Ponderings from the Perch

Today, Miami. Tomorrow, the world! 

On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO, Priscilla McKinney, gives you her conference flyover of Greenbook’s IIEX LATAM in Miami, Florida. IIEX LATAM is a conference dedicated to exploring the latest trends, technologies, and methodologies in market research, with a specific focus on gathering market insights from the Latin American region. She talks with leaders in market research about evolving marketing strategies and consumer insights in Latin America and how Spanish and Portuguese are needed for conducting representative market research in the U.S. 

McKinney's guests, such as Natalia Infante Caylor, Brian Ewan, and Ricardo Alvarez, discuss topics like the importance of understanding Hispanic markets, the role of AI in revolutionizing marketing analysis, and the challenges of discrete choice modeling. The conversations delve into various aspects of marketing strategy, from the nuances of multicultural research to the impact of fintech on traditional banking in Latin America. Guests also explore the controversy surrounding terminology like "Latinx" and the growing need for customization in research approaches.

"AI is revolutionizing everything," explains Alvarez. "It's going to make a big impact."

Here are the names and LinkedIn accounts for all of McKinney's guests. If you find any of them interesting and want to link up with them, feel free to do so. But if you do, please let them know that Little Bird Marketing sent you their way: Natalia Infante Caylor, Brian McEwan, Cassiano Albequerque, Elizabeth Hecht, Emmily Maduro, Erica Ross, Gabriel Velez, Natalie Pusch, Ricardo Alvarez, and Tal Oren. . Use this podcast and list to immediately expand your network and start meaningful conversations! 

Special thanks to Carlos Hevia and the Multilingual Connections team for a fun photo booth experience at the event. 

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What if the magic behind the Cinderella story isn't a prince and a fairy godmother but rather strategies for tapping into our potential?

On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO, Priscilla McKinney, talks with guest and published author Joanna Bloor about her book, Tales of Potential: The Cinderella Story You Haven't Heard. Bloor, who examines how things work behind the scenes, discusses her experience of writing a book that presents a different perspective on potential and future. She describes how she overcame initial reluctance to put her ideas on paper, resulting in a work representing her viewpoint and contributing to thought leadership in the field.

Bloor and McKinney explore various elements of the Cinderella story that Bloor uses to illustrate her ideas about realizing one's potential. These include Cinderella's interaction with her fairy godmother, which Bloor interprets as a demonstration of holding one's own in front of a powerful figure, and the intentionally left-behind glass slipper, which she views as a marketing technique. Bloor discusses the importance of having a supportive squad and a decision-making "hive-mind," drawing parallels to collaborative efforts in achieving goals. By reframing these familiar story elements, Bloor presents an alternative way to consider personal narratives and potential futures, offering her perspective on what thought leadership entails and outlining marketing strategies for personal branding.

"When you're sharing a story about yourself or your ideas," Bloor states, "You're blind to any other version of it."

If you still need to grasp the best growth strategy framework to accelerate your career, your best marketing strategies have failed, or you need LinkedIn profile tips to help you get noticed, this is the episode for you! Joanna explains that the initial part of writing your own story, changing the narrative, and having your happy ending has to start with a bit of self-exploration. In fact, she urges everyone to start by finding out how people are describing you in the rooms where you are not present. Listen to her TWO-WORD EXERCISE, which is the best way to unlock your future. You don't want to miss it!

Sponsors:

Hey y’all, Priscilla McKinney here, CEO and Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing, and am very excited to announce the release of my much-anticipated book: 

Collaboration is the New Competition: Why the Future of Work Rewards A Cross Pollinating Hive Mind and How Not to Get Left Behind

The book's chapters are designed to be time-efficient, ensuring busy professionals can easily integrate these transformative ideas into their workflow. From discussing the state of affairs in business to providing fundamental strategies and seven practical anchors for staying on course, this book offers a fresh perspective and a competitive advantage in today's complex business landscape. Visit priscillamckinney.com for more information.

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This year, we’ll take you on a journey from the very beginning of the marketing funnel through realizing revenue and how to create a more predictive model for success. You’ll be challenged to change your mindset, learn emerging skills and discover game-changing tools. All this while creating genuine connections with like-minded professionals. Learn, network, discover and strategize. Make Insights Marketing Day a MUST on your 2024 calendar.

