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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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’
How to Build Reddit and Discord Communities That Drive Sales: Music industry secrets that work for any business (episode #146)
Instead of burning budgets on Facebook ads, Talya Elitzer, CEO, Overmind Merchandise [https://www.overmind.co/], grows global merch sales with just seven employees by building worlds, not products. In this episode, she reveals the underground community-building strategies that transformed grassroots buzz into internati
Customer Experience: Great experiences are invisible, but they require relentless alignment (episode #145)
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” That is a famous quote from Anton Chekhov, and it has informed everything I personally do in writing and marketing. And it’s why I was so excited to read a podcast guest application that referenced the famous writer’s maxim I’ve lived my
Telecommunications Marketing: Marketing is the chief customer advocate (podcast episode #144)
Yes, the Super Bowl ad. How exciting. The experiential activation with the major influencer. The new branding campaign roll out. So wonderful. But don’t stop there. You could have the most compelling and creative ad campaign, but if you don’t optimize for every customer touch point, you are undercutting the expectation