Podcasts about G2

As the 2021-2022 roster CS:GO shuffle comes to an end, HLTV Confirmed podcast goes live for the first time in a year to talk through the changes: G2 getting m0NESY, Aleksib & XQTZZ, ropz finally joins FaZe, Liquid with shox & oSee, MOUZ bring in torzsi & NBK-, BIG gettinga fresh roster, EG with a Major-winning core, Apeks assembling, FURIA getting an AWPer, coldzera to 00Nation, and The Last Dance. ➡️ Follow us for updates: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed

We tour the full lineup from the affordable A2 to the mainstream C2 to the high-end G2.

Bringing new people into your business is exciting and it's important to get the right match, all the way down to someone who fits that stage of the company. Through experience building great teams in her career, Amanda Malko, now the CMO at G2, knows what to look for in job candidates. Going beyond assessing their ability to complete tasks and looking for a future team member who is right for this stage of your company. High-performance team building takes an added layer of thoughtfulness as she explains.“I look for people who are right for the stage of the business are excited for whatever stage that is. I've worked with very large enterprise companies and I've worked at smaller startups. And in my experience, people are at different life stages ready for different size companies, and excited about the opportunities and challenges that those companies provide. So not just hiring for skill and skill fit, but also hiring for stage fit is really important.”Not everyone who's good at working at a corporation is good at working in a startup environment, and the sooner you find that out, the better! In this episode, Malko, an expert in the world of martech, gives insight into how she thinks about testing new tools, and the way she determines usefulness. She shares great insight from personal experience about how to get the survey results you need to make the best choice for your business. Get a pen, and get ready to take some notes on this episode of Marketing Trends. Main Takeaways:Over-Indexing on Immediately Gratifying Ad Spend to Your Detriment: Keep your marketing budget diversified across channels, resisting the temptation to over-index on the immediately gratifying or easy to measure. It is easy to get drawn into the depths of marketing analytics because that is important and essential to running a good marketing team.Every Detail, Down to Word Choice Impacts Survey Results: Direct communication with your customers is the best way to know what they want from you and your product or service. Running a useful and accurate survey is more complex than dropping some questions into a Google Form and blasting that out to your email list. Every word that you use in your questions, the way you order the questions, and the format you choose to allow your respondent to select will all impact the data that is generatedRetention of Customers is Essential for Growth - Don't Over Invest in Acquisition: Especially as a new business or brand, it's easy to get caught up in the hustle for new eyeballs. Even as a newer company, you should have already been thinking about what is going to keep people around. The value of a returning customer is the foundation for a strong business and for the growth of the company.Key Quotes:“We hear a lot about sales and marketing fighting for credit. It's really hard for that to happen if you have shared goals if you're both driving towards the same pipeline of revenue goals and you're getting at it in complementary ways, but if you each have your own targets and they don't align at the top that is where you get a lot of that.”“Because more things are going digital and you can measure more. As a result, we tend to over-index in what's measurable and immediately gratifying. That's true to who we are as humans. Social media is instantly gratifying and that's [also] true with our budget. You put a dollar in and within three months you see the dollar out, who doesn't love that?”“I really look for people who are right for the stage of the business and are excited for whatever stage that is. I've worked with very large enterprise companies and I've worked at smaller startups. And in my experience, people are at different life stages ready for different size companies, and excited about the opportunities and challenges that those companies provide. So not just hiring for skill and skill fit, but also hiring for stage fit is really important.”“A lot of software businesses are waking up to [the fact that] retention is sort of the foundation for growth. If you over-index on the acquisition, you're going to find that in a couple of years, (maybe even in a year) you've got a leaky bucket. Make retention the number one metric, if you put those acquisitions. And so we do; retention is our number one metric, followed by acquisition.” “Some best practices [for surveying] are: Be focused on what you're trying to achieve. In surveys the longer the survey, the less likely are you to get [a lower] number of participants, but [also lower] quality of the feedback. Be really clear about what's essential and what's kind of nice to have. Definitely know how you're going to evaluate it cause that'll inform what tool you use. Ask the right questions.” Bio:Amanda Malko is the CMO at G2. She is a go-to-market leader who thrives on leading high-performing, cross-functional teams. Her career focus is on hyper-growth companies working at the intersection of marketing/creativity/technology.Formerly she was the lead of the partner marketing and programs team at Mailchimp, Inc's 2017 Company of the Year and G2's #4 Best Software Company, and before then she was CMO of 360i, named one of the 25 most influential marketing agencies of the 21st century (acquired by Dentsu) and CMO of Tongal, a global creative marketplace with 120,000 writers, directors, and animators. She's served as Head of Marketing of IgnitionOne, a SaaS ad tech platform, and was the first sales and marketing hire at Massive, a video game advertising platform (acquired by Microsoft). She is a regular advisor to SaaS startups and media companies.She frequently writes and speaks on marketing in the digital age, and has appeared in publications and on stage with AdAge, MediaPost, Mashable, AMA, 4As, Forrester Marketing Forum, CMO Assembly, and others.---Marketing Trends podcast is brought to you by Salesforce. Discover marketing built on the world's number one CRM: Salesforce. Put your customer at the center of every interaction. Automate engagement with each customer. And build your marketing strategy around the entire customer journey. Salesforce. We bring marketing and engagement together. Learn more at salesforce.com/marketing.

That's right we have our own awards! Listen in and be sure to share your own thoughts on the winners! Audio courtesy of ESL Archives Gambit vs. Heroic [Mirage] Map 5 - ESL Pro League Season 13 - Grand-Final which you can find here! (https://youtu.be/pDtouTqGJVc?t=2433) Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show from Times Square. (https://youtu.be/H2OBkNLYAaw) If you are interested in being a sponsor for the Esports Minute, Esports Network Podcast, College Esports QuickTake or The Gamer Hour, please reach out to Esportz Network CEO Mark Thimmig by emailing mthimmig@esportznetwork.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please rate and subscribe, it helps us out a ton! For daily esports news, check out the Esports Minute (https://esportsminute.fireside.fm/). If you're interested in learning about college esports check out the College Esports QuickTake (https://esportzcollegequicktakecom.fireside.fm/). Follow Kevin on Twitter @Correa24 (https://twitter.com/Correa24) Follow Esportz Network on Twitter (https://twitter.com/EsportzNetwork), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/esportznetwork/), and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/EsportzNetwork) @EsportzNetwork Or visit our website esportznetwork.com (https://www.esportznetwork.com/) for updates on what's to come!

HLTV Confirmed panel gathers up for the last time this year to recap 2021 and talk through the latest roster rumors & news. Among the topics are reported device to Astralis comeback, ropz nearing FaZe move, NA shuffle getting some Extra Salt, and XTQZZZ, Aleksib nearing for G2. In the 2021 recap, the regulars decide on the most notable teams, events, players, dramas, and CS updates of the year. ➡️ Follow us for updates: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed

Lecker Lachs, gepanschten Glühwein oder süßen Stollen: der Weihnachtsmarkt ist mit nichts zu toppen. Und jetzt gibt es ihn auch in 2G. Geh weg meinen da manche, aber diese Meinung teilt WDR 2 Satirkerin Barbara Ruscher nicht unbedingt.

In episode 290 of the Seibertron.com Twincast Podcast, crew members discuss the rumors that Skybound Entertainment, publisher of the popular comic-series-turned-Amazon-Prime-streaming-cartoon Invincible, is looking to acquire the publishing rights of The Transformers. We speak to IDW's remarkable 16-year run and how times have changed, from the use of forums to source novice artists and fan feedback, to the way the focus and themes of the narratives have evolved with time. The discussion turns to toys, as ScottyP talks about his in-hand experience with Masterpiece MP53 Skids and MP54 Reboost, entries that are reminiscent of the 'Super Car' era. Super7's Ultimates Wave 3 are next on the agenda, with the eclectic mix of Wreck-Gar, Aliigatorcon, Tarn, and G2 Megatron all capturing the scattershot imaginations of the podcast team. Core Class Kingdom Hot Rod and Studio Series Bumblebee Movie Arcee earn a brief mention, before jumping into a more in-depth discussion of the Amazon exclusive Golden Disk collections Jackpot, Road Ranger, and Puffer figures. The episode concludes as it always does, with a round of bragging rights, where each member discusses what they've acquired since the last episode.

smooya joins HLTV Confirmed to talk about his move to fnatic: how it happened, team's ambitions, teammates, and first performances. Besides that, the crew speculated about the European shuffle: G2 adding m0NESY, FaZe to rebuild - ropz in between these two teams. In other topics are warmup & notes drama, smooya's coaches, IEM Winter results, and BLAST World Final predictions. ➡️ Follow us for updates: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed

