Afleveringen
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-ellard-shoefield-the-hand/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ukkeithjsmith/
In the news: Parkrun and phone boxes that power cars.
Interview with Jayne Noblet of The Collaborators - What does it mean to be a B Corp?
How to obtain B Corp status
B Corp and the Food and Drink industry
How B Corp helps you win new clients
Should B Corp be adopted by the Government?
Missed climate goals and targets
Unilever's change of purpose strategy
Show notes:
Parkrun: https://www.parkrun.com/about/our-story/20-years-of-parkrun/
Jayne Noblet's LinkedIn profile:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaynelilly/
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions, says the proverb. Never has that been truer than in the case of corporate purpose, the movement that took over the business and advertising world following the financial crisis of 2008.
Nick Asbury, creative writer, corporate purpose critic, poet, songsmith, humorist and author of the new blockbuster book The Road to Hell, discusses his perspective on how the advertising and marketing business became consumed with the idea of doing good to the detriment of everything else.
We cover the wide and varied reactions to the book from the industry, the rights and wrongs of BCorp, Edelman's Trust Barometer, the link between tobacco & purpose marketing, Paul Feldwick's superb definition of "creativity", Nick Cave and AI and how ChatGPT's creator OpenAI has switched its purpose-driven goals.
Show notes:
Nick’s LinkedIn profile here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-asbury-2573322/
Asbury & Asbury web site: https://www.nickasbury.com/
Buy the book: https://www.nickasbury.com/writing/roadtohell
Paul Feldwick’s definition of Creativity: https://adassoc.org.uk/credos/what-does-creativity-mean-in-advertising/
Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave’s letter about ChatGPT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJcF4bLKd4
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Discussing the findings of a massive survey of creative agencies and their clients, actor, coach and business presentation guru Catherine Allison gives advice on how to make business presentations, talks, seminars and online meetings fun, engaging, entertaining and most of all, memorable.
Catherine uses her extensive career in the spotlight to help remove the ‘resent’ from presentations, put the ‘power’ in Powerpoint, and the ‘we’ in webinar.
Catherine gives simple tips on how to win pitches through the unspoken and spoken power of communication. She teaches us how to stand tall, how to imagine our own dragon tail, overcome nerves and deliver powerful messages in person, online and on the phone.
Included totally free-of-charge in this podcast is a simple method of structuring a sales pitch that delivers all the right feels, based on classic acting know-how.
Show notes:
Catherine’s LinkedIn profile, here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinea/
Catherine’s company web site here: https://mastertheart.co.uk/
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The undeniable link between advertising and entertainment explained by Paul Feldwick, the author of ‘Why Does the Pedlar Sing?’
Paul’s investigation into this subject began a few years ago when he worked in senior planning roles in some of the world’s biggest advertising agencies.
As our focus on metrics and data increases, it seems our understanding of the basic principles of marketing is similarly decreasing.
Since the first time a person sold another person something, we’ve always tried to make it an enjoyable experience and the industry-wide pearl-clutching over the apparent lack of creativity in our profession can be easily explained by an expert of Paul’s calibre.
This is as enjoyable a podcast as I’ve ever done and Paul is a wonderful storyteller. The show was a revelation to me, as it triggered memories of my own childhood and a series of artworks called ‘The Cries of London’.
Join me as I ask Paul – Why does the Pedlar Sing?
Show notes:
Paul Feldwick’s LinkedIn profile here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/feldwick/
Buy the book ‘Why Does The Pedlar Sing?’ here: https://a.co/d/129x0ms
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Retail stores need to do everything they can to entertain and retain their walk-in customers, and on a wider basis, brands are fighting for an increasingly tougher share of their customers' attention.
Sound is the new frontier of marketing and AVC Music specializes in matching brands to audio content. Managing Director Euan McMorrow is ex-radio industry DJ and producer who knows a thing or two when it comes to audio marketing.
In this show, I sit down with Euan to discuss the history and potential of branding in the audio landscape. We discuss in-store audio, news, podcasts and the music industry and Euan gives listeners 3 fascinating tips for launching a podcast.
Show notes:
Euan's LinkedIn profile here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/euan-mcmorrow/
AVC Music web site here: https://avcmusic.com
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When times get tough, companies always look to the sales team to help them out. The new business role in agencies is one of the most underfunded and yet entirely necessary responsibilities in creativeland.
Adam Graham is one of the people who agencies turn to when they need help with their company's growth. He's got years of experience helping creative agencies straighten out their sales and new business process. He runs Gray Matters, one of the marketing industry’s most well-known new business and growth agencies which offers the whole new business consultancy. He also looks after BD Matters, an exclusive community and marketplace of agencies and founders to workshop various issues, bring in special guests and generally help lift the awareness of new business as part of the agency growth model.
All the tips and tricks you need to know about growing your agency, in less than an hour.
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Some incredible agency management advice from David Meikle - former Director of Ogilvy London and Head of Ogilvy Russia.
