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07/15/2025

Joint GTM is a team sport—webinars make it playable 

By Liz Mangini

Illustration of multiple hands raising a large silver trophy, surrounded by colorful icons representing people. Arrows connect the icons in various directions, suggesting collaboration or a network. The background features a subtle computer window outline, symbolizing a digital or webinar setting.

Image by Emily Zheng

At 2A, we know joint go-to-market (GTM) strategies can feel like a fast-paced game, with multiple teams running different plays, shifting priorities, and high stakes. But we’ve also seen how well-executed webinars act like game-winning plays, turning alignment into leads, pipeline, and real revenue impact. Investing in the story of a webinar up front can have a big payoff in the end. Not only does the process align teammates on a single narrative, but it also fuels a flywheel of content to continuously generate leads. 

Bringing your whole team along 

When your joint GTM motion spans multiple organizations—yours, a cloud provider, plus one or more partners—the biggest risk isn’t lack of effort. It’s misalignment. Developing a GTM webinar, live or recorded, can fix that. When we create webinar decks and talk tracks for clients, we pull information from marketing, sales, alliance, and product teams to build a narrative that brings all major players onto the field. They’re involved in shaping the overall story and at the same time, they hear how their solutions are being positioned to customers. 

  • Cloud sellers learn the narrative firsthand 
  • Alliance teams understand co-sell plays 
  • Product knows what’s being promised
  • Cloud partners see where they fit 
  • Buyers see joint value 

When done well, a joint GTM webinar gets watched, discussed, and shared—not just with customers, but by internal teams as well. When everyone understands the story, they tell it better, and that clarity shows up in how your message lands with customers, building trust and accelerating deals. 

Fueling content flywheels 

Winning teams don’t treat webinars as one-and-done events. They build them as multi-use assets to drive further value across marketing, sales, and alliances. At 2A, we’ve helped teams at AWS, Microsoft, and partner ecosystems repurpose webinars into blog posts, video clips, slides, social content, and follow-ups. These assets have generated dozens of qualified leads when used as gated content or incorporated into targeted LinkedIn campaigns.   

The next time you’re planning a GTM motion, ask yourself: What’s the one message we want every partner, seller, and customer to take away? Build your webinar around that, then watch the alignment happen and leads follow.

And, if you need help, you know where to turn