The Implement Podcast

The Implement Podcast

By Badis KhalfallahBusinessManagement
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The Implement Podcast episodes

  • #50: Larry Sharpe on The Oprah Effect | Brand Congruence | Market Leadership

    For this 50th episode, I had the chance to chat with Larry Sharpe. Larry was candidate for the Libertarian Party nomination for Vice President of the United States in 2016 and was the Libertarian nominee for Governor of New York in 2018. Larry is the Host of a popular podcast: The Sharpe Way. He is also a business consultant and trainer with The Neo Sage Group.

    In this episode, we talked about:

    • Building trust as a leader by being consistent and The Oprah Effect
    • The importance of being seen
    • The difference between Sales/Marketing vs Operations
    • Congruence as the key to effective branding
    • A simple 3-questions exercise to define your brand
    • A simple 3-questions exercise to define your customer
    • How marketing is about managing expectations
    • Getting to the top 1% of your industry by curating a niche: big fish small pond.
    • The story behind running for Governor of New York in a third party
    • How the key to leadership is in voluntarism, not authority
    • Building leadership locally or in a specific department before organizing change at a higher level.
    • How great politics and great marketing start with the mandate to serve people.
    • Larry provides training, coaching, and consulting in many industries. He has trained and coached hundreds of entrepreneurs, executives, leaders, lawyers, and reps from dozens of companies all over the world.


      In addition, Larry has been an interim senior executive for companies in times of crisis; filling a senior post and helping them find a replacement. He consults with law firms for jury selection and trial prep. Additionally, Larry consults on political campaigns regarding strategy and debate prep. He is also a professional speaker and has spoken at dozens of venues to a wide range of audiences throughout the US, Europe, and Asia.

      50 min
    • #49: Marie-Anne Dagues, From 0 To 8-Figures in 3 years: The Story, The Product and The Marketing Strategy Behind this Growth

      For this 49th episode, I had the chance to chat with Marie-Anne Dagues, Chief Marketing Officer at Perifit, a French startup company creator of a connected solution for pelvic floor rehabilitation used by 100.000 women worldwide.

      In this episode, we talked about:

      • A company and a product on a mission to help women
      • The story of a company with an 8-figures turnover in 3 years
      • The marketing strategy behind their success
      • Organic virality and having entire Facebook groups built around your product that you didn’t create
      • Managing sensitive messaging and handling a politically charged product
      • Transitioning from big brand management to tactical startup operations
      • The millennial in all of us
      • How marketers leave "a piece of their soul" with what they sell
      • Marie-Anne has spent the past 8 years in a media agency, climbing the ladder from display buyer to Business Director and team lead for one of the largest global luxury groups.

        She had managed small and large teams and has learned over the course of those years to navigate continuous turnover, stress, mean clients, and internal politics.

        Also a young mom, Marie-Anne decided mid-2020 to turn that page and to dedicate her time, energy, and heart to a cause that she holds dear: women's health, and joined Perifit in December as CMO.

        There, she is leading e-commerce, acquisition, branding, wholesale, PR, and communities.


        41 min
      • #48: Carl Potak on What To Learn As A Founder | How To Run Idea Validation

        For this 48th episode, I had the chance to chat with Carl Potak, Founder & CEO @ StartupDevKit, an online incubator and accelerator platform for startups.

        In this episode, we talked about:

        • What changed in startup building since 2007
        • The increased competitiveness of finding startup opportunities
        • The importance of startup education as a founder and what you should learn about.
        • Building an audience VS building a product
        • How to properly run idea validation
        • StartupDevKit, is top-ranked by Business Insider and was developed entirely by Carl.

          He's a serial entrepreneur, marketer, writer, and developer who’s founded multiple startups, served as marketing director for two tech organizations, and has been in the startup industry since 2007.

          Carl is the primary author of the StartupDevKit blog, which is ranked within the top 100 startup blogs according to Feedspot, and his articles are used to help teach students about startup development and growth in universities across the United States.

          Carl is also working on completing his book, titled Startup Survival Secrets, which is about the top 20 reasons why startups fail, their root causes, and how to avoid them.

