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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Online Marketing for SMBs and Digital Agencies: Serving everyone serves no one (episode #152)
The total addressable market. TAM. We sometimes think the bigger the better, right? Hey, it means I can go to potential investors with a more impressive number. But too large a total addressable market can hinder success. As this episode’s guest says, “serving everyone serves no one.” To hear the story behind that less
Data, data everywhere, but not a drop of insight. Excuse my remixing of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, but doesn’t it feel that way when staring at a dashboard sometimes. We have so much data – and frankly, our competitors probably have a lot of the same data – but can we turn those numbers into real insights to better serve
Real Estate Operations and Marketing: Your brand is only as strong as your frontline experience (episode #150)
I love Delta Air Lines. It’s my favorite airline. Please understand that. Now, that said, when I was a kid, their tagline was ‘We love to fly and it shows.’ I would see the tagline on TV ads. I would see it on giant posters in the airport. And then I would get on the plane. And even as a kid I could tell…the people wor
Customer-First Marketing: To truly be customer-obsessed, respect the customer’s time (episode #149)
I know the pinch when budgets tighten, customers shift, and deadlines close in. Yet, marketers have a superpower: like Superman’s X-ray vision, we see through constraints to the core idea. That is the essence of our craft – not waiting for perfect conditions but delivering breakthrough concepts right here, right now. S
B2B SaaS Marketing: No progress after Series A without product marketing (episode #148)
Let’s step into these shoes for a minute. You’re the sole marketer at a B2B startup. You’ve been hustling, pitching investors, and finally you close your Series A. Suddenly, you have the budget to make real progress. What do you do next? Here’s the lesson that stood out to me in a recent guest application: “There is no
Open-Source Start-up Marketing Strategy: Sometimes you need to poke the snake (episode #147)
I love the movie City Slickers. If you’re unfamiliar, Billy Crystal is a Manhattanite, has a midlife crisis, and goes out West on a cattle drive to try to figure life out. Spoiler alert, the crusty old cowboy teaches him that the secret to life is – ‘One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don’