Today’s interview is with Seth Godin, best selling author, teacher and sometime entrepreneur. Seth joins us today to talk about his new book: This Is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See and we discuss the book’s main thesis, the challenge for marketers, what we need to learn, why it might be hard, why it matters and how we start to apply all of this in our businesses and our work. This interview follows on from my …
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Today’s interview is with Nikki Gatenby, MD of Propellernet, a multi-award winning Brighton-based digital marketing agency that operates globally and the author a new book: Superengaged: How to transform business performance by putting people and purpose first. She joins us today to talk about the new book and what they have done at Propellernet to produce some astounding commercial and engagement numbers. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Design is how we treat each other – Interview …
Today’s interview is with Rie Nørregaard, a Managing Creative Director of SYPartners, a consultancy based in New York and San Francisco. For 20 years, they’ve helped business leaders, teams, and individuals pursue growth and greatness. Rie has recently started a podcast: Designing for Humanity, which aims to explore designing a future that’s made for all of us—and the best in us. They also say that design, at its heart, is an act of service and is the work of solving …
Today’s interview is with Shep Hyken, who is the Chief Amazement Officer of Shepard Presentations and a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Shep joins me today today to talk about his latest book: The Convenience Revolution: How to Deliver a Customer Service Experience That Disrupts the Competition and Creates Fierce Loyalty, why convenience, the dimensions of convenience and how to use it to make a difference to your business’ service and experience. This interview follows on …
Today’s interview is with Will Barron, host of the very popular Salesman Podcast at Salesman.org. But, for a change, this is Will interviewing me for his podcast. I thought we spoke about a lot of good stuff, it was fun and Will is great interviewer. So, as a result, I thought it was worth republishing the interview here as part of my own interview series. Do check it out as Will and I talk about customer service and customer experience, …
Today’s interview is with Jason Stockwood, Group CEO of Simply Business, the UK’s leading B2B insurance broker and among the Tech Track 100 of the nation’s fastest-growing tech companies. He has also just published a new book: Reboot: A Blueprint for Happy, Human Business in the Digital Age, which aims to counter much of the news that predicts the massively negative effect that Artificial Intelligence and automation will have on jobs and shows how any organisation can think freshly and …
Today’s interview is with Gerry McGovern who is the founder and CEO of Customer Carewords and the author of six books on all things digital, content, transformation and online customer experience. He is about to publish a new book at the end of this month: Top Tasks – A How to Guide. The new book provides an A to Z look at the Top Tasks methodology that Gerry has developed and has used in around 4-500 organisations around the world …
Today’s interview is with Richard Shotton who is the Head of Behavioural Science at Manning Gottlieb OMD and author of the book: The Choice Factory: 25 behavioural biases that influence what we buy. Richard joins me today to talk about his book, a few of the behavioural biases in the book, why we should pay attention to them and how we can utilise them in our businesses. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Creating a learning environment …
Today’s interview is with Pat Lynch, VP of Enablement Excellence and Innovation at MindTickle, one of the industry’s most comprehensive readiness and learning solutions for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Pat joins me today to talk about learning versus training, the frustrations of Chief Learning Officers, what’s missing from the modern corporate learning environment, what is needed to get the most out of the Millennial and Gen-Z workforce and what MindTickle are doing about it. …