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Mark Palmer is a marketing genius, he's worked on the following brands Burger King, Nandos, Pret A Manger, Green & Blacks, Cawston Press

He’s a total genius. 

You’re going to love this episode!!!

ON THE MENU:

1. Tim Ferris Heuristic: “you are the sum of the difficult conversations you have with yourself”

2. How To Have Hard Conversations with Sainsbury’s, Tesco or Waitrose: Don’t ignore the hard stuff, get straight to the point 

3. How to Fire People Correctly: “Ruthless in decision making, generous in execution” 

4. Pep Guardiola Brand Building Philosophy: Move your players around to fit the brand builders

5. Green & Black Brand Building Strategy: Philosophy first, Product second, strategy third 

6. Product before brand, you can layer a brand around a product 

7. Seth Godin Positioning Rule: Competitors must become your colleagues 

8. Anti-Fragile Customer Feedback: Why are you not buying us > Why are you buying us?

9. Invest in creative UPSTREAM “get them to join the team, not just a freelancer”

10. Biggest Challenger Brand Mistake: “Don’t build a bad version of a corporate organisation”

11. Byron Sharpe’s Mental availability vs physical availability unpacked 

12. Green & Blacks Scaffolding of Ideas: Niche <> Mainstream 

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how to build a £30m brand in 3 years…

you have to think differently

…to build £30m brand in 3 year

you must ignore Stephen Bartlett’s advice

…to build a £30 million brand in 3 years

Bartlett says go after RedBull

Create an enemy.

David vs. Goliath

Stand against something.

Teddie disagrees.

PerfectTed don’t go after Red Bull

PerfectTed are contrarian and unique without slagging off competitors

Teddie’s built Big Green Monster fuelled by matcha, grit and good vibes

Total honour to sit with Teddie at Bread & Jam couple weeks ago

SOOO much fucking FIREEEEE in this BRO!!!

the episode:

£30m Brand Building Secrets Revealed in 46 Minutes - PerfectTed founder

ON THE MENU:

1. Why Fast Growth is NOT clean. Embrace messy. Messy = Growth.
2. Why business a series of missiles pointed at your head every single day. Embrace pain.
3. Why Founders MUST be agile and persistent to the point of annoyance…”try literally everything and something will stick”
4. REMEMBER: Grocery Sales doesn’t happen from behind a computer screen… founders get in the Tesco basement now
5. You may have the best marketing in the world… but if you don’t spend 99.9% of your time in the basement of Tesco stores you’ll fail
6. Customer Feedback Inversion Rule: why did you NOT pick up our product > why you did pick up our product
7. The Subtle Art of Self Belief: Never underestimate the power of YOU
8. Why you need a big bold vision BUT you must tailor your pitch to each individual retailer
9. Japanese Hidden Business Wisdom: why every team member should shake every person who ever walks into the office
10. Why indies are waste of time for small brands… “back yourself and go for the big retailer from the jump”
11. Eating the frog + never bury your head in the sand about people problems…”you’ll do more damage to your business doing nothing”
12. The Aldi Allergy: Why PerfecTed will never incentivise their sales team on commission
13. PerfectTed LinkedIn Strategy: Why Employee Generated Content (EGC) = MILLIONS of FREE impressions a month
14. The RedBull Riddle: Never slag off your competitors… it looks so NAFF
15. ALWAYS hire 6 -12 months ahead of the curve…never be left thinking “I wish I hired that person sooner”

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should I put a bullet in my head?

… Andrej thought as walked the lonely streets of Dusseldorf.

He shackled in the corporate chains of hell.

Depressed.

Aint’ Gettin’ No Satisfaction.

Andrej decided to escape. He simply had too.

Called his Old Man

“this isn’t for me… I want, no, I need to cook”

“…I am going to Paris… to Le Cordon Bleu, I’m training to be a chef”

In Paris, dark lifts, lightness enters.

Next,

Andrej opens a successful Fish & Oyster restaurant Dusseldorf.

becomes Europe’s first Fish Sommelier

Today, Andrej is cooking every. single. fish in the world.

I rocked up to record at 11.30am

Andrej had a Spicy Martini locked & loaded.

Yup. My kinda nut job.