Jeroen is co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, an intelligent CRM built for SMBs selling B2B, mostly popular with agencies and fast-growing startup companies.   Salesflare itself was founded when Jeroen and his co-founder Lieven wanted to follow up the leads for their software company in an easier way. They didn't like to keep track of their leads manually and built Salesflare, which pulls customer data together automatically and then actively helps you to follow up.   It's now the most popular CRM on Product Hunt and top-rated on review platforms like G2 for its ease of use and automation features.   Let's tune in to his story!   [00:01 - 07:32] Opening Segment   Get to know my guest Jeroen Corthout “I am a biomedical engineer, so nothing to do with CRMs at all.” Jeroen shares his shifting careers before landing in CRM Why does no one use CRM? How Jeroen took over CRM and grew it with his company   [07:33 - 31:44] The Future is in CRM    How about growing to a Software as a Service Company? Jeroen talks about challenges as a business owner The Focus is on Solving the Problem An Uphill Battle: Always on a Consumer Journey Salesflare' Edge Against Bigger Companies Results and habits create an impact What is a CRM?  Why people don't use CRM outside of the time What's the fundamental problem with all the other CRMs? What's the fundamental problem with teams starting to use a CRM? “Involve your sales team!” It's Simple: Aligning your Processes and Teams The Core Value is in Better Follow-Up How to Create an Environment for Others to Make Great Decisions Building a stronger business and company   [31:45 - 33:29] Closing Segment   Final words Connect with my guest, Jeroen in the links below Resources Mentioned Radical Candor   Tweetable Quotes   “I like to make things work. But it is important that it is on something that you're truly passionate about solving. If not, it is hard to keep that persistence.” – Jeroen Corthout   “It's really about aligning your processes, the way you see them, aligning all that as a team, and then it's okay.” – Jeroen Corthout   ------------------------------------------------------------------------   It's shown me that it's not so much about making great decisions, but creating an environment for others to make those   Why people don't use CRMs and how to fix that Why you should organize your team around habits, not goals How to compete with giants as a small business   Offer for listeners: 25% off for 3 months on Salesflare plans with code “TRIBEOFLEADERS”   Website: https://salesflare.com/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/salesflare LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeroencorthout Instagram: https://instagram.com/salesflare  If you liked my show, please LEAVE A 5-STAR REVIEW, like, share, and subscribe!     WANT TO LEARN MORE?   Connect with me through Emi Kirschner Business Coach, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn Or send me an email amacvirtualassistance@gmail.com     Check us out on Apple Podcasts.   Thanks for tuning in!    

Frances Arville is an EMEA sales manager for G2, a company that helps buyers make smarter software decisions based on authentic peer reviews. In this episode, Frances talks about the challenges of being an American salesperson in Europe and how to overcome cultural barriers in an international environment. Visit Salesloft.com for show notes and insights from this episode.

HLTV Confirmed regulars goe live to talk in-depth about IEM Winter: Astralis, Heroic, fnatic, BIG, Gambit, GODSENT performances, as well as G2, NIP, VP, Vitality's chances to win. In other topics are the NA shuffle, flusha's future, NAVI winning BLAST, problems of the crowd, and why BLAST doesn't run the Major. In the end, the regulars answer ten questions from viewers. ➡️ Follow us for updates: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed

On today's podcast, I have Jeroen CorthoutJeroen is co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, an intelligent CRM built for SMBs selling B2B, mostly popular with agencies and SaaS companies.Salesflare itself was founded when Jeroen and his co-founder Lieven wanted to manage the leads for their software company in an easier way. They didn't like to keep track of them manually and built Salesflare, which pulls customer data together automatically.It's now the most popular CRM on Product Hunt and top rated on review platforms like G2 for its ease of use and automation features.Where you can find Jeroen https://salesflare.com https://linkedin.com/in/jeroencorthout

The state of software buying has changed. SaaS spending dipped in the first half of 2020 but has since accelerated and increased as we reach the end of 2021. Amanda Malko, CMO at G2, shares a fascinating look at the data that reveals shifting patterns in the way consumers purchase software.

請善用時間標記選擇想聽的話題。 本集絕大多數內容和桃猿無關，或者桃猿的功能是對照組。請自行斟酌… 教練團會改組嗎(01:20) 二軍參加2021年桃園最強未來之星爭霸賽(02:53) 2021台灣大賽： 林安可vs林可(05:39) 進場須知(08:32) 2021台灣大賽G2進場體驗： 初印象(10:27) 好物大放送及達平開講(13:11) 象迷高喊高國慶(15:45) 高國慶事件桃猿主場可能的作法(17:53) 桃園洲際賽後煙火比一比(20:29) 歷年總冠軍賽熱區票價及贈品回顧 從1990到突然往上抽的2013(23:09) Lamigo初試的2014-2016(25:18) 從歡迎到倒彈的披風2017-2018(27:21) L和M size的Lamigo贈品2019-2020(31:34) 2021年贈品，有大姆指也有傻眼(34:43) 本獨立單元是針對樂天桃猿的各種動態以球迷視角製作的節目；主要的內容除了賽事回顧，還有聊聊其他球場內外的相關話題。因為球場不靠海，怕食材不新鮮所以不餵你吃整鍋牡蠣，因為考量牙齒保健，所以酸度大概至少讓你喝到醋。 這是一個主要聊台灣棒球的Podcast節目，我們沒有精闢的解說，也沒有專業的數據，就是幾個愛棒球的大叔和聽眾們一同喇賽、一同嘴砲~~ 大家可以在相關的 Podcast APP 收聽我們的節目，希望大家可以介紹給喜愛棒球的朋友們。 如果喜歡我們的節目，也希望大家可以在 Apple Podcast 專區給我們五顆星。 有興趣合作的廠商歡迎私訊或email聊聊 email：baseballuncle543@outlook.com IG：baseballuncle543 FB：大叔野球543

Hark, the trumpets of war from Champions blows in the distance! Players are already quarantining and possibly driving themselves mad like Boaster and Patiphan, but at least the group stages have been drawn and we can get down to speculating matchups and groups of death (It's group D btw). We also had @tanizhq of ex-Heretics and ex-SMB coaching fame come by to give an incredibly candid and illuminating interview, and lastly we take a look at just how G2 Gozen was able to secure victory in the latest Game Changes EMEA tournament! Live on Twitch (http://www.twitch.tv/dnpeek) every Tuesday at 2pm EST. Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dnpeek), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/dnpeek/), and check out our website (https://www.dnpeek.com/).

00:00 Product Opportunity Explorer00:19 Browsing Product Opportunity Explorer01:59 What kind of search terms people are using03:40 Alternative to Blackbox with Helium10Learn about explorer: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/NJ4YRTXWLMBY38U?ref=efph_NJ4YRTXWLMBY38U_cont_G2&Opportunity ExplorerOpportunity Explorer is a tool to explore customer demand for new product ideas. To access this tool, go to Opportunity Explorer or navigate in the Menu to Growth Product Opportunity Explorer.Note: Opportunity Explorer is currently in limited release in US and Germany, and will release more broadly in US and Europe through 2021 and 2022. If you do not have access yet and are interested, contact us. Refer to the FAQ on this page to determine if you need to request access or configure User Permissions.Opportunity Explorer allows you to understand Amazon customer search and purchasing behavior to evaluate if there is unmet customer demand and an opportunity for you to meet that demand through new products. You can explore up-to-date and accurate data on customer needs and the current selection on Amazon. Customer needs and selection are bundled together into niches. Each niche has a unique set of characteristics, which determine the economic potential for new products in the niche. To find your new niche, you can enter search terms, or browse the store taxonomy, as a customer would. Summary data is included in the search results to help you compare related niches of different sizes. Each niche has a detail page where you can view additional tabs of data including current products, top search terms, and statistics about the launch potential for new products.What is a niche?A niche is a collection of customer search terms and products representing a customer's need. Customers demonstrate their purchase needs when they enter search terms on the store. Amazon combines these search terms into clusters based on the products that customers view or purchase. Search terms and products can meet more than one customer need and can be in multiple niches.How is niche data constructed?Niches include the top related Amazon customer search terms and the top related clicked or purchased products. The number of search terms displayed is currently capped based on which search terms have the greatest search volume. Likewise, products in a niche are limited to those receiving the majority of the clicks and purchases from the search terms shown.Use the following glossary to better understand the data presented to you in Opportunity Explorer:Search Results page: The resulting page after searching, browsing, or filtering for niches, The results page shows summary metrics for each of the returned niches.Term Definition ExampleCustomer Need Similar products that meet a customer's need are called a "niche". The name of the niche is defined as the top-ranked search term, by the search volume. Shark cordless vacuumTop Search Terms Additional search terms that customers entered for the customer need of this niche. Elderberry Gummies, Elderberry for Adults, Elderberry 1000mgSearch Volume (Past 360 days) The total number of times customers entered any of the search terms in this niche on Amazon in the past 360 days. 3,600Search Volume Growth (Past 360 days) Across all of the search terms shown in this niche, the percentage change in search term volume in the past year (0-360 days), compared to the volume from the previous year (360-720 days). 321.98%Search Volume (Past 90 days) The total number of times customers entered any of the search terms in this niche on Amazon in the past 90 days. 3,600Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/myamazonguy)

