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Every person on your team has strengths and…non-strengths.
So position them to make the most out of their top skills.
It’s like how in soccer, you position your top goal-scorer as a forward, not running defense, right? The same is true with marketing.
In this episode, we’re drawing parallels between soccer and marketing.
With the help of our special guest, former Director of Brand Strategy, Storytelling & Advocacy at Cisco, Cindy Valladares, we’re taking marketing lessons from the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team.
Together, we talk about using your talent the right way, taking calculated risks, and putting fear in the heart of your competitors.
About our guest, Cindy Valladares
Cindy Valladares is a marketing executive who recently led brand strategy, storytelling and advocacy for Cisco’s cybersecurity business unit. A product marketer at heart, she lives by the NIHITO (nothing interesting happens in the office) motto. Cindy has been a speaker at various security, risk and privacy conferences in North America, Europe and Latin America, where she focuses on topics that affect the information security industry. She is a regular contributor at the Cisco Secure blog, shares her perspective on Twitter @cindyv, and can also be found on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/cindyvalladares/. She holds an international MBA from the University of Ottawa in Canada, and a BBA in Marketing and International Business.
What B2B Companies Can Learn From the USWNT:
Quotes
*”It’s really important in marketing organizations to lead with a leadership style that creates empathy and allows others to do their best, not a culture of fear.”
*” That's an important element of a leader, understanding who you have on your team, what motivates and drives them, and how can you create an environment where they can perform and outperform?”
Time Stamps
[0:55] Meet Cindy Valladares, former Director of Brand Strategy, Storytelling & Advocacy at Cisco
[3:41] History and Achievements of the US Women's National Soccer Team
[6:38] Equal Pay and Gender Equality Advocacy
[8:09] Emma Hayes' Impact on the US Women's National Soccer Team
[13:36] Marketing Lessons from Soccer
[21:38] Emma Hayes' Coaching Strategies
[24:25] Recognizing and Utilizing Team Strengths
[25:17] Leveraging Senior Executives in Content
[26:49] Maximizing Talent and High-Value Actions
[29:11] Understanding Your Audience in Content Strategy
[32:36] Creating Impactful and Entertaining Content
[35:30] Balancing Brand Awareness and Demand Generation
[39:27] Favorite Content Campaigns and Their Impact
Links
Connect with Cindy on LinkedIn
About Remarkable!
Remarkable! is created by the team at Caspian Studios, the premier B2B Podcast-as-a-Service company. Caspian creates both nonfiction and fiction series for B2B companies. If you want a fiction series check out our new offering - The Business Thriller - Hollywood style storytelling for B2B. Learn more at CaspianStudios.com.
In today’s episode, you heard from Ian Faison (CEO of Caspian Studios) and Meredith Gooderham (Senior Producer). Remarkable was produced this week by Meredith Gooderham, mixed by Scott Goodrich, and our theme song is “Solomon” by FALAK.
Create something remarkable. Rise above the noise.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Marketing is a serious business. Even when it’s silly.
See, you still want your silly, funny content to be well planned, well-executed, and well distributed.
In this episode, we’re talking about how to take your sillies seriously.
That’s one of the marketing lessons we’re taking from Hamburger Helper’s Watch the Stove Mixtape.
With the help of our special guest, HiBob CMO Sarah Reynolds, we also talk about how to run little content experiments, listening to your customers, and doubling down on your big wins.
About our guest, Sarah Reynolds
Sarah Reynolds (they/them) is Chief Marketing Officer at HiBob. An openly non-binary executive, Sarah writes widely about diversity and inclusion, pay equity, the future of work, and the intersection of bias, ethics, and technology. They love spicy food, and can frequently be found in their garden tending to their many varieties of hot chili pepper plants.
What B2B Companies Can Learn From Hamburger Helper:
Quotes
*"My first focus was inclusivity and accessibility. Let's make sure that the way that we represent ourselves is really holding true to our corporate values that focus on DEIB, that really speaks to every single person that we want to. Let's make sure that we look at things like color contrast. Let's make sure that we look at things like the typography that we're using and the brand styling that we're using, and we're making it so that it's accessible to all of the people that we want to reach, not just because my queer, disabled, non binary a** told you to do so, but because this is genuinely what we believe as a brand, and this is what we want to put out into the world, and this is what we want people to know about us, we want to lead in this space. So does that come with a very clear, direct ROI number? No, it doesn't. It comes with doing the right thing and being different and making sure that we're prioritizing the things that really matter to us and to our community and to our audience. We're being something for someone in a way that maybe not every brand in this space is thinking about.”
