This Is Marketing Podcast

In this episode I catch up on the past year or so of my life and talk about what I think about the state of marketing. I’ll be honest, it’s more exciting to me now that it has been and I specifically get into Facebook Groups, Pages and YouTube. Thanks for still listening and let’s […]

June and July marks the end of one budget, and the beginning of the next. In this podcast, I discuss how I allocate my budget on traditional and digital marketing, what decisions go into my spend (I’ll give you a hint, it’s data) as well as some of the new ideas I am focusing on […]

As someone that works at a University, I get this question a lot, “How am I going to get and entry level marketing job with no experience?”. The reality is as a student, you not only have a lot of things you are doing every day that count as experience, but you also have the […]

Facebook remains one of the digital marketing channels that is a must have your your business. In this episode, I discuss how to build your audience by assessing the audience themselves, using the analytics tools within Facebook, converting users from other social channels and how to build your overall content strategy by testing content types.

I think that right now is the best time for YouTube be a part of your digital marketing strategy. Through subscribers, you can build an audience that not only engages and shares your videos, but also converts over to customers. In this episode, I discuss some tips that have helped me build my own YouTube […]

Storytelling isn’t a consideration you should have as part of your brand strategy, it should be your brand strategy. In this podcast, I discuss how you should discover and create content through storytelling about your brand. The first idea is to think about those stories that talk about how your business came to be. Tell […]

I’m not an expert in how to correctly build survey, but like many things in my career, I’ve learned by doing. In this podcast, I discuss in detail a market survey I am building to use at the University to better understand our brand, reputation and the buying decisions of students. I talk about using […]

Digital marketing can mean many things. Choosing the right channel, the right content and knowing what the goals are all things you can decide ahead of time. In this podcast, I discuss what I consider to be the three best digital marketing strategies for your business right now in 2018: Email, YouTube and Google Adwords. […]

The debate between Adwords and Facebook advertising isn’t so much whether one is better than the other, it’s more about which one is going to work better for your business. In this podcast, I discuss both platforms and provide some ideas for when to use either, or both.

I can be my own worst enemy with this statement, but, marketing isn’t hard. In fact, I think that anyone can be a marketing expert. When it comes to your business, you are the expert.  Tapping into the many marketing resources we have around us only enhances your knowledge of your business, and your ability […]

MBA programs seem like they are dime a dozen these days, but there is real value in getting an MBA. On this episode, I sit down with Nick Baran, a real MBA student that has a background as a teacher. We talk about why he made the choice to quit his career and pursue an […]

I literally just made this word up, I think. Adverterrorists is long for advertisers, and I don’t like either of them. In this episode, I’m pretty fired up, because I get 100 sales calls and emails a day, so I’m here to talk some shit about them. If you are in a marketing position or […]

As marketers, we can spend the rest of our lives producing reports for clients and executives, and if you are like me, you hate it. However, I spent some time looking for something to make my life easier when it comes to reporting and I might have found the single best online app for building […]

What is a Chatbot? How can a Chatbot help my business? All great questions, and all topics that I cover in this week’s episode. Chatbots are nothing new, but like with any technology they are becoming increasing important for our content strategy and communication strategy. With an increase in social media communications, our customer service […]

Youtube released a press release earlier this month talking about their changes to the YouTube Partnership Program. For those channels that do not have 1,000 subscribers and more than 4,000 hours of view time, you will no longer be able to monetize your videos. What does this mean to you as a business? In this […]

There is always going to be new technologies out there, augmented reality is one of those ones that I think has some real potential for marketing and branding. In this first episode of 2018, I talk about where and how AR can benefit your business, and discuss one of my favorite examples used on the […]

Goodbye 2017, hello 2018. In this episode, I talk about some of the trends I saw that I really enjoyed in marketing, and some of those learning moments I think we can all benefit for. All of those moment lead to what I think 2018 is going to bring us as marketers and really lay […]

30,000 podcasts listens might now seem like a big number, but from a YoY comparison, it’s a 387% increase in listens – I’ll take that stat any day. In 30,000 listens, I’ve been learning nonstop about podcasting, content and my audience, and in this episode, I share some of those learning moments. What they were, […]

It’s the holidays, and for some of you, it’s the most busiest time of the year! Black Friday is right around the corner and your marketing should already be firing on all cylinders. However, it’s not just your black Friday marketing we have to worry about, there is now Small Business Saturday marketing and Cyber […]

Social media is a great way to expose your brand to the masses, however, not all businesses know how to create a team that will post effective content to social channels. In this podcast, I talk about what that team should look like, how you can recruit users and what they should be focusing on […]