HLTV Confirmed discuss NIP in detail with team's coach THREAT: es3tag addition, chances of going international or Danish, device's impact, LNZ & ztr rotation, Young Ninjas project, and Major results. In other topics are player age factor (f0rest & KRIMZ), G2 roster future, m0NESY rumors intensifying, NA shuffle delayed, options for ropz, and proper timing for Majors. ➡️ Follow us for updates: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed

Jamie Michelson is President and CEO of SMZ Advertising, a Detroit-based agency that started in 1929, producing and distributing jeweler artwork ad kits. These ad packages, delivered as a monthly subscription service, provided graphics to promote and showcase jewelry and were used in catalogs and newspaper advertisements.  Early advertising, Jamie says, “was much more informational” than today. As advertising evolved, information had to be packaged with some entertainment and hooks to get people's attention. The agency adapted and grew through that transitional period. Today, at 92 years old, the still independent, family-owned full-service agency focuses on communications, planning and strategy, research, design, advertising heavily, retail, events, mobile, social, and “moving our clients' businesses forward.” Jamie says, “All that history doesn't mean we know everything. It teaches you to question everything.” He then describes his agency as “a team of around 40 people” . . . with “new ideas, new media, new ways of communicating” – “quietly making noise with purpose” – to keep the focus on the client. Initially, Jamie wanted no part of his family's business. A few internships changed his mind. Today two of his sisters run groups of accounts in the agency. Jamie's third sister, the fourth sibling, went to law school and serves as a federal judge.  In this interview, Jamie discusses in depth the mindsets, tools, attitudes, and strategies SMZ has used to survive so many years and how an agency changes as it is passed down through the generations. Jamie says the first generation, the founders, the creators, tend to stay involved. The second generation had to wrest control from the founders. The transition from second to third generation has been much smoother. The long-term plan is to keep the agency going as a legacy business. Jamie says the agency business can be all-consuming. He has found it important to take time from day-to-day client servicing “to think about the future, the visioning, the structure, the governance, all that.” A second tip he offers is that companies need to codify and write down their values. Driving out to his employees' homes to deliver packages of information made Jamie aware of some of his employees' beastly commutes. He says his intention going forward is to be flexible . . . in a number of ways. That flexibility has probably contributed greatly to his agency's “long life.” Jamie can be reached on his agency's website at: smz.com, where visitors can find the agency's blog, and Jamie's Generation Excellence podcast, which explores generational family businesses. SMZ Advertising is also on all of the social platforms. Transcript Follows: ROB: Welcome to the Marketing Agency Leadership Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Kischuk, and I am joined today by Jamie Michelson. He is the President and CEO of SMZ Advertising based in Troy, Michigan. Welcome to the podcast, Jamie. JAMIE: Thank you for having me, Rob. I'm really looking forward to our conversation. ROB: It's exciting to have you here. Why don't you start us off with an introduction to SMZ? Tell us about the firm and any key metrics, any key focuses, key verticals. Go for it.  JAMIE: People like to talk about the elevator pitch; our agency is located on the first floor of the building, so it's more of a “walk in the door” pitch. I guess I would start with very few things survive 92 years, let alone biologically or in business. It's something to remember, something to know. At SMZ Advertising, we're proud of that length of time of operation. I'm proud of our long-term and enduring relationships with our clients. But it's kind of like all that history doesn't mean we know everything. It teaches you to question everything. We say we remain an independent, family-owned, creatively driven, full-service – and we like to go, “accent on the full” – agency doing work in communications, planning and strategy, research, design, advertising (heavily), retail, events, mobile, social, and more. We're a team of around 40 people, moving our clients' businesses and then ours forward. New ideas, new media, new ways of communicating. Our theme for our agency, if you will, our own headline, is what we call “quietly making noise with purpose.” There's a tension between quiet and noise. Really, it's about the spotlight shining on our clients and being humble about ourselves and very focused on them. ROB: How does that propagate out to a client campaign? Does that echo into their campaigns, where there's a “speak softly and carry a big stick” mentality in that as well? Or do they get to be a little bit more boisterous? JAMIE: There's all these books out there about filtering through the noise, avoid the noise, ignore the noise. Yet we are trying to make appropriate levels of noise, and strategic noise. I feel that our approach to it – and this goes back to roots – I'm part of a third generation of a family business where there's a strong belief in likeability. You do business with brands you like and people you like. And it's not namby-pamby likeability; it's not love or “lovemarks,” but it's just that someone likes you and they might buy what you're selling. So, we want people to really like the work we're doing and the brand and the business. Especially with so much choice and so much competition. ROB: We don't normally jump so quicky to the origin story here, but 92 years is a little bit of something. We are talking about quite a long time ago. We are talking about a Great Depression era business. What is the background here? Was it always something we would call an ad agency, or was it even something different in that regard? JAMIE: It's a great question. It's a pretty neat story. Clearly, the world doesn't look like it did in 1929. We're faster and global and colorful and we know a lot more. But the origin was a gentleman who was my grandfather and a partner. When you talk to newer agencies, oftentimes it's a partnership. A couple people have a dream, a vision. One's a business guy, one's an artist or creative. Their early work was what we would today call ad kits. It was the artwork for jewelers. Jewelry stores, jewelry retailers around North America. There was no digital way to distribute that. There wasn't even FedEx to deliver it. It wasn't even Slicks, for those who go back to those in the early print/design ways. It was packages that were sent with art that became print, catalogue, even newspaper, and that got them into some jewelers as retailers and the roots of a retail agency. This is a Detroit-based company. It was actually, weirdly, software as a service. It was subscription as a service. These people were buying this package each month so they could promote and showcase jewelry. And along came layaway and credit and these innovations in retail and business that they were a part of, and then moving that into outdoor and radio and the whole explosion of media. ROB: Wow. Thinking about that, how are you distributing what goes into outdoor advertising on potentially a distributed basis? It's more about a package and a solution than it is about hours and the hour trap. JAMIE: They talked about getting that package out, because it was very calendar-driven, time-driven. Sleeping around the agency on cots and stuff to make the deadlines. Again, what's old is new. But the idea that in the earlier roots of advertising, stuff was much more informational, and then you started to get into the beginning of having to package that information with some entertainment, some other hooks to get people to pay attention to it. It was really an agency that followed that journey. I think what it says is – as you talk about COVID years and difficult times the agency's gone through, there's certainly some level of resilience in the company that starts in 1929, hits the Great Depression, the stock market crash, world wars, other follow-on wars – there were pandemics, even, in that 90-some years. You don't assume, “We're going to make it because we've been there,” but there's something woven into – with brands, we talk about DNA a lot. I think because we're from Detroit and it's Motown and whatever, we talk about soul. There's something in the soul of this agency and its people. It's hard to describe and find, but it makes us proud of what we did and charging forward. ROB: When in your upbringing did you become distinctly aware of the business and what it was? I don't know if you knew it as something your grandfather was involved in, or your dad. When did you start to figure out what it was? JAMIE: Agency people, we have this role of you do business with who you do business with. If you have a product, you have a service, you support that. Whether they did some work for Pepsi-Cola bottlers or a potato chip company or a restaurant brand, you're using those clients' products. One of the cornerstone accounts of the agency in my childhood years was Big Boy Restaurants in what would've been their heyday. There were a lot of Sunday night family dinners at the Big Boy, even to the point of my father and his partner, who are the second generation, owning a Big Boy restaurant. I'd get to be back in the kitchen as a high schooler and experience it close-hand. But with that, I was not running into this business. I grew up around it at the kitchen table and that dinner table at restaurants. “Okay, my grandfather did it, my father did it.” When you're a teenager, typical is rebellion. You're going to do the other thing. I wasn't disinterested, because I understood – I went and studied finance; I was going to be an investment banker, the whole Wall Street thing. I'm still passionate about business. But I didn't really want things to do with this business until I experienced it firsthand with some internships and through college years and different parts of the business. Back to that soul thing. It's definitely in my blood. It's just absorption. [laughs] So I worked since college at basically three different agencies, independent agencies for the most part. Never client side. A little bit, one weird little thing. But my whole career. That's what I know, and I'm still fired up about it. ROB: Did you have siblings that also looked to get involved, did get involved, chose to actually rebel? What is that dynamic? JAMIE: I have three sisters, so we have four children in the third generation. Two of my sisters are involved in the business, run groups of accounts, and have been very involved with the agency and each had their own path or track into it. And then my third sister, the fourth sibling, went to law school and to a law firm and is a federal judge. That's what's fun. We refer to her as the black sheep. ROB: [laughs] The woman who is a federal judge. JAMIE: [laughs] Exactly. ROB: That sketchy business, right? JAMIE: Yeah. She's good counsel to the agency because she's sure learned to ask probing and challenging questions. ROB: I think there's probably an interesting season here. It's interesting that you chose to spend some time getting experience in other businesses. Clearly, the agency had to change. The whole firm went in and out of the golden age of advertising, the kind of Mad Men. How has the firm navigated these shifts of adding services, keeping a sense of identity – that balance of not getting overwhelmed with the shiny and becoming a social media influencer agency exclusively, but also not being mired in – you're not just broadcasting car dealerships, either. JAMIE: I think about that all the time, the path. They talk about sins of omission/commission, those things you didn't do or you passed on those things you did do. We talk a lot about those decisions we made or moves we made where you do them and then you go, “We should've done this sooner” versus “Why did we do this at all?” The things that we've done were good moves for the most part. Not a lot of giant blowout mistakes, disasters. I remember stringing phone line to plug into a computer to go through modem sounds, to be on AOL, to have earliest of site stuff. Our URL is SMZ.com, so to have a three-letter URL says you were in it early. But not necessarily going on all things digital. A lot of it has been your clients take you, smoothly or kicking and screaming, into some of these new spaces and areas, or you do it the same way with them. I think we've been open-minded all the time to experiment and try. It's always changing, like you said, and there's going to be that next new thing. Don't get so enamored with the shiny, but don't get to the “This is how we do it” or “It was better then” or “God, I wish it would slow down and not change.” I refer to myself – you gave my formal title, CEO/President or whatever. I talk about being Chief Agitator. I've got to keep the place and myself shaken up a little bit so that we don't rest and settle. ROB: Was SMZ a longer name at one point? JAMIE: The original company was Simons Michelson Company, SM Co. Simons Michelson Zieve for the gentleman, son-in-law of one of the founders, my father's partner, second gen. And then that got shortened to SMZ, I think for the poor person who had to answer the phone at the front desk all the time, saying that over and over and over again. [laughs] ROB: What did that transition of you coming into the business – you had some experience from other places; I guess your dad was in charge. What did that transition of generations look like? JAMIE: The transition from the first generation – and I'm a big student and have a podcast I do called Generation Excellence where I'm focused on other generational businesses and the follow-ons, G2, G3, G4. Not just because HBO does Succession and it's super dramatic, but it's a fertile area. The first generation, they're the founders, the creators. Those two guys worked, and that's what they did. They didn't really retire. They kept involved. The second gen had to wrest control from them a little bit. You're talking about guys now in their seventies, eighties, whatever it was. The transition from second gen to this third generation was much smoother. I give my father, Jim Michelson, incredible credit because it is a very hard thing to be in that command chair, be the president, running an agency, and then give away both authority and responsibility and not backtrack. Not jump back in, try to fix stuff if you don't like how it is. You're giving up control and letting others go make those mistakes you talked about, make those new moves. He did that and really set a model for me that I have memorized. As we figure out whatever's next after me – because that's the plan, the infinite game, keep this going as a legacy business – to be able to do that that same way. ROB: I interned once upon a time at Chick-fil-A corporate. I was there under the Truett Cathy regime. Truett was there for forever, and then his son Dan comes in, and the window for Dan was much shorter. They've transitioned off to the third generation now. It seemed much faster. He seemed very happy to transition it sooner than maybe he did. I don't know if you've looked at what they did and what they're thinking. JAMIE: It's a multiparty thing. And then you've got the