Media Camp with Sergey Ross

I’m thrilled to share this episode with y’all. If you are in business, marketing or sales, you’ll find nuggets of wisdom in this interview.

I had an opportunity to meet Sharn Kandola (COO of CTO Boost; Director of Startup Grind) to talk about her mission, career, obsession with data, balancing tech with life and a lot more.

Here are just a few topics we touch on:

Importance of stubbornness and resilience in the business world

How Sharn started her own company called FeeDuck

Failures and successes in entrepreneurship and how to overcome them

Startup Grind community and what makes it different

Sharn has over 20 years of experience in start-ups, she writes for Fortune, has made appearances on BNN, CHCH, CityTV, CBC, and is frequently quoted in Inc.com; Betakit; Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and The Financial Post.


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LinkedIn

OK look.

This is the presentation I did at MaRS Discovery District to B2B companies explaining how LinkedIn works and what results you can get from it.

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This time, I had an opportunity to sit down with Brandi Smith to talk all things marketing, ABM failures, startups vs enterprise companies and books.

Brandi is a highly experienced marketing professional. With over 15 years spent in marketing.

And built integrated marketing and communications strategies that created brand awareness, thought leadership and generated revenue.

Here’s what you’ll learn more on:

Brandi’s marketing career journey

Difference between a Good marketer and an Outstanding marketer

Biggest mistakes companies make trying to roll-out ABM

Brandi’s morning routines and favourite books

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And don't forget these awesome books Brandi recommends:

A Practitioner's Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Accelerating Growth in Strategic Accounts

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

OK this is for anyone in marketing and sales who wants to sell more.

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OK this is one of the coolest episode I did.

Asad is a Managing Director at Sales Talent Agency and now helps to recruit the very best executives.

Here is what we are chatting about:

Asad’s story as an immigrant in Canada and a path to success

How to master sales and become a thought leader

How to get into a winner’s mindset

PS. This is the longest episode we’ve done to date. And it’s worth your time!

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Get Asad’s book suggestions:

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

Shantaram: A Novel

It's no surprise. The role of a CEO is one of the hardest jobs that exists out in the workplace.

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OK this episode is all about business and personal growth. Exciting.

I’ve caught up with René-Sylvain Bédard (CEO of Indominus) to talk about early days of internet, how was it like to build his first IT company and learnings from that.

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LinkedIn

Also check out books Rene mentions in this episode:

Innovator’s dilemma

MBA in a Book: Mastering Business with Attitude

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

Alright, today is the day! (especially if you are in customer success)

In this episode I’ve met with Ben Winn to talk about customer success and building real relationships.

Here is what we are diving into:

Up-sells and cross-sells in customer success

Account behaviour formula to have more success with your customers

Data versus customer interaction: what matters more

Customer Success in Focus community and events

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LinkedIn

Website

[Or Email Ben directly] - [email protected]

Also check out the resources we’ve mentioned in this episode:

eBook: The Beginner’s Guide to Customer Success

Customer Success eBook

CS in Focus 2019 Event Series: Customer Success & Marketing

Eventbrite

More people are asking me about the gear I use to record this podcast.

So I’m sharing exactly what I use and why.

I also talk about the way how I record my episodes and what software do I use to edit it.

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I’m having a great chat with Nathan Monk about startups, founders and marketing.

Nathan is a Director of Growth Programming at MaRS Discovery District and works with hundreds of startups in Toronto.

We touch on a lot of cool areas in this episode like:

What a great full-stack marketer looks like in 2019

Data versus qualitative feedback - what’s more important

How not to overthink your product development

Also Nathan gives the LARGEST stack of books recommendations to you all. They are brilliant.

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Twitter

Grab Nathan’s book suggestions:

Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

Amazon

The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

Amazon

Ego Is the Enemy

Amazon

The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup

Amazon

Grit

Amazon

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Amazon

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We do in Life and Business

Amazon

Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Amazon