Time Stamps
[0:55] Meet Sarah Reynolds, CMO at HiBob
[1:16] The Origin of the 'Watch the Stove' Mixtape
[4:03] HiBob: Revolutionizing HR Tech
[5:44] Creating the ‘Watch the Stove’ Mixtape: From Idea to Execution
[11:12] The Impact and Legacy of 'Watch the Stove'
[33:00] Risks and Rewards in Marketing
[36:18] The Power of Listening to Customers
[43:31] Embracing Authenticity in Marketing
[45:28] Content That Provides Value
[49:43] Balancing Data and Vibes
[54:55] Final Thoughts and Plugs
Links
Connect with Sarah on LinkedIn
Learn more about HiBob
About Remarkable!
Remarkable! is created by the team at Caspian Studios, the premier B2B Podcast-as-a-Service company. Caspian creates both nonfiction and fiction series for B2B companies. If you want a fiction series check out our new offering - The Business Thriller - Hollywood style storytelling for B2B. Learn more at CaspianStudios.com.
In today’s episode, you heard from Ian Faison (CEO of Caspian Studios) and Meredith Gooderham (Senior Producer). Remarkable was produced this week by Meredith Gooderham, mixed by Scott Goodrich, and our theme song is “Solomon” by FALAK.
Create something remarkable. Rise above the noise.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
How are you celebrating your hero product? Better yet, how are you activating your audience to celebrate your hero product?
7-Eleven has a lot to teach us about that with their Bring Your Own Cup Day.
If you’ve never taken part, they encourage customers to bring in a vessel of choice to fill with Slurpee.
They’ve seen people bring in cowboy hats, kiddie pools, even a prosthetic leg, and fill them to the brim with that slushy, cold, refreshing fizzy iconic drink.
And customers are posting about it. It’s ALL over social media.
Having your customers post to their own social media about your product is just about any marketer’s dream.
So let’s talk about how to do it! In this episode, we’re talking about marketing lessons from 7-Eleven’s Bring Your Own Cup Day.
With the help of our special guest, Chief Revenue Officer & Head of Marketing at Black Crow AI, JoAnn Martin, we talk about activating your community around your hero product, leaving it to the internet, and increasing the value of your engagement with customers.
About our guest, JoAnn Martin
JoAnn Martin is Chief Revenue Officer & Head of Marketing at Black Crow AI. Prior to joining the company in November 2023, she served as VP of Marketing at Electric. She has also held marketing leadership roles at Searchspring, Hanzo and Provenir. She serves as an advisor to UserGems.
What B2B Companies Can Learn From Bring Your Own Cup Day:
Quotes
*” How do I better partner with my product teammates? What's this Product-Marketing relationship? How do we get away from Product builds a thing and throws it all over the wall and Marketing figures out how to talk about it?’ And it's a challenge. And I think this is a great example that those two disciplines are actually very tightly intertwined. And as marketers and product leaders and startups, we have to figure out how we're coming together to figure out what is that thing that celebrates our core product? What is the core product we put in front of a customer that has great fit for that customer and how do we figure out how to talk about it with them?”
*” The concept of really tightly intertwining your product and how your customers experience that product and how you talk about it is really inspiring.”
*” Great companies lean into the kind of messy pieces, but you have to be willing to lean into the kind of absurd, messy parts of the business.”
Time Stamps
[0:55] Meet JoAnn Martin, Chief Revenue Officer & Head of Marketing at Black Crow AI
[2:49] The Concept and Impact of BYOC Day
[5:50] The Backstory Behind Slurpees
[11:24] Marketing Strategies and Customer Engagement
[15:09] Innovative Marketing and Product Development
[28:32] Upcoming Exciting Projects at Black Crow AI
Links
Connect with JoAnn on LinkedIn
Learn more about Black Crow AI
About Remarkable!
Remarkable! is created by the team at Caspian Studios, the premier B2B Podcast-as-a-Service company. Caspian creates both nonfiction and fiction series for B2B companies. If you want a fiction series check out our new offering - The Business Thriller - Hollywood style storytelling for B2B. Learn more at CaspianStudios.com.
