The Content Cocktail Hour

Christian Burne is a WCM Implementation Expert, a Technical Architect, and the CTO and Product Development Manager at Oshyn. He’s been building websites for over twenty years. Oshyn, is a website developing company that specializes in composable DXPs, or digital experience platforms. Christian explains the technical benefits a of composable DXP. 3:10 What is DXP 5:35 Adobe acquisitions 8:00 Defini...

Rachel Downey is the CEO and Founder of Share Your Genius, an end-to-end podcast production company that helps brands refine their media strategy. Her tagline is, 'It’s never just a podcast.' Podcasts, the modern-day business card, function as both a channel and content. When devising a media strategy, consider your primary objective—building a brand, expanding an audience, or generating demand. O...

Tommy Walker is the Founder of Content Studio, a consultancy for high-growth B2B startups and enterprises. He defines his three axioms of content marketing: premise, content is social currency, and decisions are made in Slack. It's vital that marketers both research their audience's wants and needs and avoid writing condescending content. With a career rich in experience, Tommy is a wealth of know...

What’s the best way to overcome the hurdle of creating video content? To answer this in depth, Brett invites Julia Enthoven. Julia is the CEO and Co-founder of Kapwing, a creative software company that helps companies produce videos. Julia advises hiring a dedicated team member for video, focusing on quantity over quality, creating systems and processes, and seeing what’s working for other compani...

How has personalization has ruined marketing? Let’s chat with Nick Zeckets to find out. Nick is the CEO and Co-Founder at Air Traffic Control, an AI-powered personalization engine that integrates seamlessly with HubSpot. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of vague non-sense when it comes to “personalized” emails. It’s time we take the time to treat prospects like humans and use empathy to truly connect...

Janet Mesh is the CEO + Co-Founder of Aimtal, a remote integrated marketing agency based in Boston. She’s an expert on how B2B marketers can use YouTube video content to execute an integrated marketing strategy. Producing high quality videos that drive traffic might feel like an overwhelming task, but ripping off the bandaid and rolling with the punches is the best way to start. Alternatively, you...

There is a right and wrong way to distribute your content in communities. Katarina Andrejević tell us the right way. Katarina is the Customer Advocate at Userlist, an email marketing automation platform for for product-led growth. She shares how she tracks the success of organic traffic, online discussions and community building. Remember—never spam your community and keep the reader in mind. 0:00...

Jared Robin is the Co-Founder of RevGenius, a large and mighty community of revenue generating sales, marketing, customer success, and revops professionals. Today, he explains how SaaS leaders should think about community. To bring people together and lead a movement, you first need to identify a gap. Jared started RevGenius while he was job hunting and meeting online friends at digital events. He...

Sam Holzman is the Content Marketing Manager at Spiff Marketing, a commission-automation platform. Today, he shares how to connect when writing for a new persona, get more engagement, and infuse information with personality. Brett and Sam also discuss his background in journalism and the importance of research and authenticity. Great content should start conversations, spark new ideas, and offer v...

Michael Londgren is a hyper-growth CMO with an impressive resume that includes Apple, Adobe, Blue Martini, Docusign, Nasdaq, and Seismic. Most recently, he became the CMO at Responsive, formerly RFPIO. Michael explains his reasoning to drive this big rebrand. A company name needs to be memorable and encompass their value proposition. The rebrand went much deeper than a name change, he also recogni...

Emir Atli is the Co-Founder & CRO of HockeyStack, a rapidly growing company that’s standing out from competition in a crowded space. HockeyStack provides revenue attribution analytics for B2B SaaS companies and currently has 40 customers. Today he shares how he leveraged LinkedIn to scale the company in a short amount of time. He also reveals what he’s looking for in new hires, as they continu...

Brett invites a SaaS SEO expert who he met through a Jay Acunzo masterclass, Viola Eva. Viola is the Founder and Head of SEM of Flow SEO. She and her team of 14 create SEO strategies to ensure that valuable content doesn’t end up in internet purgatory and gets seen by the addressable market. Today with Brett, they discuss the evolution of AI in search marketing. She also explains “EEAT” and breaks...

Scrolling through LinkedIn, it feels like everyone in marketing is transitioning jobs, but what makes a great candidate stand out? Today, Kyle Lacy tells you how to turn left when everyone else is turning right. Kyle Lacy is the CMO at Jellyfish and has an extensive history in marketing and has hired dozens of marketers. Candidates should think creatively, use numbers in their resume, find connect...

