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Your Audience: The Key to Unrivaled Marketing with Grant Leboff

Your Audience: The Key to Unrivaled Marketing with Grant Leboff

Are you spending enough time targeting your most qualified leads? Many businesses leave aside this part of the marketing strategy and focus on other factors like budget, visual designs , messaging, etc. While those are also crucial, segmentation and targeting are the first steps to creating a booming campaign.

In this week’s episode, our guest is Grant Leboff, one of the U.K’s leading Sales and Marketing experts and the CEO of Sticky Marketing Club; a sales and marketing consultancy that provides companies with meaningful strategies and resources to prosper in the competitive world. He is the author of 5 well-known books such as ‘Sales Therapy’, ‘Sticky Marketing’, ‘Stickier Marketing’,  ‘Digital Selling’, and ‘Myths of Marketing’. 

In our interview, Grant discloses why some campaigns fail and the small, but significant, changes that can turn a failed campaign into a successful one. He dives into segmentation, targeting, and how much you should invest in your marketing and brand. He also provides insights about the Superbowl ads and explains why they can be meaningful to your business.

If you want gain a deeper understanding of why and how to market your business more successfully,  this episode is for you!

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How to Use Video to Boost Your Team’s Productivity—with Matthew Pierce

Are you spending too much time trying to get your team to understand what needs to be done, how to do it, and why they should care?

If you’re looking for a better way to lead your people, I’m excited to share my interview with Matthew Pierce, a highly experienced instructional designer, training manager, speaker, and multimedia creator. Matthew manages training and development at TechSmith Corporation (creators of Snagit and Camtasia), and oversees their instructional design, documentation, training, and technical support.

Matthew discusses how you can start using video today to communicate with your team faster and more clearly. He breaks down crucial ways that visual media boosts productivity, from aligning your team with your values to onboarding new talent. Finally, pay close attention to how Matthew shares the dos and don’ts of creating “screencasting” or videos for visual training purposes. Listen and enjoy!

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Kill the Manager!

Now before everyone gets up in arms, I’m certainly not advocating violence in any shape or form. But I do want to bring attention to a fundamental issue that, unfortunately, tends to get skated over a bit.

It’s no secret that company culture is a critical element to success in any business. It’s a huge reason for the success of companies such as Google, Zappos, and Southwest Airlines. Quality employees and valuable clients alike are attracted to a place with a vibrant, positive culture.

Great culture starts at the top. Those in executive and managerial positions have the power to set the tone for the workplace environment. It’s an enormous, far-reaching responsibility, because the environment they create will ultimately determine the quality of the employees and the business they attract. Guess that’s why they’re paid the big bucks.

There is a common denominator that all companies with great culture tend to share: they understand that there is a difference between managing and leading.

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