In today’s episode, you heard from Ian Faison (CEO of Caspian Studios) and Meredith Gooderham (Senior Producer). Remarkable was produced this week by Meredith Gooderham, mixed by Scott Goodrich, and our theme song is “Solomon” by FALAK.
Create something remarkable. Rise above the noise.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The role of the marketer is changing.
Scott Galloway, aka Prof G, says that to be successful today, marketers have to act as “coaches, advisors and strategists” to their company.
That’s what we’re talking about in today’s episode with the help of our special guest, VP of Marketing & Corporate Strategy at Verbit, Michael Rosman.
Together, we talk about finding the right channel, being bold, and avoiding clickbait.
About our guest, Michael Rosman
Michael Rosman is VP of Marketing & Corporate Strategy at Verbit, having joined the company in April 2022. He has extensive work experience in Corporate strategy and Marketing. Prior to this, he worked at Amdocs, where he held various roles including Customer Business Executive, Director of Corporate Strategy, and Manager of Corporate Strategy from May 2016 to April 2022.
Before joining Amdocs, Michael worked at Degania Medical as the Head of Strategy, Business Development & Innovation from May 2015 to May 2016. Michael also has experience at Biometrix, where he served as the Head of Strategic Planning and subsequently as the Interim COO from November 2011 to May 2015.
Michael started his career at Tefen Management Consulting in July 2007, where he worked as a Senior Consultant for over four years. During his time at Tefen, he successfully led cross-functional and international teams on various projects in industries such as pharmaceuticals, automotive, chemicals, and healthcare.
Michael Rosman completed his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Tel Aviv University between the years 2004 and 2008. Later, between 2011 and 2012, he pursued an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
What B2B Companies Can Learn From Scott Galloway:
Quotes
*”I really think about niching down, and about the shorts, shows and moonshots sort of positioning. You want to create stuff that your people can tap into for a minute or two. You want to create stuff that they can subscribe to and get like an hour a week. And then you want stuff that's definitive, could be viral and bingeworthy. If you have 15 different personas that you're selling to, if you could create a single bingeable asset for those 15 personas, that's far more valuable than creating 150 pieces of content for those 15 things.” - Ian Faison
*”The world changes every minute. What was published a week ago is now no longer potentially relevant. So it's your job as a brand to reach forward into the future and say, ‘I think that based on what we know, what we're saying on our proprietary information and what our customers are saying, I think that this is where the world is going.” - Ian Faison
Time Stamps
[0:55] Meet Michael Rosman, VP of Marketing & Corporate Strategy at Verbit.ai
[2:19] Verbit's Marketing and Customer Insights
[7:29] Scott Galloway's Marketing Philosophy
[10:42] The Journey and Impact of Scott Galloway
[19:31] The Power of Serialized Content
[24:52] Marketing Takeaways from Prof G
[29:42] The Value of Definitive Works in Content
[31:07] Challenges in Content Creation for Multiple Personas
[32:04] The Importance of Niching Down and Binge-Worthy Content
[39:39] Balancing Quality, Speed, and Cost in Video Production
[42:16] The Future of AI in Content Creation
[45:48] Verbit's Content Strategy
Links
Connect with Michael on Linkedin
Learn more about Verbit.ai
About Remarkable!
Remarkable! is created by the team at Caspian Studios, the premier B2B Podcast-as-a-Service company. Caspian creates both nonfiction and fiction series for B2B companies. If you want a fiction series check out our new offering - The Business Thriller - Hollywood style storytelling for B2B. Learn more at CaspianStudios.com.
In today’s episode, you heard from Ian Faison (CEO of Caspian Studios) and Meredith Gooderham (Senior Producer). Remarkable was produced this week by Meredith Gooderham, mixed by Scott Goodrich, and our theme song is “Solomon” by FALAK.
Create something remarkable. Rise above the noise.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The marketing terrain is rough out there. In many ways, traversing the roots, rocks and mud of extreme trail running is like navigating the shifting marketing landscape.
Both demand endurance, adaptability and a strategic mindset. Those are a few of the things we’re talking about today.
In this episode, we’re taking marketing inspiration from extreme trail running with the help of our special guest, DeepL CMO Steve Rotter.
Together, we talk about being agile, stepping where others have stepped, how to plot your own route, and aiming for progress over perfection.
