Attract Your Ideal Client Like A Magnet

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefriedmangroup

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-friedman-group-llc

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/friedmansocialmedia

Books
“Brad Friedman on Digital Marketing,” by Brad Friedman
“The Small Business Owner's Guide To Inbound Marketing,” by Brad Friedman
“100 Livestreaming & Digital Media Predictions,” by Ross Brand with a chapter by Brad Friedman

Here's the equipment we use and recommend:

Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone http://amzn.to/2hWshL8

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Heil Sound PL-2T Overhead Broadcast Boom http://amzn.to/2hXTvB1

RODE Videomic Shotgun Microphone https://amzn.to/3cZp2fD

Logitech C920 Webcam http://amzn.to/2hNhiQk

Roland R-05 Digital Recorder http://amzn.to/2zZ2vN4

Neewer 6×9 foot Green Screen https://amzn.to/35G4K6u

Elgato Key Light https://amzn.to/3ial9Fg

LED Lighting Kit https://amzn.to/35GBPiW

Desk Mounting Stand https://amzn.to/3qanNxM

These products and more can be found at our Amazon Store Front
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Our favorite Social Media Management Tool is AgoraPulse
https://friedmansocialmedia.com/agora

We highly recommend you use TubeBuddy to up your YouTube game!
TubeBuddy https://www.tubebuddy.com/TheFriedmanGroup

Libsyn is the Host of The Digital Slice Podcast. Just use our Libsyn code SLICE at https://friedmansocialmedia.com/libsyn to get up to 2 months of free podcasting service with Libsyn! Get your show on Apple Podcasts, get critical show-building stats—Libsyn even does video!

Streamyard is the tool we use to stream to all major platforms simultaneously directly from a browser. We also use Streamyard to record The Digital Slice Podcast because of its ability to provide us with crystal clear audio and 1080p video. Sign up today for free at https://friedmansocialmedia.com/streamyard

Launch your video Membership course or subscription website community with Uscreen. Uscreen helps creators like you build and grow their online video business with membership sites. See what you can do with Uscreen! https://friedmansocialmedia.com/uscreen

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Ep 091: Disrupting The Status Quo: Mastering Category Design For Business Success

Ep 091: Disrupting The Status Quo: Mastering Category Design For Business Success

by Brad Friedman

Disrupting The Status Quo: Mastering Category Design For Business Success

The Digital Slice Podcast is brought to you by The Friedman Group, LLC

Join Brad Friedman and Kevin Maney as they chat about Category Design and helping companies discover, define and get on track to dominate new markets.

Kevin Maney is a founding partner of Category Design Advisors (CDA), a bestselling author, an award-winning columnist and a TV commentator.

Kevin is co-author of the book Play Bigger, which has sold more than 100,000 copies globally and created a category design movement among entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and CEOs.

Using the category design process Kevin co-created, CDA has helped more than 50 companies discover, define and get on track to dominate new markets.

Kevin has been writing about technology for 30 years and has interviewed most of the tech pioneers you can name.

He wrote a column for Newsweek and has been a contributor to Fortune, The Atlantic, Wired and ABC News. He was a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio and a columnist and editor at USA Today.

His book The Maverick and His Machine is considered the de facto history of IBM. He’s appeared frequently on television and radio, including CNN, CBS Sunday Morning and NPR. He also writes music for and plays in a New York band, Total Blam Blam.

In this Episode:

Kevin talks about the book he wrote that created a movement.
Kevin talks about determining if your new business idea is going to dominate the category it is in.
Kevin talks about the importance of being in that dominant design position .
Kevin talks about how context + missing + innovation = a new market category .
Kevin also talks about importance of technology in driving your business idea.

Quotes from this Episode:
“If you can really zero in on an open problem, a missing thing in the world. That's where you find a new possibility for a category.” – Kevin Maney
“One of the reasons that digital markets tend to have one category winner is because in a digital market, anybody in the world can get it.” – Kevin Maney
“The important thing is to win some years down the road, that dominant design position. That's the key!.” – Kevin Maney
“Category Design is a way of looking at strategy and product from the outside in.” – Kevin Maney
“I would argue that we're going through a period of time when things are going on with AI and blockchain and genomics and and all this different tech, that we're in one of the greatest bursts of technology change we've probably seen in a century.” – Kevin Maney

Resources:

