Jan 21, 2020
Have you always wanted to start your own restaurant or café?
I know I definitely have and I’m exploring the world of food and business today with my special guest Mark Calabro
His mission is to get restaurants full again and bring back the social element of going out and dining.
Jan 14, 2020
Fun fact: Acquiring a new customer can cost five times more than retaining an existing customer.
Can your business afford to ignore your existing customers?
That’s what I’m exploring today with my special guest Amber Dermoudy, social media strategist at Khoros and digital marketing educator at General Assembly.
Jan 07, 2020
Today I talk to the Marketing Scientist Mike Sager.
Mike’s one of the smartest marketers I know and he’s definitely earned the marketing scientist nickname!
We discuss his extensive marketing career that started in the US and now sees him in Australia, where he founded a vets on demand startup called Pawsum and is now head of customer success at Siteminder, one of Australia’s fastest growing startups.
Dec 31, 2019
What’s the main reason behind Canva’s success?
People.
This week, my very special guest Mahesh Muralidhar details how he led People Operations at Canva (where he was employee number 25) from a small initial team to more than 200 across three offices.
If you are looking to make your next marketing hire, this episode is a must-listen.
Dec 24, 2019
Can your business afford to exclude video content from your marketing?
That’s what I’m exploring this week with my very special guest Justin Wastnage, the founder of Vloggi and the person that coined the term Vlog.
Dec 17, 2019
How do you run a successful marketing competition?
Sebastian and Kirra from BIRDI, a platform that enables businesses to integrate drones smoothly into their operations, dissect how their marketing competition helped them reach over 300k people and provided them with an opportunity to work with Canva.
Dec 16, 2019
How do you reinvent an industry with only 8 employees?
That’s what I’m exploring this week with my very special guest Zoltan Csaki, who is the Co-Founder of Citizen Wolf, who simplify and automate the process of tailoring.
Dec 15, 2019
What is your personal brand?
That’s what I’m exploring this week with my very special guest Fleur Brown, who has worked with Richard Branson and just released her new book The Business of Being YOU – Personal Brand Secrets of Celebrities and CEO’s.
Dec 14, 2019
What is poor listening costing you and your business?
That’s what I’m exploring this week with my very special guest Oscar Trimboli, who’s aiming to create 100 million deep listeners in the world.
Dec 13, 2019
Geoff Main, founder of Passionberry Marketing, a boutique agency that provides integrated marketing and communication strategies joins the Forward Thinking podcast to talk about all things marketing.
Dec 12, 2019
Cheryl Mack, who built Australia’s largest Startup and Growth conference StartCon, joins the Forward Thinking Podcast to share how she grew her personal business connections to over 8,000 and how you can do the same.
Dec 11, 2019
Ben Wong, the CEO and Co-founder of Academy Xi, a future-focused education company that has trained over 5,000 people since 2016, joins the Forward Thinking Podcast to talk marketing, the future of learning and how he got his first 100 customers.
Dec 10, 2019
The world’s leading voice search marketing experts Nick Myers and Brett Brooks from Redfox AI join the Forward Thinking podcast to share how to get your marketing strategy ready for the era of AI and Voice first.
Dec 08, 2019
Australia’s leading growth marketer Anna Cheng joins the Forward Thinking podcast to share how she grew Spaceship to $100m in funds under management in 4 months using growth marketing.
Dec 06, 2019
Australia’s leading LinkedIn marketer Sally Illingworth joins the Forward Thinking podcast to share how she gained over 14 million organic content views on LinkedIn in less than 12 months.
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