Funnel Reboot

Glenn Schmelzle

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A show giving you better insight into your funnel, so your marketing can be even better. New content biweekly, geared to help data-based marketers solve common problems that businesses have with the strategy, implementation and measurement of their digital marketing. Podcast hosted by Glenn Schmelzle.

2일 전

Why you want AI to be a more Skilled Marketer than you, with Chris Dore

Small businesses run on lean marketing teams and tight budgets, but don't count them out. They're the overwhelming majority of businesses on earth. Small companies have one function that's poised to figure out AI through experimentation, analysis and strategic changes in direction. It's marketing, and it may very well determine the winner of the AI race. After graduating from Laurentian University, our guest worked in corporate and consulting positions across Canada and even in Korea. He then founded a business which he grew to a successful exit, which led to mentoring students at Algonquin College and eventually teaching in their Business Management and Entrepreneurship program. Hungry to understand what AI could do for businesses, he went back to school in 2016 — to Carleton University for a Master's degree. In 2025 he heard about the AI Collective and founded its local Ottawa chapter. He is now CEO of ScarlettNova, an AI company dedicated to building artificial intelligence solutions for businesses, and Founder of Rogue Ventures, an AI venture studio. Let's go to a coffee shop to talk with Chris Doré. Chapters Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:47 Why Chris says Marketers will endure 02:50 Why Pay for Pro Models 04:50 From User to Builder 08:02 Automation vs Agents 10:33 Context and Company Brain 13:36 Document Workflows for AI 17:47 Adoption Gap and Learning Curve 19:06 Token Costs and Budgeting 22:01 AI Energy Debate 22:19 Quantum Boost Ahead 23:00 Marketing Rapid Fire 23:18 Websites Get Personal 25:22 Vibe Coding Limits 26:06 Skills Over Knowledge 26:38 Events Still Matter 28:43 Paid Media After SEO 30:17 Winning With Niches 32:06 Trust And Adoption 34:32 Full Spectrum AI Help 36:02 Adoption Is Human 37:45 Venture Studio Spinoffs 39:20 Wrap-up Links to everything mentioned in the show are on the Funnel Reboot site's page for this episode.

41분
6월 22일

Earn It! with Steve Pratt

Everyone makes content now. But having content doesn't automatically mean anyone will actually consume it. There are brands with long-running programs and audiences that carve out time for their content, while other brands' programs fade because it became a thankless chore. What's different between content that's adored and content that dies in obscurity? The brands that win make content that audiences don't see as branded content. Where the work they made was so genuinely useful, or surprising, or true — that instead of feeling exploited, the recipients felt like they were being favored. A gift doesn't need your logo on it. Your fingerprints are already there. Our guest knows how to do this. His early career was working in production at AOL and several TV and radio networks. Then in 2014 he launched Pacific Content, an agency he built into the one brands trusted when they wanted to stop making noise and start building audiences. It was acquired by one of the country's largest media companies in 2023. What he learned doing that became the book Earn It, which came out in 2026. Let's go to this talk with Steve Pratt. Chapter Timestamps: 00:00 Why Content Gets Ignored 01:00 Meet Steve Pratt 02:12 Attention Is Finite 04:38 Be The Party Host 06:52 Marketing As A Gift 08:23 From You Not About You 09:55 Bravery And Commitment 12:46 Promote The Gift 15:03 Podcast Case Studies 21:07 Measuring Time And Trust 24:04 Fewer Things Better 25:35 Expertise Over Platform 27:04 Pacific Content And Wrap Up Links to everything mentioned in the show are on the Funnel Reboot site's page for this episode.

29분
6월 9일

From Adversaries to Advocates: How to win friends (and budgets) with data

I can't prove it, but I think many marketers wish they could improve how they're perceived by corporate leadership. I have felt this way in more than one role, and racked my brain on how to fix it. I've entertained everything including coming to board meetings with a dozen custom-branded donuts. Thankfully, the a solution I have come up with isn't extreme and it doesn't require donuts. I was recently given the chance by a local association - the OPMMA - to give a talk and I picked this problem. I hope as you listen to how I think it's solved and the three moments where this method demands doing the opposite of what our gut says to do. So give a listen to 'From Adversaries to Advocates' All references in this show are linked in the Shownotes for this episode on the Funnel Reboot site.

