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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Perception changes everything. Think about many of the chores your customers endure in their lives. Or you do personally. The perception of a chore is not positive, right? Take shaving – dragging a sharp metal object across your face every morning to meet societal norms…sometimes even drawing blood. Ouch. Literally. So
Would you ever launch a campaign celebrating your brand as second best? That’s exactly what Sandy Rubinstein did at Nick at Nite. I sat down with Sandy Rubinstein, CEO, DX [https://dxagency.com/], to discuss that story, and many more lesson-filled stories, in this episode of How I Made It In Marketing. DX is a 20-year-
Sometimes we overlook the ends, because we’re so focused on the means. Today in marketing, that means can be algorithms and machine-built lookalike audiences and automations. But as our latest guest explained in her podcast guest application, all that technology doesn’t matter if you don’t focus on the right ends: “It"
Business Strategy: How to win in a crowded market by serving your customer’s customer (episode #128)
How do you stand out in a sea of competitors when margins are thin and trends shift overnight? For Jaci Volles, the answer is: serve your customer’s customer – and innovate when the budget is tight. Jaci Volles, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at Jelmar [https://www.clrbrands.com/] shared the lessons and stories f
What if collaborating with a competitor could significantly boost your revenue? That’s exactly what Sagnik Roy, SVP at Times Internet [https://timesinternet.in/], did. In this episode, he shares how listening before selling and prioritizing soft skills reshaped his career. Times Internet has 571 million monthly users a
Integrated Marketing: Brands are built by how you show up every day (podcast episode #126)
To me, every customer touchpoint is a thing of value. And yet, some brands will pour millions of dollars into a Super Bowl ad while at the same time cutting customer service to the bone. Yet, both ads and customer service are valuable customer touchpoints. So I saw a kindred spirit when I read this lesson in a recent p