Leadership, Brand Strategy & Transformation - Minter Dialogue

Minter Dialogue Internet Show #41This interview is with Jared Schiffman, co-founder of two companies that work on the area of digital for business. One is an agency called Potion and the other is Perch Interactive, with a fabulously innovative technology to help enliven the retail space. In this interview, we discuss the challenges of implementing interactive technology in the retail shop and exch...

Minter Dialogue Internet Show #40This interview is with Rasmus Moller Nielsen, co-founder and CEO of Komfo, an IT company providing tools for social media, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Facebook marketing solutions among other services. In this interview we discuss the challenges of implementing social media marketing and some of the keys to overcoming them. We also talk about some of the tre...

Minter Dialogue Radio Show #39This interview is with Robin Block, founder of Red Sky Vision, an award winning production company based in England and specializing in thought leadership films, corporate communications and animations. I met Robin and experienced his talent at interviewing first hand to cut an interview in advance of a keynote speech I made at IABC. He has a vision and passion about...

Minter Dialogue Radio Show #38This interview is with Alex Luff, Managing Director of Corporate Edge, a branding and communications agency, specialized in B2B, whose mission is to put people at the heart of business communications. Their clients include many big brands such Shell, M&S, EDF, EADS, Cadbury and Jumeirah. In this interview, we discussed the need and ways to have brand advocacy within t...

Welcome to the Minter Dialogue Radio Show #37 Delphine Remy-Boutang is the founder and CEO of Social Bureau, a social business consultancy, created in 2012. With a most interesting background, particularly when Delphine was Worldwide Director of Social Media Marketing at IBM, where she worked for 11 years, she and I share a number of common passions as well as an Anglo-French background. Delphine...

Welcome to the Minter Dialogue Radio Show #36This interview is with Kevin Ryan, entrepreneur, business leader and angel investor. As CEO, he helped build DoubleClick basically from scratch into a multi-billion dollar business. Kevin has since gone to invest in a number of winning adventures and founded the Alleycorp network, which includes three companies each of which has met with great success,...

Welcome to the Minter Dialogue Radio Show number #35. This interview is with Andrew Grill, CEO of KRED, for real-time transparent community-based influence measurement. A hot field and one that typically galvanizes conversation, Andrew has a strong vision of how to make influence measurement credible and viable. I met Andrew at the LikeMinds conferences for Social Media Week 2012. and we recorded...

Welcome to the Minter Dialogue Radio Show number #34. This interview is with Caspar Craven, whom I met thanks to Jane Gomez at the Supper Club. Caspar is co-founder and Director of Trovus, an award winning agency working on gleaning and refining customer intelligence, especially for B2B companies. Casper has a very strong point of view on customer intelligence and about what makes for success in c...

Welcome to the Minter Dialogue Radio Show number #33. This interview is with Marc Wright, the founder and publisher of Simply Communicate which, at its core, is a community of some 9,000 professionals involved in internal communications. Marc also founded and runs an events and video production agency, "Simply Experience," and internal communications consultancy, called "Simply Good Advice." Marc...

Welcome to the Minter Dialogue Radio Show number #32. This interview is with someone whom I met back in my L'Oreal days. At the time, I found Dario Cotroneo to be a true visionary. Aside from being one of the top ranked stylists in Sydney, much less Australia, Dario is a dynamic entrepreneur, on a mission. He innovated well before any of the manufacturers in creating online learning with a global...

Welcome to the Minter Dialogue Radio Show number #31. This interview is with my friend and former colleague, Dominic Tremblay, who left L'Oreal to launch his own creative agency, TUXEDO. Dominic is on the cutting of marketing and digital marketing, in particular. His agency has gained huge traction in North America, making several wildly successful viral videos. We'll get some inside scoops and tr...

Welcome to the Minter Dialogue Radio Show number #30. This interview is with Vincent Dutot, phD, Associate Professor at the E.S.G. business school in Paris and specialized in the world of eCommerce. With 10 years spent in Canada and now based in Paris, Vincent has a very wide-ranging understanding of eCommerce. In this interview, we look at the major trends, the challenges and how the business mod...

