Winfluence - The Influence Marketing Podcast

Adrian Parker is the Global Vice-President of Marketing at Patron Tequila and he has a very different take on influence marketing than many big-brand marketing leaders. In fact, his perspective is very much in line with the concept of Winfluence. Adrian and I talk about his take on transactional influence marketing versus that focused on relationship building, how Patron views influencers and the...

Kristy Sammis is the chair and executive director of the Influencer Marketing Association. The non-profit industry association is attempting to bring uniformity, standardization and cohesiveness across the influencer marketing industry. We discuss the IMA, unionizing influencers, standardizing metrics and the conflict of transactional versus relational influence strategies. Learn more about your a...

Ted Murphy founded IZEA, the first influencer marketing platform, in 2006 to cries of heresy from the social media crowd. Twelve years later, he took the company public and can take considerable credit for the industry’s growth. I catch up with Ted to look back at the journey, talk about the 2020 version of IZEA’s offering and arm-wrestle about the one element in IZEA’s offering I have issues with...

** Note - This is the final episode of Digging Deeper that will be simulcast on this feed. Subscribe to Digging Deeper separately at jason.online/diggingdeeper. This feed changes Sept. 2 to Winfluence - The Influence Marketing Podcast. ** This episode features White Castle CMO Lynn Blashford who touches on creativity, influencers, content marketing and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

** Digging Deeper has changed feeds. Starting September 1, you'll need to get that show's feed at https://diggingdeeper.libsyn.com - This feed will officially launch Winfluence - The Influence Marketing Podcast on September 2. Subscribe to both!** This episode of Digging Deeper sees Jason sit down with film producer Jyoti Sarda to talk about her documentary "And She Could Be Next" Learn more about...

** Note: The feed changes September 2 to no longer include Digging Deeper. Make sure to subscribe to it at https://diggingdeeper.libsyn.com. This feed becomes Winfluence September 2, 2020.** This episode - Brand activation strategist Makayla Ervin discusses branding and customer identification for new and small businesses and debates life coaches with Jason Falls. Learn more about your ad choices....

Crystal Duncan from Edelman joined Jason on #DiggingDeeper to chat about influencer marketing. The topic of potential influencer unions came up. The two discussed the feasibility of unions, the advertising versus public relations angle of influence marketing and more.  Be sure to subscribe to the Digging Deeper feed to not miss episodes after September 1, 2020. This feed will begin airing Winfluen...

**Update your feeds! Digging Deeper will only simulcast to this feed until September 1, 2020. Don't miss the great interviews on Digging Deeper by subscribing at https://jason.online/diggingdeeper and connecting to wherever you get your podcasts. This episode: Andrew Hanelly from RevMade talks about content marketing strategy and making your brand a publisher! Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

This Episode:  If you've ever wondered how to use virtual and freelance talent to grow and scale your business, Nathan Hirsch is someone to talk to. He scaled a small e-commerce business to a multimillion dollar venture, then solved his own problem by building another one -- FreeUp. That business helps people find and hire virtual and freelance talent for scale. Now Nathan spends his time teaching...

** Update your feed to subscribe to Digging Deeper at https://diggingdeeper.libsyn.com/ ** Jason sits down to talk with PathNorth CEO and former Goldman Sachs executive Doug Holladay about his new book Rethinking Success. Why do motivated and successful business people and entrepreneurs often end up alone and unhappy? Holladay knows and wants to help redefine success to change it.  Learn more abou...

UPDATE YOUR FEEDS! This podcast feed will not carry Digging Deeper as of September 1, 2020. It will change into an influencer marketing podcast, so please add the Digging Deeper feed to your subscriptions. The links are at http://jason.online/diggingdeeper This episode of Digging Deeper has Kroger's Curtis Midkiff, Jr., join and discuss what the conversations, planning and response has been for hi...