Kevin Maney:
LinkedIn: Kevin Maney
Facebook: Category Design Advisors
Twitter: Kevin Maney
Instagram: Category Design Advisors
Website: Category Design Advisors
Book: Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets

And, here's the link to my calendar for the two slots I have open to give you a sample coaching session: Coaching Session With Brad

Brad Friedman

Twitter:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefriedmangroup

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-friedman-group-llc

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/friedmansocialmedia

Books
“Brad Friedman on Digital Marketing,” by Brad Friedman
“The Small Business Owner's Guide To Inbound Marketing,” by Brad Friedman
“100 Livestreaming & Digital Media Predictions,” by Ross Brand with a chapter by Brad Friedman

Here's the equipment we use and recommend:

Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone http://amzn.to/2hWshL8

Heil Sound PRSM Champagne Shockmount http://amzn.to/2hUMVen

Heil Sound PL-2T Overhead Broadcast Boom http://amzn.to/2hXTvB1

RODE Videomic Shotgun Microphone https://amzn.to/3cZp2fD

Logitech C920 Webcam http://amzn.to/2hNhiQk

Roland R-05 Digital Recorder http://amzn.to/2zZ2vN4

Neewer 6×9 foot Green Screen https://amzn.to/35G4K6u

Elgato Key Light https://amzn.to/3ial9Fg

LED Lighting Kit https://amzn.to/35GBPiW

Desk Mounting Stand https://amzn.to/3qanNxM

These products and more can be found at our Amazon Store Front
https://www.amazon.com/shop/bradfriedman

Our favorite Social Media Management Tool is AgoraPulse
https://friedmansocialmedia.com/agora

We highly recommend you use TubeBuddy to up your YouTube game!
TubeBuddy https://www.tubebuddy.com/TheFriedmanGroup

Libsyn is the Host of The Digital Slice Podcast. Just use our Libsyn code SLICE at https://friedmansocialmedia.com/libsyn to get up to 2 months of free podcasting service with Libsyn! Get your show on Apple Podcasts, get critical show-building stats—Libsyn even does video!

Streamyard is the tool we use to stream to all major platforms simultaneously directly from a browser. We also use Streamyard to record The Digital Slice Podcast because of its ability to provide us with crystal clear audio and 1080p video. Sign up today for free at https://friedmansocialmedia.com/streamyard

Launch your video Membership course or subscription website community with Uscreen. Uscreen helps creators like you build and grow their online video business with membership sites. See what you can do with Uscreen! https://friedmansocialmedia.com/uscreen

Be sure to sign up for the Brad Bot at TheBradBot.com To get reminders when I go live on Facebook and to receive freebies and other content from The Friedman Group, LLC.

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Ep 089: Marketing Your Business: Tips From A Dojo Master

Ep 089: Marketing Your Business: Tips From A Dojo Master

by Brad Friedman

Marketing Your Business: Tips From A Dojo Master

The Digital Slice Podcast is brought to you by The Friedman Group, LLC

Join Brad Friedman and Eric Holtzclaw as they chat about business, technology, and people, along with how to help businesses find their identities and core values, craft their visions, and establish their brands.

Eric Holtzclaw is a visionary and the “idea guy.” He is a serial entrepreneur, with nearly 30 years of experience, who has a knack for founding companies, sometimes unintentionally. His start-ups include one of the first profitable internet enterprises and a company that appeared on the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing list three years in a row.

In 2018, Eric took the advice he usually gives other entrepreneurs and formed the full-service marketing firm, Liger Partners, combining his three loves: business, technology, and people. At Liger, Eric is the Chief Strategist and Dojo Master. He is the resident expert in guiding businesses to find their identities and core values, craft their visions, and establish their brands. Liger Partners is recognized as a 2021 Best and Brightest Business to Work For in Atlanta and in the nation, an honor earned by the firm’s agility and ability to quickly pivot marketing efforts in response to COVID by leveraging technology and digital channels.

Eric has contributed to magazines and online publications and wrote the book, “Laddering: Unlocking the Potential of Consumer Behavior.” He’s also a host of The Claw podcast where he interviews business owners and entrepreneurs, allowing them to share their insights and expertise. Out of all the ideas he’s brought to life, Eric says his daughter is his greatest one.

In this Episode:

Eric talks about the importance of really understanding your customer persona.
Eric talks about the need to create marketing that is visceral and makes me either love it or hate it.
Eric talks about how to create content that converts.
Eric talks about the common mistake of trying to make your website perfect.
Eric also talks about marketing our businesses being along game with no quick fixes.

