We are entering the era of Authority. Learn more about what this means for marketers from host Lori Jones and her guest Stephen Woessner of Predictive ROI on this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast. Tune in as Stephen shares his three essential elements to building your brand authority and discusses his strategies for creating transitional moments for your audience and inspiring trust.

The Growth Mindset and ABM-Centric Demand Generation with Annie Wissner CMO of Whispir on this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast.

From competitive insights to tapping into the customer journey, developing marketing strategies is all about finding that “sweet spot.” Tune in to this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with host Lori Jones and her guest Ian Truscott of the Spotler Group to learn more.

Internal communications strategies start with powerful messaging and engaged leadership. Learn more from host Lori Jones and her guest Kerry Christopher of Cardinal Health on this encore episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast.

Get insights into how to market better, measure better, and increase revenue with host Lori Jones and her guest Tim Parkin of Parkin Consulting on this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast.

How growth is understood, broken down, and owned across an organization is the topic of this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with host Lori Jones and her guest Angeley Mullins of Latana. Tune in as Angeley and Lori take a deep dive into how marketing is tied to building a brand’s long-term stability and growth strategies, how to improve communication, and how to bring more customers into your funnel.

Using experiential marketing to differentiate your brand in the sea of sameness with host Lori Jones and her guest Karen Kelly of Tapple on the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast. Listen in as Karen shares her insights into how she focuses on physical-world marketing technology, creating connections with her customers, and on the WHY behind a brand.

“We forget that what made an ad great was not that it was cheap, it was that it was interactive.”

Listen & Learn:

• Why interactive content is more important than ever.
• How interactive content helps brands cut through the overwhelming amount of information available in the marketplace.
• How just about anything on your website can be turned into interactive content.
• How strategic interactive content helps brands gain interest and intrigue with the buyer.
• How B2C companies can create more engagement with their customers with interactive content.
• The kinds of brands that can benefit the most from powerful interactive content strategies

Are you ready to deploy bold and brave content strategies that cut through the clutter? Call Lori Jones today. 303-678-7102.

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“TikTok is making marketers into performing artists.”

Listen & Learn:

• How TikTok changed -- and gained popularity -- during the pandemic.
• Why TikTok is an entertainment platform rather than a social platform.
• The platform’s product roadmap aimed at highly creative and engaged creators.
• How brands can find their authentic voice.
• How TikTok is a multi-sensory platform marketers need to master.
• On TikTok, content is king.

Content strategies that build your brand’s authentic voice. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

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“It’s about solving, not selling.”

Listen & Learn:

• Defining conversational marketing.
• The difference between pushing out messages vs. having a conversation.
• Why it’s important to solve customers’ issues vs. sell them a product or service.
• The importance of being a good listener.
• Including chatbots and live chats into your conversational marketing strategies.
• Meet people where they are in the buying cycle.

We deploy people-first strategies that are about solving problems. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

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“An omnichannel approach is what we have to start looking at.”

Listen & Learn:

• The five generations of consumers you need to know about.
• Insights into shifts in buyer behavior.
• Why everything needs to start with an integrated omnichannel approach.
• Getting back to basics and targeting individual consumers.
• Why a broad approach to media buying will ultimately cost you money.
• How your audience uses the same platform but for different reasons.

We take an omnichannel approach to our media buying strategies so that our clients’ marketing is integrated and targeted. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

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“Hitting a pause button and being willing to invest a little bit more time in taking a good look at all aspects…buys off in dividends right now.”

Listen & Learn:

• Why it was so important to understand where the brand had come from before setting out to do a refresh.
• The six-phased strategic marketing process RMG and Avocet took together to refresh the brand.
• Coming to a consensus and defining the brand’s what, how, and why.
• How focusing on the WHY of what you do has the greatest impact on growth.
• How to grow long-term relationships with customers that ultimately build the long-term success of the brand

Kirsten joined RMG in July of 2020 and led the company through a brand strategy and visioning process that resulted in the creation of a new vision statement and subsequent rebrand and logo redesign for the 35-year-old engineering and architecture company. She is directing the redesign of RMG’s website to launch this winter and the development and implementation of an integrated marketing program that entails strategic initiatives to share RMG’s great story through creative messaging and business generating campaigns.

Prior to joining RMG, Kirsten directed the communications program for the Environmental and Resource Management of HDR for 12 years and was responsible for strategy, campaigns, stakeholder engagement, campaigns, event planning, facilitation, change management, publications, and newsletters.

We deploy a six-phase strategic marketing process that drives awareness and impacts growth. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

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“No executive wakes up and says, ‘I’m going to create siloes within the organization,’ but it happens.”

Listen & Learn:

• The top five things companies do that lead to misalignment between sales and marketing.
• The importance of understanding your audience from a psychological perspective.
• Why marketing can’t do it all and products don’t sell themselves.
• The two biggest mistakes marketing and sales teams make.
• The risks and threats of product sales and marketing misalignment.
• The three key questions he asks his clients to define and achieve alignment between sales and marketing teams

Aligning sales and marketing teams to achieve big and bold results. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

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“There isn’t a brand out there whose customers don’t like to smile.”

Listen & Learn:

• The eight simple steps to incorporating humor into your marketing strategies.
• Why some brands are afraid to use humor in their marketing.
• Where humor works well, and where it doesn’t.
• How all brands, not matter the industry or the product, can incorporate humor into its marketing strategies.
• Connecting to your customers with humor.
• How to find a comedy writer.

