077 - Six Podcasts You Should Hear and Voice Marketing Sampler
Why did we pause interviewing guests on this show? Plus Emily’s top six podcast recs and a sampler from the five most popular Voice Marketing episodes this month.
Why did we pause interviewing guests on this show? This is the one where she cross-pollinates. Topics:
A new direction: pulling back the veil on raw opinions on business and career
04:30 Why Emily took a break from the podcast
Coming up in this episode: top five briefings from the past month: a sampling from my mini podcast / weekday briefing show, Voice Marketing with Emily Binder
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06:00 Emily’s top six podcast recommendations:
Everybody’s moving to Texas.
Six Pixels of Separation with Mitch Joel: A great podcast for anyone interesting in business, marketing, technology. Mitch’s goal is to have a great body of work that someone can access at any point, whether it’s an episode from four years ago or yesterday, the quality will be there.
Pivot podcast with Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher - my favorite show for technology news and smart commentary. The Dawg and Jungle Cat are a great pair and they just knock it out of the park. Twice a week is not too much. Airs Tuesday and Friday mornings.
The BeanCast - this is the best marketing and advertising show. About ten years running, commentary on marketing and ad news with a thoughtful panel of different weekly guests plus host Bob Knorpp. Airs Mondays. Emily Binder will be a guest again October 19, 2020 so tune in.
10:00 Animal Spirits with Ben Carlson and Michael Batnick from Ritholtz Wealth. A podcast about markets, life, and investing. I watch this on The Compound channel on YouTube (Animal Spirits YouTube playlist). These guys are thoughtful, engaged, and fun to watch.
The Compound Show with Downtown Josh Brown. One of my favorite financial and business commentators. This show airs every Friday.
Design Driven podcast with J Cornelius, CEO and Founder of Nine Labs.
12:50 Top Five Briefings, Under Three Minutes Each
The Top Five Flash Briefings of the Past Month - Most Popular Episodes of Voice Marketing with Emily Binder
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075 - Kate Bradley Chernis: When You Have No Off Button (VIDEO)
Why do we often put up a front in our business lives to disguise our real selves? In this episode, Emily and Kate Bradley Chernis, Co-Founder and CEO of Lately, are breaking down that front for a refreshing take on being yourself in the business world. Plus, tips on navigating the psychological impacts of pandemic PTSD.
Whether you’re pitching VCs, talking to your team, or trying to appeal to your audience and customers, it’s okay to let people behind the curtain. So why do we often put up a front in our business lives in order to appear professional?
And how do you send a hug over Zoom?
Garyvee has used Lately AI to automatically post engaging video clips on social media.
Kate Bradley Chernis is Co-Founder and CEO of Lately, a startup backed tech powerhouses including angel investor Jason Calacanis with the LAUNCH Accelerator and Lately user Gary Vaynerchuk’s VaynerMedia. Kate and Emily Binder broke down the front for a refreshing take on being yourself in the business world.
With her XM radio DJ, fiction writing, and marketing agency background, Kate knows good words. She shares tips for the most effective language for your sales and marketing copy and social posts.
More topics include startup advice from two women entrepreneurs and navigating the psychological impacts of pandemic PTSD.
What is Lately AI?
Lately is an AI-powered social media marketing platform that helps marketers scale their publishing and reach. Lately’s artificial intelligence uses your historical social media data to learn what works with your audience and what to post next.
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About Lately and Kately
Marketers can use Lately AI to instantly transform podcasts, videos, and any online news articles or blogs into dozens of social posts that are automatically pre-vetted to resonate with your target audience.
Jason Calacanis interviews Kate Bradley Chernis about her company Lately on This Week in Startups.
As a former marketing agency owner, Kate initially created the idea for Lately out of spreadsheets for then-client, Walmart, and got them a 130% ROI, year-over-year for three years.