Alongside his role of advising some of the world’s biggest brands and agencies on their strategic marketing advice, he’s the author of two pivotal books –“ How to Buy a Gorilla" and “Tuning Up” which have been helping brands and agencies create greater value together, many of which he has then supported with marketing transformation, pitch management, training and workshops”
This show is an in-depth look at the key highlights of both books and offer sound advice and data to help your agency become pitcher perfect!
Subjects include:
Agency investment models
Product development strategies
The triangle of doom
Monkey House logic
What areas CMOs need to ask for help with
New business prospecting tips
The awfulness of learned hopelessness
Selling petrol
Companies wasting effort and time with wildcard pitches
The self-propelling business model
All delivered in a light-hearted, but informative conversation.
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What's in a name? Does your agency's name influence its destiny? How important is getting your business's name right? It could mean all the difference between winning and losing.
Keith and Natasha pour a coffee and muse this proposition with the help of Laura Bent, a co-Director at creative agency CITE, who relates her own personal experience of trying to transition from one agency into another, after an acquisition.
Our two intrepid heroes discuss this theme and contrast it against amusing evidence and illustrations, as well as supply their own personal important news headlines, updates and bon mots. - All in less that 20 minutes!
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Howard Gossage - often dubbed the "Socrates of San Francisco," revolutionised advertising in the 1950s and 60s with his unconventional and humanistic approach. So it took two equally unconventional and humanistic creatives - Steve Harrsion and Dave Dye, to write - no, craft - a book documenting some of the most captivating and exemplary pieces of Gossage's short but prolific career, producing a form of advertising so ahead of its time that we're only now catching up with it.
The problem is, that, like the man in the river surrounded by crocodiles, we’ve forgotten that the original objective was to get to the other side.
We’ve forgotten the point of advertising - and that is to entertain.
Gossage was a born showman and it lived and breathed in his work, which is what makes it sadly unique.
If you’ve never been Gossaged before, I suggest you start here. If you have, then I hope you’ll appreciate this podcast and an opportunity to reminisce on a lost period of advertising that we still have a chance to reclaim and make advertising great again.
Thank you to Steve Harrison and Dave Dye for a memorable podcast. If it sounds a bit jumpy, I apologise and hope that it doesn’t spoil your listening enjoyment. We had to record it in two goes and splice the best bits together because of a technical SNAFU.
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How much your agency charges for its work is critical to success.
Or is it?
What is creativity worth? How long does it take?
Keith & Natasha - two new business experts sit down over a coffee to discuss the issue and how it impacts agency life.
We also interview David Meikle, author of 'Tuning Up' and 'How to Buy a Gorilla' on the value of creative ideas to clients.
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We need a hero. We need someone Pleasingly Reserved and Artfully Modest.
Mark Denton is a creative veteran of some 40 years. He’s directed over 500 commercials. He’s one of the most awarded creatives in the world
Yet he still regards himself as the new boy.
An hour of entertainment, delivered in Mark's inimitable style:
Ageism, the best old TV adverts, Stingo, a tribute to Brian Griffin, AI Photography, Magic Markers, how creative used to be done, making your own clothes, making the creative genesis, the SKIP button, the advertising industry's biggest star, the ultimate umbrella campaign and Cobra Kai & Eagle Fang.
Living at St Luke's, Mark is available for your next campaign.
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Influencer marketing is a form of marketing as old as commerce itself, but in recent times, where there's so many messages being blasted at us and lies dressed up as facts, the medium has taken on a new level of credence.
We trust influencers more and more these days, and it's fast becoming THE weapon of choice for so many CMOs.
It's not just the high-profile consumer icons we all know - it's happening at b2b and micro levels too.
We're all under the influence! But why? How can they reach the parts that other forms of marketing cannot reach?
In this 15-minute podlet I sit down with my go-to fact man Victor Houghton to uncover the intelligence of influencer marketing.
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"Stand and Deliver!" is not a recommended sales technique we've ever heard of, so why are behemoths like Apple, Google, Twitter and Facebook all doing it?
Keith & Natasha dissect the right and wrong way to generate new business and create loyalty.
In less than 20 minutes!
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Who are you?
Director, Relater, Socialiser or Thinker?
Who you are – how you communicate and who you’re communicating to, depends on knowing this.
Grant Thornton says that within this decade, every leader of every dynamic organisation will need to have a clear strategic vision and be able to articulate that to the business.
This is important stuff, and as part of The Fuel Podcast’s quest for answers to how we communicate better as humans, our sponsor The Advertist has teamed up with author and business coach Trenton Moss to give you a FREE workshop, so you can begin your journey of greater communication discovery!
On Tuesday 5th March at 1pm, Trenton is offering friends of The Advertist a free workshop to hear how the contents of his best-selling book ‘Human Powered’ can be implemented in your agency.
He’s doing this exclusively for The Advertist, so don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity.
Take part in this fun hour of a workshop.
https://forms.gle/m7mwc52Xnoii5DraA
It’s so good, we’ve all done it.
Book your place now and we look forward to seeing you.
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Discussing morality in the creative agency world.
What role do agencies play in changing the public mindset when it comes to big oil or tobacco?
And what other sins do creative agencies regularly commit?
Also - your chance to choose our theme music!
