9 episodes
Half Wasted Chris Kervinen
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- Business
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” Every marketer has heard this quote by John Wanamaker, but why it is so prevalent to this day when there’s more data, tools and expertise available than ever before?
In our new podcast series Half Wasted we’ll discuss with some of today’s brightest marketing masterminds how they feel about John's quote, what marketing effectiveness requires from the marketers as well as from the companies, and why data isn't utilised in decision making as much as we like to think.
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Half Wasted S2 E1 - Marketing in 2022
New year, new me, new marketing plans! In this episode I'm inviting Ashley Lewin, the Director of Demand Generation at Refine Labs, to discuss what changes in marketing in 2022, how B2B starts to mimic B2C in marketing and why lost sales can provide the most valuable lessons for the marketing team.
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Half Wasted Episode 9 - First Principles of Marketing
What marketing & architecture have in common? In both worlds you need to build your masterpiece on a solid (scientific) foundation, otherwise you're in a world of trouble. These "First Principles" are more often forgotten in marketing, however, which is why many of today's marketing campaigns tend to be shots in the dark, rather than well-thought strategic initiatives.
In the season finale of Half Wasted I'm inviting Evidence-Based Marketing mastermind Wiemer Sneijder to discuss what we can learn from marketing literature, and how the role of marketing research can usher us into the post-cookie era in marketing. -
Half Wasted episode 8 - Life After Cookies
What happens to digital marketing (and marketers in general) now that the consumer data privacy issues are forcing the companies to rethink their targeting methods? In this episode I'm inviting Riikka Söderlund, the CMO of Smartly, to share her insights on how the upcoming cookie apocalypse will actually change the game, and how this change might be more for good than we tend to think.
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Half Wasted episode 7 - Winning In Marketing By Thinking Outside The Box
In episode 7 we'll discuss how to craft marketing campaigns that capture consumers' elusive attention, and how impactful marketing seeks to break the norms instead of abiding to them. As our guest speaker we have the latest marketing superstar Anya Jackson from Thursday, who shares her amazing journey from past months.
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Half Wasted Episode 6 - Demystifying B2B Marketing
B2B Marketing is often perceived difficult due to its long sales cycles and big buying committees, but it doesn't have to be difficult. Fractional CMO Andy Culligan joins the show to share his 7-step checklist for marketers targeting B2B customers. Andy is famous for his no-bullshit approach to driving revenue, and this episode makes no exception to that.
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Half Wasted Episode 5 - Marketing Cryptocurrencies: A Brave New World
How to build a successful marketing strategy for a product that's mostly transactional, heavily restricted and still quite new to the public? In this episode of Half Wasted I'm inviting a (cryptocurrency) marketing mastermind (and a ski instructor) Morgan Scofield to discuss what made him to jump into this world, what kind of learnings he has gathered along the way, and what kind of future cryptocurrencies hold for marketers.