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Learn how market researchers navigate the complex market landscape to deliver more accurate and valuable insights.

On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO, Priscilla McKinney, gives you her 2024 ESOMAR Congress flyover, held in Athens, Greece. The ESOMAR Congress is the premier global gathering for market research professionals. It brings together industry leaders to explore cutting-edge trends, share innovative methodologies and shape the future of marketing research.

McKinney’s guests discuss key topics such as the integration of AI in qualitative research, the use of virtual reality for enhanced consumer engagement and the challenges of conducting research in niche markets. She also highlights strategic insights from industry thought leaders, such as Ray Poynter, who emphasizes the importance of embracing diverse perspectives in today's global market research landscape.

"The first thing we have to accept," Poynter explains. "Is [that] there is not one human point of view, there are many human points of view from around the world."

Included here are all of our guests' LinkedIn profiles. If you find any of them or what they do interesting, then feel free to reach out, and let them know that Little Bird Marketing sent you their way: Alessandro Imborgia, Sebastian Stahlofen, Anne Brown, Belinda Brown, Julia Polakova, Martha Llobet, Syed Sumaya Bukhari, Jagriti Shahi, Francesc Bruna Jordà, Scott Worthge, Pravin Shekar, Nicha Tanskul, Paul Gaudette, Killi Hammock, Jon Puleston, JD Deitch, Adrian Sanger, Pratik Sawant, George Zdanowicz, Tibor Darabont, Marya Kaska and the aforementioned Ray Poynter. Again, if you do decide to reach out, let them know that Little Bird Marketing sent you their way! 

Sponsors:

I am very excited to announce the release of my much-anticipated book: 

Collaboration is the New Competition: Why the Future of Work Rewards A Cross Pollinating Hive Mind and How Not to Get Left Behind

The book's chapters are designed to be time-efficient, ensuring busy professionals can easily integrate these transformative ideas into their workflow. From discussing the state of affairs in business to providing fundamental strategies and seven practical anchors for staying on course, this book offers a fresh perspective and a competitive advantage in today's complex business landscape. Visit priscillamckinney.com for more information.

Get ready for another amazing Insights Marketing Day!

It’s everything you need to take control of your marketing funnel in one power-packed day. You’ll hear from fun, engaging and instructive speakers who are proven authorities in digital marketing. They’ll leave their egos behind and pull the curtain back to show you what it takes behind the scenes to achieve dramatic marketing results.

This year, we’ll take you on a journey from the very beginning of the marketing funnel through realizing revenue and how to create a more predictive model for success. You’ll be challenged to change your mindset, learn emerging skills and discover game-changing tools. All this while creating genuine connections with like-minded professionals. Learn, network, discover and strategize. Make Insights Marketing Day a MUST on your 2024 calendar.

Visit littlebirdmarketing.com/insights-marketing-day and get your tickets today!

Glimpse is a next-generation market discovery platform uniting human insights and AI-enhanced performance. 

It empowers marketers, researchers, and creators to make effortless decisions, create powerful content, and gain a perpetual advantage. The platform allows users to ask questions, find audiences, and analyze diverse data sources, uncovering behavior, emotions, awareness, and purchasing decisions through AI. Glimpse's capabilities extend beyond surveys, offering enterprise-grade digital twins and AI personas for real-time conversations with key audiences. 

To learn more, visit Glimpseahead.ai.

It’s time to rethink how businesses use marketing. 

On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO, Priscilla McKinney, talks about our proprietary SOAR™ - Strategy, Organization, Accountability, and Repeatability - system, a structured approach to marketing. 

While many businesses use systems for everyday tasks, like shopping lists and calendars, many abandon this systematic thinking when it comes to marketing. The SOAR™ system, on the other hand, is designed to help businesses create a sustainable lead generation system. It is broken down into three main elements: understand, unlock and unleash. 

The "understand" phase focuses on laying the groundwork by clarifying who the target audience is, establishing clear goals, and evaluating existing marketing assets. In the "unlock" phase, emphasizes the importance of organizing content into clusters to establish authority on specific topics in search engines. And finally, the "unleash" phase involves implementing paid promotions to amplify organic success and analyzing results to determine what's working and what isn't. Throughout her discussion, McKinney emphasizes that a good marketing plan should help identify which activities to stop rather than simply adding more initiatives, promoting what she calls "radical simplicity" in marketing strategy.

