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Ep 132: Crafting Effective Marketing Strategies For Small Bussiness

Ep 132: Crafting Effective Marketing Strategies For Small Bussiness

Ep 132: Crafting Effective Marketing Strategies For Small Bussiness

by Brad Friedman

Crafting Effective Marketing Strategies For Small Bussiness

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

Join Brad Friedman and Robbin Block as they chat about all things marketing, from dimensional marketing to text messaging and everything in between.

Robbin is a Creative Marketing Strategist at Blockbeta Marketing. She brings a unique perspective to marketing niche businesses. She gets right to the point while guiding her clients through the increasingly complicated online marketing and media landscape. She’s a sought-after speaker, and the author of “Social Persuasion: Making Sense of Social Media for Small Business” and various marketing e-books. A background in economics and an MBA are the foundation for her big picture approach to small business that gets results for her clients.

In this Episode:

  • Robbin talks about taking a business approach to developing marketing strategies.
  • Robbin says direct mail is like a snake swallowing a mouse .
  • Robbin discusses the need for your marketing tactic of choice to fit into an overall marketing strategy.
  • Robbin talks about the importance of knowing everything you can about your target audience.
  • Robbin also talks about the importance of measuring your marketing results.

Quotes from this Episode:
“You always have to pay attention to the other opportunities that have less competition. So, for example, direct mail.” – Robbin Block
“What do you literally bring to the table that is going to convince people that you are the one that they should buy whatever from?” – Robbin Block
“I always tell my clients who don't have big budgets to take creative risk.” – Robbin Block
“Because emotion creates memory. And then memory will get them to come back to you.” – Robbin Block
“Don't think of social media as just being the Royal Five. there are other sites that have social activities that you can participate in that get you much more juice.” – Robbin Block
“If you're really wondering about what you should do, always go back to what do I know about my customers?” - Robbin Block

Resources:

Robbin Block:
LinkedIn: Robbin Block
Facebook: Blockbeta
X: Robbin Block
Website: Blockbeta
Book: Social Persuasion: Making Sense of Social Media for Small Business

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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

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Ep 114: Revolutionizing Brand Integrity With Generative AI

Ep 114: Revolutionizing Brand Integrity With Generative AI

Ep 114: Revolutionizing Brand Integrity With Generative AI

by Brad Friedman

Revolutionizing Brand Integrity With Generative AI

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

In this episode, Brad Friedman and Rob May look closely at the need for businesses of all sizes to protect their brand integrity and how Generative AI can help.

Rob May, the founder and CEO of Nova, is a leading figure in the field of generative AI and brand safety. With his extensive entrepreneurship and angel investing background, Rob brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the table.

His latest venture, Nova, is an early-stage startup that focuses on building powerful generative AI tools to safeguard brand integrity. With the introduction of their revolutionary products, BrandGuard and BrandGPT, Rob and his team are redefining how brands protect their content in the age of AI.

With BrandGuard, brands can ensure compliance with their guidelines and style rules by leveraging Nova's meticulously crafted models. Meanwhile, BrandGPT allows brands to interact with AI in a conversational manner, providing answers to content-related inquiries.

In this Episode:

  • Rob talks about teaching machines to understand brands and branding.
  • Rob says it's very important for brands to maintain their brand integrity across channels.
  • Rob talks hares the importance of making sure your email, blog posts, tweets, etc. meet your brand guidelines.
  • Rob talks about being mindful of copyright and trademark infractions.
  • Rob says small business owners should build a technology stack that includes a lot of generative AI tools the will help you convert.

Quotes from this Episode:
“In the future generative AI world, humans are going to be planners and strategists and not executors of marketing campaigns.” – Rob May
“Whether you're using generative AI or not, these cycles for cranking out content have gotten faster.” – Rob May
“You still want to keep your brand voice the same, even if you're going to use slightly different words for a 20 year old college female than you might use for a middle aged man in a different part of the country.” – Rob May
“The great thing about generative AI is that you are going to be given a set of tools that can make you look bigger than you are.” – Rob May
“And so the way to think about it is there's this barrier and everything inside the barrier ChatGPT does really well and everything outside the barrier, it doesn't do very well.” – Rob May

Resources:

Rob May:
LinkedIn: Rob May
X: BrandGuard
Instagram: BrandGuard
Website: BrandGuard

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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

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Ep 085: NFTs Can Help Your Business Reach New Customers And Grow Your Brand

Ep 085: NFTs Can Help Your Business Reach New Customers And Grow Your Brand

Ep 085: NFTs Can Help Your Business Reach New Customers And Grow Your Brand

by Brad Friedman

NFTs Can Help Your Business Reach New Customers And Grow Your Brand

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

Join Brad Friedman and Chris Madden as they chat about digital marketing, NFTs, cryptocurrency, and how it all can be used to grow your business.

