The Rethink Marketing Podcast is a quick hitting, punchy conversation around all things marketing and sales. Each week your hosts, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries, tackle topics about advertising, branding, strategy, business growth, tactical execution, and more. They are joined by industry experts with insider, influencer, or celebrity status. This is where we take a step outside the echo chamber to RETHINK & REAPPLY everyday assumptions around marketing, sales, and business. If you have topic recommendations or guests you would like to hear from, we’d love to hear form you! Email us at take5@reed5group.com Visit us at https://www.rethinkmarketingpodcast.com
On episode #137 of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric and Colin explore the pros and cons of empowering employees to build audiences online. Many of your team members may want to market themselves to create additional employment security, so what should marketing and business leaders do? Letting your people build personal brands can help businesses reach…
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On episode #136 of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric and Colin dive back into the topic of Fractional Marketing. We discuss the importance of expectations, measuring success, setting clear checkpoints, and understanding that in a “Fractional” relationship there must be a beginning, middle and end. We also weigh a couple questions in the process. Is it expertise or execution…
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On episode #135 of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric and Colin dive into the ideas of hyper-targeting, myopic segmentation, and the risks of shortsighted advertising. If 3% of you target audience is ready to buy today, what about the other 97%? Instead of trying to clone your top 5% of customers, what if you pursue lookalikes of the…
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On episode #134 of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric and Colin are joined by author, speaker, media personality, and marketing strategist Laura Reis. Laura explains why perception matters more than reality, which is counterintuitive to most marketing leaders. She explains the important differences between positioning and branding, and provides guidance for new and established brands. With so…
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On episode #133 of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric and Colin emerge from the depths of antisocial technology and have a lively conversation about the human side of automation. Do you have an automation strategy? Is it a “customer first” approach to automation or a “savings first” approach? If our people are a competitive advantage, why…
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On episode #132 of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric and Colin discuss a topic that used to be paramount to a successful career in sales: creating a sense of obligation. With a rise in the acceptance of socialist and Marxist thought, is there still a place for marketers and sales leaders to instill a sense of…
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On episode #131 of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric and Colin are joined by Prof. Josh Gildea of the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University to explore channel design, segmentation, understanding decision making units (DMUs) and more! Marketers should be aware of every single touchpoint that customers have with our brands, and Josh unpacks how to…
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On episode #130 of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric and Colin discuss under-appreciated sources of innovation and how businesses can capitalize on them to create competitive advantage. Many innovation models can be broken into three basic steps: ideating, testing, and scaling. None of those three steps live exclusively within marketing, sales, or the executive team. Even sources outside the company…
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On episode #129 of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric and Colin kick over the echo chamber and attack some sales and marketing metrics myths. Measuring more is likely hurting your organization, so how do we rethink the right metrics? Productivity metrics likely don’t align with your revenue success metrics, so we have a few suggestions we think you’ll…
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