Everything Digital Podcast

In this week's episode, I speak with Paid Media Team lead at Spinutech, Mark Villaloboz.  Mark shares his thoughts on his journey in digital marketing. 

His entrepreneurial skills as a 10-year-old. To learning the various facets of marketing. He highlights the importance of working in a team and how people often tend to forget that team success is what builds empires.

He speaks on sharing his digital expertise in a soon to come with his consulting firm now adding finishing touches to help the next generation of Digital Marketers.

In this week's episode, we speak with Andy Chadwick the Co-Founder and SEO Strategy lead at Snippet Digital.

Andy shares his thoughts on his journey into SEO & Digital Marketing. The changes he's seen in his time working in this industry.

And he highlights the importance of learning the art of storytelling and how so often SEO's overlook this key aspect.

Andy talks about his belief in Machine Learning being the future of SEO. And how he's built tools around these ideas.

Bonus Topic: Andy talks about SEOs, Blogs & newsletters he follows & reads.  According to him making time for learning and personal growth in an ever-evolving industry like SEO is of the utmost importance. 

In this week's episode, we speak with Andi about the importance of Strategizing and how to get it correctly. He shares his thoughts on podcasting and everything Marketing.

Andi is the Founder and Strategy Director of Eximo Marketing, a marketing strategy consultancy based in Belfast and Liverpool.

Eximo Marketing develops strategies that produce the bottom-line impact that helps companies achieve objectives. They also provide engaging and educational training for marketers across the UK and Ireland. 

Andi is a regular speaker at marketing events around the world, including SearchLove (London), SeerFest (Philadelphia), Turing Fest (Edinburgh), and CTA Conf (Vancouver). He also hosts the Strategy Sessions podcast, a fortnightly show that interviews some of the best marketers in the world and provides T.O.P.T.I.P.S for marketers.  

He holds an MSc in Marketing and guest lectures at Liverpool John Moores University and Queen's University Belfast. Andi also founded a fundraising project, Eximo & Friends with Barnardo's, where marketers volunteer to provide consultations to small businesses in return for a donation to support refugees.

In addition, Andi likes to talk, at length, about: being a dad, his BBQ, cricket, the history of rugby league, and boxing v MMA.

You can find Andi on Twitter and LinkedIn or Eximo Marketing on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

In this week's episode, we speak with Luke Cannon the founder of BirdyBots, a Twitter web marketing app.

Luke shares his experience of job hunting during Covid-19 and how he came up with the idea for Birdy Bots.

He also highlights the importance of LinkedIn and how he's leveraged the platform to build genuine relationships and share ideas.

In this week's episode, I speak to a Chicago based, award-winning Digital Marketer Carla Riseman.

I speak with Carla on her first foray into Digital Marketing and all the changes she's experienced and seen. We also discuss her thoughts on SEO, UX, & UI. She talks about the importance of making the customer/client journey as smooth as possible. 

She highlights how, "We focus on all the strategies, platforms, etc. but never focus on the humans behind it, and that's what is fascinating."

Carla's advice on anyone trying to get into Digital or make a career out of it, you have to commit some time to learn. With so many changes in the digital world keeping up with the changes can be hard, but a commitment to learning will help you get ahead.

Listen to this full episode. 

In this episode, we speak with Hayata, who shares his love for Technical SEO. Hayata talks to us about his journey into Technical SEO.

From switching careers and moving countries to learning about SEO and constantly improving his skill-set.

He talks to us about how being curious has helped him constantly evolve and learn from others. According to him having a passion for a subject can make it easy to be curious. 

Hayata also shares with us his love for Fishing!

In this episode, I speak with Rahul Bharti, a talented & award-winning Indian ad-film director.

Rahul has worked with many well-known brands such as Amazon, Max Life Insurance, etc. and won accolades for his work along the way. He shares his thoughts on directing during the Covid-19 pandemic, being one of the first people to shoot an ad-film via Zoom.

He talks about emerging channels such as Netflix, & Amazon Prime laying the groundwork for diverse content in India. 

We also find out what his favorite movies are!!

In this episode, we speak with Greg Gifford, a SEO consultant & speaker with over 17+ years of experience.

Greg discusses his journey into SEO and how he started with building websites in flash. He talks about the transformation in automotive marketing, beginning with Tesla, the disruption in automotive, and pushing the industry towards buying online.

In addition, we share our thoughts on heavy (the 80s) metal and his favorite bands! :)

Bonus Topic: Being a movie aficionado, we also get his top 3 comedy movies (All-Time!!) 

In this week's episode, I speak with Omar Colon. Omar is the e-Commerce & Digital Marketing Director at Napleton Automotive Group and he talks about his experiences of starting out in the automotive industry back in Puerto Rico. And moving to Chicago's digital agency world.

Omar shares his knowledge on how the digital retailing is different in the continental USA & Puerto Rico. He also shares his experiences on digital retailing is transforming and how the most successful business will pivot.

Omar talks about the importance of company culture for any business to be successful, especially those in the digital landscape.

In this week's episode, I speak with Sue Reddel, the Co-Founder of FoodTravelist & professor of Digital Strategy classes at my Alma Mater #RooseveltUniversity.

Sue shares her thoughts on how her journey began in Digital Media/Marketing when it was first introduced to major agencies in the US. Being an early adopter she explains her thought process on how the transformation in digital landscape is never-ending.

She also shares her thoughts on being successful in the digital sphere starts with being flexible & having an open mind. With so many changes and disruptions in this channel, it's always good to keep up to date with digital-focused blogs, newsletters, etc.

I also discover her Top 3 Travel Destinations & Cuisines!