About our guest, Steve Rotter
Steve Rotter, an entrepreneur, evangelist, and author, brings over two decades of tech marketing leadership experience to his role as CMO at DeepL. With a track record as a two-time founder with two M&A deals and three unicorns under his belt, Steve is deeply passionate about innovative marketing, AI, and brand building. Prior to DeepL, Steve served as CMO of FourKites, where he spearheaded remarkable growth and revenue increases through targeted account-based marketing and PLG strategies, serving industry titans like Coke, Walmart, and Ford. His expertise extends to CMO roles at OutSystems and Acrolinx, where he drove unicorn growth, established category leadership, and facilitated successful acquisitions. He's also held leading tech-industry marketing positions at Adobe, Motorola, and Brightcove.
What B2B Companies Can Learn From Extreme Trail Running:
Quotes
*”I think that's actually a really healthy discipline for marketing teams, is not just to be on that hamster wheel all the time, but to take some time out and say, ‘Look, what do we really want to do? What do we want to say? What's our message? What's our story? What's our creative angle?’ And rarely do you achieve that in moments of extreme distraction, right? It's that focus time that kind of drives those light bulb moments.”
*”A leadership approach that is acceptable has a tolerance and there's no fear of failure. If you have marketers that are afraid, like if they make a mistake, they're going to get yelled at or fired, then of course they're going to take time because they're going to just wait for perfect. Whereas if you build a culture in your marketing team around speed, velocity, and learning from your mistakes, then you got a good recipe.”
Time Stamps
[0:55] Meet Steve Rotter, CMO at DeepL
[1:48] The Connection Between Trail Running and Marketing
[6:42] Psychology and Support in Extreme Trail Racing
[12:54] Preparation and Training for Trail Running
[16:56] Marketing Strategies and Team Dynamics
[22:15] Balancing Speed and Planning in B2B Marketing
[23:55] Overcoming Analysis Paralysis
[24:24] The Importance of a Fearless Marketing Culture
[25:05] Navigating Unpredictable Terrain
[29:12] The Little Things in Marketing
[31:46] Educating the Market on AI
[34:37] Leveraging Customer Stories
[37:54] Advice for CMOs on Content Strategy
[40:04] Uncovering Hidden Stories
Links
Connect with Steve on LinkedIn
Learn more about DeepL
About Remarkable!
Remarkable! is created by the team at Caspian Studios, the premier B2B Podcast-as-a-Service company. Caspian creates both nonfiction and fiction series for B2B companies. If you want a fiction series check out our new offering - The Business Thriller - Hollywood style storytelling for B2B. Learn more at CaspianStudios.com.
In today’s episode, you heard from Ian Faison (CEO of Caspian Studios) and Meredith Gooderham (Senior Producer). Remarkable was produced this week by Meredith Gooderham, mixed by Scott Goodrich, and our theme song is “Solomon” by FALAK.
Create something remarkable. Rise above the noise.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
A three-tier showstopper cake may have beautiful pipework and neatly done icing, but if it’s overbaked and dry on the inside, it’s not a good cake.
The same is true for marketing. If it has no message but it’s beautiful, it’s not good marketing.
Focusing on substance over style is one of the many lessons we’re taking from The Great British Baking Show in this episode.
Together with the help of our special guest, VP of Corporate Marketing at Trellix, Sara Aiello, we talk about being brand classy, going for substance over style, and trusting your gut.
About our guest, Sara Aiello
Sara drives impactful brand and communication initiatives that inspire, inform, and elevate global businesses. At Trellix, she led the brand launch of Trellix from FireEye and McAfee Enterprise. Previously, as Head of Growth & Engagement for Amazon’s large item business, she accelerated business growth and customer engagement. At BlackBerry, as Vice President of Field Marketing, Sara led global marketing and sales enablement teams, enhancing the company’s technology recognition. During her tenure at Cisco, she spearheaded the security customer experience practice, significantly advancing customer adoption. She also led the successful marketing strategy for a billion-dollar service rebrand. As Director of the Executive Briefing Center for Cybersecurity at The Boeing Company, Sara’s expertise in customer experience played a pivotal role in securing critical contracts.
Sara holds a Master of International Business from Seattle University and a Bachelor of Science from Clarkson University.