people who work for the agency, and they're watching how this goes. You have the clients. It adds a layer on top of any other business when you add this family dynamic to it. We do have now as a company a formal written policy that next generation family members need to have some successful work experience outside the business, because it is really nice to be able to do what you do not just as a son/daughter of someone who created a business, but on your own merits. Make your own way. ROB: It's funny you bring up Succession. I didn't think about it as you talked about having these four siblings – JAMIE: It is much less dramatic within our walls and halls. ROB: But also interesting because you have three siblings. Presumably at least some of you have kids. We're on video; I can see a picture behind you of a couple of fresh faces. JAMIE: Yeah, a couple of young adult daughters working out there in the business world in both geography of where they want to be, areas they want to be in – my one daughter works out in Portland, Oregon. She's been five years at Nike. She's an engineer. She's very much involved in sourcing, manufacturing product at scale. So different than what a more boutique agency does where everything is bespoke and one-offs and ideas that you can't touch. For a lot of businesses, a lot of our clients are marketing the invisible. My other daughter is a business consultant, so more in our space at one of the consulting firms as she finishes business school this year. They're making their way. Again, grew up around it at the dinner table, and they know some things. It's really helpful to have that perspective of what they're going through. Use of social media, use of digital tools, how they communicate, remote work – every bit of those things as a mini focus group, really. ROB: Do you even have maybe some nieces or nephews that are also in that leadership pool for the next generation? JAMIE: Yeah, what they call the “cousins' consortium” in family business land. The next oldest would be my nephew, who's 20. He's in film school. Very talented creative. I think looking to go more out West and be involved in the movie business. It's still a bit of a journey for him to even join us. So, we have some things to figure out in our transitioning future, which is one of the things that excites me about the coming years of the business part of the business. ROB: Yeah, absolutely. You've done some transition, you'll see some transition. When you think about your history with SMZ, what are some things you think about as lessons you might tell on to the next generation about maybe what you'd do differently or what they should think about? JAMIE: We meet probably not regularly – you know that old expression, work on the business/in the business. The agency business can be all-consuming. Your list of things to do can be so filled with serving your clients, and you have to work to take that time to think about the future, the visioning, the structure, the governance, all that. We try to take some time to do that. In a recent meeting, I had a quote up on the screen from Tallulah Bankhead, an old Hollywood actress. She said, “If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.” The definite advice I'd give or the thing I've learned is, businesses that are longstanding like ours and legacy, when they started out, there wasn't all this content and advice for startups and podcasts and videos. They were just running a business through the Depression and then going on. The agency definitely had values, and they are woven into the place. It took us a long time. It was really only recently that we codified those values in writing, where they're on the wall, where they're on a sheet, where you share them with everybody at the agency and use that more as how we operate, how we hire, how we put that in front of our clients. That's not a new idea, that businesses are based on their values, and that as good marketers, you don't just pick the same six buzzword values that every business has. But to do that work, to have them be really true to who you are – you mentioned Chick-fil-A. They're a business that I think their values and their approach – and somewhat controversial sometimes – are so much a part of how they operate and who they are. ROB: Is there anything in particular that's happened – you could argue that for some portion of the firm, the values were intrinsic. A lot of firms starting from scratch, the values may be absent. You've seen this need to move the values from intrinsic to explicit. What do you think may have changed in your time there and your time in business – is that a necessity now? Has something changed? Or is it just a better way that we understand now to make them more explicit? JAMIE: Many of us in business have had the good fortune to go to seminars, webinars, conferences. You go to those and there's a moment, something hot for a moment, you come back, you bring it up all charged up, and then it fades off.  But I did, a few years ago, attend – Family Business has a conference called Transitions. They do it once or twice a year. You're immersed for a few days with other – these are not all marketing firms. These are just businesses that have that test of time thing to them. The title of their thing was “Values-Based Businesses Are Valuable Businesses.” Example after example was brought up of how these different businesses had used what was true to the values that they were all about to help them not just operate, but grow – whether it was Bigelow Tea, down to the detail of the person whose name is on the teabag inside the box that packaged your product. Kind of like some of the car manufacturers where there's someone who signs the engine, or one of the parts inside, or the steelworkers sign the last beam highest up. Just to be much more explicit about it. ROB: Sure. JAMIE: You see people react well to it and be involved in that process. ROB: Yeah, that involvement in the process is so key for ownership, for carrying forward. Earlier, you talked about remote distributed work. How has that played into SMZ at this point? How do you think it plays into SMZ moving forward? October 2021, some folks are never going back to the office. Some people are already back in the office full-time. How are you thinking about that dynamic right now? JAMIE: It's certainly front, middle, back of mind a lot of the time. I'll start with our feeling that our physical office we've always felt is a competitive advantage. It's a great box. It's colorful, it's alive, it's well-designed, it's functional. We like being there. We like working with clients being there. Great. At the same time, we've had some creative people who have worked remotely for 15, 20, 30 years and interacting with people at the agency. We've had others who have had all kinds of different flexible schedules and been accommodating that and learning from that. So at least for us, it wasn't a full 180 or whatever, like maybe for many other businesses. We're so open right now to the idea of how this is going to work, listening to our people, and using it to hire and fill new positions – which we're able to do. It's hard, but hybrid – my next car will probably be a hybrid. We talk about hybrid a lot in other categories and stuff that mashes together. One of the things that was eye-opening to me was one day I took some packages and delivered them, driveway deliveries, to almost the entire employee list. My wife helped map it out on a map thing. A few of the people I got to, that commute for them, the most outlying spots, the time that they get back if they can have a few of those days where they're not having to come into the office and can work from home – that's life-changing. So, we're going to embrace it. We went back mid-July to three days in, two days remote, everybody in on Wednesdays, and we had to revert back a little bit to an all-optional in the office mode. So, there's always somebody in each day, but it's small groups. ROB: It seems like the most important thing is to have an intentionality about it. Some of that's going to be aligned to the culture and the place where you are. It seems to me that somebody around Detroit can work virtual for anyone, but they've chosen to be there. I think there's an extent to which if you're in digital marketing, if you're in Detroit, you've chosen to be there. JAMIE: Correct. ROB: So, giving people more reasons to be there and to enjoy why they're there is meaningful and life-giving. JAMIE: I'm glad you brought up Detroit. We're a proud Detroit-based business. That's our roots, physically in the city for 50-some years in operation. A bunch of clients that are Detroit downtown-based, or the whole city. We love our region. Nationally or internationally, it gets some press reviews that aren't fair and accurate. It's a great place to live and work. So, there's that spirit that people have here about our hometown, and we want to have people from here work here and be connected to here. At the same time, this place is still a community that makes a lot of stuff. Manufactures and builds. Those operations, you can't do that from your kitchen table. You've got to go to those buildings and warehouses. It's still 30% of people that have this luxury of remote or this tech work, and everybody else has to go to the hospital, go to the school, go to the manufacturing facility, go to the supermarket, do those jobs. That's going on around us. We're part of that. We'll figure it out. The biggest part for me is – we're having this meeting right now. It's virtual. If it were physically in the conference room with a couple clients and you were in there with them, Rob, I might just walk by – our place is a lot of an aquarium. It's got a lot of glass boxes. [laughs] You can see in most everywhere. Pretty transparent. You see these meetings going on and you can stick your head in and say hi, and you can see clients and you can see people. That's the biggest miss for me, those little, quick – you just don't know those things are going on. Not to disrupt them or interrupt them, but just to wave. Just to see that that meeting's going on. It's actually uplifting. You see those meetings going on and go, “They don't need me in there. They're doing great in there.” [laughs]  ROB: It's meaningful for you, it's meaningful for them. It's meaningful for the client. I don't know if there's going to be a client situation – JAMIE: Clients love getting away and going to the agency. We've got a dog running around or somebody's dog running around. It's just a different environment. ROB: It's going to be hard for them to get on a plane to go to an agency. At some scale, yes, but mostly no.  JAMIE: It's taking a while. It's really productions or major things that our people are getting on a plane or those people where, again, you have to be somewhere, versus it would be nice to be there. ROB: Jamie, when you think about what's coming up next for SMZ and for the marketing landscape that you're in the middle of, what are you excited about? What's next? JAMIE: We talk about that history and we use that number 92. What got us driven a little bit more a year and a half ago was we embraced a program called EOS, if you're familiar with it. Entrepreneurial Operating System. We used that. That 100-year milestone is a pretty neat concept/sound. What are we going to smell like, look like, feel like when we get there? I'm really excited about being this smart, steady, scrappy, creative – still creative; I think ideas still matter – growing agency, celebrating that in the right way. Not just “We made it” and it's a moment, but that whole year should be something, and that should be a stepping stone to what's next. So that excites me. I mentioned before, mapping out, going to visit people who work for the agency. That's what we do for clients. We ask them that question all the time. “Where are you trying to go? What are you trying to be? How do we get there?” We don't always do it as well for ourselves as marketing firms. So doing that work and doing that visioning. And when you do that and you have goals and you write it down and say how you're going to get there, you tend to not only get there, you tend to get there faster and even a little better. The other thing that excites me is I was really caught up or hung up with the trend – and it was real, and we faced it. Clients were in-housing a lot of stuff. This whole great reshuffle of everything that's going on from where ships are to where chips are to where people are is upsetting that, too, for in-house operations. I think it's going to yield opportunity for, as your podcast is for, marketing leadership and marketing firms of all shapes and sizes. They're like, “I can't get the people to do this,” so now they've got to go back to outsourcing and finding folks to help. We'll certainly going to be there and do that. I hope I'm right on that. ROB: That's definitely a tricky wave. Sometimes it's even very client-specific. I'm usually in Atlanta, and to an extent, the fabled Coca-Cola company is perpetually on one end of the pendulum or the other on in-house, out-of-house. Certainly, macro trends also impact that. JAMIE: Yeah, there's that whole thing of get closer to the data. I get that. But when you said growing up around agencies, or my sense of it, that concept of being – we talk about being partnerships or even beyond a partnership with clients, stakeholders and very involved, but still objective outsiders at the same time. That combination can be powerful for client operations. We think we age well with the client relationships. We learn more and we get better. ROB: Jamie, you mentioned a little bit earlier on the digital real estate, but when people want to find you and find SMZ, where should they go to find you? JAMIE: It starts with smz.com, which is our website. That also houses our blog and the podcast I do called Generation Excellence, which is for those who are really interested in that very niche-y space of generational family businesses. And then SMZ Advertising is on all of the social platforms, sharing stories of our people, our clients, our work, a little thought leadership, little bit of our fun and things that we do to stay connected, which is a big effort right now inside of work and outside of work. I guess that would probably be about it. I welcome anyone who wants to reach out to me via the email address on the site, or call me. I'm open to talk about this business. I'm very fortunate to steward a unique and special place, and I want to put my energies against it being successful, but I love helping others. ROB: Definitely. Congratulations on being 92 going on 100 as a firm. That is exciting. JAMIE: For those who can't see me, the firm's 92. I'm a little bit younger than that. ROB: [laughs] Yeah. We'll see what a 100-year-old SMZ looks like. We'll look forward to that. Jamie, I wish you and the team the best. Thank you for coming on the podcast. JAMIE: I thank you for having me on this. I like that you blend the individual story and the business story, because they are intertwined and interconnected. ROB: In this kind of firm, absolutely. They're inseparable. JAMIE: Yep. Thanks, Rob. ROB: Thanks, Jamie. Be well. Thank you for listening. The Marketing Agency Leadership Podcast is presented by Converge. Converge helps digital marketing agencies and brands automate their reporting so they can be more profitable, accurate, and responsive. To learn more about how Converge can automate your marketing reporting, email info@convergehq.com, or visit us on the web at convergehq.com.

