unbillable hours - a podcast about better professional services marketing

Is your marketing function providing in-house trainings to consulting colleagues? If not... you might want to consider changing that. Listen to Ash's and Flo's reasons for why marketers should train consultants and their tips for how and in what. They even share some tips for how to get your "training service" started! Voices, production, etc. by Ash and Flo. Creative and design advice by @calmar.creativ Into, outro voiceover by @iamthedakota Music also by @iamthedakota Pls. find the shownotes for this episode at unbillable-hrs.com.

It's still an under-utilized source of differentiation, marketing success, and firm growth: Proper market segmentation. We mean the kind where you DON'T just go after entire industries but create much more helpful sub-segments to increase your marketing's effectiveness. And in this minisode, we explain how you can get to them by viewing your market through four simple "lenses." Voices, production, etc. by Ash and Flo Creative and design advice by @calmar.creativ Into, outro voiceover by @iamthedakota Music also by @iamthedakota Pls. find the shownotes for this episode at unbillable-hrs.com.

We speak about "stakeholder engagement" a lot on this podcast. And in this episode, Ash and Flo bring it home - to "corporate comms." Listen to hear their views and tips around working with the function to improve your marketing results! Voices, production, etc. by Ash and Flo. Creative and design advice by @calmar.creativ Into, outro voiceover by @iamthedakota Music also by @iamthedakota Pls. find the shownotes for this episode at unbillable-hrs.com.

Next up: How to map your consultancy's content to the service buying journey of your ideal clients, and improve the effectiveness of your inbound efforts (like, literally, that's what's in this week's minisode: We discuss the why, how, and what to watch out for when mapping your content to your clients' service buying journey... let's go!): Voices, production, etc. by Ash and Flo Creative and design advice by @calmar.creativ Into, outro voiceover by @iamthedakota Music also by @iamthedakota Pls. find the shownotes for this episode at unbillable-hrs.com.

In this episode, Ash and Flo chat about the difficulties of getting your organic social media posts to work these days... and then share a framework that helps you write effective posts. Plus, we also talk about how AI-generated content can help optimize your posts... Voices, production, etc. by Ash and Flo Creative and design advice by @calmar.creativ Into, outro voiceover by @iamthedakota Music also by @iamthedakota

Need new insights, content ideas - or even content pieces? Don't go off and reinvent the wheel... use the assets your firm already has instead! In this "solo episode", a lone Flo shares our seven tips for "where to find" ideas, expertise, and collateral you can repurpose while Ash is out "doing Ash stuff" somewhere in Europe. Enjoy! Voices, production, etc. by Flo (Ash is out today!) Creative and design advice by @calmar.creativ Into, outro voiceover by @iamthedakota Music also by @iamthedakota Pls. find the shownotes for this episode at unbillable-hrs.com.

We're not saying this is always the case... BUT: Sometimes, when consultancy marketing efforts seem to "not do much," it's not marketing's (or: marketers') fault - but the consequence of misconceptions. Here's more: Voices, production, etc. by Ash and Flo. Creative and design advice by @calmar.creativ Into, outro voiceover by @iamthedakota Music also by @iamthedakota

"How can I convince a consultancy exec who 'doesn't believe in marketing' to invest in marketing?" is a question both Ash and Flo are hearing more often these days - and so we decided to answer it, comprehensively, in a single episode. Enjoy! Voices, production, etc. by Ash and Flo. Creative and design advice by @calmar.creativ Into, outro voiceover by @iamthedakota Music also by @iamthedakota Pls. find the shownotes to this episode at unbillable-hrs.com.

So, how will generative AI change professional services marketing? We’ve promised to revisit this very question for a while now – and, in this episode, do it with the help of Hinge Marketing’s Karl Feldman and Austin McNair, who have a strong point of view on the matter. Episode guests: Karl Feldman, senior partner, and Austin McNair, senior marketing manager, Hinge Marketing. Voices, production, etc., by Ash and Flo. Creative and design advice by @calmar.creativ Into, outro voiceover by @iamthedakota Music also by @iamthedakota   Pls. find the show notes for this episode at https://unbillable-hrs.com.

Since we, uh... lost our original episode for today (which was all about "misconceptions"), Flo had to go back into the dusty archives and uncover this classic, which is about the capabilities and mechanisms your firm should have within its marketing function. Enjoy! Voices, production, etc. by Ash and Flo. Creative and design advice by @calmar.creativ Into, outro voiceover by @iamthedakota Music also by @iamthedakota Pls. find the shownotes to this episode at unbillable-hrs.com.