What B2B Companies Can Learn From The Great British Baking Show:
Quotes
*”One thing we haven't hit on is the storytelling aspect. You really identify and make memories with the bakers and the way that the show tells their backstory. And so you feel really connected. And I think that marketers should remember the power of storytelling. A lot of times, we want to go into stats and figures, but that's really not going to engage our emotional side of our brain, which is what we need to be persuaded.”
*”ROI, marketers love to talk about this. I think it really comes down to setting clear goals. A lot of times, especially when it comes on the brand side as opposed to the demand side of marketing, it isn't super easy to see and have metrics, so it's really important to set clear goals from the start. So then you can see if you're succeeding or not.”
Time Stamps
[0:55] Meet Sara Aiello, VP of Corporate Marketing at Trellix
[1:00] B2B Marketing Lessons from The Great British Baking Show
[5:10] Behind the Scenes of The Great British Baking Show
[11:11] Relating The Great British Baking Show to Marketing
[17:52] The Importance of Visuals and Positivity in Marketing
[23:24] The Human Element in B2B Marketing
[25:46] The Power of Storytelling in Marketing
[34:25] Building the Trellix Brand
[38:04] Engaging Content Strategies
[46:35] Final Thoughts and Advice for Marketing Leaders
Links
Connect with Sara on LinkedIn
Learn more about Trellix
About Remarkable!
Remarkable! is created by the team at Caspian Studios, the premier B2B Podcast-as-a-Service company. Caspian creates both nonfiction and fiction series for B2B companies. If you want a fiction series check out our new offering - The Business Thriller - Hollywood style storytelling for B2B. Learn more at CaspianStudios.com.
In today’s episode, you heard from Ian Faison (CEO of Caspian Studios) and Meredith Gooderham (Senior Producer). Remarkable was produced this week by Meredith Gooderham, mixed by Scott Goodrich, and our theme song is “Solomon” by FALAK.
Create something remarkable. Rise above the noise.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Making big marketing investments is a huge deal. But lucky for you, we’re here to help.
We’re bringing you five keys to deliver on a big investment.
And we’re taking those lessons from the Olympics with the help of our special guest, VP of Marketing at AppsFlyer, Carolyn Bao.
Together, we’re talking about capitalizing on a cultural moment, committing to the long haul, ensuring activation is fully prepared, and so much more.
About our guest, Carolyn Bao
Carolyn Bao serves as the Vice President of Marketing for AppsFlyer, for the North America region, driving multi-channel efforts for the AppsFlyer mobile attribution and marketing analytics platform. She is an accomplished marketing executive with over 20 years of leadership experience at technology companies, specializing in software and SaaS marketing go-to-market strategy, data-driven business innovation and building high-performing marketing teams. She has deep domain knowledge of marketing tech stack and advertising technologies.
Beyond her commercial role, she nurtures the entrepreneurial spirit as an MBA@Rice faculty member and a founding board member of Silicon Valley Leadership Community.
Recognized with accolades such as LinkedIn’s “Top Voices” and Product Marketing Alliance’s “Top 100 PMMs,” Carolyn is celebrated for bringing products like Facebook Attribution to global markets, building high-performing marketing teams, and thought leadership in ‘women in leadership,’ ‘marketing management’ and ‘mobile growth strategies’ through key speaking engagements for educational and professional events. Carolyn built her career portfolio through leadership roles at technology powerhouses including Moomoo, Facebook, Visa, and Yahoo.
What B2B Companies Can Learn From The Olympics:
Quotes
*”With constraints, creativity really differentiates a good storyteller from a mid storyteller, leveraging the Gen Alpha language. The more you understand the limitations, the better it is you stay focused and think about within all of these constraints, what else could we do?”
*“If you are building a B2B brand, really make sure that there is a founder side of the humanized story. So that it's not just this brand, but it's actually the why the company was founded and how the founders have built the company.”
*” Let's ground our work back to marketing fundamentals. Our marketing fundamentals is storytelling and we really need to understand whom we're talking the story to, what we want them to think or do differently. This is the first. The second piece is, please do not be afraid of developing that left brain as a marketer because the tools to help us measure our work and tell us the feedback of how well our storytelling did are becoming a lot more available. If you don't know, search it up, use chat GPT, but really, really deeply understand marketing measurement and the data that is at your disposal to make you a better marketer. The third piece that's super critical is do not forget stakeholder management because with the village that supports us is what we can work on our day to day, the blocking and tackling, but also when the time is right, advocate for big activation like the Olympics and really make history. Have fun with it.”
