Radically Transparent

In today's highly competitive content landscape, marketers are faced with the challenge of not only creating content that stands out but performs.

There is a solution– one that educates your audience, sets you apart from the competition, and positions you in the market as a thought leader. Joining the Radically Transparent podcast to unpack the ins and outs of surveys is the expert himself, Ramel Levin, Chief Survey Master at Global Surveyz.

Especially today, everyone is trying to be unique, and Ken believes that you have to do content differently! He reveals exactly how to find the content sweet spot by focusing on the content that’s high-performance and hard to create, like surveys, podcasts, and videos. Unlike content that is high-performance and easy to create because the majority are already doing it!

As a senior marketing executive for over 20 years, Ramel shares his best-kept secrets of content marketing and creating strong surveys. He explains when and why you should launch a survey, the necessity of always including red herring questions, and the importance of starting with the end. He even shares how to know if it’s the right time to publish a survey and his rollout process that has allowed him never need to “kill” a survey.

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In this episode of the Radically Transparent podcast, Ken Powell, Chief Revenue Officer at K1X, shines a light on the connection point between marketing, sales, product, and client success. With his comprehensive 5 part operating system, he reveals the steps to create a frictionless experience for all corners of the organization.

Ken believes it's not just about selling a product–it's about offering a unique perspective that aligns with the market. Emphasizing the importance of positioning and a differentiated story, he highlights the significance of speaking directly with customers.

With his 25+ years of experience and unique background in the public, private equity, and venture capital space, Ken walks through the key aspects of successful marketing leaders. One being the ability to execute fast while being financially, strategically, and data-focused.

Stay until the end to hear how he incorporates employees to be part of the brand and encourages the wider organization to be thought leaders across social.

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David Kung, VP of Marketing at Bluescape Software, exposes some of the biggest marketing challenges he’s facing as he comes up against limited resources in today’s economy.

“One step forward and two steps back is a great strategy when you’re walking the plank”, says David as he explains some of the slogans he uses to motivate his team and keep the needle moving forward. 

He also dives into how he is balancing the minimum effective dose to find the things that require the least amount of effort, with the greatest impact. David also reveals why focus is key when prioritizing projects, and tactics and how it helps his team stay mindful of what is working. He talks about the importance of measuring initiatives and gaining insights in order to craft the next creative endeavor.

With a unique background in technology and storytelling, David even discloses what he has learned from past experiences working at Disney, what he has learned about how people process vision, and how the power of visual content can help take your content strategy to new heights. 

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- Using visuals to maximize inspiration, collaboration, and insights

- Finding the minimum effective dose to define the initiatives that require the least amount of effort but will drive the maximum impact 

- A marketing leader’s best-kept secrets on motivating a team when resources are limited 

Sarah Emmott, Head of Brand for Work Management by Atlassian, one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies in the Workplace” joins the Radically Transparent podcast. She reveals how a deep dive into social listening paved the way for her organizations marketing milestones and successes. As well as how a social listening audit discovered why YouTube should be included in their social strategy, and how Sarah is using it to be strategic with her influencer campaigns.

Throughout the episode, Sarah reveals some of Atlassian’s social strategy that is contributing to their fast-growing and impressive social presence, as well as the difference between “share of voice” and “share of mind” and where both fit into a content marketing strategy.

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- How Social Listening paved the way for a winning social media strategy

- Measuring the impact of social media in a product-led growth organization to prove value and keep budgets

- Why YouTube is a powerful channel for influencer marketing and why it’s often the most over-looked by B2B marketers

CEO of Elemmir, Forbes 30-under-30,  and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and poet David Delaney Mayer unravels the radically transparent truths behind modern-day B2B video marketing. He calls out why in a world where Chat GPT and AI are taking over messaging, it is more important than ever to show a human face to the brand.

Throughout this episode, David reveals how to find the big opportunities to tell specific pieces of your brand story, your customer story, and your employee story using video– fit for any budget and any medium.