Minter Dialogue Radio Show number #29. This interview is with Joe Jaffe. Joe is the author of the groundbreaking book "Life after the 30 second spot" as well as "Join The Conversation." He founded the Crayon agency, is author of a power blog Jaffe Juice as well as Jaffe Juice TV and a renowned thought leader in marketing and innovation. I have had the pleasure to know Joe for a good many years and...

Welcome to the Minter Dialogue Radio Show number #28. This interview is with Sean Keyes, who is CMO and co-owner of Avalanshare. AvalanShare is an interesting start-up that gives value to sharing with your network. It's a social media tool whose purpose is to turn existing clients into "vocal" supporters, rewarding them for sharing their purchase across their social networks. I think brand markete...

Welcome to the Minter Dialogue Radio Show number #27. I attended the Netexplo Forum 2012 on March 15-16, held at the marvelous UNESCO headquarters, in Paris. Netexplo is an observatory of new tech trends around the world, with which I have been associated for the last couple of years. There were ten award winners highlighted at the event, each coming from the four corners of the world and each wit...

I attended the Netexplo Forum 2012 on March 15-16, held at the splendid UNESCO headquarters, in Paris. Netexplo is an observatory of new tech trends around the world, with which I have been associated for the last couple of years. There were ten award winners highlighted at the event. In the fourth of this series, I caught up with Erika Anderson, CEO and founder of H2020, a water poverty project t...

Joe Salesky is Chief Strategy Officer and founder of Freemonee, a system that allows for merchants and/or brands to provide gift cards to clients and prospective clients in a frictionless manner. Freemonee was one of the top ten award winners at the Netexplo 2012 Forum where I met Joe. The key is Freemonee's relationship with the banks and their credit card holders. At the core of the question, is...

This is the Minter Dialogue Radio Show number #24. I attended the Netexplo Forum 2012 on March 15-16, held at the UNESCO headquarters, in Paris. Netexplo, founded by Thierry Happe and Martine Bidegain, is an observatory of new tech trends around the world, with which I have been associated for the last couple of years. There were ten award winners highlighted at the event, each coming from the fou...

From the Netexplo Forum 2012 (March 15-16), held at the UNESCO headquarters. Netexplo is an observatory of new tech trends around the world, with which I have been associated for the last couple of years. There were ten award winners highlighted at the event, each coming from the four corners of the world and each with a very interesting angle. In the first of the series, I caught up with Otavio G...

Edwin "Ebert" Metcalf is partner at Rainmaker Capital, a boutique investment bank. Rainmaker represents both sellers and buyers in developing and executing corporate development strategies, with a major focus on enabling technologies at the crossroads of telecom and digital media. In this podcast, we discuss a host of topics around mobile, including the battle between the telecoms, internet and ha...

Lukas Maixner is a co-founder of Socialbakers, an analytics platform for social media. Socialbakers, based in Prague, made its mark by providing deeper analytics on Facebook, including its own proprietary rating. It has now added on other sites and is developing others. In this conversation, we discuss the SocialBakers service, hint at the developments under works, as well as some insights on how...

Michael Goitein is Senior Project Manager at UsableNet, specialized in rendering sites -- including eCommerce -- compatible and optimized for the mobile. UsableNet is the leading mobile and multi-channel platform company, serving 25% of Fortune 1000 companies. With offices in the UK, Italy and USA, UsableNet is in the sweet spot in terms of business model: helping companies to make their sites mob...

MDE19: Kathleen Carroll is President and Founder of the Branding Clinic, helping major brands to uncover the key customer insights. Her clients include some very well known brand names, including Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Labs, Playtex, Amex and P&G. In this interview, we discuss how Kathleen goes about finding these key insights, the role of the Internet in market research, as well as some of the...

Joakim Nilsson is a Swede living in Paris, whom I met on an Internet TV show at TechToc. Joakim is in charge of Social Media group wide at Betclic Everest, one of the leaders worldwide in online gambling and gaming. In this interview, we discuss social media at Betclic, explore a couple of interesting case studies, as well as discuss the big trends for 2012. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the...

Roy Lindemann is a co-founder of ReadSpeaker, a B2B service which enables a text-to-audio conversion of your website. Available in 35 languages and 88 different voices (ie. female/male, British English and American English, etc.), ReadSpeaker is a great add-on to make your site accessible and, as Tim Berners-Lee would say, in line with the spirit of the web. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the...