Prior to founding Lately, Kate served 20 million listeners as Music Director and on-air host at Sirius/XM. She’s also an award-winning radio producer, engineer, and voice talent with 25 years of national broadcast communications, brand-building, sales, and marketing expertise.
TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS:
02:30: Meet Kate Bradley Chernis and step behind the curtain with Emily
05:05: The kindness of strangers and the "translation of a hug"
08:12: Things that are keeping us sane during quarantine and the stress of the pandemic, and the value of self-care
11:30: How the pandemic is impacting body language, facial expressions, and our ability to connect with customers, friends, and family in a virtual space
Lately is an AI-powered social media marketing platform that helps marketers scale their publishing and reach. It can also transcribe podcasts and cut videos into short clips for social.
12:53: Diving into Kate's background and her experience with XM radio
18:55: There's a lot of VC money floating around there is possibly a hunger to do more and invest more to seek entertainment, excitement, and positive influence. Furthermore, companies naturally present themselves as strong or weak investments based on how they perform under pandemic conditions.
Kate Bradley Chernis and This Week in Startups Host and Lately Investor, Jason Calacanis with fellow LAUNCH classmates Taylor Monks and Max Coleman
"If you're surviving now as a company, you're suddenly very attractive. Because this is the hardest time to survive, so it's clear cut. You don't really have to explain the value of your company if you're making it in a pandemic: it's already there." - Kate Bradley Chernis
Most long-form content like blogs, videos and podcasts takes hours to create, then collect dust. Get exponentially more eyeballs on your hard-earned work by unlocking the value with Lately’s AI.
22:00: All about Lately.
It takes the average human 12 minutes to write a social post. In 1.8 seconds, Lately's AI will give you dozens. Multiply that times the hourly salary of any content creator on your team, and you have mind blowing time and money savings.
26:25: Showing personality can be difficult when it comes to your brand and social media.
Related episode: Robert Sofia: What Your Brand Should Say on Social Media
28:00: People spend more time on Facebook's platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp than any behavior outside of family, work, or sleep. That makes for a lot of data for marketers to comb through.
"That's the goal, it’s to learn what people care about, right? Because if you don't know what they care about, then it's pointless. And as I learned over the years, what typical marketing tools look at are numbers, and people can't read the numbers or translate them, and this is a constant problem." - Kate Bradley Chernis
33:30: We had to ask, what does Kate, a fiction major, think about the Oxford Comma?
34:00: Opening the door to your audience and social media trends: what goes viral and what types of posts do Facebook or LinkedIn algorithms favor?
40:00:
What books does Kate recommend?
Prior to founding Lately, Kate Bradley Chernis served 20 million listeners as Music Director and on-air host at Sirius/XM on “The Loft”. She’s also an award-winning radio producer, engineer, and voice talent.
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074 - Robert Sofia: What Your Brand Should Say on Social Media
In this episode, Emily and Robert Sofia, CEO of Snappy Kraken, talk about how to have a unique voice on social media and what that really means.
What does it really mean to be authentic on social media? For financial advisors and for any company brand, this is a common piece of advice but it’s not always clear how to walk the walk.
Robert Sofia is the Founder and CEO of Snappy Kraken and has over 20 years of digital marketing experience. Among marketing automation programs for financial advisors, Snappy Kraken is ranked #1 in customer satisfaction and is also the fastest growing according to the 2020 T3/Morningstar Advisor Technology Survey.
Robert and Emily Binder discussed what it takes to make your brand stand out on social media.
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Emily asked Robert what it sounds like when an advisor has a unique voice on social media and how this can carry over to other marketing like email.
Robert also revealed some surprising advice on email marketing based on his firm's analysis of over one million emails. The episode wraps up with some key tips that financial advisors and all businesses need to know about the kind of brand personality that makes marketing successful. Get some valuable advice about marketing your business on social media and share this episode with a colleague or friend who could benefit.