Quotes from this Episode:
“Marketing is a combination of technology and understanding your customer. And so if you can put those two things together, you can build some pretty effective marketing strategies and tactics.” – Eric Holtzclaw
“If you do personas effectively, you will deeply understand your customer base, and you can start to predict the way they're gonna answer a question.” – Eric Holtzclaw
“It needs to be visceral. On the marketing side, either make me love it or hate it, make sure I'm talking about it.” – Eric Holtzclaw
“One of the biggest mistakes I see B2B companies make is that they ignore some of the tactics that B2C use..” – Eric Holtzclaw
“To think about creating content that converts, don't think about your company like a catalog.” – Eric Holtzclaw

Resources:

Eric Holtzclaw:
LinkedIn: Eric Holtzclaw
Facebook: Liger Partners
Twitter: Liger Partners
Instagram: Liger Partners
Website: Liger Partners
Book: Laddering: Unlocking the Potential of Consumer Behavior

And, here's the link to my calendar for the two slots I have open to give you a sample coaching session: Coaching Session With Brad

Brad Friedman

Twitter:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefriedmangroup

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-friedman-group-llc

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/friedmansocialmedia

Books
“Brad Friedman on Digital Marketing,” by Brad Friedman
“The Small Business Owner's Guide To Inbound Marketing,” by Brad Friedman
“100 Livestreaming & Digital Media Predictions,” by Ross Brand with a chapter by Brad Friedman

Here's the equipment we use and recommend:

Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone http://amzn.to/2hWshL8

Heil Sound PRSM Champagne Shockmount http://amzn.to/2hUMVen

Heil Sound PL-2T Overhead Broadcast Boom http://amzn.to/2hXTvB1

RODE Videomic Shotgun Microphone https://amzn.to/3cZp2fD

Logitech C920 Webcam http://amzn.to/2hNhiQk

Roland R-05 Digital Recorder http://amzn.to/2zZ2vN4

Neewer 6×9 foot Green Screen https://amzn.to/35G4K6u

Elgato Key Light https://amzn.to/3ial9Fg

LED Lighting Kit https://amzn.to/35GBPiW

Desk Mounting Stand https://amzn.to/3qanNxM

These products and more can be found at our Amazon Store Front
https://www.amazon.com/shop/bradfriedman

Our favorite Social Media Management Tool is AgoraPulse
https://friedmansocialmedia.com/agora

We highly recommend you use TubeBuddy to up your YouTube game!
TubeBuddy https://www.tubebuddy.com/TheFriedmanGroup

Libsyn is the Host of The Digital Slice Podcast. Just use our Libsyn code SLICE at https://friedmansocialmedia.com/libsyn to get up to 2 months of free podcasting service with Libsyn! Get your show on Apple Podcasts, get critical show-building stats—Libsyn even does video!

Streamyard is the tool we use to stream to all major platforms simultaneously directly from a browser. We also use Streamyard to record The Digital Slice Podcast because of its ability to provide us with crystal clear audio and 1080p video. Sign up today for free at https://friedmansocialmedia.com/streamyard

Launch your video Membership course or subscription website community with Uscreen. Uscreen helps creators like you build and grow their online video business with membership sites. See what you can do with Uscreen! https://friedmansocialmedia.com/uscreen

Be sure to sign up for the Brad Bot at TheBradBot.com To get reminders when I go live on Facebook and to receive freebies and other content from The Friedman Group, LLC.

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Thank you for trusting me with my honest opinion on future purchases you may make after listening to this podcast. I am always completely transparent with you. As a friend of The Friedman Group, LLC you allow me to be able to use affiliate/referral links when suggesting items for purchase. Please know I am a customer myself or have done sufficient research to feel comfortable sharing these links with you. When you click on a link and purchase the item I may receive a small “commission.” This allows me to continue to provide you with quality content and doesn't affect you in any way at checkout.

Not every link is a referral link and some appear here because my guest spoke about them and I want to make it easy for you to check 'em out. Thank you!

Ep 081: We Rely On Demographics and Psychographics. But, Valuegraphics?

Ep 081: We Rely On Demographics and Psychographics. But, Valuegraphics?

by Brad Friedman

We Rely On Demographics and Psychographics. But, Valuegraphics?

