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Marketing Plugged In Podcast

Start of a New Journey

Do you find you stumble when someone asks you what you do for a living, or what your business does? Marcel & Darren talk through why you need an elevator pitch, how it can help you acquire new business and how to write an elevator pitch. Let us know how you get on by emailing your elevator pitch to marketingpluggedin@gmail.com.

Creating A Successful Elevator Pitch

Working in teams is an essential component of most companies and projects. With remote working now being enforced in a number of countries because of the Coronavirus, Marcel & Darren discuss the importance of being a team player, having an effective leader, how you can build better team relationships and improve your leadership skills - to achieve better results.

Remote Working and Working as a Team

Keeping productive & communicative when you're working remotely from home can be a challenge if you're not used to it. We talk through some of the hazards to avoid, our tips & advice plus some of the free software being given away from Microsoft, Cisco, Zoom & Google to help you work remotely in face of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Free Software & Advice for Working Remotely with Coronavirus Pandemic

Have you ever experienced that feeling that you’ve done everything possible to keep a client happy but it’s not working? Or a client becoming ever demanding with higher expectations or constantly taking more time? In this episode, we talk through our experiences with advice and tips on how to reduce these problems occurring, and also some advice on how to handle the ultimate ‘goodbye’ conversation, if it comes to that. We’d love to hear from you. Let us know how your experiences and advice for other listeners by dropping us an email to marketingpluggedin@gmail.com.

Letting Go of Clients

A 30-minute discussion about how you can increase sales and profit in your business, covering workflow, automation, negotiating costs and many other ideas and tips.

How to Increase Revenue in Your Business (Easy Steps and Tips)

A light-hearted and informational chat about the stresses of working for yourself and how it is possible to find time for yourself, family, friends and hobbies - even with work pressures hit their peak. We talk about our own experiences and some pointers which have helped us to enjoy work and life. Have a marketing challenge you want us to talk about or interested in being a guest on our podcast? Send an email to marketingpluggedin@gmail.com.

Finding a Work-life Balance in the Chaos of Running a Business

Looking for ways to attract positivity in your business or just in life? One great way is to share success. Listen to our short conversation about the many benefits of sharing success and examples of the benefits you can expect to reap.

How Sharing Success Can Lead to Success

Get ahead with the latest digital marketing trends of 2020. We chat about how privacy in digital marketing is changing, why transparency matters, the challenge of balancing automation against personalisation, why traditional marketing of branding and identity is making a comeback, why you might want to focus on voice branding and marketing, and why video should still be centrepiece to your 2020 marketing plans.

Key Marketing Trends for 2020

This week, Darren and Marcel discuss the best marketing and media tools and software they highly rate to improve their productivity and workflow including email, design, video file type, accountancy, project management, lead generation and much more. Find a full list with links in the show notes.

Software We Use to Better Our Workflow

We all need more sales and customers but how can you get them? One tool is a marketing plan and we talk through how you can create one in very easily in just 5 steps using only a Word document or Excel sheet. Please let us know how you get on. Need some help? Shoot us an email at marketingpluggedin@gmail.com

5 Steps to Create Your 2020 Marketing Plan

Do you switch off from work during the festive holidays? In this short episode, Darren and Marcel chat over what you can constructively achieve and still have a good time with family and friends during the Christmas break. Thanks for listening to our podcast this year, please subscribe and leave us a review - it really helps us.

What to do when work slows down during the holidays?

Listen to professional trainer and speaker Pascal Fintoni, owner of Arclight Marketing & Media Ltd talk to Marcel and Darren about Online Business Reputation Management. With over 25 years practical experience in digital marketing, Pascal has worked across diverse industry sectors developing and implementing audience engagement campaigns. Pascal is also a video producer and he has introduced many of the storytelling techniques used by filmmakers into his coaching to help his clients create great online reputations. His focus for the last few years has been to coach business owners to take back control of their digital communications and become the most trusted brand in their chosen markets, with a clear focus on creating new leads for his clients. His professional experience spans the private, public and not-for-profit sectors with a proven track record in skills development, professional services, new media, ICT and software, tourism, manufacturing and business support.  Inside the podcast we discuss:  - What online business reputation is and why it’s important - Why you should approach content marketing very differently to truly grow your online reputation and avoid burnout? - Darrens’ number one marketing tip of 2019 - Why you should be focusing on Google maps in 2020 - Why podcasts matter in 2020 for SEO - The importance of being inventive and ingenious in digital marketing and not following the crowd, you need connect or rediscover what you stand for - How to leverage your network and connections to grow your business, digital marketing is not about doing everything yourself - The need to create and provide an outstanding online experience for your prospects and current customers - What’s important in digital marketing to focus on in 2020. Checkout the full show notes with links to Pascal.

Pascal Fintoni from Arclight Marketing & Media on Online Business Reputation Management

Have you downloaded and used Tik Tok yet? Wondering what all the hype is about? With a fast growing user base, could Tik Tok be the next Instagram or will quickly disappear? We discuss our thoughts about the platform and how marketers could leverage the best out of the platform.

Our marketing thoughts on Tik Tok

Making money from your hobby is a great way to start out running your own business. In this episode, Darren and Marcel talk through some great tips and how you can start building your confidence to making money from doing something you love.

How to Turn a Hobby into a Business

A motivational & inspiring podcast helping business overcome marketing challenges recorded live from Netherlands and UK by hosts Marcel Sterk and Darren Winter. We're looking for guests and marketing challenges, get in touch with us via the website or social media!

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