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“He’s not intimidating. He’s fun, so is our culture. We’re snappy, we make things happen quickly.” - Robert Sofia on the character and brand design of Snappy Kraken.
Topics and timestamps:
01:24: Meet Robert Sofia, CEO of Snappy Kraken. How did Robert get started in marketing, and what was the inspiration for Snappy Kraken? Robert entered the financial industry in 2004 and noticed a marketing vacuum. He was inspired to shake things up and provide marketing guidance for financial advisors.
02:59: There is a lot of "copy and paste" marketing advice in the financial industry since the early 2000s. Why is that a problem? It creates a flat playing field where no individual can possibly stand out.
04:32: Competing factors for the psychology behind marketing decisions in the financial landscape: lack of creativity, social pressure from social media, and trusted brands serving as a “safeway”.
06:30:
What does it mean to be authentic on social media?
We are often afraid to be our true selves because it’s vulnerable, but this is the most effective way to present your brand on social media because you’ll attract the right people. Click here to skip to this part of the video.
07:56: Should you customize your brand's voices, tones, or content based on the platform you're using How can you analyze when you're mastering one channel over another?
"It depends so much on context, and what works in one context or maybe even one period of time, may be different in another context or another period of time. It could even be on a different channel; it will completely flop, where it thrived on one." - Robert Sofia
09:49: Snappy Kraken's most recent study analyzed over 5 million data points to test the different design and strategic components of email marketing. They were able to translate that data to other platforms and optimize their social channels and landing pages and improve their strategic decision making.
"When there's true uniqueness and creativity combined with solid data, that's when marketing magic happens." - Robert Sofia
10:55: The secrets to optimizing your email marketing templates: buttons or no buttons, CTAs, and more.
12:05: Robert answers the question once and for all: Is email still an effective marketing channel? Yes.
"When we look at every single marketing channel, and we analyze the performance and response rates, invariably, the highest ROI is coming from building and nurturing an email list over time, and the actual highest response rates and click rates are coming through email." - Robert Sofia
14:29: Spam gives email marketing a bad name, but if you focus on the value and advice you're providing your audience, you will be able to keep and grow that audience. Make sure there is a valuable service, solution, or advice in every email you send.
Snappy Kraken uses the data it collected in their own data analysis to continuously improve their landing pages, social media, and more.
16:00: What does it mean to create a unique brand, and how can you make yourself stand out? Let's face it; it's hard to cut through the noise. Managing your marketing tactics can leave little time to dedicate to your strategy.
23:00: So, why the name "Snappy Kraken"? How did Robert find the symbol for his brand? What are some examples of other companies that haven't taken their branding so literally in the financial world? Lighthouse, anchor, and tree logos no more!
"We built the brand; we built a character that was different, but still had a story." - Robert Sofia
Books and Apps Robert Recommends:
Book: Principles by Ray Dalio
Podcast: The BeanCast (hear Emily’s latest appearance on Bob Knorpp’s top marketing and advertising podcast in Beancast episode 593: The Quibi Dilemma and hear more BeanCasts with Emily Binder here)
Robert Sofia, Founder and CEO of Snappy Kraken, has over 20 years of digital marketing experience and listens to book summaries on Blinkist in his free time.
Connect with Robert Sofia:
Twitter: @robertsofia
Connect with Snappy Kraken:
Twitter: @SnappyKraken
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073 - Mikal Abdullah: Problem Solving With a Jiu Jitsu Master
Mikal Abdullah is an entrepreneur, Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu coach, and competitor, founder of Aces Jiu-Jitsu Club, U.S. Army Veteran, and professional fighter. Mikal’s diverse background makes for some very interesting conversation in this latest episode. Emily and Mikal talked about an array of topics including: entrepreneurship, problem-solving, branding, the military mindset, leadership, and more.