The Digital Slice Podcast is brought to you by The Friedman Group, LLC

Join Brad Friedman and David Allison as they chat about Valuegraphics, David's project to map and measure the core human values of everyone on Earth.

David Allison is a consumer behavior expert, an advisor to global brands, and a leading advocate for discarding demographic stereotypes. He founded the Valuegraphics Database to help organizations create exponentially better customer engagement and point the way to a less divided world.

His work makes it possible, for the first time in history, to identify the shared values of any group of people. He shows organizations as wide-ranging as the United Nations, Wall Street hedge funds, and global consumer brands how to harness the enormous passion and power those shared human values will unleash.

In this Episode:

David talks about his project to map and measure the core human values of everyone on Earth.
David talks about the challenge of brands solely relying on demographics when trying to impact their audience.
David talks about the fact that all the data brands collect come from exactly the same place.
David talks about the prefrontal cortex in your brain being the CEO of your life.
David also talks about the fact that values are driving everything on earth.

Quotes from this Episode:
“So, you know, it's time for demographics and psychographics to move over, make room on the bench, cuz now there's Valuegraphics.” – David Allison
“Millennials like avocado toast. Boomers suck at technology. Women are irrational. Men are, you know, and so on, and so on, and so on.” – David Allison
“You gotta put a fence around 'em because the fact of the matter is that not all products are meant for all demographics.” – David Allison
“We wake up in the morning, the first thing we do, every decision we make all day long as human beings is driven by our values.” – David Allison
“You know, COVID made us sit at home and think about what's important. And now we're reacting to the world in a more obvious way than we ever have before based on our values.” – David Allison
“So there's only 56 values. There's the first thing we found. There's only 56 things that are important enough to enough people that it, that they drive how we live our lives.” – David Allison

Resources:

David Allison:
LinkedIn: David Allison
LinkedIn: The Valuegraphics Research Company
Website: The Valuegraphics Research Company

And, here's the link to my calendar for the two slots I have open to give you a sample coaching session: Coaching Session With Brad

Brad Friedman

Twitter:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefriedmangroup

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-friedman-group-llc

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/friedmansocialmedia

Books
“Brad Friedman on Digital Marketing,” by Brad Friedman
“The Small Business Owner's Guide To Inbound Marketing,” by Brad Friedman
“100 Livestreaming & Digital Media Predictions,” by Ross Brand with a chapter by Brad Friedman

Here's the equipment we use and recommend:

Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone http://amzn.to/2hWshL8

Heil Sound PRSM Champagne Shockmount http://amzn.to/2hUMVen

Heil Sound PL-2T Overhead Broadcast Boom http://amzn.to/2hXTvB1

RODE Videomic Shotgun Microphone https://amzn.to/3cZp2fD

Logitech C920 Webcam http://amzn.to/2hNhiQk

Roland R-05 Digital Recorder http://amzn.to/2zZ2vN4

Neewer 6×9 foot Green Screen https://amzn.to/35G4K6u

Elgato Key Light https://amzn.to/3ial9Fg

LED Lighting Kit https://amzn.to/35GBPiW

Desk Mounting Stand https://amzn.to/3qanNxM

These products and more can be found at our Amazon Store Front
https://www.amazon.com/shop/bradfriedman

Our favorite Social Media Management Tool is AgoraPulse
https://friedmansocialmedia.com/agora

We highly recommend you use TubeBuddy to up your YouTube game!
TubeBuddy https://www.tubebuddy.com/TheFriedmanGroup

Libsyn is the Host of The Digital Slice Podcast. Just use our Libsyn code SLICE at https://friedmansocialmedia.com/libsyn to get up to 2 months of free podcasting service with Libsyn! Get your show on Apple Podcasts, get critical show-building stats—Libsyn even does video!

Streamyard is the tool we use to stream to all major platforms simultaneously directly from a browser. We also use Streamyard to record The Digital Slice Podcast because of its ability to provide us with crystal clear audio and 1080p video. Sign up today for free at https://friedmansocialmedia.com/streamyard

Launch your video Membership course or subscription website community with Uscreen. Uscreen helps creators like you build and grow their online video business with membership sites. See what you can do with Uscreen! https://friedmansocialmedia.com/uscreen

Be sure to sign up for the Brad Bot at TheBradBot.com To get reminders when I go live on Facebook and to receive freebies and other content from The Friedman Group, LLC.

