Engaging Marketeer

In this episode, I'm talking to successful marketeer and podcast host Hayley Meakes. Hayley is the host of the SnipBit podcast, which has featured interviews from a wide range of successful athletes. These include athletics legends such as Steve Backley, Roger Black and her uncle, Daley Thompson, as well as a number of other interesting guests. Hayley is a good friend of mine, which allows for a natural, free-flowing and absorbing conversation.

Here, Hayley discusses topics such as the process of finding high-profile guests for her podcast, the very best interviews that she has conducted, as well as how she manages to stay ahead in the world of marketing. Hayley's terrific insight into her work shines through as she reveals the anxieties faced by athletes when they decide to open up in interviews and the importance of a strong mindset when attempting to grow a business.

It's clear to see how Hayley has managed to attract a variety of successful celebrities to her podcast, thanks to her sympathetic approach to interviewing that contrasts how many stars have been conditioned to view the media.

About Hayley Meakes

Hayley Meakes is a successful businessperson and podcast host based in the U.K. Her areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, public speaking, digital marketing, interviewing, employee engagement, strategic thinking, branding and creative development, campaign planning and project management.

Away from work, Hayley is a keen fan of sport, as you may expect given her relation to the great Daley Thompson. However, Hayley's accomplishments stand out by themselves, as she has worked incredibly hard to get to the position she's in today.

https://www.hayleymeakes.co.uk

https://www.instagram.com/hayleymeakes/

https://www.twitter.com/hayleymeakes

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayley-meakes-grigor-4ba7375/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGkYxyyqqpwRMAAu5rYs5kg

Snipbit Podcast - https://www.hayleymeakes.co.uk/snipbit/

About your host

Darren has worked within digital marketing since the last century, and was the first in-house web designer for video games retailer GAME in the UK, known as Electronics Boutique in the States. After co-founding his own agency, Engage Web, in 2009, Darren has worked with clients around the world, including Australia, Canada and the USA.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenjamieson/
https://engagingmarketeer.com
https://www.engageweb.co.uk

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This week, I'm talking to Charlie Bond, producer and star of the upcoming horror-comedy-musical film Powertool Cheerleaders vs The Boyband of the Screeching Dead. Charlie has been acting for well over a decade, primarily in the genre of horror, and has recently ventured into production as well with her new film.

Here, Charlie paints a vivid picture of the struggles and obstacles involved in creating a feature-length film during the height of a COVID lockdown. Her impressive knowledge and dedication to the horror genre shine through as she explains the inspiration behind her new project and her future in the film industry.

Anybody tempted to pursue a future in the film industry may want to listen to Charlie's encouraging message of 'Just do it!'. She believes that anybody with the passion to make films can do it if they are driven to achieve their dreams.

About Charlie Bond

Charlie Bond is a British actor born in Kensington, London. Over the past decade, Charlie has over 30 credited roles on IMDB, predominantly in British crime and horror films. Her credits include Strippers vs Werewolves, Bram Stoker's Van Helsing and Curse of the Witching Tree. Away from the screen, Charlie is a keen cosplayer as well as being a passionate conservationist

Links

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4393029/

https://www.instagram.com/misscharliebond/

https://twitter.com/misscharliebond

About your host

Darren has worked within digital marketing since the last century, and was the first in-house web designer for video games retailer GAME in the UK, known as Electronics Boutique in the States. After co-founding his own agency, Engage Web, in 2009, Darren has worked with clients around the world, including Australia, Canada and the USA.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenjamieson/
https://engagingmarketeer.com
https://www.engageweb.co.uk

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Today, I’m talking to the founder and chief visionary officer the world’s largest business networking company BNI, Dr. Ivan Misner. Since founding BNI in the 1980s, Misner's approach to networking has benefitted millions of people around the world and helped to generate billions in revenue, with over 10,000 BNI chapters now active across more than 76 nations.

Key Takeaways

Ivan's attitude towards success and the idea of regrets should motivate any aspiring businessperson. Despite his enourmous success, it is clear that Misner remains hugely passionate about BNI and his strong thoughts on how a chapter should be run are clearly evident here. Like many other successful people, he values hard work as the most important aspect of achieving great things.

Observations from Ivan during this podcast include:

• "If you expect the best out of people, you tend to get it."
• "The secret to success without hard work and good choices is still a secret... it just doesn’t exist!"
• "Do six things a thousand times, not a thousand things six times."
• "Mistakes are your tuition for success."
• "After we’d opened 20 chapters, I thought "I'm gonna need a bigger boat!""
• "I’ll be one of the first hundred or so people who go up on the commercial flights with Virgin Galactic!"