How does the philosophy of Jiu-Jitsu apply to solving other problems? Mikal Abdullah is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coach, competitor, founder of Aces Jiu-Jitsu Club, U.S. Army Veteran, and professional fighter. Mikal’s diverse background makes for some fascinating conversation about an array of topics, including: entrepreneurship, problem-solving from a martial arts approach, branding, the military mindset, leadership, and more.
After honorably serving in the U.S. Army, Mikal started training Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai. He has competed and won in competitions around the world. Mikal now owns an industry-leading group of companies, including facilities, gear companies, and now an online training academy. Mikal also enjoys helping other business owners and entrepreneurs to reach their goals.
Topics:
Mikal Abdullah is an entrepreneur, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu coach and competitor, founder of Aces Jiu Jitsu Club, U.S. Army Veteran, and professional fighter.
02:00: Meet Mikal Abdullah, BJJ master
03:13: What is the purpose and thought behind Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ)? Why do people practice it?
04:40: Overcoming obstacles: you have to be in a clear frame of mind on the mat and in life.
07:09: What can people’s actions and tactics on the Jiu-Jitsu mat tell you about how they handle problems in real life?
“We call it a Jiu-Jitsu handshake...when you start to roll with each other, how they handle obstacles is how they handle obstacles. If they shy and wilt under pressure, then that is how they handle things.” - Mikal Abdullah
07:53: What do 360 reviews and rolling on the mat have in common?
“One of the greatest superpowers you can ever have is the ability to see yourself as others see you. The other is to see yourself the way you truly are.” - Mikal Abdullah
09:24: While perception can be a weakness, it’s also very important to be aware of in business, relationships, and Jiu-Jitsu.
10:39: Middle of funnel, top of funnel marketing, and Mikal’s company, Aces Jiu Jitsu Club International.
“When it comes to middle of funnel marketing, I think that community is a big deal. Conversations are king.” - Mikal Abdullah
13:00: Some aspects of the military can be incorporated into your marketing strategy. AARs or After Action Reviews allow for you to sort mission aspects for review and posterity. This inspired Mikal’s strategy of tagging conversations for review in defining the customer journey and their marketing/selling process.
Mikel’s marketing background is focused on top of funnel and middle of funnel strategy. “Branding is always adjusting or evolving.” - Mikel Abdullah
15:20: Branding: much more than just logo design
“As humans, when we use a compass to find a bearing and identify where we want to go and where we want to be, we often start walking, and we start moving in a curve or a zig-zag. It’s important to do a repeated check-in on where we are. For us, our branding is always adjusting or evolving.” - Mikal Abdullah
19:04: How do you form a subconscious or unconscious connection to your target audience? The ultimate success is connecting with your customer on this level.
20:26: Netflix, subscription businesses, DTC and virtual offerings. How did Mikal’s company Aces Jiu Jitsu pivot at the onset of the pandemic?
24:30: Harness the power to scale your business. Sometimes entrepreneurs aren’t thinking big enough at the beginning of their business journey.
26:17: The worst interview question: where do you see yourself in five years? Sometimes that can be a limiting approach to conversation and goal setting.
30:10: Words and language matter.
“We are attempting to communicate so many ideas in just a few words, and it’s so important to be effective and efficient so that you don’t have to go backward and correct things, or correct them as little as possible.” - Mikal Abdullah
34:00: Mikal‘s book recommendations
072 - Tess Neudeck: What Podcasters Should Know
Since the onset of the pandemic in the U.S., data from Acast has shown that podcasts aren’t just for your commute to work. In this episode, Tess Neudeck, Marketing Marketing, Americas for Acast, and Emily Binder talk finding guests for your show, the future of podcasting, and how to monetize your podcast.
Since the onset of the pandemic in the U.S., data from Acast has shown that podcasts aren’t just for your commute to work. In this episode, Tess Neudeck, Marketing Marketing, Americas for Acast, and Emily Binder talk all things podcasting:
How to turn networking into guests for your show
The future of podcasting
How to monetize your podcast
According to My Podcast Reviews, there are 1,200,000 podcasts and over 31 million podcast episodes as of June 2020. If you want to be successful in the podcasting, then this is one episode you won’t want to miss.
