their latest virtual event: 👉 https://lnkd.in/dG_wD5C5

And yes… they’re giving away 12 bougie gifts if you attend, engage, or post before Dec 4. I don’t make the rules. 🙃


#usergemspartner

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