Outsourcing PR and creative resources to a marketing agency, especially for thought leadership and content creation, can save time and money for startups with limited resources. It can also bring a fresh perspective to a company with a legacy team. Tune in to this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast featuring guest Cody Gillund of Open Lending to learn more. #InHouseVsAgencyTeam #Marketing Strategies #IntegrateAndIgnite
Jun 27, 2023•39 min•Season 8Ep. 457
On this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast, guest Jason Andree, CMO for healthwear startup, Nufabrx, discusses the brand’s mission, the value of strategic partnerships, how to align internal and external teams, and why innovation must be customer centric. Tune in as Jason discusses how Nufabrx is building a drug delivery system through textile innovation, and more!
Jun 20, 2023•41 min•Season 8Ep. 456
Entrepreneurs often have either a renter’s or an ownership mindset. Which one YOU have will impact how your business grows and scales. Listen in to this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with author Elaine Pofeldt to learn about the grit and perseverance it takes to launch a startup and about why you can’t be afraid of rejection.
Jun 13, 2023•55 min•Season 8Ep. 455
Approaching marketing strategically and listening to customers will lead to stronger and better outcomes. How to do that is the topic of this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast. Join host Lori Jones and her guest May Lilley, CMO of Under Canvas, to learn more about destination marketing, the importance of customer insights, and about crafting interesting, relatable, and relevant ideas that connect with audiences.
Jun 06, 2023•47 min•Season 8Ep. 454
A new take on recruiting, hiring, and retention in an ever-changing workplace environment with guest Steve Urban, CEO of Riderflex on this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast. Tune in as host Lori Jones and Steve tackle how to juggle the different mindsets and expectations of the multiple generations you may have on your team, how to accommodate a hybrid team of innovators that may be in-office or working remote, and what to expect in the future.
May 30, 2023•46 min•Season 8Ep. 453
When Jen Henderson, founder and CEO of Tilt, first started out, she pitched her business idea 60 times in 30 days. It’s an experience many innovators, disruptors, and visionaries can relate to! Listen in to this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast to hear Jen’s story of grit and resilience, about how she controlled her destiny without sacrificing velocity, and about her recent $10 million in new investment capital!
May 23, 2023•37 min•Season 8Ep. 452
Eric Olden, CEO of Strata Identity, has been an entrepreneur since he was a teenager and started his first business venture out of his dorm room at college. Join host Lori Jones and Eric on this episode as they share their stories about the grit and determination it takes to grow and scale a business and how to know when the market is ready.
May 16, 2023•48 min•Season 8Ep. 451
If you are an early-stage venture, knowing what creates your enterprise value is vitally important. Tune in to this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with host Lori Jones and her guest Zane Tarence, as they discuss the ways to determine your enterprise value, and how to create your optionality. This lively and engaging conversation covers many other topics as well, including defining your legacy, transition planning, the different kinds of revenue, risk-adjusted future cash...
May 09, 2023•51 min•Season 8Ep. 450
Whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert, if you are trying to grow your business you need to network. And if done correctly, it can bridge the gaps that will ultimately help you reach business goals. Join Lori Jones and her guest Chris Borja, founder of Become a Better Networker, and get his 7-step process that will enable you to build a powerful network. Listen in here.
May 02, 2023•43 min•Season 8Ep. 449
Brand and product integrity are the grounding principles that guided the smart and successful growth of Hammitt Bags by the brand’s founder, Tony Drockton. From its beginnings as a Southern California eCommerce company to what it is today – a luxury brand known throughout the world – Hammitt Bags and Tony’s story of how he purposefully scaled the business over time is an inspiration. Listen in to his second appearance on the Integrate & Ignite Podcast and his conversation with host Lori Jone...
Apr 25, 2023•42 min•Season 8Ep. 448
On this first episode of Season 8 of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast host Lori Jones discusses the fatal flaw shared by far too many innovators, disruptors, and visionaries with big ideas: they devalue marketing and mistakenly believe that their product or service is so cool and innovative that it will sell itself. Tune in to hear why strategic marketing and research can differentiate in ways that help position early-stage companies for success, why some startups and growth-minded b...
Apr 18, 2023•19 min•Season 8Ep. 447
The art and science of creating transformative brands with guest Emmanuel Probst, author of Brand Hacks and Assemblage – The Art and Science of Brand Transformation, is the topic of this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast. Tune in as Emmanuel shares with host Lori Jones the concept of assemblage and how building loyalty begins by getting your customers involved in the creative process and making them the hero.
Mar 28, 2023•39 min•Season 5Ep. 446
Understanding your customer is all guesswork until you start marketing, researching, and mining the data. This edition of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with host Lori Jones and her guest Valentin Radu of CVO Academy and Omniconvert is full of tips for innovators and startups defining their audiences and bringing their products to market.
Mar 21, 2023•32 min•Season 5Ep. 445
Leaders need to get “outside the jar” to truly understand their customers. Learn more from guest Brand Consultant Marc Stoiber on this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast. Tune in as Marc shares with our listeners his approach to what he calls, “lazy marketing,” a strategy that is customer-first and people-centric. Listen in here.