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Tess Neudeck:
Tess Neudeck currently serves as Manager of Marketing, Americas for Acast. She's responsible for shaping Acast’s marketing strategy across its 10,000+ podcasts, its advertiser business, and all of the products and services the company creates for podcasters, advertisers, and listeners.
Tess began her career on the agency side, spending more than eight years at Mediavest (now Spark Foundry) performing print and digital media planning/buying for a wide array of clients across almost every industry. Before Acast, she oversaw marketing at Urban Daddy and managed sales marketing for legendary brands like Sports Illustrated and Fortune.
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Topics:
01:20: Meet Tess Neudeck.
02:30: The state of podcasting during the pandemic.
“Acast is the world's largest global podcast marketplace that provides premium hosting, distribution and monetization. Acast’s app and web service provides on-demand audio content enhanced by additional interactive media and links.” - Acast LinkedIn
“We’ve seen more than a 10% increase in listens since the pandemic started, and we are just noticing that commuting is clearly not the only place that people are listening and they’re replacing that with listening in other places and forms.” - Tess Neudeck
03:45: People are constantly listening to podcasts and utilizing smart speakers to do so. It’s a common misconception that people only listen to podcasts during their commute to work.
04:50: Smart speakers and podcasting. How can you optimize your podcast for smart speakers?
“Podcasting is such a natural — I would say the number one most natural form of content for smart speakers with it being hands-free, germ-free, convenient audio that’s voice first.” - Emily Binder
06:30: The future of monetizing podcasts (sponsorship, donations, ads, and more).
“It’s not necessarily how we operate at Acast to make anything fully exclusive; we were founded upon the ideas of truly the democratization of audio and making amazing, premium content available to everybody regardless of where you listen. So, we’re platform agnostic. Our shows are available wherever you get your podcasts.” - Tess Neudeck
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08:20: Paying for quality: Acast’s new supporter feature allows for donations/listener compensation to the creator. Acast wholeheartedly believes that creators should be compensated for their work and creativity in the audio media space.
10:30: Shake up your platform! What works for one podcaster in one genre of podcasting might not work for you. Don’t be afraid to step outside of the box and experiment.
11:10: The democratization of the media and podcasting: anyone can do it with the right tools and resources, but there has to be a plan in place. You have to put time, thought, and energy into preparing for your podcast for success.
Live podcast streaming has become increasingly popular throughout the pandemic. Photo by Kate Oseen on Unsplash
“What is your point of view? What do you have to say that’s unique?... Batch up those episodes so that you can churn them out on a weekly or bi-weekly basis so that your audience can come to expect that content from you because once they’re there, once they’re ready to listen, you need to be able to give them that content.” - Tess Neudeck
16:20: Know your niche. Podcasting is evolving into so much more than traditional genres. Here are some podcasts that Tess recommends:
21:20: What’s missing from podcasting right now, and could live streaming be a part of the next generation of podcasting?
Check out last week’s episode where we spoke with John Andrews and WallStreetBooyah about his live streaming financial news show on Twitch.
Want expert help with your podcast or voice marketing strategy?
Tess Neudeck - Acast Marketing Manager for the Americas
Connect with Tess Neudeck:
Instagram: @tessypie
Twitter: @tessypie
Tess’ Blog: peachestoapples.com
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Twitter: @acast
Instagram: @acastforthestories
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071 - WallStreetBooyah: Fintwit on Twitch with John Andrews - Video
John and Emily bring WallStreetBooyah into the conversation in this episode. They discuss the authenticity and democratization of media and how creating unique content on a unique platform can lead to more diverse marketing opportunities. Be sure to watch the video and meet the anonymous man in the mask, WallStreetBooyah.