Ivan Misner, Ph.D.

Dr. Ivan Misner is the Founder & Chief Visionary Officer of BNI, the world’s largest business networking organization.  Founded in 1985, the organization now has over 10,700 chapters in 76 countries throughout every populated continent of the world.  Last year alone, BNI generated 12.4 million referrals resulting in more than $18.6 billion dollars worth of business for its members.

Dr. Misner’s Ph.D. is from the University of Southern California.  He is a New York Times Bestselling author who has written 27 books including one of his latest books – Who’s in Your Room? He is also a columnist for Entrepreneur.com and has been a university professor as well as a member of the Board of Trustees for the University of La Verne. 

Called the “Father of Modern Networking” by both Forbes and CNN, Dr. Misner is considered to be one of the world’s leading experts on business networking and has been a keynote speaker for major corporations and associations throughout the world.  He has been featured in the L.A. Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times, as well as numerous TV and radio shows including CNN, the BBC, and The Today Show on NBC.

Among his many awards, he has been named “Humanitarian of the Year” by the Red Cross and has been the recipient of the John C. Maxwell Leadership Award.  He is proud that he and his late wife, Elisabeth, are the Co-Founders of the BNI Charitable Foundation. They also reached “empty nester” status after happily raising their three children. Oh, and in his spare time!!!  he is also an amateur magician and a black belt in karate.

Links:

https://twitter.com/IvanMisner

https://www.bni.com

https://www.bnipodcast.com

About your host

Darren has worked within digital marketing since the last century, and was the first in-house web designer for video games retailer GAME in the UK, known as Electronics Boutique in the States. After co-founding his own agency, Engage Web, in 2009, Darren has worked with clients around the world, including Australia, Canada and the USA.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenjamieson/
https://engagingmarketeer.com
https://www.engageweb.co.uk

Support the show: https://engageweb.club

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Since TF Nation starts today, what better guest for my podcast this week than the amazing poster artist Matt Ferguson?

Transformers fans will certainly recognise his work on the 35th anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie. He's also produced iconic art for movies like Dune, Thor Love & Thunder, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, The Empire Strikes Back and The Thing - so even if you don't recognise him, you're bound to know his work!

Join me as we learn how Matt started on his journey, discover the one franchise he'd love to work with but hasn't yet, and hear some hints as to what he has in the pipeline right now.

About your host:

Darren has worked within digital marketing since the last century, and was the first in-house web designer for video games retailer GAME in the UK, known as Electronics Boutique in the States. After co-founding his own agency, Engage Web, in 2009, Darren has worked with clients around the world, including Australia, Canada and the USA.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenjamieson/
https://engagingmarketeer.com
https://www.engageweb.co.uk

About Matt Ferguson

Website: https://www.cakesandcomics.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cakes_Comics

Shop: https://www.theartofmattferguson.com/

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In this episode, I'm interviewing a very old friend of mine, Billy Edwards, who I’ve known for 20-something years. Billy is a solicitor in Liverpool, but it’s more interesting that he organises and runs what I think is Europe’s largest Transformers convention - which takes place in Birmingham each year - TF Nation. 

We talk about TF Nation, what the future holds for the convention and what it’s like for Billy dealing with anxiety and having initially struggled to attend a convention to then end up running it on stage with a microphone. 

If you're a Transformers lover, would like to attend TF Nation or struggle with social anxiety within large crowds, listen to this podcast. 

Watch the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6stVd3Q5HgI

About Billy Edwards

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/billystripes/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillyStripes

About TFNATION

Website: https://tfnation.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tfnation/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tfnationltd

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tfnationltd/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_0C1_huUbh45Ziv5arfEkg

About your host:

Darren has worked within digital marketing since the last century, and was the first in-house web designer for video games retailer GAME in the UK, known as Electronics Boutique in the States. After co-founding his own agency, Engage Web, in 2009, Darren has worked with clients around the world, including Australia, Canada and the USA.

iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/engaging-marketeer/id1612454837
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenjamieson/ 
Engaging Marketeer: https://engagingmarketeer.com 
Engage Web: https://www.engageweb.co.uk

Support the show: https://engageweb.club

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In this podcast, I talk about one of the horrific scams that do the rounds on social media in my industry. 

What's the scam? 

Posts in community Facebook groups that offer free websites, where businesses only need to pay the hosting fee. 

I discuss why these posts are, in fact, money-thieving scams, what makes them so terrible and what you're actually paying for if you fall victim to one. 

So, if you've seen a post in your community Facebook group offering a free website, please listen to this podcast before you reply or tag in a friend! 

