With an enormous amount of data generated from technology to supposedly make our marketing lives easier, things can get messy fast if you don’t know what to do with it. But what in tarnation can we do with the infinite amounts of data we get daily, besides all the basic stuff?! In a genius exploration of the many ways in which to use data to your advantage as a marketer, as a sales professional and as an organization, Shaun Ma, the Director of Strategic Advisory of MarketOne International, gives away all his data secrets that will have your mouth to the floor on this episode of “Stuff You Should Know About Our Changed New World” hosted by Colin Day, Managing Director EMEA at Oktopost. Not to be missed.

Can traditional and enterprise focused industries learn to thrive on social media? With her strategic marketing insight featured in publications like Forbes, Business.com, Upwork.com and Managers.org.uk, founder of MTC | The Content Agency, Megan Thudium, an expert in all things B2B content marketing, shares stories of how these industries, very much impacted by COVID-19, are evolving overnight.  Together with host Colin Day, Oktopost's Managing Director EMEA, they tackle best practices across social media to drive awareness, credibility and leads through content marketing.

Today, because of marketing technology, CMO’s can take a seat at the strategy table. In the early days, marketing was more about operational efficiency and excellence. But the true digital transformation that is taking place right now is propelling rapid business innovation, putting marketeers at the forefront of driving new business models. 

On this podcast episode of Stuff You Should Know About Our Changed New World, Urs Blickenstorfer, Owner and CEO of iundf Marketing Technology AG, joins Colin Day, Managing Director EMEA at Oktopost to explore how the value of technology is rarely in the specific functionality of the tool, but rather its ability to be part of a bigger ecosystem. 

Content should be created with care. You may have the greatest technology in the world but if nobody has heard of you, what’s the point? On this episode, Amy Kenigsberg, co-founder of K2 Global Communications, a boutique inbound & content marketing, social media, and public relations firm, sits down with Oktopost’s Colin Day, Managing Director of EMEA to uncover how she helps her clients understand their audiences in order to relate to them and ultimately impact their bottom line. We'll let this episode speak for itself!

In this episode, Oktopost's Managing Director of EMEA, Colin Day, interviews popular YouTuber and Founder of Modern Sales Training, Derek Shebby. Making President’s Club 13 times during his 17 year career at Xerox, Shebby provides listeners with lessons learned and actionable takeaways from his own career. He even highlights proven sales methods and techniques that he teaches in his course, Sales in 21 Days, to help listeners sharpen their sales skills right on this podcast! 

On this episode of Stuff You Should Know About Our Changed New World,  Sarah Whipp, CMO and Head of Go-To-Market Strategy at Callsign sits down with host Colin Day, Managing Director EMEA at Oktopost to share a typical day in the life of a Chief Marketing Officer. The conversation centers around building, curating and maintaining a brand with a focus on messaging.

What is social selling? Dan Swift, CEO of Empire Selling, can certainly answer this question as he has dedicated his career helping B2B companies impact revenue and create meaningful customer relationships through social media. Back in 2012, Dan was a senior sales leader at LinkedIn and responsible for training LinkedIn’s very own global sales team. The success didn’t stop there as he then went on to become the VP of Sales at Sprinklr, before going out on his own. Today, Dan has trained well 10,000+ sales people in the art of social selling over the last two years with his company Empire Selling. Joining host Colin Day, Managing Director EMEA at Oktopost, Dan Swift teaches listeners the do’s and don’ts of social selling coupled with the power of compassion, empathy and transparency in relationship building.

Bringing new knowledge into the B2B marketing industry is exactly what Jonathan Lawson, Director of Strategic Partnerships in the Faculty of Business and Law at Manchester Metropolitan University does in this episode. Host Colin Day, Managing Director EMEA at Oktopost chats with Lawson about the state of small businesses and digital adoption. Using transformational stories of businesses the two uncover how entrepreneurs can pivot their mindset and do things different to impact productivity across their organization.

Understanding early on in the SaaS industry that nothing happens without the customer, Matt Zilli, CEO of Clarizen, the global leader in enterprise collaborative work management, and known for his impressive work as Vice President, Go-to-Market at Adobe and prior to that, Chief Customer Officer at Marketo joins host Colin Day, Managing Director EMEA at Oktopost to discuss what it takes to build a brand. As Zilli shares throughout the episode, the customer is at the heart of everything he does and with the right focus across sales and marketing only greatness can be achieved.

What exactly is Sales Transformation? And how can organizations thrive under extraordinary pressure to perform and provide shareholder value? On this episode of Oktopost’s original podcast show, Things You Should Know About Our Changed New World, Chris Norton, Owner at MentorGroup, a management consulting firm working with a host of top global, European and UK companies helping develop their people and ensure organizations achieve and exceed their business goals, sits down with Colin Day, Managing Director of EMEA to discuss the competitive challenges and the development of people as being critical to an organization's success. A discussion not to be missed, Norton shares customer stories along with unique experiences in leadership as he is also Watford Football Club’s Director for the past 11 years, which has been awarded the Community Club of the Year by the football league twice in the last three years for the outstanding work done with children in the community to improve and inspire them through coaching, social inclusion, education and participation in sport.