Mar 14, 2023•31 min•Season 5Ep. 444
Market research takes the guesswork out of product validity, audience, segmentation, overall positioning, and many other items that are essential for startup incumbent and established businesses. Listen in to this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with host Lori Jones and her guest Michele Linn founder of Mantis Research to learn more! And to see examples of how Michele repurposes research go to https://avocetcommunications.com/podcast...
Mar 07, 2023•35 min•Season 5Ep. 443
For a business to achieve transformative success through building a culture of clarity, it must be relentless and leverage clear insights about the business’ customers, competition, and brand. Tune in to this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with guests Jeff Jones and Dennis Devlin authors of Three Wise Monkeys to learn more.
Feb 28, 2023•38 min•Season 5Ep. 442
It takes grit to rebrand. Tune in to this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with host Lori Jones and her guest Melanie Crutchley of Creyos as they walk listeners through how they worked together on the rebrand of her company, including changing the company’s name. You can listen in here.
Feb 21, 2023•30 min•Season 5Ep. 441
Earning a seat at the decision-making table: the marketer’s role in reputation and crisis management with host Lori Jones and her guest Bill Coletti on this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast. Listen in here.
Feb 14, 2023•35 min•Season 5Ep. 440
Why brands invest in a product they think is right instead of asking customers what they want on this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with guest Alex Levin of Regal. Tune in as Alex shares his experience completing a recent $38.5 million fundraising round, why it’s important to focus on high-intent customers, and how you can improve engagement rates by shifting from a “batch and send” approach to a hyper-personalized strategy.
Feb 07, 2023•40 min•Season 5Ep. 439
Andy Rossmeissl of Faraday joins the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast and host Lori Jones to talk about AI-powered predictive analytics. Tune in to hear Andy’s insights and recommendations for how to have a better understanding of how your customers might interact with your brand in the future, but also how they have engaged with it in the past.
Jan 31, 2023•32 min•Season 5Ep. 438
Join host Lori Jones and her guest George Kapernaros of the YOCTO Agency for a deep dive into personalized email marketing strategies on the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast.
Jan 24, 2023•40 min•Season 5Ep. 437
Tune in as Lori Jones and her guest Stephanie Cox CEO of Lumavate redefine what it means to truly connect with your audience with personalized marketing strategies.
Jan 17, 2023•41 min•Season 5Ep. 436
Never before have customers been more empowered. Today’s customer wants to try before they buy and to self-serve. Listen in to host Lori Jones’ conversation with Liza Adams, senior technology marketing executive, on this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast to learn more.
Jan 10, 2023•38 min•Season 5Ep. 435
Happy Holidays to you and your families! Tune in to this special edition of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast to hear host Lori Jones’ Christmas poem, a fun-filled rhyme highlighting trends for 2023! From user-based content to voice search to interactive customer and influencer outreach to DEI, this is a timely and spirited bit of cheer and an episode full of insights to help with your planning for next year! Merry Christmas and thanks for listening!
Dec 20, 2022•3 min•Season 5Ep. 434
eaching and supporting all the different customers in your target audience – even those beyond your established buyer personas – is the topic of this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Podcast with host Lori Jones and her guest Sydni Craig- Hart of Smart Simple Marketing. Sydni shares with our listeners her insights into creating customer-centric marketing strategies, how to build customer loyalty and inspire inclusivity, and reminds us that every marketing team is tasked with ensuring that d...
Dec 13, 2022•34 min•Season 5Ep. 433
Products don’t sell themselves. To be successful, you need smart positioning and smart marketing strategies. Tune in to this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with host Lori Jones and her guest Adam Rosenberg of Arrive Health to learn more. Tune in and learn from Adam’s experience with messaging, positioning, territory segmentation, resetting the sales-only versus marketing-only mindset, and keeping it simple.
Dec 06, 2022•40 min•Season 5Ep. 432
Conversational marketing is a message-first, privacy-first approach poised to become one of the top marketing channels and the topic of this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with host Lori Jones and her guest Max Koziolek of Spectrm. Learn why 72% find of marketers find conversational marketing effective and why marketing strategies should be geared toward more human-centric interactions in their conversational marketing channels in order to drive paid traffic and improve ...
Nov 29, 2022•30 min•Season 5Ep. 431
As Thanksgiving approaches, we are taking a moment to be grateful. Tune in to this special episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast to hear host Lori Jones’ poem that reflects on gratitude and acknowledges the joy that we can each name as our own. Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 22, 2022•2 min•Season 5Ep. 430
Hot trends in content creation for 2023 with TCA’s Chief Problem Solver and Lead Analyst, Cathy McKnight: personalization, artificial intelligence, machine learning, account-based marketing, events, Phygital, and more. Listen in to this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast to learn more.
Nov 15, 2022•30 min•Season 5Ep. 429
This episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast features guest Doug Kessler of Velocity Partners and is all about how marketers can adopt a new mindset, one that is oriented around defining ideal prospects, around listening harder with learning strategies, and around what Doug calls, “insane honesty.”
Nov 08, 2022•33 min•Season 5Ep. 428