AFFILIATE LINKS
Thank you for trusting me with my honest opinion on future purchases you may make after listening to this podcast. I am always completely transparent with you. As a friend of The Friedman Group, LLC you allow me to be able to use affiliate/referral links when suggesting items for purchase. Please know I am a customer myself or have done sufficient research to feel comfortable sharing these links with you. When you click on a link and purchase the item I may receive a small “commission.” This allows me to continue to provide you with quality content and doesn't affect you in any way at checkout.

Not every link is a referral link and some appear here because my guest spoke about them and I want to make it easy for you to check 'em out. Thank you!

Ep 065: Find Your Purpose, Get Happy And Make The World A Better Place

Ep 065: Find Your Purpose, Get Happy And Make The World A Better Place

by Brad Friedman

Find Your Purpose, Get Happy And Make The World A Better Place

The Digital Slice Podcast is brought to you by The Friedman Group, LLC

Join Brad Friedman and Courtney Smith Kramer as they chat about finding your purpose and how it relates to our quest for happiness. Success is currently defined in today’s paradigm as an outcome of achievement, status and recognition, which of course, we all deserve. Still, without purpose, we are left with a constant chase for happiness. Courtney believes that if we know what our purpose is, or at least what gives us meaning and what we stand for, then we shift the paradigm to be in a self-induced state of happiness that drives decisions to make achievement, status and recognition flow more freely and with greater joy.

Courtney Smith Kramer is one of the only 3% of female creative directors in the United States and was named a “Top 200 Global Marketing Influencer” and “Top 20 Agency Strategy Global Influencer” by Onalytica, a UK-based Influencer firm.

In her career, she has built campaigns for global brands like Plantronics, Cisco, Pitney Bowes, MasterCard, International Culinary Center, IBM and Netflix DVD.com, to name a few. She also served as Global Head of Marketing for the Co-Active Training Institute in a 4-year tenure. Today, Courtney is helping purpose-driven brands as an outsourced Creative Director and CMO, and inspiring positive change by helping leaders realize their own value and worth in the world.

An accomplished creative strategist, writer and designer, she has earned hundreds of creative awards in her career and was featured in the Print International Design Annual. She has served as a juror for numerous ADDY Awards, W3 Awards, Davey Awards and the National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC), and is a former national AAF and World Brand Congress board member.

Courtney has founded two companies with her husband, Bryan Kramer (TED speaker, bestselling author and founder of the H2H Human-to-Human business movement); Silicon Valley marketing consultancy purematter, and H2H Companies, which offers group and private coaching for leaders.

Her first book, “Be Your Creative Sexy Self: Humorous Stories to Help You Live a Happier Life” launched in July 2020 at the #1 spot in Business Humor on Amazon.

Currently, Courtney is working as a fractional and outsourced CMO/Creative Director with purpose-driven companies contributing to solve a greater thing – the environment, self-worth and value, social justice, etc.. But, her true passion is being curious about the things we can’t see but have placed meaning on – spirit, mysteries, universal laws – peppered in with play, adventure and major wanderlust.

In this Episode:

Courtney talks about purpose driven companies
Courtney talked about defining your purpose.
Courtney talked about the importance of know what your guiding light is.
Courtney talked about how to build a brand personality.
Courtney also talked about creativity needs a container, and why group brainstorming is a terrible idea.

Quotes from this Episode:
“And if things matter, then your actions have to follow that belief or that value or that purpose or whatever you're willing to take a stand for instead of complaining about it, or taking inaction about it.” – Courtney Smith Kramer
“If every single person takes responsibility for doing a part, then that's where we're gonna gain some momentum.” – Courtney Smith Kramer
“It's just brands that know that they wanna go out and do some good. They want to leave the world in a better way than it was today and they're doing their part.” – Courtney Smith Kramer
“So if I can spend my days every day, creating things in the world that are making a difference for purpose driven brands, I'm a happy camper.” – Courtney Smith Kramer
“Creating is a sacred act to me that means it's the connection between spirit and self.” – Courtney Smith Kramer
“The choices that we make that are meaningful to us create our legacy that we leave behind in this world. - Courtney Smith Kramer

Resources:

Courtney Smith Kramer:
LinkedIn: Courtney Smith Kramer
Twitter: Courtney Smith Kramer
Website: purematter
Book: Be Your Creative Sexy Self: Humorous Stories to Help You Live a Happier Life

Brad Friedman

Twitter:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefriedmangroup

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-friedman-group-llc

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/friedmansocialmedia