          Follow Carl on Twitter and Insta: @carlpotak

          44 min
        • #47: Audrey Saccone on Product Launch Strategy & Marketing

          For this 47th episode, I had the chance to chat with Audrey Saccone, a marketing and launch strategist supporting 7- and 8-figure course and membership creators. Audrey is founder of Digital Obbligato, a marketing and launch strategy consultancy.

          In this episode, we talked about:

          • Launching an online course
          • Mastering the marketing channels for a tight launch
          • Marketing live courses from Marie Forleo and Sophia Amoruso
          • The importance of reassuring the audience with testimonials
          • The importance of talking about yourself and who’s giving the course when launching a course.
          • Email marketing during launch period
          • Driving home urgency and FOMO
          • How to make waiting lists successful (with freebies, sharing, giving…)
          • The conversion rate of waiting lists
          • The path to becoming your own boss
          • Following small content producers for more value.
          • Audrey Saccone is the founder of Digital Obbligato, which helps female entrepreneurs develop their marketing and launch strategies.

            Following 5.5 years in the non-profit sector, Audrey moved into the online marketing space where she's worked for major players like Marie Forleo and Sophia Amoruso.

            She's excited to take the tried-and-true methods she's learned from working with the best in the business to help up-and-coming entrepreneurs find success with strategies that work and are the most authentic to them.

            Follow Audrey on Insta: audreysaccone

            Follow Digital Obbligato on Insta: digitalobbligato

            38 min
          • #46: Greg Holtzman on Successful Partnership Marketing | Generating Leads in Virtual Events | Persistence

            For this 46th episode, I had the chance to chat with Greg Holtzman, Director of Partnership Marketing & Communications at Brainbase, a tech startup that helps globally recognized brands manage and monetize their intellectual property.

            ‍In this episode, we talked about:

            • The licensing industry
            • Marketing to licensing companies
            • Being the first marketing hire after a seed round
            • Breaking into an enterprise market with a traditional/old school target audience
            • Banking on virtual events
            • Brand/talent partnerships
            • Mixing celebrity marketing with PR
            • How to make partnerships successful and always asking for more
            • What to ask for in a partnership with a celebrity
            • Finding a marketing job in the sports world industry
            • The persistence of job hunting and applying 5 times to the same company.
            • Previously, Greg was a Senior Account Executive at Endeavor Global Marketing, where he managed brand partnerships, PR, and influencer marketing for clients including DICK'S Sporting Goods, Under Armour, Apothic Wine, and New Amsterdam Vodka.

              Follow Greg on Twitter: @gregholtzman

              Follow Greg on Insta: @nycgreg

              42 min
            • #45: Dennis Consorte on How to Find Incremental Success as a Small Business Owner

              For this 45th episode, I had the chance to chat with Dennis Consorte, digital marketing strategist & consultant. Dennis is Founder of Consorte Marketing, Snackable Solutions, and content creator for Digital.com.

              In this episode, we talked about:

              • Growing a company too fast and burning out
              • Transitioning from the agency model to a smaller scale consultancy
              • Rebooting process after a big burnout
              • The importance of your relationship with others and being happy on a personal level
              • What small business owners should focus on and what they should check out.
              • How to build trust and loyalty with your clients
              • Focusing on being 1% better every day and incremental success
              • Dennis believes that small businesses and entrepreneurs give people hope for a brighter future.

                He has twenty years of experience as a digital marketer and sold his first e-commerce business in 2004.

                He now works as a marketing consultant who helps small businesses and startups to drive traffic, conversion, and retention.

                He does these using tactics like SEO, paid search, affiliate marketing, email marketing, social media marketing, and storytelling.

                Dennis enjoys bringing stagnant companies on journeys where they are transformed into successful businesses with purpose and direction.

                He’s ready to meet you where you are and to take you where you want to be. He’s a practicing stoic, lives in New York, and dreams of owning a plot of land in Wyoming.

                He hopes to get back into snowboarding, the gym, and social interaction.

                Follow Dennis on Twitter and Insta: @dennisconsorte

                46 min
              • #44: Vivien Conway on Instagram Growth in 2021

                For this 44th episode, I had the chance to chat with Vivien Conway, Co-founder at Ace the Gram - an Instagram growth agency. Viv is an expert in Instagram growth and engagement. 

