Going Forward

Candice Shantell Patrick is a passionate, and highly decorated attorney and entrepreneur specializing in business and personal law. Candice founded her law firm, Shantell Law, PLLC, where she offers legal services for business, personal injury, and sports and entertainment related incidents. Candice gives each client her all--even if it means late nights and early mornings! Attorney Patrick receiv...

Founder and CEO of Frontify, Roger Dudler has proudly led his organization to the forefront of brand management, with a powerful and holistic cloud-based experience. Since Frontify’s beginnings in 2013, he’s been the driving force behind Frontify’s mission and vision, empowering 2,500+ brands around the world to create, thrive, and evolve. In prior experience, Roger worked as a software engineer a...

David Bates is the founder, CEO, and Creative Director at Bokeh, a global integrated creative agency built to craft brand stories that drive connections and bridge the gap between traditional and digital media. David started Bokeh as a side-hustle when he was 22 years old and working for Google as a video producer, not too long after Bokeh’s inception, David left google to pursue Bokeh full-time....

CEO & Founder Erik Huberman launched Hawke Media in 2014. Now valued at over $100 million, Hawke Media is the fastest growing marketing consultancy agency in the United States. Prior to its launch, Erik successfully founded, grew, and sold two e-commerce companies by the age of 26. Erik has since continued to strategically expand his business portfolio inclusive of a handful of company acquisi...

Have you ever wondered where lawyers go for legal help? Look no further than South Carolina's own Barbara Seymour. As part of the firm Clawson & Staubes, Barbara assists lawyers and law firms in ensuring ethical compliance, while also handling cases involving lawyer and judicial disciplinary enforcement, Bar admission, and reinstatement. She sits down with our host, Eric Elliott, to discuss th...

With the ongoing conversation around gun control, the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe v. Wade, the war in Ukraine and even the recently concluded Johnny Depp/Amber Heard civil trial, brands are under more pressure now than ever to respond to current events quickly and have the “right” opinion. Today, it’s difficult for many brands to keep up, and hasty responses often leave their authenticity hang...

Jonathan Yaffe is the Co-Founder & CEO of AnyRoad, the leading  Experience Relationship Management (ERM) platform enabling global brands  to properly measure, scale, and implement their experiential marketing  campaigns. AnyRoad helps companies create brand loyalty, change consumer  behavior, and better understand their brand associations by providing  them with data i...

Simon Leslie is the founder and CEO of Ink, a global travel media publishing and technology company that publishes 33 inflight magazines for 24 airlines worldwide. With partners like: Virgin Atlantic, United, Spirit, and Norwegian; Simon became a world record holder for the amount of inflight magazines he’s launched and published, with over 250 Million copies of magazines to date. Simon’s business...

Frost Li is San Francisco-based entrepreneur, software engineer, and computer scientist. She was formerly Head of Growth at Wish, and has provided consultation  to unlock and scale growth opportunities with ML and data-driven strategies   for companies like Teespring, Lyft, Pinterest,& Rappi, as well as software engineering at Twitter, Apple, & Google. Frost is the Founder &...

Jim DeRogatis is the man who first received the infamous R. Kelly sex  tape, breaking the story to the public. He was a music critic at the  Chicago Sun-Times in 2000 when he received an anonymous fax tipping him  off: Kelly, the tipster wrote, “had a problem with young girls.”  DeRogatis investigated that tip and found that multiple lawsuits had  been filed against Kelly...

Gina Michnowicz is CEO and Executive Creative Director of The Craftsman Agency, where she focuses on creating magical moments through custom experiential marketing and immersive storytelling for B2B and B2C brands. With past clients including Cisco, Disney, Paramount, and Microsoft, Gina has led projects from concept to delivery of immersive digital experiences, experiential installations, website...

Kyle Jepson is the Sr. Inbound Professor at HubSpot. He teaches free online courses at HubSpot Academy, the worldwide leader in inbound marketing and sales education. He has created certification courses on inbound sales, sales enablement, sales management, and HubSpot’s sales software. He also makes tutorials and new feature update videos for Hubspot on his LinkedIn, which has impressively garner...