"Marketing isn't just about creating pretty graphics or clever taglines,” McKinney explains. “It's about creating a sustainable, measurable system that generates leads and helps your business grow." 

McKinney then explains how the SOAR™ system can actually be implemented in the workspace, depending on a company's needs and circumstances, such as if a company has or does not have a marketing department. She also shares a success story about implementing the system with thinknow, a multicultural market research firm, where they developed five different ideal client buyers and reorganized their content strategy, leading to tangible results within six months.

Sponsors:

Priscilla McKinney here, CEO and Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing. I am very excited to announce the release of my much-anticipated book: 

Collaboration is the New Competition: Why the Future of Work Rewards A Cross Pollinating Hive Mind and How Not to Get Left Behind

The book's chapters are designed to be time-efficient, ensuring busy professionals can easily integrate these transformative ideas into their workflow. From discussing the state of affairs in business to providing fundamental strategies and seven practical anchors for staying on course, this book offers a fresh perspective and a competitive advantage in today's complex business landscape. Visit priscillamckinney.com for more information.

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Marketing research in healthcare is the key to unlocking better patient outcomes

On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO Priscilla McKinney talks with guests Brendan Egan and Lisa Kaiser, CEO and COO of Brightside Research Solutions respectively, about the latest market research industry trends in healthcare. With over 25 years of combined experience, Egan and Kaiser founded Brightside to address long standing issues in service and feasibility within the business marketing sector, touching on its unique approach to serving clients and enhancing healthcare outcomes through targeted market research insights.

Egan and Kaiser emphasize that their primary goal is to approach every challenge with innovative solutions, often going unnoticed when things run smoothly but bearing the responsibility when issues arise. They discuss the difficulties in reaching healthcare stakeholders and how they tackle this by tailoring their approach to each project, offering full-solution online and offline methods to find the right respondents for comprehensive market research.

"What is the thoughtful plan to get to the solution?" Kaiser explains. "The clients need to see that there is progress."

McKinney and the Brightside team also explore their proprietary healthcare panel, strategies to combat respondent fatigue in the post-COVID era, and current hot topics in healthcare research. They talk about the changing landscape of specific disease states, ultra-rare diseases, and the perspectives of healthcare professionals (HCPs), highlighting the importance of understanding provider thinking and how these marketing insights are utilized by their clients, who are primarily market research agencies and marketing firms.

Sponsors:

I am very excited to announce the release of my much-anticipated book: 

Collaboration is the New Competition: Why the Future of Work Rewards A Cross Pollinating Hive Mind and How Not to Get Left Behind

The book's chapters are designed to be time-efficient, ensuring busy professionals can easily integrate these transformative ideas into their workflow. From discussing the state of affairs in business to providing fundamental strategies and seven practical anchors for staying on course, this book offers a fresh perspective and a competitive advantage in today's complex business landscape. Visit priscillamckinney.com for more information.

Get ready for another amazing Insights Marketing Day!

It’s everything you need to take control of your marketing funnel in one power-packed day. You’ll hear from fun, engaging and instructive speakers who are proven authorities in digital marketing. They’ll leave their egos behind and pull the curtain back to show you what it takes behind the scenes to achieve dramatic marketing results.

This year, we’ll take you on a journey from the very beginning of the marketing funnel through realizing revenue and how to create a more predictive model for success. You’ll be challenged to change your mindset, learn emerging skills and discover game-changing tools. All this while creating genuine connections with like-minded professionals. Learn, network, discover and strategize. Make Insights Marketing Day a MUST on your 2024 calendar.

Visit littlebirdmarketing.com/insights-marketing-day and get your tickets today!

AI's potential in SEO lies not in replacing human expertise but in enhancing it strategically as part of a comprehensive content marketing strategy.

On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO, Priscilla McKinney talks with guest and Orbit Media CEO Andy Crestodina, about the role of AI in modern SEO strategies. Crestodina, known for leading with value and always being helpful, brings over two decades of digital content marketing experience to the table. As the co-founder of Orbit Media, a web design company in Chicago, he's been at the forefront of content marketing and SEO trends, making him the perfect guest to shed light on this timely topic.