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Darin Alpert is the VP Strategy at RepVue, which connects sales reps with data about what it's really like at sales orgs and jobs to apply to. Previously, he worked at Gong, G2 and TrustRadius and founded 2 companies (both sold), one with an investment from Mark Cuban. In this conversation, we discussed: What having a dad in sales meant to him Founding a company that Mark Cuban invested in What RepVue is doing in the hiring space What questions should reps be asking before they make their next career move? Much more... This podcast is brought to you by Postal.io, A Curated Experience Marketing Platform that Helps You Cut Through the Noise. If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to grow this show and find the best guests possible for you. Follow The Podcast: Apple/Spotify: Millennial Sales Twitter: @TommyTahoe Instagram: @TommyTahoe YouTube: TommyTahoe Website: Millennialmomentum.net

The topsy turvy world of Valorant roster shuffles continues as TI courts Steel, TSM releases Hazed, and 100T drop FrosT. It's going to be a while before the next season begins, do any of these teams have a need to rush their rosters? We also take some time to look back at Team Liquid dominating RedBull Homegrounds, the rise of the Kansas City Pioneers and Pittsburgh Knights in the Valorant Elite Showdown, and we take a peek at the ongoing Game Changers EMEA Series 3. Oh yeah, and let's not forget there's this suave Daddy who got released in Chamber, and might just be ready to shake up some pro comps going forward! Live on Twitch (http://www.twitch.tv/dnpeek) every Tuesday at 2pm EST. Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dnpeek), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/dnpeek/), and check out our website (https://www.dnpeek.com/).

