The Spin Sucks Podcast with Gini Dietrich

You can tell things are starting to get back to normal when your small child brings a run-of-the-mill cold home from school. So today, please enjoy this popular episode from 2019 about doing your own professional development, so you can stay up to date with what's happening in your industry. Gini Dietrich will be back next week with a new episode!

Things are getting better in the world, but the covid-fog doesn't seem to be lifting; people are still bone tired. Gini Dietrich is one of them, and on today's episode of the Spin Sucks Podcast, she's talking about strategies for dealing with it.

On this week's episode of the Spin Sucks Podcast, Gini Dietrich continues last week's discussion about business models—and gets deep into how a service business can find the types of clients who follow the Goldilocks Principle: they are just right.

It's hard to scale a business offering just on thing at one price point, so in this week's episode of the Spin Sucks Podcast, Gini Dietrich is sharing 8 different pricing models that you can use to diversify your offerings and serve a broader range of people.

One Pitch released a survey of journalists because they thought that other reports didn't sufficiently address what journalists really want and the tactics for pitching them effectively. On this week's episode of the Spin Sucks Podcast, Gini Dietrich discusses what that new survey reveals. 

It is important for communicators to understand how our cognitive biases and assumptions affect the messages we're sending to our different audiences. On this week's episode of the Spin Sucks Podcast, Gini Dietrich is talking about empathy and compassion in our communications.

The last week has been Spring Break in Chicago, so instead of a new episode, Gini Dietrich is sharing the most popular show of 2019, all about the different ways you can make money on the side of your traditional salary as an employee or income as a business owner.

There have been a lot of wild PR-Related stories in the news lately - a cinnamon-coated shrimp tail, Dr. Oz on Jeopardy, and a hospital giving vaccines to friends rather than the people who were entitled to them. Sometimes crises are of a company's own making, but oftentimes they're not. What's real, what needs attention, what is attention-getting, and how to handle a crisis when it's made out of...

Journalism is one of the industries that has been thrown on its head because of COVID-19. In this episode of the Spin Sucks podcast, Gini Dietrich talks about the changes journalism professionals have seen, what they're doing about it, and what it means for you.

By now, many workers are completely digitized - with work and leisure all happening online. There have been major changes in every sector, while companies and governments try to figure out exactly what it all means as parts of the country start to re-open. One of the biggest changes in the way companies are talking about their values, and what customers are beginning to expect from the brands they...

The theme of International Women's day this year is Women in Leadership - and that's a topic that can't be underestimated in importance. Gini Dietrich talks about the impact of the pandemic on women's lives and careers and shows we can choose to challenge the institutions, biases, and situations that create inequality for women on this week's episode of the Spin Sucks Podcast. #ChoosetoChallenge

In the communications industry, we don't have a uniform way to measure what we do, which causes confusion about everything from what we should be measuring in the first place, to what kind of goals and objectives make the most sense to try and measure, and how to communicate it all to teams, leadership and boards. Gini talks about this industry-wide issue and shares some solutions on this week's e...

What's more common than an outright ban on social media? A shadowban. Gini Dietrich is going to be sharing what that is, and what to do if it happens to you or one of your clients on this week's episode of the Spin Sucks Podcast.

Social Media is a powerful tool for connecting with your audience and community, but it's not easy when the truth is that there are people out there on social media with the sole intent of damaging your reputation: bad actors. How do you moderate social media comments in this environment? That's what Gini Dietrich is talking about today on the Spin Sucks Podcast.

We may hope that life will be getting back to normal once we're all vaccinated, but a recent report by the Content Marketing Institute is saying that consumer digital behavior has jumped ahead by five years. There's no going back, and that has huge implications for content marketers in B2C and B2B businesses. Gini Dietrich has the details and how to get ahead of these rapidly changing trends on th...

There are 13 things every business needs to have in their plan - and if you're not a business or agency owner yourself, these are elements that should be in your communications plan. Gini Dietrich explains what they are, and why they matter on this week's Spin Sucks Podcast episode.

More than half of CEOs are not convinced their marketing departments are driving results (according to a survey by Strategy Box). That means that if you're listening to this, there's a coin flip of a chance that your boss doesn't think you're doing your job. Gini Dietrich goes into more detail about this survey, what the results mean, and what you need to do to make sure you're communicating what...

In this week's Spin Sucks Podcast, Gini Dietrich is talking about podcasts - how she started making them, why she still does, whether you should have one and how to make it sound great. You can download the report Gini is referencing at OneStoneCreative.net/Report.

If you know what you know and what you don't know, you're doing pretty well - but do you ever think about where your knowledge and decisions are coming from, and if that information is inaccurate? That's what Gini Dietrich is talking about in this week's episode of the Spin Sucks Podcast.

Welcome to 2021! In this episode of the Spin Sucks podcasts, Gini Dietrich kicks off the new year with a discussion about how we can do more with the talents and skills we have available.

Welcome to the 11th Day of Spin Sucks Christmas, where Gini is talking through the 11 terms, words and phrases that ought to be banned in 2021 and for the rest of time.

On the 6th day of Spin Sucks Christmas, Ginie Dietrich brings you Six SEO tricks - otherwise known as best practices that you can use to help focus your content efforts, and keep your long term strategy top of mind.

It's the first day of Spin Sucks Christmas! The 12 Day Countdown is an annual tradition for Gini Dietrich and the rest of the Spin Sucks Team, and to kick things off this year, we're talking about mindset, why it matters, and how you can work on your own.

Productive Procrastination makes it feels like you're working hard and making progress - but it's an illusion. Join Gini Dietrich on this week's Spin Sucks Podcast to talk about the trap of productive procrastination - why it ruins your real productivity, and how to combat it.

Last week on the Spin Sucks Podcast we started a conversation about planning, and today Gini Dietrich is continuing it by focusing on you, and your own personal goals and plans. Enjoy!