Crestodina delves into AI's strengths and limitations in content creation. He explores the importance of human creativity in crafting compelling content and explains how AI can be leveraged effectively in the content auditing process. Crestodina discusses using AI as a tool to enhance human-created content rather than as a replacement for human expertise, a crucial consideration for any content marketing agency.

"AI can offer an interesting perspective," Crestodina notes, "but if you don't give it the right persona first, what it gives you back is very watered down, generic, and undifferentiated. I joke that AI might as well stand for Average Information."

They also discuss the future of SEO and content marketing in an AI-driven world. Crestodina offers practical advice on how marketers can adapt their marketing strategy to incorporate AI tools effectively while maintaining the human touch that makes content resonate with audiences. Listeners will gain valuable insights into balancing technological advancements with tried-and-true marketing principles, including how to conduct thorough marketing analysis to inform their AI-enhanced content strategies.

Sponsors:

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Visit gazelleglobal.com to learn more about how our expertise can help you unearth quality data that drives meaningful insights. 

Get ready for another amazing Insights Marketing Day!

It’s everything you need to take control of your marketing funnel in one power-packed day. You’ll hear from fun, engaging and instructive speakers who are proven authorities in digital marketing. They’ll leave their egos behind and pull the curtain back to show you what it takes behind the scenes to achieve dramatic marketing results.

This year, we’ll take you on a journey from the very beginning of the marketing funnel through realizing revenue and how to create a more predictive model for success. You’ll be challenged to change your mindset, learn emerging skills and discover game-changing tools. All this while creating genuine connections with like-minded professionals. Learn, network, discover and strategize. Make Insights Marketing Day a MUST on your 2024 calendar.

Visit https://insightsmarketingday.com/ and get your tickets today!

Is project management the secret sauce to organizational triumph?

On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO, Priscilla McKinney talks with guest and TrueSense Marketing VP, Ann Campea, about the often-overlooked role of project management in business success. Campea, a fellow podcaster and experienced project management professional for companies like Apple, Amazon and Hasbro, has a diverse background that includes launching products, creating retail spaces, implementing data systems, and managing employee onboarding processes. She touches on TrueSense Marketing's unique approach to serving non-profit clients and enhancing their missions through targeted marketing strategies,including content marketing strategy and digital marketing strategy.

Campea emphasizes that a project manager's primary responsibility is to pave the way for team success, often going unnoticed when things run smoothly but bearing the brunt of criticism when issues arise. Using a sports analogy, she compares the unsung heroes of business to the unsung heroes of football - the linemen, who are only noticed when a holding penalty is called. 

"Now, the value realization [that comes] back to your organization,” Campea explains. “Is really understanding the connectivity between what you do on a day-to-day, and how that ladders up the overarching organization's goals."

McKinney and Campea also discuss time management strategies for busy professionals, the balance between ambition and realism in the workplace, and the role of AI as a complement to human skills rather than a job threat, exploring some of the best marketing strategies for businesses today, including podcast marketing strategies. 

Sponsors:

Get your research done anywhere around the world quickly and efficiently with Gazelle Global! 

Are you looking for experts and tools to collect research data worldwide? Global sampling, field management, data collection? These are just some of the services that Gazelle Global provides with much, much more! 

Visit gazelleglobal.com to learn more about how our expertise can help you unearth quality data that drives meaningful insights. 

Get ready for another amazing Insights Marketing Day!

It’s everything you need to take control of your marketing funnel in one power-packed day. You’ll hear from fun, engaging and instructive speakers who are proven authorities in digital marketing. They’ll leave their egos behind and pull the curtain back to show you what it takes behind the scenes to achieve dramatic marketing results.

This year, we’ll take you on a journey from the very beginning of the marketing funnel through realizing revenue and how to create a more predictive model for success. You’ll be challenged to change your mindset, learn emerging skills and discover game-changing tools. All this while creating genuine connections with like-minded professionals. Learn, network, discover and strategize. Make Insights Marketing Day a MUST on your 2024 calendar.

Visit littlebirdmarketing.com/insights-marketing-day and get your tickets today!

Can unity be a meaningful and quantifiable statistic in business? 

