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Ep 105: The Secret Sauce To Success In A Competitive Market

Ep 105: The Secret Sauce To Success In A Competitive Market

by Brad Friedman

The Secret Sauce To Success In A Competitive Market

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

Join Brad Friedman and John Gumas as they chat about how your small business can stand out and compete with larger businesses in the same space.

John Gumas is a veteran of the branding, advertising, and interactive marketing industry, John founded Gumas Advertising in 1984. Today, the award-winning firm is consistently named one of the top branding and interactive marketing firms by the California Business Times. John is recognized as one of the country’s foremost authorities on Challenger Brand Marketing®. He is the author of two books “Marketing Smart” and “Challenger Brand Marketing” which describe how challenger brands can effectively develop marketing strategies to take on their larger competitors. In addition, John has been an adjunct professor of branding, advertising, and interactive marketing, a sought-after speaker, and a regular columnist for several publications and blogs.

In this Episode:

John talks about what it means to be a “Challenger Brand.” A term he trademarked. .
John explains the 5-step process he takes his clients through.
John tells us all outbound marketing should be done to people who don't know who you are.
John talks about the Challenger Brand not having enough money to create the perfect marketing program.
John also talks about being hugely in favor of using vehicles that we can track.

Quotes from this Episode:
“Don't go head to head. That's the first thing I'd tell you to do because if you go head to head, the person with the most resources wins.” – John Gumas
“Guessing is the most dangerous thing a Challenger Brand can ever do.” – John Gumas
“Not once in 40 yers has what our customers thought they need to say to get a prospective new customer to use them, been what that prospective customer needs to hear them say.” – John Gumas
“So you really need to understand what your prospect needs to hear to get the conversation started.” – John Gumas
“So what they need to do is create the ideal marketing program based on the resources they have to spend.” – John Gumas
“The strategy now is how do you sell without selling?” – John Gumas

Resources:

John Gumas:
LinkedIn: John Gumas
LinkedIn: Gumas Advertising
Facebook: Gumas Advertising
X: John Gumas
Instagram: Gumas Advertisng
YouTube: Gumas Advertising
Website: Gumas Advertising

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Ep 099: Attract Your Ideal Client Like A Magnet

Ep 099: Attract Your Ideal Client Like A Magnet

by Brad Friedman

Attract Your Ideal Client Like A Magnet

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

Join Brad Friedman and Wendy Barr as they chat about branding, creating your ideal client avatar, training your AI assistant and more.

Wendy Barr is the CEO and Creative Director at Barrcode Branding, a leading branding agency with an innovative approach to human branding. With more than 20 years of experience in the branding industry, Wendy is passionate about helping businesses leverage the power of AI to establish a unique and authentic brand that aligns with their values and connects emotionally with their ideal client.

Wendy has a Master’s degree in branding and design. She has worked with some of the world's leading brands, such as MTV networks, Nickelodeon, RCA Records, Allure Magazine, Rockefeller Center, P Diddy, and more. She is an accomplished stage speaker and enjoys helping brilliant business owners attract their ideal client like a magnet, make more money, and IMPACT the world!

In this Episode:

Wendy talks about the need for business owners to align their value system with their ideal client's value system.
Wendy talks about helping brands develop an emotional connection with their ideal client.
Wendy talks about feeding AI information about your brand so it helps you create content in your brand voice.
Wendy talks about the need to edit every piece of content you use AI to generate.

Quotes from this Episode:
“Branding is a pull tactic. Whereas marketing is a push tactic. It pushes for a call to action, an end result, a sale. Whereas branding, is meant to be an organic natural pull towards your brand by sharing your value system, aligning with your ideal client.” – Wendy Barr
“You have to be able to talk about what value your programs, products, and services bring to the table what problems they solve for that ideal client.” – Wendy Barr
“But all I can say is this. If you have a website. If you have a landing page. If you have a social media presence. They already have access.” – Wendy Barr
“AI is a language tool. She's not actually thinking.” – Wendy Barr
“Branding lives and breathes in the mind of your public. So whatever people are thinking and saying about your brand, that actually is your brand.” – Wendy Barr

Resources:

Wendy Barr:
LinkedIn: Wendy Barr
Facebook: Barrcode Branding
Twitter: Barrcode Branding
Instagram: Barrcode Branding
YouTube: Barrcode Branding
Website: Barrcode Branding
Gift From Wendy: 10 Tips to Activate Your AIBrand Cheatsheet Now!

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“The Small Business Owner's Guide To Inbound Marketing,” by Brad Friedman
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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

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“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

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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

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