Brands are boycotting Facebook and other social media platforms to fight against the often passive way the social networks have handled hate speech from users. Though a daunting list of advertisers pulling billions of dollars from ad spend, will it make a difference? New York Times bestselling author Jay Baer visited Digging Deeper this week to offer his thoughts. Learn more about your ad choices....

Can you measure creativity? You certainly can if you're speaking about marketing or advertising creative. We put that question to data analyst and marketing analytics guru Christopher Penn in this week's episode of Digging Deeper. Penn is the chief data scientist at Trust Insights and one half of the long-running Marketing Over Coffee podcast. Our Jason Falls put him to the test of measuring creat...

Neal Schaffer's fourth book is out now and is called The Age of Influence. He visited with our Jason Falls on Digging Deeper to talk about influencer marketing today, how businesses can embrace it, what the challenges facing the practice are and how COVID-19 affects the marketplace. Add the new Digging Deeper feed to your podcast subscriptions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

The podcast has officially switched over to Digging Deeper - Make Creativity Your Business Advantage. Look for that title where you get your podcast subscriptions and subscribe to ensure you don't miss future episodes. Here's the raw link if that helps: https://diggingdeeper.libsyn.com/rss We'll cross post episodes here for a few weeks, but do update your feed. This week is Christy Hiler, presiden...

Robert Courtney Collins is one of the co-founders of the UNEEK Collection, a clothing line with a purpose. He is also leads a branding and marketing consultancy in Detroit called Robert Courtney and Associates where he shows businesses how he built UNEEK based on a purpose and with creative marketing approaches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Dawson has a monster challenge. He is the vice-president of marketing for Landrace Bioscience which is a scientific products manufacturer in the hemp industry. Businesses like his can't even get payment processors to accept their business. And then there are marketing challenges. He joined the show to discuss how he approaches them and to dispel many myths about the hemp industry and the pro...

Imagine your CEO or company spokesperson appearing at your next trade show, or even in one of your store locations. Now imagine them also appearing at five trade shows or 125 store locations at once. The future of offline advertising may just be holographs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Joseph, the global president of BCW — Burson Cohn Wolf, has a new book out called The Conscious Marketer. Very timely in its release, the book helps brands understand how to better target and position themselves by tuning into their customer's worlds. And what a world that has become, right? Jason Falls talked to Jim about the book and the ways that businesses and brands can become more aware,...

Mark Savant knows how to build an online brand. His Actidad community is a powerful beacon among fathers. It's Facebook Group, blog, podcast and social channels have made him an influencer. He also teaches people how to build their own influence with Mark Savant Media, so he and Jason Falls chatted about influence, content marketing, Tik-Tok and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...

If only you could identify anonymous website visitors and email them right away to compel them to engage more or even buy. Adam Robinson's new startup GetEmails allows you to do just that. The somewhat controversial approach gets the interrogation from Jason Falls as Robinson visits to explain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should agencies, consultants and other B2B service offerings worry about ratings and reviews? Certainly they should. One place that can help -- and which competes with them for search results -- is UpCity. Heidi Sullivan is its senior vice-president for product and marketing. She talks about the benefits of UpCity's marketplace, products and the need for protecting your digital reputation. Learn m...

Does your brand or agency have a content performance culture? It needs one. Christoph Trappe's latest book by that title outlines how to build a culture where content marketing is made, distributed and optimized. He talks to Jason Falls about how brands and agencies can build that culture for content success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gavin Jocius knows a thing or two about e-commerce. The former general manager of the art division at CafePress, also known as Canvas on Demand, helped that business through a $35 million acquisition, then doubled its profitability for new owner Circle Graphics. Now founder of a search fund, Jocius joined the podcast to share his thoughts on running e-commerce in a COVID-19 world and more with Jas...

Danielle Wiley is one of the pioneering agency leaders in the influencer marketing space. The San Francisco-based thought leader founded The Sway Group, one of the leading influencer strategy firms in the world, more than a decade ago. She visited with Jason Falls recently to talk about the state of the industry, how younger generations respond to sponsored content and more. Learn more about your...