How can we (the marketers) keep our creativity alive when everything around us tries to kill it? Endless meetings, financial pressures, and time constrains really suck the fun out of work. Luckily, Lindsay McGuire has a tip or two to help. Lindsay is the Associate Director of Content and Campaigns at Goldcast, a digital events platform. She’s new to the company, but not new to the Indy marketing s...

Brett invites Warren Daniels to discuss the criticality of content in the digital economy. Warren is the Chief Marketing Officer at Bynder, a leading digital asset management platform. According to research done at Bynder, 3/4 of tech marketing leaders have either maintained or increased their investment in content this year. The two discuss playing the long game, leveraging AI, roadblocks in cont...

Sit down and get comfortable for some B2B marketing therapy with local Indianapolis marketer, Justin Keller. Justin is the SVP of Marketing at Drift, an AI-powered conversational platform. After getting an MBA, he helped build up the iconic brand of Sigstr. Today, he discusses the mindset shift from brand to revenue marketing. With the rise of AI automating the revenue pipeline, it will become mor...

Palmer Houchins is the Head of Marketing at G2, the largest and most trusted software marketplace. There’s a lot of competition in the B2B software space, so it’s essential to clearly frame and define your ROI story for your customers, both qualitatively and quantitatively. To do this, you need to truly understand who your ideal customer is and their goals. Palmer suggests creating an ROI calculat...

Jonathan Gandolf gives his CEO perspective on vision setting and the idea of “curation over creation.” Brands that pump out new content every day or week can prevent their work from getting buried in “internet purgatory” by utilizing The Juice. Rather than focusing on quantity and speed, focus instead on quality, specificity, curation, seasonality, and repurposing. Brett and Jonathan also talk abo...

What traits should you look for when hiring a social media marketing manager? To answer this, Brett brings on Andrew Barlos, who recently hired someone to lead social media. Andrew is the Senior Director of Marketing at Loomly, all-in-one social media management platform. He predicts that social media managers will be the next leaders at companies. Great ones stay on top of trends, carve out time...

Mariya Delano is an audience research and content consultant and the CEO and Founder at Kalyna Marketing. On this previous episode of Slice and Dice, Brett and Mariya discuss the top 5 performing pieces of content for marketers on The Juice within March. They note that these pieces are from well- known brands, have attention grabbing headlines, and are practical how-to articles. One thing that con...

Dustin Tysick is the VP of Revenue at Testimonial Hero, helping companies create video testimonials and drive social proof. Social proof is defined as “a psychological and social phenomenon wherein people copy the actions of others.” Rather than read a list of reviews or a lengthy case study, a quick video of a happy customer can be highly effective in driving new customers down your pipeline. If...

Brett revisits a “Slice and Dice” conversation with Jonathan, where they review the top five performing sales content pieces on The Juice. Based on the pieces, they conclude that sales reps are most interested in useful templates, storytelling, being efficient, and empathy. Sales reps don’t need to reinvent the wheel; there are hundreds of useful sales templates all available on The Juice. 0:00 In...

Do you want to kiss pipeline anxiety goodbye? Meet Trinity Nguyen, VP of Marketing at UserGems. UserGems is a software for revenue teams that monitors jobs changes of customers relevant to you. Trinity explains how to efficiently and creatively support your sales pipeline and narrow in on your ICP (ideal customer profile). What works in marketing today might not work tomorrow.  0:49 Conversation b...

If you’re considering starting a podcast at your company, this episode’s for you! Fatima Zaidi is a podcast expert and the Founder and CEO of Quill and CoHost. Quill is a full-service production agency helping Fortune 500 companies with podcast production and audience growth. CoHost is an all-in-one podcast hosting, marketing, and analytics tool; Fatima calls it “the google analytics of podcasting...

Brett asks three marketing professionals how to leverage AI without losing the voice of a brand. Zac Harris, Head of Organic Marketing at Copy AI, was skeptical of AI at first, but now it’s his superpower. It’s a genuinely fun way to come up with new ideas and reduce time-consuming tasks. Felicia Newhouse, VP of Global Product Marketing at Aprimo, talks about the human responsibility of using AI....