StrategyCast

“We forget that what made an ad great was not that it was cheap, it was that it was interactive.” Listen & Learn:

• Why interactive content is more important than ever.
• How interactive content helps brands cut through the overwhelming amount of information available in the marketplace.
• How just about anything on your website can be turned into interactive content.
• How strategic interactive content helps brands gain interest and intrigue with the buyer.
• How B2C companies can create more engagement with their customers with interactive content.
• The kinds of brands that can benefit the most from powerful interactive content strategies

Saksham Sharda is the creative director of Outgrow, a platform that lets marketers build and launch interactive calculators and viral quizzes that help engage your website visitors and generate more leads. Numbers-wise, they have over 5,000 paying users. They are #1 B2B Tech Company in New York according to G2 and HubSpot's fastest-growing app in 2019. Saksham specializes in marketing and web development, particularly in relation to interactivity and data science. Some of the interactive experiences he has designed have been featured on TrendHunter, ProductHunt, New York Marketing Association, Alibaba, TechCrunch, and Digimarcon Silicon Valley. He is also the host of the Marketer of the Month Podcast which has featured guests ranging from the co-founders of Wikipedia, Forbes influencers, and Pulitzer Prize winners.

 

Are you ready to deploy bold and brave content strategies that cut through the clutter? Call Lori Jones today. 303-678-7102.

 

 

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUTGROW, CLICK HERE.

TO FIND SAKSHAM SHARDA ON LINKEDIN, CLICK HERE.

“TikTok is making marketers into performing artists.” Listen & Learn:

• How TikTok changed -- and gained popularity -- during the pandemic.
• Why TikTok is an entertainment platform rather than a social platform.
• The platform’s product roadmap aimed at highly creative and engaged creators.
• How brands can find their authentic voice.
• How TikTok is a multi-sensory platform marketers need to master.
• On TikTok, content is king.

Mike Westgate manages TikTok’s US Growth Brand business, supporting hundreds of midmarket brand clients with unique marketing and advertising solutions. Before TikTok, Mike was VP of marketing at Briggo Coffee, the world's first robotic barista, responsible for B2B & B2C brand strategy, PR & communications, product marketing, and retail sales programs. Prior to Briggo, he was VP of Marketing for commercial real estate data marketplace startup, RealMassive. Prior, he led marketing and client engagements for W2O Group, a network of digital marketing agencies supporting Fortune 500 marketers with customer insights, strategy, and analytics. Before W2O Group, Mike spent nearly four years at Microsoft in Windows product marketing and SMB audience marketing roles, both in Seattle and in Austin. He began his career in CPG with five years at Sara Lee and two years at General Mills in a variety of sales and marketing roles.   

Content strategies that build your brand’s authentic voice. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

 

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT TIK TOK, CLICK HERE.

TO FIND MIKE WESTGATE ON LINKEDIN, CLICK HERE.

“It’s about solving, not selling.” Listen & Learn:

• Defining conversational marketing.
• The difference between pushing out messages vs. having a conversation.
• Why it’s important to solve customers’ issues vs. sell them a product or service.
• The importance of being a good listener.
• Including chatbots and live chats into your conversational marketing strategies.
• Meet people where they are in the buying cycle.

Amy Anderson is a widely respected and creative industry leader who sees the unique opportunity to leverage creativity to transform both brands and entire organizations across multiple sectors. She has a track record of driving value for clients through brand and growth strategies, designing teams, and innovative marketing strategies. Her work at Wild Coffee is focused on transforming businesses through a diverse set of disciplines and tailor-made teams that span brand strategy, digital marketing, PR, and marketing consulting. Amy has more than 25 years of experience at brands such as Calvin Klein and The New York Times Digital and drives strategy, creative and implementation across Wild Coffee’s diverse client roster that includes e-commerce, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and technology clients.

 

We deploy people-first strategies that are about solving problems. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

 

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WILD COFFEE, CLICK HERE.

TO FIND AMY ANDERSON ON LINKEDIN, CLICK HERE.

“An omnichannel approach is what we have to start looking at.” Listen & Learn:

• The five generations of consumers you need to know about.
• Insights into shifts in buyer behavior.
• Why everything needs to start with an integrated omnichannel approach.
• Getting back to basics and targeting individual consumers.
• Why a broad approach to media buying will ultimately cost you money.
• How your audience uses the same platform but for different reasons.

