Thinking With Mitch Joel

Welcome to episode #511 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast .  Tim Sanders spends his career on the cutting edge. He was an early stage member of Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner 's broadcast.com , which had the largest opening day IPO in history. After Yahoo acquired the company, Tim was tapped to lead their ValueLab, which enabled sales teams to close hundreds of millions of dollars of new...

Welcome to episode #510 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast .  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #510 - Host: Mitch Joel . Joseph Jaffe is widely regarded as one of the top marketing bloggers ( Jaffe Juice ) and podcasters (both Jaffe Juice in audio and Jaffe Juice TV in video). He is the author of four excellent books ( Life After The 30-Second Spot ,...

Welcome to episode #509 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast .  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #509 - Host: Mitch Joel . There's a reason Michael Bungay Stanier 's first book, Do More Great Work , has sold close to 100,000 copies. It's small, but do not let the size of it fool you. If you're stuck. If you're not sure if you're focusing on what's impor...

Welcome to episode #508 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast .  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #508 - Host: Mitch Joel . I have said it before. I will say it again.  Christopher S. Penn is a deadly weapon... and I mean that in the kindest sense of the saying. Yes, he's a practicing Martial Artist, but he's a more dangerous marketing weapon. He's that...

Welcome to episode #507 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast .  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #507 - Host: Mitch Joel . It's always a pleasure to welcome Jay Baer back to the show. We don't always agree, but we both do love marketing in this modern age. Jay is back with a brand new book called, Hug Your Haters . The book is being described as a moder...

Welcome to episode #506 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast .  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #506 - Host: Mitch Joel . What will near-to-future technologies do to change business as we know it? Better question: how are these technologies already being used in business? These are the questions that journalist, strategist, consultant and author, John...

Welcome to episode #505 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast .  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #505 - Host: Mitch Joel . We have learned a lot in the past few years about what works in business. We have companies' valuations explode with massive growth. We've also re-invented the spaces that we work in. So, how has it all worked out? Do open-floor pla...

Welcome to episode #504 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast .  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #504 - Host: Mitch Joel . Simply put: Douglas Rushkoff makes my brain hurt, because he is so smart. He recently published his latest book, Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus , and it will make your head spin too. All of our assumptions about disruption, the di...

Welcome to episode #503 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast .  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #503 - Host: Mitch Joel . He's back! Google 's Digital Marketing Evangelist, bestselling author ( Web Analytics - An Hour A Day and  Web Analytics 2.0 ), powerful blogger ( Occam's Razor ), friend and marketing big brain, Avinash Kaushik . His monthly posts...

Welcome to episode #502 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast .  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #502 - Host: Mitch Joel . Every so often, someone (on Twitter , Facebook or whatever) asks if there are any good books for conducting a meeting? For me, there is only one such book, and it's Al Pittampalli 's, Read This Before Our Next Meeting: The Modern Me...

Welcome to episode #501 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast .  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #501 - Host: Mitch Joel . It's Valentine's Day. Let's show some love. This guy... this Scott Monty guy. Long before he was Global Digital and Multimedia Communications Manager at Ford , he was a buddy. We spent countless years together - in our own corners -...

Welcome to episode #500 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast .  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #500 - Host: Mitch Joel . It is a total pleasure to welcome Morgan Spurlock to the show. Most people know him for his amazing documentaries ( Super Size Me , Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? , POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold , Comi...

Welcome to episode #499 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast .  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #499 - Host: Mitch Joel . I have been blessed. Don't think that I don't recognize it. I do. I'm still insanely driven and hyper-entrepreneurial, so I'm not always satisfied, but I am grateful. I get to spend a lot of time with people that many business leade...

Welcome to episode #498 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast .  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #498 - Host: Mitch Joel .  Bob Pearson first came on to my radar when he published his first business book, PreCommerce , in 2011. Bob is known in the digital marketing industry as a true innovator and someone who believes (deeply) in the power of analytics...

Welcome to episode #497 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast . Joseph Jaffe is widely regarded as one of the top marketing bloggers ( Jaffe Juice ) and podcasters (both Jaffe Juice in audio and Jaffe Juice TV in video). He is the author of four excellent books ( Life After The 30-Second Spot , Join The Conversation , Flip The Funnel and Z.E.R.O .) and his latest business venture is, Evo...

Welcome to episode #496 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast .  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #496 - Host: Mitch Joel . Famed marketing journalist, Bob Garfield , was waxing poetic about a book called, The Digital Transformation Playbook, by Columbia Business School professor and brand strategist, David Rogers . He is also the founder of the Center o...

Welcome to episode #495 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast . The book Madison Avenue Manslaughter - An Inside View of Fee-Cutting Clients, Profit-Hungry Owners and Declining Ad Agencies , has been sitting - front and center - on my desk since it was released in June of last year. I've been reading it slowly. Very slowly. Trying to deconstruct and define the path for both my agency, Mi...

Welcome to episode #494 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast . The last time that I saw Misha Glouberman was in the mid-eighties. We went to high school together (he was three years older than I was). I had not heard his name until the other week, when our Executive Creative Director at Mirum , Jon Finkelstein , asked me if I ever read the book, The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How t...

Welcome to episode #493 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast . Ian Chamandy (along with his business partner, Ken Aber ) recently published a business book titled, Why Should I Choose You? The book is based on their strategic planning methodology that helps brands define who they are... in seven words or less (not a typo). Their unique methodology (known as Blueprinting) help businesses...

Welcome to episode #492 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast . Simon Sinek created something much bigger than a splash when his TEDx Talk in 2009, How Great Leaders Inspire Action , garnered over twenty-five million views (and continues to grow). Around this time first business book, Start With Why , took hold and more recently, he published his second book, Leaders Eat Last . He's an o...

Welcome to episode #491 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast . It takes quite a bit to get my attention when it comes to business and non-fiction books. Make no mistake about it, I'm no book snob, but rather a huge reader (almost two books a week). You get to a point (decades in), when you begin to wonder if you will ever read something new, delicious, fascinating and exciting. Then cam...

Welcome to episode #490 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast . It's hard not be impressed with the work and thinking of Josh Bernoff . For over twenty years, Josh was a key player at Forrester Research , where he wrote about, edited papers and studied companies involved in the future of technology. His work there was a key destination to better understand the players, what they were doi...

Welcome to episode #489 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast . How many brands truly deliver extraordinary experiences? Not the kind of rare stories you read about on Mashable , but the ones that do it day in and day out... for all of their customers? When it comes to brands doing things right - constantly and consistently - I think of the work that Denise Lee Yohn  has done over the ye...

Welcome to episode #488 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast . Strategy. More than any other component in what makes a brand successful, strategy is at the core. What does a good strategist do? How is their work delivered, and then injected into a company? How do companies take that strategy and turn it into a valuable part of their culture. It seems like corporate mysticism. It is not....

Welcome to episode #487 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast . I was searching for a book to ignite my creativity (or access new areas of thinking). A book that would help me think in a different way. I just wasn't "feeling it." I turned to Seth Godin , and asked him what I should be reading. I think he was disappointed to learn that I had never heard of Lewis Hyde and his book, The Gif...