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Join Darren as he chats with Darren Revell, Director of RecruiterWeb and Founder of Recruitzy about: 1. The future of job boards 2. How the algorithm can be used to recruiters benefit 3. The best places to find active vs. passive candidates 4. How the pandemic has affected recruitment companies' spend

Join Darren as he chats with Sara Kavanagh , Head of SEO at Venn Digital about: 1. Producing content based on the data you have 2. The impact of badly written job adverts for SEO 3. Gated vs. Ungated content for SEO benefits 4. How AI is and will affect SEO

Join Darren as he chats with Ashley Jones , Director of marketingSHOWCASE about: What makes a good event Why you should use your personal brand to promote your events Whether the best events are on Thursdays The future of events being hybrid or technology influenced

Join Darren as he chats with Derry Holt , CEO of OneUp Sales about: 1. The ultimate sales motivation techniques 2. What makes a good company culture - hint, it depends on your people 3. Replicating the office sales competition in a work-from-home business 4. How to get everyone posting content on social - gamification of course!

Join Darren as he chats with Will Pearce , Founder and Director at Orange Appointments about: 1. Building your niche 2. Proactive BD to make your own luck 3. The perfect BD recipe 4. Taking the jump to start your own business

Join Darren as he chats with Cinzia Ricciardone , Product Director at SmartRecruiters about: 1. How to be a successful product manager 2. Involving both marketing and sales in the product... early 3. What the recruitment market is missing 4. Women in tech

Join Kieron as he chats with Rowena Wilding, Marketing Consultant at Wilding Marketing about: 1. Imposter syndrome when starting your own agency 2. What AI means for marketers 3. The rise of fractional marketers 4. Aligning marketing with your businesses goals first

Join Darren as he chats with David Hathiramani, CEO of Talisman Tech about: 1. How AI won't take over from humans 2. The 360 model is too broad 3. What his 10-head agency 'Dream Team' looks like 4. Why marketing will be hired sooner due to AI

Join Darren as he chats with Matt Comber, CEO of SourceFlow about: 1. The timelines for creating your first website 2. The misconceptions about websites 3. Where to start with your new website 4. The future of recruitment marketing

Join Darren as he chats with Ian Moyse, Chief Revenue Officer - OneUp Sales,  about his view on the sales and marketing departments and his journey from tech to sales. Ian originally started in tech having been interested in it as a child, years go by and the sales game calls to Ian, years later directing sales teams, guest blogging, building direct/indirect/inside sales teams across the U.K...

Join Darren as he speaks to Lauren B Jones, Founder of Leap Consulting Solutions, about her journey from musician to starting her own business in the middle of the pandemic and useful advice she can give to those just starting their careers. Lauren originally started as a musician till she met with a sales rep whilst working as a 'Kelly Girl' who signed her up to be a recruiter, starting as a temp...

Do you feel imposter syndrome, self-doubt or confusion over building your personal brand as a marketer? These are just a few of the things Darren chats about with Daniel Evans from JCW Group. Daniel talks us through how to overcome imposter syndrome and turn it into a driver for success.    Going into all things marketing, we talk about Dan's relationship with his consultants, how managi...

Join Darren as he speaks to Ramli John , Managing Director at ProductLed. The pair dig deeper into what ProductLed really means and the do's and don'ts that go with it. Ramli started his career in marketing before becoming a consultant and finally landing at ProductLed back in 2020. You can also follow along on Ramli's journey with ProductLed in the highly informative slack community and newslette...

Join Darren as he speaks to Jo Lee, Managing Director at Marmalade Marketing. Jo has been a marketer for 20 years, 16 of those within the recruitment sector. 4 years ago and 6 months after having her second baby, Jo decided to start up an agency - Marmalade Marketing as we say there's no right time to start a business. Darren is talking to Jo about her journey to being a business owner, her opinio...

Join Darren as he speaks to Ricky Wheeler, the Global Marketing Director at cube19 . Ricky has been doing marketing for 20 years, beginning his career at a web design company and running events as a DJ on the side. Both aligned into event management and marketing which turned into a marketing role at Broadbean for 8 years, where Ricky crossed paths with Darren. He is now the Global Marketing Direc...

Join Darren as he speaks to the CEO & Co-Founder at Staffing Future, Jack Copeland.  Having lived and breathed staffing technology for the past 15 years, a fellow ex-broadbeaner Jack started his career straight from school into a sales role crossing paths with Darren in the early 2000s. He worked at Broadbean for just shy of 10 years before moving out to the US to head up the US division....

In the season finale of Beer with Darren, I am joined by Kristie Perrotte talking all things automation and creating warm conversations. Kristie has 16 years of experience in recruitment marketing. She worked her way up and now owns her own business called Thrive which specialises in sales and marketing automation. Having worked at a large company, she was given a large budget to work with and try...

In this episode of Beer with Darren, I spoke to Robert Woodford from The Marketing Junction about marketing in-house vs. outsourcing and how to do effective marketing in recruitment businesses. The Marketing Junction offers outsourced marketing for recruitment businesses before this he worked at a variety of different recruitment companies over 20 years. He fell into recruitment, as many do but al...

In this episode of Beer with Darren, I spoke to Paul Rawson about scaling up businesses via marketing and the newly famous account-based marketing approach. He has been in marketing for 20 years. Starting out in retail and then moved internationally in 2005 working in China, the Middle East and Singapore. Entering recruitment in 2008 into Fircroft, growing the marketing team from 1 to 17 people. T...

In this episode of Beer with Darren, I spoke to Jemma Lea Bevan from Social Jems about social media marketing, lead generation and all things LinkedIn. Social Jems is a training, content and lead generation company. If people want to increase their online presence but don't know where to start they can either be trained or have it done for them. We've seen people buy from people, not products so b...

In this episode of Beer with Darren, I spoke to Kristina Finseth from Interseller as we discussed sales and marketing alignment for common growth goals and how to get 80%+ open rates on outreach email campaigns. Kristina started out in recruitment for the first 5 years of her career before she entered the B2B SaaS space. She landed at Interseller in January which is a platform for prospecting and...

Neal is a digital marketing consultant, author and speaker. He started his blog back in 2008 and published his first book via LinkedIn. He launched his podcast in 2013. His link to influencer marketing stems from finding the needs of his own market. He was getting a lot of questions about influencers and influencer marketing, but that marketers were getting misled with what both were. Every busine...

In this episode of Beer with Darren, I spoke to Coralie Fernando from Tiger Recruitment to discuss getting your sales team bought into marketing efforts and how crucial marketing is to business survival post-pandemic. Coralie started her career in Australia as a recruiter in Sydney before moving to Melbourne and joining a brand agency as an account manager. Both herself and the owner of the agency...

In this episode of Beer With Darren, I spoke to Ryan Pereus about cold calling techniques and how to get your sales and marketing teams aligned. Ryan is from Philadelphia on the east coast of the US. He is the CEO, founder of two firms, one is Pereus Marketing and that led onto his other firm Superhuman Prospecting . The second is where he spends most of his time giving outsourced business develop...

In this episode of Beer With Darren, I hosted James Warrack from SaveTrees, as we discuss his marketing strategy, cold-calling technique and lessons learnt from owning a business. SaveTrees does online timesheets specifically for recruitment agencies with the long-term idea of taking any paper-based products online. James history did not show an obvious link to recruitment or online timesheets but...