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Find parts one, two, three & four------Episode Timestamps: Part five of this special mini-series features 12 CMOs and marketing leaders from some of the world's fastest-growing companies, including:*(4:00) - Amanda Malko, CMO, G2*(7:40) - Raj Khera, Head of Growth, SalesIntel.io*(9:05) - Katrina Wong, VP Product Marketing and Demand Gen, Segment*(11:11) - Morgan Norman, CMO, Dialpad*(12:30) - Kady Srinivasan, SVP Global Head of Marketing, Klaviyo*(13:55) - Joy Corso, CMO, Vonage*(15:05) - Justin Shriber, CMO, People.ai*(18:40) - Susan Beermann, CMO, NAVEX Global*(20:21) - Keith Messick, SVP Marketing, LaunchDarkly*(22:20) - Kyle Lacy, VP Marketing, Seismic*(23:45) - William Tyree, CMO, Revenue.io*(25:30) - Jon Miller, CMO, Demandbase SponsorDemand Gen Visionaries is brought to you by Qualified.com, the #1 Conversational Marketing platform for companies that use Salesforce and the secret weapon for Demand Gen pros. The world's leading enterprise brands trust Qualified to instantly meet with buyers, right on their website, and maximize sales pipeline. Visit Qualified.com to learn more. LinksFollow Ian on TwitterConnect with Ian on LinkedInwww.caspianstudios.com

HLTV Confirmed finally welcomes s1mple - PGL Major champion & MVP. Aleksandr talks about NAVI's Major run, game against G2, B1T's impact, and the rest of his teammates. Among other topics are Vitality x Astralis shuffle, shox to Liquid rumor, new fnatic roster, m0nesy & NAVI Junior, and upcoming BLAST Fall Finals. At the end of the show, s1mple answered an unprecedented number of viewer questions, including the mentioned break, take on Ancient, and the factor of age. ➡️ Follow us for updates: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed

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In this episode Mike Molson, a co-Founder of servicePath is our guest. He lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife & two kids and was previously a guest on the Podcast (2018). Here he talks about what has changed for them since 2018, pre-quote functionality, how they support deal modeling, Gartner MQ Report 2021, G2 reports, their roadmap, expansion beyond technology vendors & managed service providers, servicepath job opportunities and much more. Send questions to mike@servicepath.co  website: servicepath.co 

HLTV Confirmed panel gathers to discuss the final takeaways from PGL Major and everything that came after, including the experience at the Major, the grand final, potential changes for G2 and NIP, Astralis x Vitality shuffle, Spirit and Complexity breaking up, Brazilian reunion, future of EG and Liquid, chances of FaZe finally getting ropz, and the stickers drama. ➡️ Follow us for updates: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed

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In another live from Stockholm, HLTV Confirmed teams up with YEKINDAR to talk through the excitement of the PGL Major arena stage: VP's run overviewed, NIP, FURIA, Vitality failure broken down, NAVI, G2 chances analyzed. In other topics are weapon balance, community, banter, the role of LAN pressure, potential s1mple's break, and Vitality's rumored reshuffle with ex-Astralis players. ➡️ Follow us for updates: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed

At-location HLTV Confirmed episode from Stockholm sees SPUNJ & co. meet up with CPH Flames players (roej, HooXi, nicoodoz) & Entropiq's coach hooch in the hotel of PGL Major to discuss the event. Among topics are the LAN atmosphere, Flames' great success, dealing with a disappointing loss against NIP, Entropiq's and other team's notable performances of the first two stages. In the final part, Pick'Em prediction for Playoffs is made. ➡️ Follow us for updates: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed

It was our absolute pleasure to have Cloud9 Blue's Xeta (@officialXeta) join us on the show today to give us some insight on his team's advancement to Champions by winning the beleaguered LCQ NA, best of luck to them back in Berlin! We also cover Chamber and how he might impact the game, and we also were lucky enough to snag the services of @JessGOAT to give us a rundown of how Game Changers EMEA shook out in the end. We also had MitchMan get very irate over Upcomer's article on Cned's involvement with the Turkish money laundering scheme, so all in all it's an episode not to be missed! Live on Twitch (http://www.twitch.tv/dnpeek) every Tuesday at 2pm EST. Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dnpeek), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/dnpeek/), and check out our website (https://www.dnpeek.com/).

Hey CX Nation,In episode #143 of The CXChronicles Podcast we welcomed Eli Schwartz, growth advisor & best selling author of #1 rated book on Amazon "Product-Led SEO, The Why Behind Building Your Organic Growth Strategy". Eli and his team work with enterprises and startups to help them develop and implement growth strategies to scale their organic visibility in search. Eli's Clients include: Tinder, Coinbase, Gusto, Automattic, Insight Timer, Getaround, Handshake, Faire, Mixpanel, BlueNile, ThePillClub, G2, AllTrails, Gametime, and others. Adrian and Eli chat through The Four CX Pillars: Team,  Tools, Process & Feedback to share some of the tips & tricks that have worked for Eli over the years as he's worked with some major global brands. **Episode #143 Highlight Reel:**1. Thinking about organic growth activities to grow your business 2. Understanding how you can leverage SEO to find new leads & prospects3.  How to manage your ICP search experience & journey4. Leveraging customer surveys to understand their ever-changing needs 5. Using customer listening tours to remain focused  on what matters mostHuge thanks to Eli for coming on the CXCP and featuring his team's work and efforts in pushing the SEO and growth-demand generation space into the future[Click here to learn more about Product Led SEO](https://www.productledseo.com/)If you enjoy The CXChronicles Podcast, please stop by your favorite podcast player and leave us a review, this is the easiest way we can find new listeners, guests and future CX'ers & be sure to grab a copy of our book "The Four CX Pillars To Grow Your Business on Amazon today!CXChronicles -- Customer Experience Managed ServicesReach out to us now at Info@cxchronicles.com for more information www.cxchronicles.comSupport the show (https://cxchronicles.com/)

Mandy McEwen is the Founder & CEO of Mod Girl Marketing, an award-winning digital marketing agency based in California. She has been marketing successful brands online since 2007. In 2010, she decided to utilize her online marketing skills to start a marketing agency, Mod Girl Marketing. Now, over a decade later, Mandy and her team at Mod Girl® partner with B2B companies to increase brand exposure and revenue through the power of LinkedIn and humanized content marketing. She is a renowned content creator, speaker, and mentor with 8+ marketing courses and an Inc-rated Facebook group. Mandy has been named a Top 24 B2B Marketer by LinkedIn, listed in Search Engine Journal as a Top 12 SEO Expert, and named a Top 20 Female Marketer by G2. Her agency, Mod Girl Marketing, has been consistently named a Top 20 Marketing Agency by DesignRush. What you'll learn about in this episode: How Mandy started her agency in 2010 after discovering her love of marketing, and how she uses her marketing skills to help business and agency owners How Mandy came to focus on Facebook and LinkedIn marketing strategy, and how Mandy's agency excels in helping create impactful personal brands for clients Why Mandy believes that leveraging your connections, mailing list, and friends is the key to launching a thriving Facebook community How Mandy grew her business to six figures entirely through organic growth and through her Facebook group Why Mandy is focused on mastering the LinkedIn algorithm and utilizing LinkedIn to help humanize brands and tell their stories Why LinkedIn's algorithm is focused on personal connections and conversations more than anything else, and what changes you can make to improve your ranking How to do keyword research through LinkedIn to help your content gain visibility on the platform What steps to take to maximize the visibility of your content on LinkedIn, and how to slice and dice bigger content into smaller pieces that can be repurposed How to get assistance from others on LinkedIn to help boost your posts while helping them boost their own Why all of Mandy's LinkedIn messaging and marketing strategies can work just as well on Facebook Resources: Free LinkedIn Profile Checklist: https://linkedin.modgirl.social/ Website: www.modgirlmarketing.com Website: www.modgirl.consulting Website: www.luminetics.io LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mandymcewen/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/mod-girl-marketing-llc/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/mod.girl.marketing Twitter: @MandyModGirl Twitter: @ModGirlMktg

While we wait for NA to get going again, LCQ in APAC and SA finished up. @AchiliosCasts joins us in this episode to talk APAC region and whether or not FullSense will be able to hang with any of the top guns in Champions, and then our hosts give their (mostly) uninformed opinion on the SA region. We also sift through gigantic ongoing GameChangers EMEA tournament where G2 is rolling along but newly formed teams like GuildX, Oxxgen, and Futbolist are also showing strong. Lastly we also look through the shifting of rosters, with Alliance signing some members MitchMan is very much looking forward to, Brax moving to full time streaming, and T1 signing Thwifo in his stead! Live on Twitch (http://www.twitch.tv/dnpeek) every Tuesday at 2pm EST. Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dnpeek), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/dnpeek/), and check out our website (https://www.dnpeek.com/).

Blumira is a leading cybersecurity provider of automated threat detection and response technology. Founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Blumira's cloud SIEM (security information and event management) helps mid-market organizations--often with limited security resources or expertise--to prevent, detect and respond to cybersecurity threats in near real-time. Blumira was recognized by G2 as a top cloud SIEM provider and placed in 20 categories including "Best Return on Investment (ROI)," "Fastest Implementation," and "Easiest to Use" in the G2 Spring 2021 Grid® Reports. Steve Fuller is Co-founder & CEO.

Blumira is a leading cybersecurity provider of automated threat detection and response technology. Founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Blumira's cloud SIEM (security information and event management) helps mid-market organizations--often with limited security resources or expertise--to prevent, detect and respond to cybersecurity threats in near real-time. Blumira was recognized by G2 as a top cloud SIEM provider and placed in 20 categories including "Best Return on Investment (ROI)," "Fastest Implementation," and "Easiest to Use" in the G2 Spring 2021 Grid® Reports. Steve Fuller is Co-founder & CEO.