To drive action, we create connection and relatability with the audiences our clients care about the most. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

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“You can’t expect that the expected is going to do what you need it to do.”

Listen & Learn:

• How thinking divergently fosters growth.
• Tying bold creative strategies to growth.
• How to become your clients’ creative agent.
• Why curiosity is the most important element of all creative strategies.
• What defines the creative mindset.
• Why big ideas don’t have to have big budget.
• Tips for embracing a creative. 

Bold and brave strategies for brands that are ready to push beyond the range of acceptability when it comes to creative. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

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“Every organization has an employee value proposition; you just need to be sure it’s the right one.”

Listen & Learn:

• Why social media needs to speak to all your stakeholders.
• Storytelling as a way to get your customers and potential customers excited about your brand.
• Attracting the right customers vs. the number of customers.
• Defining your employee value proposition.
• Creating a culture and environment of belonging.
• The importance of incorporating goals for your brand’s diversity, equity, and inclusion tenets

Teresa Rehme is a communications manager for Ball Corporation. Her career has taken her from the aerospace and technologies business to the packaging and manufacturing sectors of the business. The company that you might associate with your grandmother’s canning jars has emerged as a world leader in sustainable aluminum beverage packaging (think cans and the new Ball Aluminum cup) and has a rapidly growing aerospace business, with hardware on the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope. Teresa’s work is mostly focused on the employee experience as part of the global communications team. With Ball continuing to grow at a rapid pace, Teresa has worked on an employee value proposition project to capture the internal Ball story and tell it externally in order to attract and retain new and diverse talent. She approaches employer marketing and all her work with curiosity and a desire to grow and learn.

Strategic storytelling that defines your brand ultimately impacts your marketing efforts to recruit and define your culture. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

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“If you ask someone about their company’s mission, you just see blank stares.”

Listen & Learn:

• The building blocks for creating a Vivid Vision for your brand.
• The difference between a mission, a set of goals, company values, and a vision.
• How a Vivid Vision creates a culture and impacts retention.
• The questions you should ask to articulate your Vivid Vision.
• The importance of leadership when creating a Vivid Vision.
• How a Vivid Vision must start with alignment

Graeme Strachan is the founder and CEO of ViTL Solutions. He brings his 20+ years of management consulting experience to industries as diverse as financial services, mining, education, digital media, and the nonprofit world. He has a passion for helping companies succeed by aligning operational reality to strategic intent. Graeme is known for bringing clients breakthrough thinking to solve complex business challenges.

Are you clear on your brand’s mission, its values, and its vision? We help clients define and put into action their Vivid Visions. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

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“Direct marketing does not work without brand awareness and brand awareness is driven by creative.”

Listen & Learn:

• Tips for measuring your creative’s ROI.
• The tools you need to measure the impact of your creative.
• The importance of having a “creative minimum standard.”
• Why it’s important to not rely on creative for creative’s sake.
• How great creative makes the customer feel smart

Cody Gillund is the director of internal creative agency, Squircle, at Experian Consumer Services. A former agency account exec, Cody is a diversely experienced strategic marketing leader who is passionate about creative problem solving and driving results. She is a versatile and creative leader with more than 15 years of experience guiding global brand initiatives and marketing strategies for industry-leading organizations. Cody lives in Austin, TX with her husband and three daughters.

Bold and brave creative guides everything we do for our clients. Let us help you. Call LORI JONES today. 303-678-7102.

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“Make sure to properly test the local market before you go full scale.”

Listen & Learn:

• The elements of performance marketing.
• The difference in focus between traditional marketing and performance marketing.
• Navigating GDPR when marketing internationally.
• The international markets that are easiest to work with.
• The importance of developing a proper customer journey to keep your audience engaged.
• The products and services and price points align well with a performance marketing strategy

David Stellato is the chief growth offi­cer of DFO Global Performance Commerce, an international, boutique digital marketing agency with offi­ces in Vancouver, New York, Amsterdam, and Hong Kong. David oversees DFO’s global business development efforts, focusing on structuring and building unified media, technology, and product sales teams across global offi­ces. David’s extensive background includes enterprise website development, search and online reputation management, and programmatic video campaigns. When he’s not making bulletproof marketing decisions and business connections, David enjoys cooking, geeking out over sci-fi, and doing what he can to be the ultimate dad.

Blending traditional marketing with performance marketing to help your brand grow and boost acquisitions. Learn more from Lori Jones by calling today. 303-678-7102.

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“When you’re out there shouting, and everyone else is shouting, is it a surprise that no one can hear?”

Listen & Learn:

• The four steps to the “flywheel” funnel.
• All about consensus creation.
• The one framework all marketers need to understand.
• How to boost demand-gen and topline revenue.
• Why marketers need to define the problem rather than talk about their product or service.
• Understanding the buyer journey

Mark Donnigan is a startup trailblazer and a go-to-market engineer. He designs and executes marketing playbooks that produce real business results for early and growth-stage technology startup companies. He is well-versed in SaaS, software licensing, wholesale, and retail sales models, and builds nimble, highly efficient marketing teams that routinely outperform larger organizations. With his 20+ years of experience as a transformative B2B and enterprise marketing and business leader, Mark understands how to succeed in today’s winner-takes-all market.

In a crowded marketplace, people-first strategies are what get our clients noticed. Call LORI JONES today to learn more. 303-678-7102.

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