Mary Ann Pruitt, CEO of the Mosaic Media Agency, strives to empower others with the knowledge and tools to create a media buying strategy tailored perfectly to their business. She works hand-in-hand with other agency owners, business owners, marketing departments, and media buyers to provide a multi-pronged strategy to support marketing goals. Mary aims to educate contacts at all levels with insider knowledge and consulting services to help businesses streamline their processes, develop effective media buying teams, and provide support for new endeavors.

 

We take an omnichannel approach to our media buying strategies so that our clients’ marketing is integrated and targeted. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT MOSAIC, CLICK HERE.

TO FIND MARY ANN PRUITT ON LINKEDIN, CLICK HERE.

“Hitting a pause button and being willing to invest a little bit more time in taking a good look at all aspects…buys off in dividends right now.” Listen & Learn:

• Why it was so important to understand where the brand had come from before setting out to do a refresh.
• The six-phased strategic marketing process RMG and Avocet took together to refresh the brand.
• Coming to a consensus and defining the brand’s what, how, and why.
• How focusing on the WHY of what you do has the greatest impact on growth.
• How to grow long-term relationships with customers that ultimately build the long-term success of the brand

Kirsten Sladovnik is the director of marketing for RMG – Rocky Mountain Group. She is responsible for all aspects of RMG’s marketing efforts, including research, brand development and management, advertising campaigns, website development, digital and social content, business development tools, and customer communications.

 

Kirsten joined RMG in July of 2020 and led the company through a brand strategy and visioning process that resulted in the creation of a new vision statement and subsequent rebrand and logo redesign for the 35-year-old engineering and architecture company. She is directing the redesign of RMG’s website to launch this winter and the development and implementation of an integrated marketing program that entails strategic initiatives to share RMG’s great story through creative messaging and business generating campaigns.

 

Prior to joining RMG, Kirsten directed the communications program for the Environmental and Resource Management of HDR for 12 years and was responsible for strategy, campaigns, stakeholder engagement, campaigns, event planning, facilitation, change management, publications, and newsletters.

 

We deploy a six-phase strategic marketing process that drives awareness and impacts growth. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT RMG, CLICK HERE.

TO FIND KIRSTEN SLADNOVNIK ON LINKEDIN, CLICK HERE.

“No executive wakes up and says, ‘I’m going to create siloes within the organization,’ but it happens.” Listen & Learn:

• The top five things companies do that lead to misalignment between sales and marketing.
• The importance of understanding your audience from a psychological perspective.
• Why marketing can’t do it all and products don’t sell themselves.
• The two biggest mistakes marketing and sales teams make.
• The risks and threats of product sales and marketing misalignment.
• The three key questions he asks his clients to define and achieve alignment between sales and marketing teams

Erik Host-Steen, founder of SMP Alignment, helps business leaders achieve revenue goals by using simple and effective tools to align the company’s sales, marketing, and product functions to a market-centered purpose, vision, mission, or strategy. Erik’s deep and broad experience across sales, marketing, and product development comes from over 20 years of working in and studying these disciplines, within and for several B2B industries and companies, from small family-owned businesses to the biggest publicly traded enterprises. His favorites are B2B companies with engineers and scientists as associates and customers. He helps his clients understand why their marketing activities aren’t delivering enough sales qualified leads and getting them “unstuck when their sales, marketing, and product operations are not in alignment to a compelling strategy.”

 

Aligning sales and marketing teams to achieve big and bold results. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SMP ALIGNMENT, CLICK HERE.

TO FIND ERIK HOST-STEEN ON LINKEDIN, CLICK HERE.

 

 

“Finding new ways to be relevant is what we all have to do, especially in this climate.” Listen & Learn:

• The eight simple steps to incorporating humor into your marketing strategies.
• Why some brands are afraid to use humor in their marketing.
• Where humor works well, and where it doesn’t.
• How all brands, not matter the industry or the product, can incorporate humor into its marketing strategies.
• Connecting to your customers with humor.
• How to find a comedy writer.

 

Maggie Scivicque joined arc Thrift Stores as the marketing director in 2012 from Papa John’s Pizza of Colorado/Minnesota. As vice president of marketing for arc Thrift Store, she is responsible for the marketing efforts that help drive the success of the nonprofit. She and her team manage the social media, coordinate the television buys, and conceive and deploy the creative that supports the 31 arc Thrift Stores and 15 donation stations across the Front Range and Western Slope of Colorado. She is a strategic thinker, devoted to driving customer traffic to the stores and to increasing the transactions and sales that financially support the noble mission of arc Thrift Stores. Maggie is also host of Get Thrifty, a fun and informative podcast that was named in the Top 20 of thrift podcasts in the U.S. She is dedicated to the arc mission and brings infectious energy and enthusiasm to the work she does.