Time Stamps
[0:55] Meet Carolyn Bao, VP of Marketing at AppsFlyer
[2:54] B2B Marketing Lessons from the Olympics and AppsFlyer
[4:14] Olympic Marketing Campaigns and Sponsorships
[36:09] Human-Centric Storytelling in Marketing
[42:28] Key Takeaways
Links
Connect with Carolyn on LinkedIn
Learn more about AppsFlyer
About Remarkable!
Remarkable! is created by the team at Caspian Studios, the premier B2B Podcast-as-a-Service company. Caspian creates both nonfiction and fiction series for B2B companies. If you want a fiction series check out our new offering - The Business Thriller - Hollywood style storytelling for B2B. Learn more at CaspianStudios.com.
In today’s episode, you heard from Ian Faison (CEO of Caspian Studios) and Meredith Gooderham (Senior Producer). Remarkable was produced this week by Meredith Gooderham, mixed by Scott Goodrich, and our theme song is “Solomon” by FALAK.
Create something remarkable. Rise above the noise.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
“A rare thing.” That’s what co-creator Steve Levitan called “the incredible alchemy of elements coming together” that was Modern Family.
He and Christopher Lloyd, who he’d worked with on Frasier, wanted to create a show that felt real. A show with heart.
And it took the right writers, characters, and actors to play them to make it happen. And it happened for 11 years, winning 22 Emmys.
And in this episode, we’re taking B2B marketing lessons from it with the help of our special guest, CMO at Altimetrik, Jeff Fleischman.
Together, we talk about being passionate about your brand, showing persistence and grit, and the art of making “a rare thing.”
About our guest, Jeff Fleischman
Jeffrey Fleischman is a seasoned senior executive with over 35 years of experience spanning the financial services, banking, insurance, and technology. As CMO of Altimetrik he manages the company’s brand, marketing, lead generation, public relations, and communications functions. Jeff brings a wealth of expertise to the role. Previously, he served as Chief Marketing & Digital Officer at Penn Mutual, driving omni-channel campaigns and advancing digital initiatives. His leadership journey includes key roles at renowned companies such as Citi, American Express, TIAA-CREF, and Chase.
Jeff’s passion lies in creating innovative, customer-focused strategies and experiences that integrate data, technology, and design. His extensive expertise covers areas like omni-channel marketing, data analytics, product management, and business transformation. He holds a B.S. in finance from Syracuse University and an MBA in finance, investments, and banking from Hofstra University. He has or held board positions with Artemis, Zenmonics Inc., Hornor, Townsend & Kent, Telera, and IEP Youth Services.
Jeff is an author, advisor, investor, and speaker. His book, "Advice To My Younger Self," reflects his commitment to empowering others to achieve their aspirations.
Beyond his professional achievements, he expresses creativity through painting and crafting unique art pieces, breathing new life into old furniture, and has a passion for music.
What B2B Companies Can Learn From Modern Family:
Quotes
*”You need to create opportunities for your community and your audience to talk about you to other people. They're not just sitting around all day thinking of your software. The number of people who are just thrilled with [your product] are not just going to sing it from the rooftops every second of every day. You need to cultivate those things and allow them to share it as much as you can.”
*”For marketers, tie what you're doing back to the company strategy. And if you do that, you don't have to push people. They're going to be pushing you to do more, and want more from you. If you don't know numbers, you don't know how to measure, you don't know ROI, it's a serious blind spot. Bring back what you're doing to numbers, bring back to ROI, talk like a CFO.”
*”Take a bite-sized approach. We never start off with a big bang. Our approach is tiny. Let's do a proof of concept. Let's get a quick win. We won't disrupt your customers. We won't disrupt your business. It's within your environment. And I can tell you, 99 percent of everything we started out with was a small project. And now we have extremely large engagements. They trust us, they know us, and those relationships grew over time.”
*”You're basically in a newspaper business. You have to invest in content, it's 24/7, it never ends. If you think putting a PDF up on a website or, you know, putting new colors onto your website is the idea of content, you know, it's a big miss. So, content is an investment, it's an asset, and it's very dynamic. You have to put the right content at the right place at the right time on the right, you know, device or environment. And it just never stops. Technology's gotten better, data's gotten better, AI is now in the mix. So as you think about B2B marketing and where you really can make a difference, it's taking content that gets noticed. And, you know, the more you do that, the more you'll get noticed.”