OFF_THE::*WALL conversation this one.

episode:

Europe’s First Fish Sommelier, Finding Your Calling, Cooking Every Fish in The World - Andre Cooks Fish

ON THE MENU:

1. David Foster Wallace: “This Is Water” Speech and Sips of Wisdom
2. The Difference between Passion and Love: Passion is unrequited, always follow your passion.
3. How to Soldier On When Owning Your Own Restaurant: “be oblivious to the costs and pain of running a restaurant”
4. Why “Luck” is the Greatest Business plan of all time + how to create your own luck
5. How to deal with pain of following your dream “It’s a choice to choose your trauma or not?”
6. Anthony Bourdain’s “Kitchen Confidential” + The Nirvana of running your own restaurant
7. Why the best boss’s admit when they don’t know what they don’t know
8. Why Germany is a Culinary Waste Land and How London Became the Foodie Capital of The World

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Rory Sutherland

took a TOTALLY new angle to this conversation

Rory like you’ve never heard him before.

ON THE MENU:

1. Bottle Neck Theory: how brands can use Bottle Neck Theory to grow their brand, Bottle necks will move
2. The 7th Law of Persuasion: “Confession works well in the church and well in the advertising room”
3. Bryon Sharp: Mental Availability vs. Physical Availability: most brands struggle with one or the other
4. Nassim Taleb, KFC Salads,
5. Marketeers Need to think like M16 Detectives: We need more models, Cop DNA model you need different models
6. Nassim Taleb Predicatablity vs. Randomness in Brand Building: Exposure to natural variation in stimulus is healthy for humans
7. Will Guidara Pursue Contradictory Goals “Excellence & Hospitality” + “Surprise & Consistency”
8. How Couples Sexting in 1980’s
9. Churchill’s Marketing Secrets to win world war two
10. Smart answers lie in dumb questions
11. M16 and Bletchley Park Hiring tactics for Challenger Brands: Hire someone who’s mentally unusual, then find a role for them
12. JOB Descriptions are DUMB. Hire someone who’s mentally unusual, then find a role for them
13. A lot of people do nothing, some people do a lot
14. Just because it makes sense, doesn’t make it true
15. We underestimate the power of randomness in Everyday life
16. Rick Rubin: You’re measured on your outputs “Distraction is not procrastination”
17. What are we trying to do here really?

• Exposure to natural variation in stimulus is healthy for humans
• How this plays into branding, I.e. predictability vs randomnes.

18.Engineering solutions are deterministic, Change behaviour it’s cheaper, probabilistic
19. The Disney Question: just because it makes sense, doesn’t mean it’s true.
20. The Dunbar Number No One Can Make Meaningful Relationships Past 150 People Humans Can Only Have About 150 Friends Max

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Barney believed a £50 million pound deal was on the table… but he was nervous.

The year before he’d been stung.

Stung sharp. Like vinegar and scratched in a paper cut.

Barney got so close. Breathtakingly close. Frustratingly close.

Fuel10k’s Dream Exit.

Big Poppa Dough. Life-changing coin.

Fell through,last minute.

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

This time, Barney was serious.

A balmy Spring evening. Italian restaurant. Belgravia.

Over seafood spaghetti and red wine

Barney looked deep into the white of his eyes.

Unflinchingly, Barney said

“Are Premier serious this time?”

This timePremier were.

October 2024, Barney got the big exit.

Founders,

Navigating the “exit” is perturbingly discombobulating

The 2D map never predicts the 3D terrain

Barney and I dive deep into nuances of the 3D exit terrain

It’s Easier Than You Think To Exit Your Brand For Millions - Fuel10k Founder

ON THE MENU:

1. Why premier foods almost pulled out of the deal? 95% of deals fall through
2. It’s ain’t a deal, till the second deal is done, It ain’t a thing until it’s a thing
3. Plan A vs Plan Bcarry on building the business
4. Thinking about exit will disrupt the karma in your business
5. 10 million revenueStrong EBITDAHow do private equity 3x your business
6. Retrospective strategising is dangerous
7. Why will this person buy your business? Didn’t have a breakfast range, protein lasting trend
8. Do One Thing Well. Why Fuel10K owned breakfast first, then stretched to morning
9. Language is the biggest barrier to communication
10. Personalities: people buy from people
11. Failure Porn vs Mistake Porn:
12. Skunk Works: small companies and can move fast
13. Why would someone buy your brand?
14. How much would this business multiply for?
15. Do research on your buyer
16. Two characters into the same meeting
17. Innocent: codify your values + Codify your values, very, very tightly
18. People vs Perspective
19. Become big one to one buyer: One occasion in the morning, you’re going to dilute somewhere
20. Tidy yourself up as business to get a massive exit
21. 2D Map vs 3D Terrain:
22. ALL IN. GO ALL IN. Necessity is the biggest motivator

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