Founders and CEOs understand customers the best.

Kipp and Kieran dive into how you can create a winning marketing strategy in 2024. Learn more on the importance of aligning strategy with customer problems, ideal budget distribution, including 60-65% for demand generation, 10-20% for brand spending, and insights on early CEO involvement.

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How To Create A Winning Marketing Plan For 2024 (Masterclass) (#182)

Kipp Bodnar (HubSpot’s CMO) and Kieran Flanagan (Zapier’s CMO), lead you down the rabbit hole of marketing trends, growth tactics and innovation. On the way you’ll pick up undiscovered strategies to give you that slight edge for success. These are not your typical twitter thread regurgitated marketing tactics that everyone is doing. These are new methods, with unfiltered examination of successful fresh ideas.

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Ep. 226
Gary Vaynerchuk is challenging the traditional mindset of business and marketing.

Kipp, Kieran and guest Gary Vaynerchuk (VaynerX) dive into the importance of organic social media. Learn more about Gary’s revolutionary insights on why staying ahead of market dynamics is crucial in the ever-changing landscape of business and marketing, why traditional Fortune 500 companies are falling behind, the significance of understanding micro consumer segments, and the rise of social influencers. He covers all this and more in his new book. 

Preorder Gary’s book, “Day Trading Attention: How to Actually Build Brand and Sales in the New Social Media World”: https://a.co/d/gEmj0HX

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Gary Vee: ‘If You Don’t Do This, Your Business Won’t Exist In 5 Years’

Ep. 225
How will AI redefine the future of business interactions and learning? In today's episode, Kipp boldly predicts that OpenAI's GPT-4o could usher in a new frontier in real-time communication and marketing.

Kipp and Kieran dive into the groundbreaking features of OpenAI's latest release. Learn more on how the omnimodal capabilities of GPT-4o are set to transform customer engagement, the massive implications for voice, language learning and translation, and the potential for AI to streamline educational and training processes in unprecedented ways.

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OpenAI Launches ChatGpt-4o

Ep. 224
Did you know AI could potentially increase email conversion rates by 94%?
Kipp and Kieran dive into the AI implications of sales prospecting. Learn more about how effective personalization can leverage online data, the role of AI in improving prospecting emails, and the future of AI in voice prospecting and creating engaging, celebrity-driven marketing campaigns.

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How To Master Sales Prospecting With Ai In 2024

Ep. 223
How can you be in the 5% of in demand marketers in the future?

Kieran dives into the marketing playbook for the AI era.  Learn more on crafting multimodal content strategies, personalizing marketing at scale, and collapsing the customer journey into effective marketing techniques.

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I Created A Media Strategy For Airbnb With One Prompt (Multimodal Masterclass)

Ep. 222
Why should you build for the AI of the future, NOT for the AI of today?

Kipp and Kieran dive into the potential ChatGPT-5 model and how it can revolutionize brand marketing strategies. Learn more on integrating AI for extracting and analyzing data, enhancing brand awareness and net promoter scores, and the significance of building your marketing platforms to accommodate upcoming AI advancements.

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Claude https://claude.ai/


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How To Create A Winning Marketing Plan For 2024 (Masterclass) (#182)

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