Kezia Israel is the Owner and Verbal Identity Strategist at Kizkopop™ , a Newark, NJ-based company that simplifies jargon-filled messages for FinTech brands to achieve clear communication without confusion. Growing up in her home country of Jamaica, Kezia always had a natural affinity for the visual arts by expressing herself through the medium of drawing and graphic design. After graduating with...

David Bates is the founder, CEO, and Creative Director at Bokeh, a global integrated creative agency built to craft brand stories that drive connections and bridge the gap between traditional and digital media. David started Bokeh as a side-hustle when he was 22 years old and working for Google as a video producer, not too long after Bokeh’s inception, David left google to pursue Bokeh full-time....

Based in the Netherlands, Nick Bailey is a highly decorated creative strategist and digital marketing expert. Named by Adweek in 2011 as one of the world's top 10 creative minds in digital, Nick has held strategic and creative leadership positions at AKQA, Isobar, and DigitasLBi, and picked up over 100 international awards along the way. In 2018, Nick became the creative partner & CEO of “futu...

Ryan Baggott is a Digital Marketing expert with over a decade of digital marketing, social media, and content creation experience. Based in the Hilton Head Island/Savannah area, there is no other consultant who has generated more sales, leads, engagements, or video views in the social media industry. In 2020, Ryan released his revolutionary app called ‘Tap The Table’, an AI & Automation Softwa...

Andy Nairn is one of the world's most respected brand strategists, and the co-founder of one of the UK's most successful creative agencies: Lucky Generals. Named after Napoleon's famous quote "I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good", the agency has more than lived up to its name, securing work with Amazon, Virgin Atlantic, Yorkshire Tea and many more. Lucky Generals has...

IN THIS EPISODE In 2021 The AdCast Podcast had some milestone episodes and insightful interviews with some hard hitting guests, and in this special episode we wanted to give you our best moments of the year! Enjoy. ABOUT VIP MARKETING VIP Marketing is a digital advertising agency based in Charleston, SC. Our mission is to separate our clients from the crowd. We commit to serve and deliver their ma...

Blair Enns is the founder and CEO of Win Without Pitching, the sales training and coaching program for creative professionals. Since founding Win Without Pitching in 2001 (as a consulting practice, initially), Blair has advised hundreds of design firms, advertising agencies and other creative practices on six continents on how to deprogram themselves from the standard approach to winning new busin...

On todays episode we are going to spend some time with Pinterest.  Our Guest, Lindsay Shearer is a "Serial Entrepreneur" & traffic generation specialist who has helped businesses scale from 6 to 9 figures in sales per month using only Pinterest Some of the topics discussed are: When is Pinterest the best avenue for your social presence? What kind of businesses could benefit from posting o...

It's a great day for NCAA players, but it's an even better day to be a listener of The AdCast Podcast. Because we welcome our first return guest, SC State Senator Marlon Kimpson. He is back to speak with us about the new ruling that allows NCAA players to earn money off of their name and likeness for the first time ever. It's a historic decision that will lead to big changes in all of college spor...

It's one thing to say what you do, but it's another thing to sing it. We invited "The Jingle Dude" Cary Reich to the AdCast Podcast to talk about the effect that a musical signature can have on your business. We go over the effectiveness of jingles, and the creative impression they leave on their respective markets. Stay tuned a for a conversation that's both super fun and super informative. This...

The need for content in today's world is at an all time high. Many businesses understand the importance of providing relevant, relatable content to their audience. But what do you do when your business needs outweigh your ability to produce high quality content? The answer is simple, hire a professional. That's the philosophy behind Verblio, The blog and content writing service that over 1500 busi...

If you've never listened to an episode of The AdCast then this is the one to start. We talk with the one and only Chris Do. Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of The Futur—an online education platform with the mission of teaching 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love.  Chris is a leading voice for Creati...

Welcome to the episode 4 of the AD Cast : The Podcast for Marketers and Advertisers. Host Eric Elliott speaks with Attorney Ken Harrell from the Joye Law Firm, a Personal Injury Law Firm based out of South Carolina. They speak about: Personal Injury Lawyer Advertising Doing what is right by the Profession How much law firm marketing has changed in the last 5 years The challenges and opportunities...