Time Stamps
[0:55] Meet Jeff Fleischman, CMO of Altimetrik
[5:41] Learn about Jeff's Role at Altimetrik
[7:43] About the Creation and Success of Modern Family
[10:59] Casting Challenges and Character Development
[15:17] Marketing Takeaways from Modern Family
[27:48] What Marketers Can Learn from Jay Pritchett's Competitive Spirit
[29:12] Grit and Persistence in Marketing
[33:48] How to Build a Strong Social Media Presence
[34:49] The Role of Earned Media
[46:14] AI in Marketing: A Game Changer
[52:02] Jeff’s Advice for First-Time CMOs
Links
Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn
Learn more about Altimetrik
About Remarkable!
Remarkable! is created by the team at Caspian Studios, the premier B2B Podcast-as-a-Service company. Caspian creates both nonfiction and fiction series for B2B companies. If you want a fiction series check out our new offering - The Business Thriller - Hollywood style storytelling for B2B. Learn more at CaspianStudios.com.
In today’s episode, you heard from Ian Faison (CEO of Caspian Studios) and Meredith Gooderham (Senior Producer). Remarkable was produced this week by Meredith Gooderham, mixed by Scott Goodrich, and our theme song is “Solomon” by FALAK.
Create something remarkable. Rise above the noise.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
What do a marketer and a racecar driver have in common? You’re about to find out.
One thing we can say is that going as fast as you can leads to burnout. That’s one of the things we’re talking about in this episode.
We’re taking marketing lessons from the 1990 Tom Cruise flick Days of Thunder with the help of our special guest, Director of Content Marketing at Fictiv, Ricky Frohnerath.
Together, we talk about being strategic instead of fast, speaking the same language as your team, and building contingency plans in case your campaigns don’t go as expected.
About our guest, Ricky Frohnerath
Ricky Frohnerath is Director of Content Marketing for San Francisco-based Fictiv, leading comprehensive content strategy and execution for all marketing campaigns, across all funnel stages and audiences. He specializes in building and managing cross-functional marketing teams for manufacturing and technology organizations. He's the A proponent of agile marketing methodology, servant leadership, self-management principles, and empowerment, his focus is on people first, then process, and then technology. A longtime resident of the Tampa Bay area, his education includes the Pinellas County Center for the Arts, St. Petersburg College, and the University of South Florida. Ricky is an amateur racing driver and avid enthusiast of electric vehicles, who believes in the power of uniting personal and professional values to drive positive change. Thus, he's passionate about accelerating sustainability by sparking and sharing conversations with leaders in electrification, motorsport, and industry.
What B2B Companies Can Learn From Days of Thunder:
Quotes
*”I think it's fairly common for there to be conflict, especially between marketing and sales. One of the ways that you can overcome this is by having a shared language. Understand and adopt the KPIs that the sales team are going after. So, for example, one area where marketing and sales become misaligned is marketing likes to talk about big metrics, like impressions, eyeballs, even things like conversions. But these are KPIs that really don't translate well into the sales world. Like they are interested in leads and they're keeping an eye on sales and revenue and things like that. So make those metrics, your metrics and understand how the marketing activities roll into those KPIs. It's not to say that you don't keep track of impressions and a lot of other things that kind of get labeled as vanity metrics, but understand how you go from an impression down into revenue.”
*”If you're overdriving the tires, you're effectively leading to burnout. I think the same is true when we think about high performance teams. The best that somebody can perform is at the limit of their abilities. There is no 110%. You can only do the best that you can at the peak of your ability. You can't give that extra 10%. So forcing you to do that is actually going to have a detrimental effect. So I think that's super important to keep in mind for marketing teams.”
*”Marketers in general just need to have a very good understanding of who you're connecting with, who you're marketing to. And I think in general we do a pretty good job of that. I think that authenticity is so important for a very targeted audience and especially one that is extremely cognizant of inauthenticity.”
Time Stamps
[0:55] Meet Ricky Frohnerath, Director of Content Marketing at Fictiv
[7:05] Behind the Scenes of Days of Thunder
[12:32] Passion Projects and Marketing Lessons
[21:35] The Story of Days of Thunder
[23:44] Marketing Lessons from Days of Thunder
[25:33] Planning and Agility in Marketing
[28:40] Communication and Trust in Teams
[32:54] Burnout and High Performance
Links
Connect with Ricky on LinkedIn
Learn more about Fictiv
About Remarkable!
