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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Data-driven marketing. That is an oft-repeated phrase in our industry. It’s hard to find a LinkedIn profile that doesn’t make a claim of being a data-driven marketer these days. And while data is helpful, it’s not the only thing that should drive you, my next guest says. Be human first, because people drive brands. To
Timing is key to successful marketing. If you broke it down, that’s probably a third of it. Right offer to the right prospect…at the right time. But how well do you focus on timing for your personal brand in your own career? You can hear ideas for that from this episode’s guest – she said one of the key lessons in her
If there’s one word that defines what I’ve seen in the marketing industry in my career, it’s ‘acceleration.’ When I started, I was writing print ads in The Wall Street Journal for clients all over the country. So the deadline was when FedEx came to our building…or if we were really pushing it, FedEx’s deadline at the a
As an entrepreneur, as a marketer, the world is conspiring to grab your attention and distract you. For example, when I started in this career, there were really only a few channels you could go to. Newspaper. TV. Radio. Direct. Maybe outdoors. Now, that number has exploded. Just one example of how many things you coul
Creative Marketing Leadership: Strike a balance between management and production (podcast episode #138)
Career growth is a funny thing. That is the goal after all right? Junior copywriter, Senior copywriter, creative director, etc.? We all want a career path. But that journey towards something – often people leadership – can also pull us away from something else. And it can be the thing we were most passionate about and
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.