John Steele

Funnel Vision

Business EN ↓ 4 episodes

Funnel Vision explores the world of marketing technology, lead generation, automation and AI. Our mission is to level the playing field, allowing startups and small businesses to achieve similar results to their larger counterparts through smart technology solutions. We'll talk to founders, strategists, tool-makers and boundary breakers. We'll share some hands-on tutorials, and explore the trends and emerging technologies our industry can't stop talking about.

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John Steele

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Fighting Slop and Earning Trust: How Agency Value Is Changing In The Age of AI 03.07.2026 56:06

Today's guest is Woden Founder & Chief Storyteller Ed Lynes. A Chief Storyteller sounds like a strange title, but Woden is not your average agency. They specialize in strategic narrative and, to hear Ed tell it, a novel approach to narrative can shift an agency's relationship with AI completely, to something that centers your strengths and increases your value. I first wanted to have Ed on as...

How CRM systems lost salespeople...and what to build to get them back. 17.06.2026 32:00

Today's guest is RepData Senior VP of Sales Kyle Gollins. Kyle has watched sales transform from a rolodex and a stack of business cards to hyper-targeted email sequences and Zoom calls, only to return to business lunches and in-office coffee chats. And in that time, he says, CRMs have become a nuisance. In this conversation, we explore how systems built for sales lost salespeople, the patchwork of...

The 'Silver Tsunami' is coming. Can we count on AI to save us? 08.05.2026 44:13

The following conversation was recorded on April 30th as a preview to Philly Tech Week. For more info on Siah Labs and the events of Philly Tech Week, check out the links below. Siah Labs co-founders / husband-and-wife team Jordan and Deanna Blackwell are in a crowded space--AI-centered agency serving small business. But the Siah framework focuses less on growth and instead talks about things like...

This founder left HubSpot. Check out what he built to replace it. 15.04.2026 32:45

Josh Mamroud is the Founder and CEO of Documint, a SaaS document automation platform with a tiered, usage-based growth model. Josh recently left HubSpot, which was managing the company's CMS, CRM, Chat and more. This was obviously not an easy decision and one that took a lot of careful planning and experimentation to get right. Now, Josh has agreed to share that journey with us, including details...