"They're missing the entire next generation of investors, and they're just making fun of them, all the Robinhood millennials, and they just joke about it and move on. But their entire audience is retiring soon. And they're going to be withdrawing all of their stocks into fixed assets. And who is going to watch them? The Robinhood millennials." - WallStreetBooyah
There's a daily R-rated party of smart business and market commentary on WallStreetBooyah's Twitch channel. The anonymous man in the bat mask is inventing a new category, quickly gaining over 6,000 active followers in months. Get up to speed on the evolution of financial news in Emily’s conversation with Booyah and digital marketing expert John Andrews. (ICYMI: catch episode 70 with John and Emily discussing marketing and retail during COVID-19).
This conversation covers the so-called Robinhood millennial investor, live streaming and online community, and influencer marketing. Be sure to watch the video and meet the anonymous man in the mask, WallStreetBooyah!
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Guests:
WallStreetBooyah: "ScruffBat. Millennial. Idiot. Twitch person. Equal parts Cramer/Rogan/Pokimane. Fighting JPow & money printer w/ music and memes. Not financial advice." - @WSBooyah on Twitter
John Andrews, CEO of Photofy, a community content creation platform, is a media disruptor. Leveraging over twenty years of experience in consumer packaged goods marketing coupled with eight years of social media knowledge to build new media formats in the shopper marketing space. He helped build one of the first ‘people as media’ platforms at Walmart called Elevenmoms, founded Collective Bias (Acquired by Inmar in 2016), and teaches as an adjunct professor at NC State University.
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Theme: Authenticity and democratization of media. Creating unique content on a new platform can be a category killer. Imagine the future of podcasting with this in mind.
TOPICS:
01:30: Who is WallStreetBooyah? What does he do? How did we hear about him?
03:01: What can you expect to hear on WallStreetBooyah's Twitch channel? "This is something new." - John Andrews
Anonymous Twitch financial commentator WallStreetBooyah wears a bat mask on his R-rated financial news channel that embraces the Robinhood investor and holds back nothing.
05:00: Category killing and financial news: Twitch isn't somewhere you would think to go for financial information. WallStreetBooyah is using an unconventional channel to reach an audience, essentially inventing a new category with less competition.
06:20: "I bill myself as the absolute worst financial show you're ever going to see. I don't have any training in finance or business. I don't have any degrees." - WallStreetBooyah
WallStreetBooyah has over 6,000 Twitch followers
WallStreetBooyah's show is built on quick witted commentary that’s a collaboration between him and his audience (in the live chat). He embraces the Robinhood trading persona. The interaction and the community draw out unique content that serves as the real entertainment and hook to the audience, which is what draws John Andrews in almost everyday.
"It's a conversation... If there is a car chase in the middle of the day, we'll pull it up and watch that." - WallStreetBooyah on the content style for his show
08:08: Jack Dorsey has promised that Twitter will never have an “edit" button - and that’s good (Emily)
09:30: The gambler mentality of day trading (poker, puts, betting)
"That's the audience; we're interested in the stock market, we're interested in trading. A lot of us have gambling in our systems to be perfectly honest, playing poker and learning odds, and those types of mathematics." - WallStreetBooyah
13:05: What hooked John Andrews on Booyah’s Twitch?
"It gives me a sense of people's mindset, which I think is a lot of the market anyways, right? A lot of the market is people's emotions, what are people thinking and doing." - John Andrews
15:09: A differentiator: interactive storytelling replaces push messaging and one-way content. People don't want to be sold to anymore, and consumer trust is at an all-time low. Audiences don't trust traditional news sources as much and prefer to choose their own news entertainment that reflects a voice. Think: media democracy.
15:52: How can conversations on WallStreetBooyah's Twitch channel inspire your own marketing?
18:35: Dave Portnoy, controversial figure in fintwit, founder of Barstool Sports - growing your marketing/media exposure with video and social media
21:30: What does Booyah think is the problem with traditional financial news sources like CNBC and Bloomberg?