                In this episode, we talked about:

                • Starting on Insta back in 2014
                • The importance of having a paid strategy & a paid funnel
                • Evaluating how much content you can post and how much value you can provide.
                • How to collaborate with smaller accounts to create content
                • Insta stories and how to use them
                • Reels and how to use them
                • Giveaways & how to rock them
                • Hashtags strategies
                • Taking action and testing
                • We published an Ebook on Instagram growth in 2021 inspired by this conversation with Viv. You can find the ebook here.

                  39 min
                • #43: Fallon Paul on Building a Marketing Agency During The Pandemic | The 3 Golden Rules for Client Management

                  For this 43rd episode, I had the chance to chat with Fallon Paul, Founder of Paul & Léon Marketing Strategists, a boutique marketing agency.

                  In this episode, we talk about:

                  • Launching a marketing consultancy in 2020 during a global pandemic
                  • Launching and growing a charity
                  • Finding the motivation to grow a project
                  • Finding chemistry with your clients
                  • The 3 Golden Rules before picking up a new client
                  • Gathering resources and data to take your clients on a journey.
                  • Having held senior positions at Britvic PLC and William Grant & Sons in the UK.

                    Fallon has worked on more consumer, digital, and media brands you can shake an iPhone at.

                    Living and breathing Marketing for over 12 years she has now launched her own Marketing Consultancy - Paul & Leon Consultants who have found their niche between classic marketing principles and the digital modern world.

                    Using these skills has propelled forward-thinking brands into a positive position, both online and offline for B2B and B2C clients.

                    Follow Fallon on Instagram here: fallon_sabrina



                    35 min
                  • #42: Niccolo Zapponi on Marketing Technology: The Frontiers, Adoption, Impact on Organizations & Customer Experience

                    For this 42nd episode, I had the chance to chat with Niccolo Zapponi, Senior Manager at Salesforce Anywhere Labs, a real-time collaboration tool by Salesforce.

                    In this episode, we talked about:

                    • Stories from deploying marketing cloud for large retailers
                    • Fixing the fragmented customer experience
                    • Digital transformation and bringing teams and technology together
                    • The topic of Integration and Tech adoption/literacy
                    • The Tech Frontiers in Marketing
                    • Reading data and making decisions based on data
                    • AI for e-commerce and predictive marketing
                    • Killing silos with new collaboration tools
                    • Solving bad customer experience with technology
                    • Nick is a senior product manager at Salesforce.

                      Over the past five years, he has worked with some of Europe’s largest retailers and e-commerce businesses in developing a marketing technology and CRM strategy and more recently looking after collaboration solutions in Europe.

                      Nick is passionate about delivering hyper-personalized customer experiences, both digitally and in-store, and loves working on cutting-edge technologies.

                      He has had experience working with artificial intelligence, real-time optimization, and data management platforms.


                      40 min
                    • #41: George Neel on How To Talk About Sustainability As A Brand | What B2B Should Learn From B2C

                      For this 41rst episode, I had the chance to chat with George Neel, Group Director of Marketing & Communications at Accsys Technologies. Accys makes high-performance wood products that are extremely durable and stable, opening new opportunities to build sustainably.

                      In this episode, we talked about:

                      • Talking about sustainability genuinely as a brand
                      • Sustainability as a driver for consumer decision-making
                      • Greenwashing
                      • The role of companies in educating consumers about climate change
                      • Moving from B2C to B2B
                      • The book “How Brands Grow” from Byron Sharp
                      • How B2B marketer should think more like B2C marketers
                      • Working for L’Oréal
                      • How to know if you have cultural fit with a company
                      • George is an international marketing director with a background in Fast Moving Consumer Goods gained both at L'Oréal and Diageo.

                        Having had far too much fun working on brands such as Smirnoff, Tanqueray and Guinness, he now leads the marketing and communications function for Accsys Technologies, the world leader in sustainable, high-performance wood brands Accoya and Tricoya.

                        As a senior leader in a values-led organisation with a corporate purpose articulated as 'changing wood to change the world', he is an avid proponent in the circular economy and the wider sustainability movement.

                        In his spare time, he enjoys drinking and learning about wine, as well as taking advantage of all that London has to offer.

                        43 min

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                      This podcast is produced by Implement and hosted by co-founder Badis Khalfallah.