 

Bold and brave impact doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg! Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

 

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ARC THRIFT STORES, CLICK HERE.

TO FIND MAGGIE SCIVICQUE ON LINKEDIN, CLICK HERE.

 

 

“There isn’t a brand out there whose customers don’t like to smile.” Listen & Learn:

• The eight simple steps to incorporating humor into your marketing strategies.
• Why some brands are afraid to use humor in their marketing.
• Where humor works well, and where it doesn’t.
• How all brands, not matter the industry or the product, can incorporate humor into its marketing strategies.
• Connecting to your customers with humor.
• How to find a comedy writer.

Joseph Wilkins founded ProCreative Studios in 2000, where his team produced infomercials, TV spots and web sales videos. Joseph directed thousands of videos for clients including Google, Linkedin, McDonalds, Goldman Sachs, Chevrolet & Home Depot. As viewing habits shifted away from TV, Joseph launched FunnySalesVideos.com where his team creates attention-grabbing "viral style" sales videos that entertain viewers into action. With two decades experience, hundreds of millions of views and over $50 MILLION in tracked sales, Joseph enjoys sharing eight simple steps any business can follow to drive immediate online sales on his podcast "How To Make A Video Go Viral."  

To drive action, we create connection and relatability with the audiences our clients care about the most. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT FUNNYSALESVIDEOS.COM, CLICK HERE.

TO FIND JOSEPH WILKINS ON LINKEDIN, CLICK HERE.

 

 

“You can’t expect that the expected is going to do what you need it to do.” Listen & Learn:

• How thinking divergently fosters growth.
• Tying bold creative strategies to growth.
• How to become your clients’ creative agent.
• Why curiosity is the most important element of all creative strategies.
• What defines the creative mindset.
• Why big ideas don’t have to have big budget.
• Tips for embracing a creative. 

Ben Ingham is a brand and digital communications leader, a content marketing strategist, and the creative director and senior manager of marketing communications at Peraton. He is a MarCom Platinum Award-winning marketer specializing in integrated campaigns, content, and creative strategy. Over the course of his career, he has marketed complex multi-billion-dollar solutions for large companies as well as for a rising mid-sized enterprises across digital, programmatic, and traditional advertising, as well as through social media, print, earned media, and web channels. Ben is known for big ideas, creative energy, solid strategies, and an analytic eye that uses data to prove return on investment. He is a motivator, a mediator, and a collaborator looking to drive complex marketing campaigns that make an impact.

 

Bold and brave strategies for brands that are ready to push beyond the range of acceptability when it comes to creative. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PERATON, CLICK HERE.

TO FIND BEN INGHAM ON LINKEDIN, CLICK HERE.

“Every organization has an employee value proposition; you just need to be sure it’s the right one.” Listen & Learn:

• Why social media needs to speak to all your stakeholders.
• Storytelling as a way to get your customers and potential customers excited about your brand.
• Attracting the right customers vs. the number of customers.
• Defining your employee value proposition.
• Creating a culture and environment of belonging.
• The importance of incorporating goals for your brand’s diversity, equity, and inclusion tenets

Teresa Rehme is a communications manager for Ball Corporation. Her career has taken her from the aerospace and technologies business to the packaging and manufacturing sectors of the business. The company that you might associate with your grandmother’s canning jars has emerged as a world leader in sustainable aluminum beverage packaging (think cans and the new Ball Aluminum cup) and has a rapidly growing aerospace business, with hardware on the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope. Teresa’s work is mostly focused on the employee experience as part of the global communications team. With Ball continuing to grow at a rapid pace, Teresa has worked on an employee value proposition project to capture the internal Ball story and tell it externally in order to attract and retain new and diverse talent. She approaches employer marketing and all her work with curiosity and a desire to grow and learn.

 

Strategic storytelling that defines your brand ultimately impacts your marketing efforts to recruit and define your culture. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BALL CORPORATION, CLICK HERE.

TO FIND TERESA REHME ON LINKEDIN, CLICK HERE.