25:02: Daniel Crosby, NYT best selling author of The Behavioral Investor, psychologist, and behavioral finance expert:
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070 - John Andrews: Retail Just Advanced Five Years - Marketing Post-COVID
John Andrews, CEO of Photofy, a community content creation platform, and Emily talk about all things Marketing Post-COVID in this week's episode. This episode has it all: social media advertising, the future of retail, and amazon to eCommerce. See what these two think the future holds for marketing and which tactics have been most successful in the last several months.
"What was a slow-burning retail apocalypse for many retailers just turned into a full-fledged firestorm. Shopping will be forever changed post-crisis, and while the dislocation of people and capital will be painful, both will be reallocated to more efficient models." - John Andrews
John and Emily talk about marketing and retail during and post-COVID-19. This episode has it all: social media advertising, the future of shopping, ecommerce, Amazon, and which brands will survive.
Video:
Guest: John Andrews, CEO of Photofy, a community content creation platform, is a media disruptor. Leveraging over twenty years of experience in consumer packaged goods marketing coupled with eight years of social media knowledge to build new media formats in the shopper marketing space. He helped build one of the first ‘people as media’ platforms at Walmart called Elevenmoms, founded Collective Bias (Acquired by Inmar in 2016), and teaches as an adjunct professor at NC State University.
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Topics:
02:30: Curbside is the winner of COVID: How retail has advanced during the pandemic.
04:40: Consumers are drawn to products and services that help them enjoy more “productive time” (e.g. riding in an Uber instead of driving).
06:00: Walmart was ahead of the game with their curbside shopping and pick-up process. They have been doing this for years.
07:00: HEB, a regional grocer in Texas, was beating out larger grocery chains during the peak of the pandemic because larger chains couldn’t keep up with demand and the need for new curbside services. HEB was stated to have begun preparations for curbside pick-up as early as 2005.
A pair of Nike shoes that John, a self-proclaimed sneakerhead, bought off Instagram.
11:25: Nike is one of the few companies that is managing a transition into digital retail very well, and it’s all about the difference between the use of push marketing and first-party data.
“Nike is using its direct understanding of its data to perfectly market to me what it knows I am interested in.” - John Andrews
16:30: Marketing advantage through data and the Nike app
19:35: Two recent global studies from Kantar and Edelman reveal that advertising and social media in particular are at new all-time lows for consumer trust. Just 17% of people trust news from social media.
“Public favorability towards advertising was 25% in December of 2018, but in 1992 that figure was 48%.” -Edelman Trust Barometer
21:00: Media companies are built on advertising, and they have had to be creative about their ad-driven tactics. Instagram does a good job of curating content for unique users but can bombard users with ads based on their interests.
24:40: What is an email address worth in five years? Will email marketing become a thing of the past?
30:00: What platforms are the best for targeted marketing? How do sound and voice play into this?
“There is an advertising opportunity in [the voice assistant’s recommendations] because everything is predictive.” - Emily Binder on the future of advertising
John’s recs: Podcasts, book, & WallStreetBooyah Twitch channel:
Podcast: Joe Rogan Experience: #1470 Elon Musk
Podcast: Social Geek Radio with Jack Monson, CRO at Social Joey
Twitch: WallStreetBooyah
Check out Episode 71 - VIDEO podcast with WallStreetBooyah and John!
Book: Ichigo Ichie, the Japanese philosophy of living in the moment and putting randomness into your life: (recommended by Scott Monty)
Ichi-go ichi-e (Japanese: 一期一会, lit. “one time, one meeting”) [it͡ɕi.ɡo it͡ɕi.e] is a Japanese four-character idiom (yojijukugo) that describes a cultural concept of treasuring the unrepeatable nature of a moment. Ichigo Ichie is the idea of living in the here and the now and embracing each day as it could be our last.
John Andrews is CEO of Photofy, a branded content creation platform
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