27분
5월 25일

Using CRM for Total Recall, with Brandon Drake

We humans like conversations that keep moving forward. Every time we share some detail about ourselves, we expect the other person to remember it. If they bring that detail back up in our next interaction, we feel pleased and want to keep that relationship going. Conversely, we get annoyed when they blast us with messages we had already said didn't interest us. This is severely problematic for us sales and marketing professionals. The sheer volume of people and details we all encounter is too much to keep straight in our outbound emails, let alone in our heads, and that's why we use CRMs. But there are many CRMs out there and to fit a business, they all need to be customized. That's where our guest comes in. A graduate of CalState in information systems, he worked in data analyst roles for several tech companies, including a Customer Relationship Management company that sold to enterprises. Wanting to work more with solopreneurs and SMBs, he decided to go out on his own as a CRM consultant to show them sustainable relationship-building techniques. Suffice to say, he is able to deliver immediate benefits to his clients under this business model. He also has a passion for coaching people on their nutrition, which explains why both components are blended in the name of his business - the health data guy. Let's go to Laguna Beach to speak with Brandon Drake. Chapters/Timestamps: 00:00 Why Memory Matters 00:34 Meet Brandon Drake 02:19 From Burnout to Health 03:44 Back to CRM Consulting 07:00 Relationship First CRM 09:14 Automated Nurture Emails 11:20 Crowdsourced Content Engine 12:11 Bio Form Data Hack 16:11 Progressive Profiling Scores 19.45 PSA: Funnel Reboot Reading Room 20:29 Segmentation Beats Spray 26:46 Protect Email Reputation 28:16 AI Needs Process First 32:28 Where to Find Brandon Links to everything mentioned in the show are on the Funnel Reboot site's page for this episode.

33분
5월 15일

The Marketing Growth Formula, with Heidi Hattendorf

Episode 233 In the 2009 movie "Up" there's a golden retriever whose collar can translate his thoughts to speech. When Dug the dog first starts speaking, the main characters marvel at how smart he is, but expectations drop a moment later when he snaps his head around and halts mid-sentence when he hears a squirrel. We marketers are prone to Squirrel-chasing. Let's be honest and admit that we get caught on a treadmill of activity without stopping to ask ourselves if it's having an impact. How do we break this habit? This month's book says it's by creating a Go-To-Market plan with detailed tactics. A plan reminds us why we're sticking with those tactics, so we don't get distracted by any tactic that comes along. Our guest has an MBA and 25+ years of marketing leadership experience in the US and Europe. Her consultancy, Transformation Insights, offers Fractional CMO services that help companies grow by building go-to-market strategies that are consistent and effective. She is also a speaker and the author of The Marketing Growth Formula which came out in late 2025. Let's go to Miami Florida to talk with Heidi Hattendorf Links to everything mentioned in the show are on the Funnel Reboot site's page for this episode.

47분
4월 27일

Market Eminence, with David Newman

Episode 232 There is a quiet, enduring power in wisdom that resists the urge to conform. Wise people refuse to abandon their convictions. It's not obvious who will be the Wise character in These Stories, the role often casts them as having lowly beginnings or in the shadow of others who are more powerful. But they speak out anyway, even if they are mocked or sidelined. Take: Don Quixote's sidekick Sancho Panza, whom Quixote usually makes fun of, becomes so well known for his practical wisdom that he becomes a Governor. In the story of Sidharrtha, when the prince leaves his palace, he is called a fool and so-called teachers treat him as an outcast. They never reach enlightenment but he ultimately does.To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch, the lawyer in the deep South who was shunned by his community for taking on an unwinnable case. Though he lost, townspeople credited him as "the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that." Sheherazade, the woman in One Thousand and One Nights who was facing execution at dawn, but who told cliffhanger tales that stalled the king's command, saving her life. Lastly, the Young boy In The Emperor's New Clothes, where everyone believed the lie that only smart people could see the emperor's clothes, so no one said anything as he walked by. The boy's exclamation brought what everyone knew to be true into the open. These fictional characters remind us that while the truth may be unpopular at first, people eventually realize they should listen to, and follow the person who said it. They remind us that when leaders step up, share their convictions, act as the voice of reason, they will ultimately triumph. Our guest's new book says that any company wanting to lead their category.must fearlessly shout out what they know to be true. The title "Market Eminence," refers to the position of category authority that leaders who do this can reach. Its tone is as bold as his previous books Do It! Selling, Do It! Speaking and Do It! Marketing. He is also an advisor who works with marketers, salespeople and executives, host of a 500+ episode, top-ranked podcast called The Selling Show. Let's welcome back this previous show guest from Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania, David Newman. Links to everything mentioned in the show are on the Funnel Reboot site's page for this episode.