On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO Priscilla McKinney, talks with guest and Senior VP of Global Practice at The Kaleidoscope Group, Dawn Bryan, about the practice of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Unity (DEIU) in the corporate world. 

Bryan, a seasoned business and marketing strategy consultant with 30 years of international experience, discusses how these concepts translate into tangible business outcomes, examining the shift from mere tolerance to active unity in cross-cultural teams that actually enables positive change and measurable growth in organizations worldwide. 

Bryan and McKinney then examine the nuances of cultural anthropology in business settings, discussing how understanding and leveraging diverse perspectives can lead to innovation and improved performance. They address the challenges of implementing DEIU strategies in a globalized business environment and offer advice for leaders seeking to foster unity within their organizations, providing insights for effective marketing strategy, talent development and change management. 

They discuss the practice of Diversity, Equity and Belonging (DEIB) which is commonly found in this space. They discuss where it misses the mark and why unity is a better goal. "Belonging is a feeling," Bryan explains. "But unity is not a feeling, but rather an action." She knows from experience as she has lead senior leaders through vision and strategy work, management training through people leaders empowerment trainings, and many other programs to help leaders and teams come together across lines of difference. This is the core of the work at The Kaleidoscope Group. 

The pair also discuss the ideal B2B buyer personas for DEIU initiatives, and how often the positive business impact of solid DEIU work is communicated, exploring the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure Return on Investment (ROI) in DEIU efforts. While building an accepting and positive culture has many positive outcomes, they specifically discuss the increased production and buy-in for goals and how this contributes to increased likelihood of accomplishing business goals. 

Sponsors:

Hey y’all, Priscilla McKinney here, CEO and Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing. I am very excited to announce the release of my much-anticipated book: 

Collaboration is the New Competition: Why the Future of Work Rewards A Cross Pollinating Hive Mind and How Not to Get Left Behind

The book's chapters are designed to be time-efficient, ensuring busy professionals can easily integrate these transformative ideas into their workflow. From discussing the state of affairs in business to providing fundamental strategies and seven practical anchors for staying on course, this book offers a fresh perspective and a competitive advantage in today's complex business landscape. Visit priscillamckinney.com for more information.

Get ready for another amazing Insights Marketing Day!

It’s everything you need to take control of your marketing funnel in one power-packed day. You’ll hear from fun, engaging and instructive speakers who are proven authorities in digital marketing. They’ll leave their egos behind and pull the curtain back to show you what it takes behind the scenes to achieve dramatic marketing results.

This year, we’ll take you on a journey from the very beginning of the marketing funnel through realizing revenue and how to create a more predictive model for success. You’ll be challenged to change your mindset, learn emerging skills and discover game-changing tools. All this while creating genuine connections with like-minded professionals. Learn, network, discover and strategize. Make Insights Marketing Day a MUST on your 2024 calendar.

Visit littlebirdmarketing.com/insights-marketing-day and get your tickets today!

Hey y’all, Priscilla McKinney here, CEO and Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing. 

This episode of Ponderings from the Perch will be what I call a “Conference Flyover” of my time at the Quirks New York conference, which took place in… well, guess where!

But first, check out my latest boutique hotel find from my last night in The Big Apple! 

The conference itself was full of discussions on AI and data quality, and I'm still energized by the constant conversations and new connections I made. One of the highlights was co-sponsoring a private dinner with Adam Weinstein of Full Circle Research and Bernie Malinoff of Element54, which brought together an amazing group of industry professionals. There was also room for standout expressions, like Roddy Knowles of dtect sporting a shirt with a bold message against data fraud. 

Throughout the conference, I talked to various industry professionals who shared insights on market research trends and data analysis innovations with me, and we recorded said insights just for you! If any individual or their work interests you, please reach out to them! Their LinkedIn profiles will be included below. But if you do connect, let them know that Little Bird Marketing sent you their way.