Thank you for 1 million downloads of Make It Happen Mondays Podcast! We are incredibly grateful for your listenership and couldn't be more proud of this milestone. Let's countdown the top 5 episodes of all time! Episode #2: This week we're pleased to have an award winning sales rep on the podcast. You may remember back at Dreamforce, Chili Piper threw a competition judged by John Barrows and other sales leaders. The criteria to win was to tell the panel about a deal you closed against the odds, using teamwork and generating a great solution for the buyer a the same time. Enter Danny Read from G2 who was one of the winners. In this podcast, he talks us through the story of his deal and the hurdles he overcame. This is a killer episode for AE's out there looking to master the art of closing a deal!

Episode 287 of the Seibertron.com Twincast Podcast covers all the latest Transformers Generations products revealed at the just-concluded Hasbro Pulsecon 2021. A look at the Voyager Class "Prime" Bulkhead starts things out, along with thoughts on how appropriate this new toy's design is for the character. The discussion moves along after that to provide thoughts on the remainder of the products from the upcoming Generations Legacy toy line that were shown off, including a new version of G2's Laser Optimus Prime and Deluxe Class entries Skids, Prime Arcee, Kickback and the first part of the new version of the Menasor combiner, Dragstrip. Opinions are provided about the price point of the Pulsecon exclusive Ravage set, then the show moves on to answer listener questions about recent Hasbro product reveal timing and all-time favorite repaints. The episode concludes as usual with the Bragging Rights segment.

The aircraft, a DC-9-32, registered N904VJ, was the 496th DC-9 assembled at the Long Beach plant, was 27 years old at the time and had been previously flown by Delta Air Lines. Its first flight was April 18, 1969. Delivered to Delta on May 27, 1969, as N1281L, the airframe flew for Delta until the end of 1992, when it was retired and sold back to McDonnell Douglas. McDonnell Douglas then sold the plane to ValuJet in 1993. The aircraft was powered by two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9A turbofan engines. The aircraft had suffered a series of incidents in the two years before the crash, including two aborted takeoffs and eight emergency landings. Engine and pressurization errors were the primary issues in several of the incidents. In May 1995, the FAA issued a re-wiring directive for all DC-9 cockpits because the wire bundles in the switch panel could cause "fire and uncontrolled smoke throughout the cockpit as a result of chafing and shorting." In the flight deck were two experienced pilots: Captain Candi Kubeck (35) and First Officer Richard Hazen (52). Captain Kubeck had accumulated 8,928 total flight hours throughout her career (including 2,116 hours on the DC-9) and First Officer Hazen had more than 11,800 total flight hours throughout his career, with 2,148 of them on the DC-9. On the afternoon of May 11, 1996, Flight 592 pushed back from gate G2 in Miami after a delay of 1 hour and 4 minutes due to mechanical problems. There were 105 passengers, mainly from Florida and Georgia, as well as a crew of two pilots and three flight attendants, bringing the total number of people on board to 110. At 2:04 PM EDT, 10 minutes before the disaster, the DC-9 took off from runway 9L (now runway 8R) and began a normal climb. The NTSB quickly determined that just before takeoff, 144 expired chemical oxygen generators, each slightly larger than the size of a tennis ball can, had been placed in the cargo compartment in five boxes marked COMAT (company material) by ValuJet's maintenance contractor, SabreTech, in violation of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations forbidding the transport of hazardous materials in passenger aircraft cargo holds. Failure to cover the generators' firing pins with the prescribed plastic caps made an accidental activation much more likely. The investigation revealed that rather than covering them, the cords attached to the firing pins were simply cut or duct-taped around the cans, and Scotch tape was also used to stick the ends down. SabreTech employees indicated on the cargo manifest that the "oxy canisters", which were loosely packed in the boxes that were each sealed with tape and bubble wrap, were "empty". ValuJet workers then loaded the boxes in the cargo hold in the mistaken belief that the devices that they contained were just empty canisters, thus being certified as supposedly "safe" to transport on a passenger aircraft, when in fact they were neither simple oxygen canisters, nor empty. Chemical oxygen generators, when activated, produce oxygen for passengers if the plane suffers a decompression. However, they also produce a great quantity of heat due to the exothermic nature of the chemical reaction involved. Therefore, not only could the heat and generated oxygen start a fire, but the oxygen could also keep the fire burning. The fire was worsened by the presence of two main aircraft tires (one of them mounted on a main wheel) and a nose tire and wheel that were also included in the list of materials shipped as COMAT. Investigators determined that one of the oxygen generators was likely triggered when the plane experienced a slight jolt while taxiing. As the aircraft taxied and took off, the activated generator got hotter and hotter. Soon, the boxes and surrounding packaging ignited, starting a fire. At 2:10 PM, the passengers started to smell smoke. At the same time, the pilots heard a loud bang in their headphones and noticed the plane was losing electrical power. The sag in electrical power and the bang were eventually determined to be the result of a tire in the cargo hold exploding. Seconds later, a flight attendant entered the cockpit and informed the flight crew of a fire in the passenger cabin. Passengers' shouts of "fire, fire, fire" were recorded on the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) when the cockpit door was opened. Though ValuJet's flight attendant training manual stated that the cockpit door should not be opened when smoke or other harmful gases might be present in the cabin, the intercom was not functional and informing the pilots of what was happening was difficult. The flight data recorder (FDR) indicated a progressive failure of the DC-9's electrical and flight control systems due to the spreading fire. Kubeck and Hazen immediately asked air traffic control for a return to Miami due to the increasing smoke in the cockpit and cabin, and were given instructions for a return to the airport. One minute later, Hazen requested the nearest available airport. Kubeck began to turn the plane left in preparation for the return to Miami. Flight 592 disappeared from radar at 2:13:42 PM, the exact time that it crashed. Eyewitnesses nearby watched as the plane banked sharply, rolled onto its side and nosedived into the Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area in the Everglades, a few miles west of Miami, at a speed in excess of 507 miles per hour (816 km/h). Kubeck lost control of the plane less than 10 seconds before impact. Examination of debris suggested that the fire had burned through the floorboards in the cabin, resulting in structural failure and damage to cables underneath the instrument panels. The NTSB report on the accident stated, "the Safety Board cannot rule out the possibility that the flightcrew was incapacitated by smoke or heat in the cockpit during the last 7 seconds of the flight."  Interruptions in the cockpit voice recorder occurred on two occasions, one as long as 1 minute 12 seconds.  The aircraft hit the water at 2:13:42 PM EDT, about 10 minutes after takeoff. The impact site was on the western edge of Florida Water Conservation Area 3B, between two levees, in an area known as the L-67 Pocket. None of the 110 passengers or crew on board survived the accident. Additionally, recovery of the aircraft and victims was made extremely difficult by the location of the crash. The nearest road of any kind was more than a quarter mile (400 m) away from the crash scene, and the location of the crash itself was a deep-water swamp with a floor of solid limestone. The aircraft was destroyed on impact, with no large pieces of the fuselage remaining. Sawgrass, alligators, and risk of bacterial infection from cuts plagued searchers involved in the recovery effort. According to the NTSB's report, two witnesses fishing nearby testified that "they saw a low-flying airplane in a steep right bank. According to these witnesses, as the right bank angle increased, the nose of the airplane dropped and continued downward. The airplane struck the ground in a nearly vertical attitude." They reported seeing no external damage or any sign of fire or smoke other than the engine exhaust. A group of sightseers in a small private plane also witnessed the crash and provided a nearly identical account, stating that Flight 592 seemed to "disappear" after hitting the swamp and they could see nothing but scattered small debris, part of an engine, and a large pool of jet fuel near the crash site.

LCQ is upon us, and the NA side almost actually happened! And then it turned into an absolute mess, so that's just really really cool. Well, at least we have @VellyCardwell back for a guest appearance against to talk about what how 100Thieves rolled along for a bit before everything was put on hold. @YinsuCollins joined us to gloat about the superiority of EMEA and we all had a polite discussion about the merits of NA vs EMEA, a civil discourse that totally didn't melt Velly's camera down. Just another day at VALORANTING! Live on Twitch (http://www.twitch.tv/dnpeek) every Tuesday at 2pm EST. Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dnpeek), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/dnpeek/), and check out our website (https://www.dnpeek.com/).