Remarkable! is created by the team at Caspian Studios, the premier B2B Podcast-as-a-Service company. Caspian creates both nonfiction and fiction series for B2B companies. If you want a fiction series check out our new offering - The Business Thriller - Hollywood style storytelling for B2B. Learn more at CaspianStudios.com.
In today’s episode, you heard from Ian Faison (CEO of Caspian Studios) and Meredith Gooderham (Senior Producer). Remarkable was produced this week by Meredith Gooderham, mixed by Scott Goodrich, and our theme song is “Solomon” by FALAK.
Create something remarkable. Rise above the noise.
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There’s an athlete right now that uses, knows and loves your product.
So why aren’t you partnering with them to promote your brand?
The global sports sponsorship market is expected to grow to almost $108 billion by 2030.
And there’s around $1.3B in projected revenue this year from pro women athlete sponsorships.
Feel like you’re missing out yet? The message is clear: sponsor a pro woman athlete (or two).
In this episode, we’re talking about B2B marketing lessons from professional women athlete sponsorships with the help of our special guest, PARITY CEO Leela Srinivasan.
Together, we talk about experimenting with new channels, finding your match, and much more.
About our guest, Leela Srinivasan
Leela Srinivasan took the reins as CEO in May 2023, when Parity had amassed a network of over 800 women athletes and paid out over $2 million in sponsorships. Under her leadership, the company is poised to increase both numbers exponentially – and become a household name – as it enters its next phase in the fight against gender pay disparity in sports.
Prior to joining Parity, Leela served as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for three-high-growth companies: digital payments provider Checkout.com; Momentive, the maker of SurveyMonkey; and recruiting software company Lever. She developed her initial passion for community, customer centricity and data-driven marketing earlier in her marketing career at LinkedIn and OpenTable. She serves on the board of Upwork and on the board of advisors for the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where she earned her MBA.
Leela lives in North Carolina with her husband Joel and three middle-school girls. There are no dull moments.
What B2B Companies Can Learn From Pro Women Athlete Sponsorships:
Quotes
*”When you get those people, those athletes, those influencers talking very naturally about something that they find joy in or that they believe in, it's just another level of awesomeness when it comes to ambassadorship or testimonial.”
*”There are so many stories waiting to be told. If you're willing to be creative about the types of athlete that you work with, there are always athletes that can be within budget that can do some incredible storytelling for you.”
*”I always had some money in what I called my rainy day fund or my slush fund. That budget was mine to make discretionary investments where I wanted to try things, where maybe the ROI was less proven or the path was a little less trodden but it was worth the opportunity, worth that risk to try something different because, God forbid you just become this terrible vanilla marketer that is doing the same as everybody else. You have to find ways to break through. I mean, that's the fun part of marketing. Why wouldn't you? So I always had some experimentation budget just tucked away for when these types of opportunities came up.”
Time Stamps
[0:55] Meet Leela Srinivasan, CEO at PARITY
[2:03] Leela's Journey to PARITY
[5:17] Understanding Pro Women Athlete Sponsorships
[9:55] History of Pro Women Athlete Sponsorships
[14:27] Current Landscape and Opportunities
[24:07] The Gender Disparity in Sports
[24:51] The Influence of Women Athletes on Marketing
[27:00] Creative Campaigns and Athlete Partnerships
[28:16] The Importance of Originality in Marketing
[29:56] Investing in Women's Sports
[32:38] Engaging with Brands and Athletes
[35:37] The Power of Authentic Athlete Endorsements
Links
Connect with Leela on LinkedIn
Learn more about PARITY
About Remarkable!
Remarkable! is created by the team at Caspian Studios, the premier B2B Podcast-as-a-Service company. Caspian creates both nonfiction and fiction series for B2B companies. If you want a fiction series check out our new offering - The Business Thriller - Hollywood style storytelling for B2B. Learn more at CaspianStudios.com.
In today’s episode, you heard from Ian Faison (CEO of Caspian Studios) and Meredith Gooderham (Senior Producer). Remarkable was produced this week by Jess Avellino, mixed by Scott Goodrich, and our theme song is “Solomon” by FALAK.
Create something remarkable. Rise above the noise.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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