He dives into how video marketing is becoming increasingly personalized, why short-form video works best for quick and engaging content across social and how B2B video marketing has evolved to focus more on storytelling, with companies using video to tell compelling stories that resonate with their audience and build brand loyalty.

Lauren Gumport, Vice President of Communications and Brand at Faye reveals some of her top secrets for getting top-tier media coverage. 

She calls out how media professionals are busy people and why it’s up to marketers to make their job easier. One of the ways Lauren suggests marketers can build an outstanding relationship is by creating custom pitches for each journalist. Taking pitching to the next level requires you to connect with the person, not just a stranger who happens to be a journalist. Remember, you're pitching to a person, not a publication.

Throughout the episode, Lauren confirms that if you want top-tier coverage, you have to ditch the “spray and pray” method when connecting with journalists. Instead, define fifty to one-hundred reporters who matter to your space and build these relationships over time.

In addition, Lauren even dives into the type of content that matters, why social media managers should live in-house, and how she is measuring media relations' impact on the brand.

- Why social media should live in-house

- How to get top-tier coverage for a brand nobody has heard of

- Building measurement plans to measure public relations effectively

Joe Morris is the Head of Social Media and Employee Advocacy at Capgemini,  a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology.

Throughout the episode, Joe dives into how he has rolled out a successful employee advocacy program at Capgemini. He confesses that maintaining an advocacy program isn’t always smooth sailing, how to keep engagement up, and even reveals a few of the ongoing challenges he’s facing getting his colleagues to want to be part of such an initiative.

Joe also explains why it’s important to get the business to support, understand and prioritize the program from a top-down approach. 

Eytan Buchman serves as the CMO of Freightos, a B2B platform that is revolutionizing the trillion-dollar logistics industry with an online freight marketplace, heading up full marketing stack operations, from positioning and branding to digital and traditional marketing channels.

Leading the marketing team, Eyal takes a data-driven marketing approach, with an emphasis on content marketing, analyst relations, press engagements, and online customer journeys.

He is renowned for building the marketing at Freightos from scratch, driving enterprise-grade leads at an incredibly low ROI, dominating the industry attention by combining data marketing and story-telling, and, most importantly, building and scaling an acquisition and retention machine for Freightos’ flagship product, the Freightos Marketplace.

Eytan has even been seen making freight look sexy enough for the WSJ, TechCrunch, The Verge, and CNBC.

Meet Dani Peterman, Brand Marketing Lead at Coho AI and a rising LinkedIn influencer with 7K followers. He joins the Radically Transparent podcast to talk about the evolution of organic social media and why social media marketing is so much more than content creation.

He reveals the modern day career path of a B2B social media manager and what it will take for them to become the next generation of CMOs. He even lists some of the top skills social media managers currently have that make them an ideal candidate for becoming a marketing leader. Dani doesn’t miss a beat as he even dives into some of the latest trends, like Chat GPT, and how social media managers must be dynamic to avoid becoming obsolete.

- How not to pigeon-hole your career as a social media manager

- The evolution of organic social media and the future of B2B social media management

- Why social media managers are the next generation of CMOs

Introducing Talia Schmidt, Country Marketing Lead at Cisco, an expert in brand building and a featured guest on the Radically Transparent podcast.

In this episode, Talia unravels why at the very core of understanding the effectiveness of brand trust is data. She battles with why it’s often easier to measure lead generation campaigns than branding and reveals where organizations can focus when it comes to figuring out a good way to measure effectiveness of brand campaigns over a period of time.

Throughout the episode, Talia reminds marketers that brand marketing is a long play. She's also transparent about why regardless of company size brand marketing is an essential and important part of any marketing function.

- How to build brand trust that ignites meaningful relationships

- Understanding if what you’re doing for the brand is actually effective

- How marketers can prove the value of brand marketing through data