G2 in the midst of their League roster revamp, have brought on an old European fan favorite to lead the way. Mousesports decides to leave ambiguity behind when it comes to branding. Valorant Champions Tour sees their North American Last Chance Qualifier brought to a grinding halt. Watch The Gamer Hour - Esportz Network's new show from Times Square. (https://youtu.be/H2OBkNLYAaw) If you are interested in being a sponsor for the Esports Minute, Esports Network Podcast, College Esports QuickTake or The Gamer Hour, please reach out to Esportz Network CEO Mark Thimmig by emailing mthimmig@esportznetwork.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please rate and subscribe, it helps us out a ton! New episodes Monday through Friday. For more in-depth news check out our feature show the Esportz Network Podcast The Esports Network Podcast (https://www.esportznetworkpodcast.com/). If you are interested in learning more about college esports, subscribe to the College Esports QuickTake. (https://esportzcollegequicktakecom.fireside.fm/) Follow Kevin on Twitter @Correa24 (https://twitter.com/Correa24) Follow Esportz Network on Twitter (https://twitter.com/EsportzNetwork), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/esportznetwork/), and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/EsportzNetwork) @EsportzNetwork Or visit our website esportznetwork.com (https://www.esportznetwork.com/) for updates on what's to come!

00:00:00 Intro 00:12:30 News, rumors, etc. 00:20:05 Mogul's take: TL is going to be the only Western team to make it out of Groups 00:30:47 Community doesn't want any G2 players to come to NA 00:44:42 Alienware! 00:49:35 Killslayer's take: 100T is much better than their first game showing 00:59:50 Flare's take: the LCK won't make it past Quarterfinals 01:17:15 13 Snakes thinks G2 is going to have a hard time finding new players 01:27:20 Game Fuel! 01:30:00 Invicta's take: FNC will make it to Quarterfinals with or without Upset 01:41:55 Travis asks Chronicler about his expectations for LCK 01:56:35 Outro

Here at Fratello, we love Casio. Some would say we love the brand too much. Those people would be wrong. Very wrong indeed... Today, Rob is talking to three of his teammates to the smooth booth to discuss their shared love and long-held obsessions with the Japanese Juggernaut that blessed the world with the G-Shock watch family.First up is G2. As the elder statesman of the team, "the G-Father" was actually an adult when G-Shock first appeared in the early eighties. This gives him a unique perspective within the team as the rest of the gang we either in their teens, nappies, or fathers' eyes when Casio first unveiled the model that would go on the redefine the quartz watch industry.Design classics come along rarely. The Casio G-Shock square series has remained largely unchanged for almost 40 years now. That kind of permanence speaks volumes. But for Balazs, our second guest on the show, his Casio journey started with a much more demure (although no less interesting timepiece) that has since been stolen by his motherLastly, Rob welcomes Mike to the show. Our in-house Floridian shares a tale of global proportions and explains how his collection of Casio watches grew to four pieces and is showing no signs of stopping there. If you love Casio, this is a must-listen show. Let us know what you make of it in the comments below.

One of the top stars in European League of Legends is on the move. We discuss why Rekkles is leaving G2 esports. Also, we ask will the Halo multiplayer beta live up to the nostalgia. And an adult cam site is looking to get into game streaming.  Subscribe to CheckpointXP Daily Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.  Checkpoint Daily is hosted by gamers and video game journalists, Norris Howard and the Checkpoint XP Crew. They've got your daily update on all the things you love in 30 minutes or less.

The title of the story says that a man stabbed another man for “bugging” him as he walked home. A recent example of Headline Manipulation, as when you read the report, the incident was about more than just “bugging”. What lessons can we take away from this situation during our SOTG Homeroom from CrossBreed Holsters? During the preamble of the show, Paul and Jarrad and the live audience consider the Federal government's history of overreach. When did it begin? What safeguards were put in place to protect the individual from the whims of the mob? Also, we have a Brownells Bullet Points for you as always. The air is getting cold. Soon the day will get shorter. What winter projects are you preparing? How will you spend your indoor time this season? Thanks for being a part of SOTG! We hope you find value in the message we share. If you've got any questions, here are some options to contact us: • Send an Email • Send a Text • Call Us Enjoy the show! And remember…You're a Beginner Once, a Student For Life! TOPICS COVERED THIS EPISODE • [0:02:04] The US Government's History of Poisoning Citizens• [0:20:30] DFW area meetup with Jarrad and Alex    - Jarrad speaking at AMMcon 10/2 at 4:30pm    - Will swing by USCCA Expo 10/1 or 10/3• [0:22:38] Brownells Bullet Points - Brownells.com     - TOPIC: What to Buy and Why?• Huge thanks to our Partners: SDS Imports | Brownells | CrossBreed | Duracoat | Hi-Point Firearms     - Have you entered the Gun-a-Month Giveaway? SOTGgiveaway.com     - The drawing for the Zigana PX-9 G2 is THIS WEEK, and it is not too late to get in (as of 09/29/21)!• [0:37:14] SOTG Homeroom - CrossBreedHolsters.com    - TOPIC: Fort Worth man fatally stabbed victim who kept bugging him as he walked home www.star-telegram.com FEATURING: Star-Telegram.com, SDS Imports, Brownells, CrossBreed Holsters, Madison Rising, Jarrad Markel, Paul Markel, SOTG University PARTNERS: SDS Imports, Brownells Inc, CrossBreed Holsters, DuraCoat Firearm Finishes, Hi-Point Firearms FIND US ON: Full30, Parler, MeWe.com, iTunes, Stitcher, AppleTV, Roku, Amazon, GooglePlay, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, tumblr SOURCES From www.star-telegram.com: Christopher Phillips was walking home in the early morning hours of Sept. 9 in west Fort Worth, listening to videos through his headphones when a man attempted to stop him, he told police. The man made comments such as, “Isn't it beautiful, why are you alive, why am I alive,” and ”You ain't so cool, I ain't so cool, why can't we all just be cool?” The 41-year-old Phillips thought the man was intoxicated and yelled for him to leave him alone, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. After Phillips repeatedly yelled at the man to stay away from him, the man walked up to Phillips, their “stomachs touched,” and Phillips stabbed the man, he told police, according to the warrant obtained on Tuesday by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Phillips then called 911 and waited for Fort Worth police to arrive. Authorities found the wounded man, who was later identified as Jasen Robert Crenshaw, 37, of Fort Worth. Crenshaw was taken to a local hospital, where he later died. (Click Here for Full Article)

Today on the podcast I'm joined by my good buddy Aaron Hepler. We Did one final card pull on a new piece of big woods public we've been scouting…and the talent level looks like we'll have plenty of targets. So far our expectations have been surpassed in quality, and number of good deer we've been able to locate Now, let's see if we can't fill a few tags - thanks for listening!! To listen to the podcast click the orange play button at the top of the page.  You can also download the podcast via iTunes, Stitcher Radio and Google Play—don't forget to  share with your friends! If you like the podcast, please leave us a 5 star iTunes rating…we'd really appreciate it. Click here to listen/subscribe on iTunes (best for iOS devices) Click here to listen/subscribe on Stitcher (best for Android devices) Click here to listen/subscribe on Google Play Music (another option for Android devices) WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PODCAST #249 Learning Livonia Big double split G2 buck Bear country More shooters And much more! SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Support our partners: Exodus Outdoor Gear , Afflictor Broadheads , Spartan Forge & Tethrd —Check out Maven optics

ABOUT THE GUEST:  Jeroen Corthout, CEO of Salesflare  Jeroen is co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, an intelligent CRM built for SMBs selling B2B, mostly popular with agencies and fast-growing startups.  Salesflare was founded when Jeroen and his co-founder Lieven wanted to manage the leads for their software company in an easier way. They didn't like to keep track of them manually and built Salesflare, which pulls customer data together automatically.  It's now the most popular CRM on Product Hunt and top rated on review platforms like G2 for its ease of use and automation features.    You can learn more about Salesflare here:  https://salesflare.com/  Connect with Jeroen on LinkedIn here:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeroencorthout/ABOUT THE EPISODE:  CRM has been around for decades, but talk to a few reps and you'll find at least a few who hate it (see what I did there).  But why? And what can be done to change it?  CRM - or any tool that helps reps stay on top of the many things reps need to stay on top of can supercharge productivity, but only if they are used and used consistently.  CRM innovator Jeroen has some ideas about how to make CRM more usable and as such more useful, and he has baked those ideas into Salesflare, an intelligent CRM built for SMBs selling B2B. He shares many of the creative ways it helps overcome obstacles to CRM adoption in this episode of the podcast.

0:00 - Intro 4:12 - Plat Chat to LCQ! 8:51 - Patch 3.06 changes Jett, Skye, and Icebox?! 34:58 - SKIN REVIEW! Spectrum Collection 41:38 - Gambit win Berlin with 3-0 Grand Final 56:57 - nAts vs. yay for Tournament MVP 1:03:23 - Envy go undefeated in maps until Grand Final 1:13:56 - How did Sentinels go 3-2 at Berlin? 1:37:34 - Keloqz drives G2 to semifinals 1:51:42 - 100 Thieves showcase LAN experience 2:06:31 - ACEND disappoint with quarterfinals loss 2:16:15 - Were Vision Strikers the 2nd best team in Berlin? 2:29:38 - Berlin Power Rankings 2:51:36 - Global Power Rankings 3:09:13 - Wyatt's Weekly Award