50분
4월 13일

Sales and Marketing that's Scalable, with Peter Fillmore

It goes without saying that the purpose of sales and marketing is to help a company grow. We create forecasts where revenue grows a hundred-thousand, a million, or 10 million dollars. But we expect to achieve that with incremental changes to our resources and tech-stacks. When Base 10 Math is used to express numbers that differ by orders of magnitude, we use exponents, noted with the letter N put in superscript (N stands for the Latin word numerus or number). N to the power of 5 is equal to a hundred-thousand, N to the power of 7 is equal to ten million. We don't have to raise N very much to see it balloon in size. Each increment it jumps by represents its value going up by a factor of ten. The question of how we reach scale then isn't how to change financial numbers by a basic percentage; it's how do we grow them by a factor of N? Our guest knows how sales and marketing can scale their organization without snapping them. *come with their own jargon like batch mode, local vs global maximums, and WIP bottlenecks. He graduated from the University of New Brunswick with an engineering degree and then went into technically heavy roles, working in IBM's semiconductor division. He pivoted into leading sales and marketing teams for tech organizations until the late 2000s, when he founded a product startup with an app that helped salespeople gain visibility into their funnel activity. He also teaches sales practices and scaling up in the engineering faculty at the University of Ottawa. Join me now as I sit down in person with the head of Ottawa's Scaling Up initiative, Peter Fillmore. Chapters/Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:10 My guest Peter Fillmore 03:27 What Changes When You Scale 05:37 Making the Funnel Visible 08:58 Sales Fundamentals and Urgency 09:55 PSA 12:03 Saying No and Off Ramps 13:26 Marketing Segments and Messaging 15:31 Discipline Metrics and Cadence 22:53 Connect with Peter & Ottawa Scaling Up Initiative Links to everything mentioned in the show are on the Funnel Reboot site's page for this episode.

23분
3월 30일

The Social Shift, with Katie Brinkley

Social media platforms can serve as both vibrant marketplaces and spaces for genuine social interaction, where consumers feel valued, while businesses boost engagement and sales. This picture may not look anything like the reality of social media that you see, but our guest will remind you that things haven't always been this way. A short glance back of the Internet shows that in the year 2000 the Internet's governing body actually had looked at using a citizen model to allow individuals who use the internet to kind of come together as a social contract and to decide how they would be able to vote on changes to the internet - and at their peak 158,000 people were on the voting rolls. This was a radical global experiment in direct democracy. That model didn't take off, partly because to be a voting member, Internet users everywhere would have to (at least temporarily) upload some Identification - and most weren't willing to share that kind of data. What happened instead was the rise of social networks owned by a handful of companies, who conditioned us sellers to post promoted content with attention-grabbing messages because that could be used by the algorithms to keep buyers on the platforms. And I've got to call out how , as buyers, we're also complicit because we now give those platforms way more data than the Internet governing body ever asked for. How ironic. But our guest maintains that it's in our ability to regain our equilibrium. While we're all collectively responsible for how we communicate, marketers can be an ideal catalyst of change. We can make content that prioritizes authentic interaction over consumerism, be it on the current platforms or ones yet to exist. We should remember the saying of the American philosopher Thomas Paine: "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." My guest has been leveraging social media to grow audiences and income since MySpace was around. In that 20 year timespan, she has leveraged her social media knowledge both by working for sports organizations and corporations like AT&T, iHeart Radio and DirecTV to running the agency Next Step Social that does this for health and wellness brands. She's also a speaker and a podcaster. She lives in Colorado with her husband and daughters. Let's go now to speak with Katie Brinkley Chapters/Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 03:01 Meet Katie Brinkley 04:01 What Community Means 06:03 Attention Economy Shift 08:58 Audio Beats AI 10:40 Discovery On Rented Land 11:48 Four Post Strategy 16:10 Platform Culture Matters 17:35 Metrics True Fans 19:47 Beyond Consumption Mindset 23:35 Katie Origin Story 28:03 Burnout And Conversation 32:16 Audit Your Feed 33:29 Where To Find Katie 34:00 Closing Thoughts Links to everything mentioned in the show are on the Funnel Reboot site's page for this episode.

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A show giving you better insight into your funnel, so your marketing can be even better. New content biweekly, geared to help data-based marketers solve common problems that businesses have with the strategy, implementation and measurement of their digital marketing. Podcast hosted by Glenn Schmelzle.

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Glenn Schmelzle
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