Vote:
1. Acid
2. Dance
3. Starsky
4. Chill
5. Cheezy
6. Bebop
All in a highly caffeinated 15 minutes.
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What effect does faith have in the sales and marketing
process?
Whether you’re a religious person or not, belief in things
yet to happen is part and parcel of sales and marketing.
We’re all doing things now that will hopefully benefit us in
the future.
But does believing in the future make it happen?
There’s more to the sales process than technique, there’s
also attitude and that’s what this show is all about.
Brad Smith is the CEO of Succeed Digital and his belief
system helps him every day – and it can help you too.
Digging the ditches, having faith that it’s going to rain
will make it rain.
In this truly enlightening show, Brad outlines his
philosophy for winning business and creating memorable and meaningful client
relationships.
We discuss:
When it’s OK to compete on price
Retention v Acquisition
The 30-second summary for your business
Making growth a team sport
How to choose your prospects
Being nice as a business skill
Using referrals
Treating people as you’d like to be treated
Credibility, memorability and visibility
SHOW NOTES
Brad’s LinkedIn profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/succeedwithbradsmith/
Succeed Digital’s web site: https://www.succeed.digital
Sir Anthony Hopkins’ ‘Digging Ditches’ speech: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=714018422472470
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In this show, we discuss the unspoken signs of success; in
leadership, branding, and work and personal relationships.
Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols and their use or
interpretation and my guest - Dr Rachel Lawes is a social psychologist
specializing in the interface between individuals and consumer culture. She is
a Fellow of the Market Research Society and her latest book "Using
Semiotics in Retail: Leveraging Consumer Insight to Engage Shoppers and Boost
Sales" makes her the ideal person to tackle this subject.
This show is packed with insights that will give your brain
a load of new wrinkles, including:
Those leaders with high EQs
How to make the best of a cold
Why Christmas decorations are like viruses
The delirium of duty free
Top down and bottom up semiotics
Elite Waitrose shoppers
Creating a reality that others will follow
The downside of tech driven relationships
Semiotics and the pharmaceutical sector
The baboon that finds lost things
The horrors of The Bible
Show notes:
Dr Rachel’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachellawes/
Buy the book ‘Using Semiotics in Marketing: How to Achieve
Consumer Insight for Brand Growth and Profits’: https://www.amazon.com/Using-Semiotics-Marketing-achieve-consumer/dp/1789662079
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Is the advertising business a form of business or
entertainment? It needs to be entertaining but there definitely is a science to
it.
Paul Bainsfair is the Director General of the IPA – the Institute
of Practitioners in Advertising. He’s a veteran of the industry, with
board-level experience at TBWA, Saatchis and Iris, he’s using his 35+ years in
the business to champion the cause of advertising as a driver of the economy.
But he’s also acutely aware of the issues facing the world
of advertising – the environment, DE&I, frequency and advertising fatigue.
So, the IPA’s focus for 2024 is the 60:40 rule and helping
companies and brands to strike a balance between brand building and activation –
as the old song goes, like love and marriage, you can’t have one without the
other.
In this wide-ranging chat, Paul and I discuss the difference
between US and UK advertising, why ads need to deliver the relevant unexpected,
the latest Bellwether reports and a marketing budget forecast for the next 12
months, the wisdom of Tim Delaney, balancing the standards, saving the economy,
new business opportunities for all agencies, the analogy of steam trains and
Irish songwriters.
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Is today's technology preventing us from developing meaningful relationships - in business and in life?
What techniques can we use to make sure that our approaches are both genuine and timely?
Keith Smith sits down with experts Natasha Ellard-Shoefield - the founder of business development consultancy The Hand, and Peter Meikle Partner and Head of News & Media Relations EMEA, at PR agency FleishmanHillard UK to get their thoughts.
Sources
https://hbr.org/2017/04/a-face-to-face-request-is-34-times-more-successful-than-an-email
https://sproutsocial.com/insights/b2b-influencer-marketing/
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David Brown, the host of the ‘Creatives with AI’ podcast is on
the show to simultaneously scare and soothe us about the unstoppable march of
AI into our lives.
David is a creative agency owner, so he totally understands
how AI can be used to help us win business and grow our agencies.
We discuss the subject of how the military is using AI and
the global view of AI ethics.
We look at how our privacy will be affected
The development of guard rails
AI’s impact on photography already and what’s to come
The environmental cost of AI
How to be the best prompt engineer and why this is the
career of the future
We discuss how AI reflects all the best and the worst of
humanity
What the creative agency of the future will look like.
Show notes
The AI Dilemma YouTube show
https://youtu.be/xoVJKj8lcNQ?si=m8C1FM1Mx51_yOzP
Unknown killer robots trailer for Netflix
https://youtu.be/YsSzNOpr9cE?si=S8w-8rAyiML660y3
David Brown’s LinkedIn page
https://www.linkedin.com/in/4mdbrown/
The Creatives with AI podcast on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/show/3l97IiQzlKDnioO166RSyc?si=d193538ca2084137
The Hi Ren video (a must watch)
https://youtu.be/s_nc1IVoMxc?si=7Tkeq3uDLkpMF2T6
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