Chris Madden is the Co-Founder of Matchnode, a digital marketing agency that uses strategy and advertising to help established brands that are shifting to digital. He also started Seabums, an NFT project focused on massively improving ocean health. They’ve donated over $144,000 to ocean charities so far. Chris and his team have worked on digital ad campaigns for the Chicago Bulls, Chicago Blackhawks, LendingTree, Indiana University, and New Balance.

As a career entrepreneur, before Matchnode Chris founded and/or led companies that produced music videos (CelebrateIt.TV), sold tickets for music festivals (CIMMfest), and built green homes in Costa Rica (Creaverde Group). (Chris met his wife at that film fest!)

Chris was a great guest with a wealth of insight on all things digital marketing, NFTs, entrepreneurship, cryptocurrency and web3.

In this Episode:

  • Chris talks about the various digital marketing needs of sports teams like the Bulls and the Cubs.
  • Chris talks about the need to think about all the various touchpoints in an integrated way.
  • Chris talks about his investments and work with NFTs and Crypto.
  • Chris talks about his NFT project Seabums, which is a project that supports ocean health.
  • Chris also talks about .

Quotes from this Episode:
“We're forward thinking because we're small and agile, like it's too our advantage to be on the cutting edge.” – Chris Madden
“Well, I know that we wanna talk about what's going on right now. And right now the NFT projects are very, very slow.” – Chris Madden
“NFTs are essentially unique collectibles. They don't have to be collectibles, they can be arts, but collectible is the easiest way I think, mentally to compare it to something in the real world where it's just unique.” – Chris Madden
“So we donated so far over $144,000 to ocean charities. We have a really cool global community of NFT holders who would like to get out and help the environment, pick up trash near the ocean and on beaches.” – Chris Madden
“So I think it's, that agility is the key piece because you never quite know what's gonna happen.” – Chris Madden

Resources:

Chris Madden:
LinkedIn: Chris Madden
Facebook: Matchnode
Instagram: Matchnode
Website: Matchnode

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

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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

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Ep 056: Level Up Your Employee Advocacy Game To Succeed

Ep 056: Level Up Your Employee Advocacy Game To Succeed

Ep 056: Level Up Your Employee Advocacy Game To Succeed

by Brad Friedman

Level Up Your Employee Advocacy Game To Succeed

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

In this episode, Brad Friedman and Jonathan Baldock talk about the importance of employee advocacy, LinkedIn best practices, and more.

Jonathan works in an advisory role for SocialHP. With 10 years of experience at LinkedIn, serving customers like Accenture, JPMorgan Chase, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, Hershey's, IBM, and more, he is highly skilled in social sharing best practices, social media recruitment, sales, and marketing strategies.

In this Episode:

  • Jonathan shares multiple tips and tricks for leveling up your LinkedIn presence
  • Jonathan talked about the importance of leveraging your employees and developing an employee advocacy program.
  • At the same time, Jonathan talked about the difficulty of getting your employees to actively and consistently engage in an employee advocacy program.
  • Jonathan talked about social selling and the salespeople who meet their quotas because of social selling.

Quotes from this Episode:
“The average person on LinkedIn has 800 connections” – Jonathan Baldock
“I would start with the people who are already behaving in the right way because there will always be a few tech-savvy employees who are already doing the right stuff” – Jonathan Baldock
“At LinkedIn, we had the perfect content sharing ratio which was called 3, 2, 1.” – Jonathan Baldock

Resources:

Jonathan Baldock:
LinkedIn: Jonathan Baldock
Website: SocialHP

Resources:

Brad Friedman

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@BradFriedman

@FriedmanGrp

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

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

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

Website: https://friedmansocialmedia.com

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

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Our favorite Social Media Management Tool is AgoraPulse
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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

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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!

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