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In this year-end episode, Ben shares some personal insights about the value of setting goals, breaking them into categories, and making them quantifiable to help you keep track. It’s about facing 2021 with a clean slate and reshuffled priorities about what matters the most.  Show NotesConnect With:Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterThe MarTech Podcast: Email // Newsletter // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

At this end of the year series, Ben talks about 2020’s impact from a podcast growth perspective, our business goals and revenue goals, and then stumbling upon a great growth channel that strengthened our core infrastructure which helps us be more confident and positive about our business for the next year.  Show NotesConnect With:Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterThe MarTech Podcast: Email // Newsletter // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this second episode, we will discuss the importance of understanding your standards and knowing your audience from the perspective of intrinsic branding. We also talked about lead quality and why it is a commonly overlooked metric, how the brand and the business model inform each other as well as understanding the psychographic profile of your audiences.  Show NotesConnect With:Justin Foster: Website // LinkedInEmily Soccorsy: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // Newsletter // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In our first episode with Justin and Emily of Root + River, we discussed how businesses execute spirituality in their branding efforts, differentiation around category design, and the impact of getting the language right first in your brand narrative. We also talked about the process of spiritual enlightenment from a business perspective and its connection with building confidence which is the ultimate attractor in branding.  Show NotesConnect With:Justin Foster: Website // LinkedInEmily Soccorsy: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // Newsletter // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today we're going to discuss the way to measure and evaluate an out-of-home marketing channel in transportation marketing. Joining us is James Heller, who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wrapify, which is an omnichannel advertising platform powered by the gig economy. In part 1 of our conversation, James is going to tell us how out-of-home and transportation marketing should fit into your brand's marketing mix, and today we dig into the transportation industry and why it fits within out-of-home. Show NotesConnect With: James Heller: Website // LinkedIn The MarTech Podcast: Email // Newsletter // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today we're going to discuss the way to measure and evaluate an out-of-home marketing channel in transportation marketing. Joining us is James Heller, who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wrapify, which is an omnichannel advertising platform powered by the gig economy. In part 1 of our conversation, James is going to tell us how out of home and transportation marketing should fit into your brand's marketing mix. Show NotesConnect With: James Heller: Website // LinkedIn The MarTech Podcast: Email // Newsletter // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the final episode of this series, Ben and Todd talk about developing strategies for sponsor relationships, the important lesson of being proactive in our approach with sponsorship programs, and recognizing podcasts as a medium attributable medium to revenue and direct response metrics. Show NotesConnect With:Todd Hines: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterThe MarTech Podcast: Email // Newsletter // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this fourth installment of the 2020 year in review, Ben and Todd talk about breaking up roles to make the organization more resilient and less vulnerable, what losing the Swiss Army knife member of our team revealed as being emblematic of a business problem organizations face, and the importance of contingency planning for your workforce. Show NotesConnect With:Todd Hines: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterThe MarTech Podcast: Email // Newsletter // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this third episode, Ben and Todd talked about some of the processes we had to go through for the migration of our site from Squarespace to WordPress and then back again, the reasons behind we made the decision to move from one content management platform to another. We also discussed the benefits of automation of having a consolidated martech, and the efficiency gains we had Show NotesConnect With:Todd Hines: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterThe MarTech Podcast: Email // Newsletter // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

For this episode, Ben and Todd talked about how our team’s initial reactions with the pandemic shockwave, getting incremental growths from our app store optimization campaign and realizing we’ve hit the ceiling. They’ve also discussed MarTech’s biggest learning experience so far, our very own, content syndication scoring.  Show NotesConnect With:Todd Hines: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterThe MarTech Podcast: Email // Newsletter // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.