Watch the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc9ejaQMWgk

About your host:

Darren has worked within digital marketing since the last century, and was the first in-house web designer for video games retailer GAME in the UK, known as Electronics Boutique in the States. After co-founding his own agency, Engage Web, in 2009, Darren has worked with clients around the world, including Australia, Canada and the USA.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenjamieson/
https://engagingmarketeer.com
https://www.engageweb.co.uk

Support the show: https://engageweb.club

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She was fired on the spot from her role in television due to a minor misunderstanding that wasn't even her fault, but it might just be the best thing that ever happened to Rohini Makwana.

This week, I chat with Rohini from Livewire Media about how a lifelong love of videos and cameras has led her to help clients with video production and marketing, and how she helps them overcome all-to-common issues (or should that be excuses?) like camera shyness and not having a "face" for video.

Loads of great, unique advice in this one, including practical tips on preparing and performing shoots, as well as the must-have equipment for creating awesome video content. Give it a listen!

Rohini Makwana
https://livewiremedia.co.uk/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7515218/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohinimakwana/
https://www.instagram.com/rohini_makwana

About your host:

Darren has worked within digital marketing since the last century, and was the first in-house web designer for video games retailer GAME in the UK, known as Electronics Boutique in the States. After co-founding his own agency, Engage Web, in 2009, Darren has worked with clients around the world, including Australia, Canada and the USA.

iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/engaging-marketeer/id1612454837
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenjamieson/ 
Engaging Marketeer: https://engagingmarketeer.com 
Engage Web: https://www.engageweb.co.uk

Support the show: https://engageweb.club

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Today's guest is sure to provide inspiration for those of you out there who feel you've not quite found your "why?", and have slogged your way through jobs without ever really discovering your calling.

Innovative coach, mentor and speaker John Drysdale explains his journey from working class Scotland, to offloading oil in the Middle East, to his work today with No Guru and Asentiv.

An self-confessed introvert, yet a larger-than-life performer, John is an inspiring speaker who explains why everyone (including YOU!) needs a coach.

About John Drysdale:

https://www.noguru.net

https://twitter.com/nogurultd

https://www.facebook.com/nogurutraining

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndrysdale/

About your host:

Darren has worked within digital marketing since the last century, and was the first in-house web designer for video games retailer GAME in the UK, known as Electronics Boutique in the States. After co-founding his own agency, Engage Web, in 2009, Darren has worked with clients around the world, including Australia, Canada and the USA.

iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/engaging-marketeer/id1612454837
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenjamieson/ 
Engaging Marketeer: https://engagingmarketeer.com 
Engage Web: https://www.engageweb.co.uk

Support the show: https://engageweb.club

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In this episode, I'm interviewing a fellow digital marketer, Martin Litt, who moved from what many would consider to be the dream job of getting paid ridiculous sums of money to travel around drinking and selling wine into the world of digital marketing. 

We talk about how he found the resolve to keep going and change his whole business, the benefits of networking groups like BNI and the dreaded GA4 update. 

If you're considering taking the plunge into a new industry, joining a networking group or simply want to listen to two digital marketers rant about some of the industry's pitfalls, listen to this podcast. 

Watch the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM8cJu3FYhA

About Martin Litt:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinlitt/

https://quaffdigital.com

https://twitter.com/martin_tarquin

About your host:

Darren has worked within digital marketing since the last century, and was the first in-house web designer for video games retailer GAME in the UK, known as Electronics Boutique in the States. After co-founding his own agency, Engage Web, in 2009, Darren has worked with clients around the world, including Australia, Canada and the USA.

iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/engaging-marketeer/id1612454837
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenjamieson/ 
Engaging Marketeer: https://engagingmarketeer.com 
Engage Web: https://www.engageweb.co.uk

Support the show: https://engageweb.club

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In this podcast, I talk about something that may seem quite basic and obvious to most people within the digital marketing industry, but based on the experiences I’ve had with people over the last few weeks, it does actually need to be expressed. 

What is it, you may ask? 

How to promote your business via Facebook groups. 

I discuss the mistake that so many people make when it comes to promoting their businesses in Facebook groups - and what people should actually do if they want to increase their reach and engagement (and ultimately get business). 

So, if you're about to post in a Facebook group, hold that thought and listen to this episode first! 

Watch the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_qXK4V0-Ws

About your host:

Darren has worked within digital marketing since the last century, and was the first in-house web designer for video games retailer GAME in the UK, known as Electronics Boutique in the States. After co-founding his own agency, Engage Web, in 2009, Darren has worked with clients around the world, including Australia, Canada and the USA.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenjamieson/
https://engagingmarketeer.com
https://www.engageweb.co.uk

Support the show: https://engageweb.club

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.