In order of appearance: Sarah Kotva of Fieldwork; Gram Bowsher of Nailbiter; Daniel Cunhill of Blendi & respondi; Marc Macelliao of Rival Technologies; Haley Brown of MyTake; Jill Kushner Bishop of Multilingual Connections; Kayte Hamilton of The Social Question; Zachary Grashow of Quest Mindshare; Kristian Alomá of Threadline; Rajat Sahni of High Beam Global; Tim Lawton of SightX; Rajiv Kokane of Divergent Insights; Tasneem Dalal of MMR; Trip Kucera of CanvsAI; Vicky Shabi. of Market Expertise; and finally, Corey Zinser and Ethel Klein of Behaviorally. Again, if you decide to reach out to anyone on this list, let them know Little Bird Marketing sent you, maybe even linking this podcast!

Sponsors:

I am very excited to announce the release of my much-anticipated book: 

Collaboration is the New Competition: Why the Future of Work Rewards A Cross Pollinating Hive Mind and How Not to Get Left Behind

The book's chapters are designed to be time-efficient, ensuring busy professionals can easily integrate these transformative ideas into their workflow. From discussing the state of affairs in business to providing fundamental strategies and seven practical anchors for staying on course, this book offers a fresh perspective and a competitive advantage in today's complex business landscape. Visit priscillamckinney.com for more information.

Get ready for another amazing Insights Marketing Day!

It’s everything you need to take control of your marketing funnel in one power-packed day. You’ll hear from fun, engaging and instructive speakers who are proven authorities in digital marketing. They’ll leave their egos behind and pull the curtain back to show you what it takes behind the scenes to achieve dramatic marketing results.

This year, we’ll take you on a journey from the very beginning of the marketing funnel through realizing revenue and how to create a more predictive model for success. You’ll be challenged to change your mindset, learn emerging skills and discover game-changing tools. All this while creating genuine connections with like-minded professionals. Learn, network, discover and strategize. Make Insights Marketing Day a MUST on your 2024 calendar.

Visit littlebirdmarketing.com/insights-marketing-day and get your tickets today!

Data informs… but human judgment decides. 

On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO, Priscilla McKinney, and guest and CCO of PSB Insights, Christopher Frank, talk strategy in business and market research.

Frank, who brings 25 years of frontline experience from American Express and Microsoft, discusses his recent move to PSB Insights, a 40-year-old research-based consultancy with offices in DC, Seattle, and London, transitioning from the client side to a consultancy role in the field of market research. He stresses the importance of framing problems correctly before diving into data analysis, which is crucial for gathering meaningful insights from both audiences and competitors; a key framework for which he calls IWIC (I Wish I Knew), which aims to shift discussions from data-driven to strategic by asking stakeholders what information they truly need to make confident decisions.

The two discuss Frank's two books on the subject, Drinking From the Fire Hose, and Decisions Over Decimals; the latter of which, highlighting its relevance in today's data-driven decision-making landscape, has been featured in Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Pink's Next Big Idea Club. His books emphasize the importance of balancing intuition and information in both the market research and strategy processes.

"If you are concerned that your role is going to be commoditized because of these new technologies,” Frank explains. “What [AI] is not delivering yet is [your own] judgment."

McKinney and Frank also discuss his role as co-director of Columbia Business School's Leading in a Data-Driven World program. This initiative focuses on developing quantitative intuition, teaching professionals how to make smarter, more informed decisions without necessarily needing advanced mathematical skills. 

That and much, much more!

Sponsors:

Get ready for another amazing Insights Marketing Day!

It’s everything you need to take control of your marketing funnel in one power-packed day. You’ll hear from fun, engaging and instructive speakers who are proven authorities in digital marketing. They’ll leave their egos behind and pull the curtain back to show you what it takes behind the scenes to achieve dramatic marketing results.

This year, we’ll take you on a journey from the very beginning of the marketing funnel through realizing revenue and how to create a more predictive model for success. You’ll be challenged to change your mindset, learn emerging skills and discover game-changing tools. All this while creating genuine connections with like-minded professionals. Learn, network, discover and strategize. Make Insights Marketing Day a MUST on your 2024 calendar.

Visit littlebirdmarketing.com/insights-marketing-day and get your tickets today!

Get your research done anywhere around the world quickly and efficiently with Gazelle Global! 

Are you looking for experts and tools to collect research data worldwide? Global sampling, field management, data collection? These are just some of the services that Gazelle Global provides with much, much more! 

Visit gazelleglobal.com to learn more about how our expertise can help you unearth quality data that drives meaningful insights.