How I Made it in Marketing
Marketers are the artisans of commerce. Our palette is ideas. We ply our craft to facilitate choice. To empower every person creating value in the world – sharing their inventions, their service, their good works. And ultimately, to keep a society built on choice functioning.But also…This is one of the most fun, wildly creative, never-grow-up, 99% boring meetings followed by 1% of sheer creative brilliance, funny-yet-frustrating-yet-fruitful career choices you can make.Let’s explore the dichotomy.In this podcast, Daniel Burstein of MarketingSherpa dives deep into marketers’ and entrepreneurs’ careers to inspire your next great campaign, give you strategies for winning approval on your ideas, and help you navigate the trickiest decisions in your career. The curious, comprehensive style of these interviews allows marketing and business leaders to do what they do best – express themselves to communicate a key lesson.Listen in as we probe marketing leaders about how they crafted campaigns, built their careers, and what they learned along the way. We’ll get deep, we’ll wring insights form our guests to help you, and we’ll have fun doing it.This podcast is not about marketing – it is about the marketer. It draws its inspiration from the Flint McGlaughlin quote, “The key to transformative marketing is a transformed marketer” from the Become a Marketer-Philosopher online course (https://meclabs.com/course/).
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Authentic Brand Transformation: To build a brand that lasts, consider rebranding a team sport (episode #137)
I’ll tell you what happened in my career before. Maybe you’ve been there, too. There’s a sponsorship, sometimes a fairly high-profile sponsorship, and I have gotten asked to write it about it in an ad or email…but, there wasn’t really a strategy. That is not the way to get the best ROI, the most juice for the squeeze.
Cybersecurity Marketing: You don’t need to scare people to sell them security (episode #136)
FUD. Fear, uncertainty, doubt. I first learned about this sales and marketing tactic – which is aimed at influencing perceptions by highlighting potential negative outcomes – early in my career when working with big tech companies. An example – nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. Then later in my career when I worked
The artificial intelligence revolution is upon us. Today we see AI doing everything from taking orders in a drive-thru to serving as a pseudo boyfriend or girlfriend. But, according to my most recent guest, more importantly – AI boosts revenue. To hear the story behind that lesson, along with more lesson-filled stories
Security Marketing: Customers will tell you how to market to them if you ask them (episode #134)
There are always tough times as you build and grow a startup. So how do you keep a team going when times are tough? ‘Culture is the glue’ my next guest says. To hear the story behind that lesson, along with many more lesson-filled stories, I talked to Dawn van Hoegaerden, CMO, DefectDojo [https://defectdojo.com/]. She
Want to move up in your organization? Here’s the best advice I’ve gotten in my career – ‘train others to replace you.’ Hey, it’s a bit scary. If others can replace you, it’s easy to fire you, right? However, if you’re truly providing value, once others can do your current tasks, it also makes it possible for you to mov
DTC Ecommerce: Your worst friend is still better than your best marketing (episode #132)
I realize everyone who listens to How I Made It In Marketing is not a marketer, per se. Entrepreneurs also listen. Not native to our industry, so to speak, but you still need to know it well enough to get customers…so you can run your business and do whatever it is that you really are passionate about. Well take heart