Ben is joined by Elliot Richmond who runs the local (Cheltenham) WordPress Meetup group. They discuss, WordPress, meetups and the importance of community. If you want to dip into WordPress meet-ups are the best way to meet local developers, designers and businesses who use it.
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Ben talks to Tom Ross, the founder of DesignCuts.com (and fellow podcaster) about creativity within marketing and how he balances building a community of contributors whilst marketing to customers.
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Ben catches-up with Alex Galviz, who is one of the top influences on LinkedIn in the UK. She has co-created an incredible global network of events called LinkedIn local and encourages people to communicate with authenticity.
This is a recommended listen if you want to up your game on LinkedIn.
Ben is joined by Jonathan Pollinger and they talk about the future social media, why it’s worth making predictions, JP’s rebrand and why Facebook is bloated and not very much fun to use.
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Jonathan Pollinger (@pollingersocial)– An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Al and Ben discuss lessons learnt from their first webinar, how to check if your data has been hacked, gdpr fails and a look back at Al’s time with Rather Inventive before he embarks on a new adventure.
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Ben chats with Magnus Unemyr on how implementing artificial intelligence and automated marketing can impact society and if done well, AI driven, marketing automation can not only propel sales but can and waste less time through more targeted interactions.
They also dip into the darker side of how big data can, and has been misused by companies in the recent past.
In this interview Ben chats with Michelle Evans on how developing a marketing funnel can take your from simply surviving, to SOLD OUT.
Michelle takes us through the steps of developing a funnel from understanding your audience before jumping in to develop a funnel that will nurture more customers into working with you.
Al and Ben discuss the website trends to look out for this year and the impact of blanding branding. Ben shares Jonathon Pollinger’s social media predictions for 2019.
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In this interview Ben managed to catch Dan Lewis from Free Agent 247 in-between meetings to chat about their free business model and how video plays an important part in their promotional strategy.
Voice search on Alexa and Google, is an area we don’t have a complete grasp on yet, particularly optimising for it. So, Ben was keen to talk with Duane Forrester, VP of Industry Insights over at Yext.
We discuss why we should be using structured data on our website. How this impacts conventional SEO and why it matters for voice and augmented reality.
Al and Ben muse over some GDPR myths. Al shares his enlightened experience on meet-ups over in Bristol and we talk about outsourcing curtesy of Seth Godin.
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In this episode Al and Ben review their time at Bath Digital festival, Ben shares his experience of London Podcast festival including how to make dollars. Rounding off with a look at .UK domains.
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Dean is an app developer who Ben met when he was invited on to the delightful Mac & Forth podcast.
Ben was particularly interested in Dean’s app Crystal, an iOS ad blocker that in many ways it actively works against the companies in an industry adjacent to ours, advertising. Although we see ourselves as the good guys when it comes to promotion.
Ben finds out how Dean started in app development, identified his very specific niche and got his app out to market.
In this episode as well as giving you a round op of the days events we also feature an interview with Jim Morrison the festival director and ask him pointed questions such as ‘why are the workshops so far apart’.
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Evershare.io – Where Fans Can Buy A Share in a Song
Why Your Business Needs a Blog
Share the why (your story) in your blog. To help with this describe what you do to a friend or colleague then ask them to summarise it back to you. This is your story.
Give stories to customers so they can share them and convert others
People use Instagram because they are looking for images they can step into or a person they can be.
Bring the audience to you. Find out how to help them
Understand: who will face this challenge? Who do they trust for recommendations? How can I reach them?
Maximise content: what do you have already? What can you easily create? Video has 130% additional engagement. What else does your audience need? Create stock image library of product images or shareable content
Maximise engagement: look for a slow burn acceleration. Ask questions? Polls! What are there anxieties/fears/hopes? Pick the right tone of voice. Listening to customers and adding features that add value.
Make your tech shine. Move from spec (what is it made from) -> Features (what does it do) -> Benefits (how does that help me) -> Value/Impact (why customer busy).
Company of the lovely chap Ben met at the bar www.showup.global
Shout out to these guys for an interesting event with free beer!
Successful CTA and Landing Pages
Simple, clear, targetted, bold
Dont be afraid to lose your site nav on landing pages
On exit popups were more effective than bottom-right panels
Designing for a better World
Draw up your own goals and aims, as an agency or freelancer
It’s ok to say no to a project but keep it professional
Its ok to work for an ‘evil’ company if you are trying to change them for the better
Check your pension and what it is funding!
Digital Brands__ready
50% of purchases are on phones
Traditional shopping model totally altered by peer reviews and trust
81% read reviews before buying a product. 1 in 3 comment or interact with brand in some way. 79% wont buy from again if mobile experience was bad
Lean Content – Jo Duncan
Simple, Single Channel, Straightforward content
Really, really put yourself in your customers shoes. Feel what they feel.
80% planning / 20% doing
Why you need a blog
Write new posts once a week or 2 weeks ideally
Give people a story to talk about and to share
300 – 1000 words perhaps
Bring a product to market
People want problems solved, but not get sold to
Who does your audience trust?
How-to’s, guides and manuals really important.
Equality in workplace discussion
Returnships – for people returning to work after career break – new concept
Offer fair paternity/maternity policies, dont get stuck in traditional policy
Home or flexi working opens up new potential workforce
Really interesting anecdote; when a successful male recruiter used his colleagues’ computer while she was on holiday it mistakenly added her email signature to his emails. He found that he got loads more negative responses from recruiters in particular.
Al and Ben have been on location at the Bath Digital Festival, soaking up talks and workshops on everything to do with technology, marketing and business. We thought we’d do something fun for this episode and have to recorded our experience through-out the two days in video as well as audio.
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In this episode Al and Ben talk about the emergence of deep fakes, which are video and audio fakes that are so good that they can used to put Nicholas cage in almost every film imaginable.
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In this interview Ben had a really nice chat with Rocky Romanella. He has over 40 years experience in retail, franchising and leadership development and now has a few stories to tell which you’ll find in his book Tighten the lug nuts.
We really enjoyed listening to Rocky has to say and we think you will to.
Recently Ben got the opportunity to interview Matthew Sullivan on how his company QuantumRE, is helping people release the equity in their home using a system based on the blockchain (this is the same technology used by Bitcoin).
He had a fascinating career before this even working on ventures with Richard Branson.
For this interview Ben heads over to Herefordshire to meet with Heidi Chamberlain-Jones the force behind Minx Media, a business development consultancy but also the founder of Eat Sleep Live Herefordshire a much needed destination marketing company and events portal for the area.
They talk about why online directories are still relevant, the importance of mixed marketing for businesses and what’s great about Herefordshire.
Al and Ben are joined by Chris Richards to discuss how he’s improved the search optimisation for his businesses through single-variant tests making SEO a science rather than guesswork.
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On this episode Ben interviewed Matt Watson. He’s been an entrepreneur since he can remember selling his first business at 29 for over 140 Million dollars. He now runs Stackify, Fullscale.io, as well as few other side projects, and joined Ben to share some of his challenges in building the businesses and how marketing played its role.