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Ahead of the Game Digital Marketing Institute
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Want a taste of the real-life digital marketing game? Supercharge your marketing skills and sharpen your mindset with incisive insights from industry experts. The Ahead of the Game podcast is brought to you by The Digital Marketing Institute, hosted by Will Francis.
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Mindfulness in Marketing
Being mindful in marketing can mean anything, from taking a pause before answering an email, to considering your creativity and learning to deal with negative emotions. In this episode, host Will Francis has a fascinating conversation with Andrew Simon, a full-time marketer at SAP in Canada who has an official side hustle as a mindfulness coach within this global giant.
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The Ahead of the Game podcast is brought to you by the Digital Marketing Institute and is available on our website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.
And if you enjoyed this episode please leave a review so others can find us!
If you have other feedback for or would like to be a guest on the show, drop us a line at podcast@digitalmarketinginstitute.com.
We want to know more about you, our listeners! Please take a few minutes to fill out our online survey to let us know what you love, like, and want more of in the DMI podcast! You'll even be in with a chance to win a €50 Amazon voucher! Visit the survey on www.digitalmarketinginstitute.com/blog/survey -
How Useful is AI in Digital Marketing?
Just how useful is ChatGPT turning out to be, a year after it blasted onto the scene? How anyone can advise anyone else on how they should be using AI?
These are some of the questions that come up in this wide-reaching conversation with two DMI experts, host Will Francis and Clark Boyd. Clark also tells us about his new AI-powered learning solution called Novela.
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The Ahead of the Game podcast is brought to you by the Digital Marketing Institute and is available on our website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.
And if you enjoyed this episode please leave a review so others can find us!
If you have other feedback for or would like to be a guest on the show, drop us a line at podcast@digitalmarketinginstitute.com.
We want to know more about you, our listeners! Please take a few minutes to fill out our online survey to let us know what you love, like, and want more of in the DMI podcast! You'll even be in with a chance to win a €50 Amazon voucher! Visit the survey on www.digitalmarketinginstitute.com/blog/survey -
Get Started with AI in Marketing
We're joined on this episode by Jim Lecinski from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, who has been studying and writing about AI in a brand's marketing function for years. He takes host Will Francis through a framework for establishing how to incorporate AI in your strategy, considering the (evolving) pros and cons, risks and massive opportunities available with AI technologies.
"Marketers are in the prediction business. Machine learning is a prediction technology. Wow, what a perfect intersection!" Jim Lecinksi
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The Ahead of the Game podcast is brought to you by the Digital Marketing Institute and is available on our website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.
And if you enjoyed this episode please leave a review so others can find us!
If you have other feedback for or would like to be a guest on the show, drop us a line at podcast@digitalmarketinginstitute.com.
We want to know more about you, our listeners! Please take a few minutes to fill out our online survey to let us know what you love, like, and want more of in the DMI podcast! You'll even be in with a chance to win a €50 Amazon voucher! Visit the survey on www.digitalmarketinginstitute.com/blog/survey -
A Look Inside SGE
Is Google's Search Generative Experience (SGE) actually going to change the world of search?
Google's new AI-powered search is still just in Beta, and only avaiable in the US, Japan, and India (as of now) but we wanted to get some insights into it to share with you.
Lindsey Schrant, a senior SEO manager with Neil Patel Digital joined host Will Francis to describe how she's using SGE, its challenges and limitations, and indications of how it will affect how we do search.
This episode is adapted from Lindsey's webinar - you can watch that on-demand here and see visuals of what she's describing. Or read our quick guide to SGE.
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The Ahead of the Game podcast is brought to you by the Digital Marketing Institute and is available on our website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.
And if you enjoyed this episode please leave a review so others can find us!
If you have other feedback for or would like to be a guest on the show, drop us a line at podcast@digitalmarketinginstitute.com.
We want to know more about you, our listeners! Please take a few minutes to fill out our online survey to let us know what you love, like, and want more of in the DMI podcast! You'll even be in with a chance to win a €50 Amazon voucher! Visit the survey on www.digitalmarketinginstitute.com/blog/survey -
Mental Wellness for Social Media Pros
If most of us feel overwhelmed by social media, how does the owner of a social media agency manage to stay balanced?
In this episode, Will Francis chats with Zack O'Rourke of Social Directions agency to find out more. They dig into how he keeps and promotes efficiency, deals with his team and with clients, develops the creative juices, and still finds time for a swim in the sea.
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The Ahead of the Game podcast is brought to you by the Digital Marketing Institute and is available on our website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.
And if you enjoyed this episode please leave a review so others can find us!
If you have other feedback for or would like to be a guest on the show, drop us a line at podcast@digitalmarketinginstitute.com.
We want to know more about you, our listeners! Please take a few minutes to fill out our online survey to let us know what you love, like, and want more of in the DMI podcast! You'll even be in with a chance to win a €50 Amazon voucher! Visit the survey on www.digitalmarketinginstitute.com/blog/survey -
Success in Destination Marketing
EPIC is the Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin and it has used both digital and offline channels to become extremely adept at destination marketing, winning several awards along the way. Challenging the notion that museums are dreary rooms full of dusty artifacts, EPIC tells the story of Ireland's heritage using a goldmine of digital, immersive stories that become a content marketer's dream.
Aileesh Carew, CEO at EPIC (and a DMI graduate) joins Will Francis to explore how ambient digital marketing has led to strong word-of-mouth promotion of the museum as a top European tourist destination of choice.
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The Ahead of the Game podcast is brought to you by the Digital Marketing Institute and is available on our website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.
And if you enjoyed this episode please leave a review so others can find us!
If you have other feedback for or would like to be a guest on the show, drop us a line at podcast@digitalmarketinginstitute.com.
We want to know more about you, our listeners! Please take a few minutes to fill out our online survey to let us know what you love, like, and want more of in the DMI podcast! You'll even be in with a chance to win a €50 Amazon voucher! Visit the survey on www.digitalmarketinginstitute.com/blog/survey
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Whether you’re well established as a digital marketer, or just getting started in your career, this is a must-listen podcast for you! Will does an incredible job leading engaging conversations with industry leaders who’ve actually experienced success themselves and every. single. episode. is jam-packed with helpful takeaways. Highly recommend listening and subscribing!
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