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This is the definitive podcast for Australian marketers. Join Rocket Agency Co-Founder and best-selling author, James Lawrence in conversation with marketers, leaders, and thinkers about what it takes to be a smarter and more successful marketer.
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Going Beyond is a podcast on resilience and the challenges that an entrepreneur faces with their business. We look at the inner workings of creativity and problem-solving as we discuss this with our guests and experts.
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A high-seas vino-centric video series showcasing a wide variety of Napa Valley's saltiest characters including vintners, brewers, distillers, restaurateurs, mixologists and other interesting wine & food personalities expounding insider tales of the treasures and bounty found within the Napa valley. Directed by Judd Finkelstein. Music by Gordon Lustig.
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The process for inviting agency pitches is still that of the Mad Men era, despite the industry evolving considerably over the past 50 years. Host James Lawrence chats with Darren Woolley, CEO of marketing management consultancy Trinity P3, about how in-house marketers can run better pitches, the issues with the traditional pitch process, and the im…
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The latest AI tools have made it easier than ever to generate content; however, it’s often at the risk of mediocrity. To stand out, your content needs to resonate with your audience and make them feel heard and understood. Host James Lawrence revisits his discussion with Marcus Sheridan, author of New York Times best-seller, 'They Ask, You Answer,'…
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Sound in marketing is much more than just a jingle - it is a powerful asset that influences consumer behaviour and builds long-term brand recognition. Ralph van Dijk and Ramesh Sathiah, Founders of Resonance Sonic Branding, talk about the process of creating a sonic identity, the importance of having distinguishable audio assets, and how even small…
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Diagnosing and fixing underperforming campaigns is both an art and a science that can break your marketing strategy if done incorrectly. Sachin Rajah, Director of Client Services at Rocket Agency and Host James Lawrence discuss the significance of tracking and data accuracy, the role of creative in campaign success, audience targeting, and leveragi…
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Welcome back to the eCommerce Profits Podcast! In today's episode, I'm excited to dive deep with Richard Nilsson, the CEO and founder of MyPetGo. Richard transitioned from the tumultuous world of digital media to revolutionize the pet industry with innovative technologies and partnerships. Key Highlights: - Journey from Media to Pet Tech: Richard n…
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Strategic lifecycle marketing is the cornerstone of a thriving eCommerce business, especially as the digital landscape evolves with AI advancements and privacy updates. Engaging and retaining customers has never been more crucial. Joshua Chin, Founder of Chronos Agency, breaks down lifecycle marketing, offering key insights on leveraging customer d…
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Bold claims have been made about AI revolutionising how marketing is done, potentially eliminating millions of marketing jobs worldwide. As we approach mid-2024, David Lawrence and James Lawrence delve into the impact of AI on the Australian marketing landscape. David advocates for a balanced approach, embracing new technologies with a dose of heal…
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Collaboration and communication are the key drivers for any successful marketing team to function. Gavin Watson, Senior Industry Lead for Marketing at monday.com, reveals how businesses are using the visibility and integration tools in project management tech to improve team efficiency and streamline marketing projects. Guest: Gavin Watson is the S…
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Understanding your user journey and tracking their path to purchase is vital when forming a strategy and allocating your marketing budget to appropriate channels. Paul Sinkinson shares how the best marketers use data, creative assets, and AI to make smart marketing decisions. Guest: Paul Sinkinson is the Managing Director of Sydney-based global mar…
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Google, Meta, and other platforms are going cookie-less, making it increasingly difficult for marketers to access third-party data and reach their audience in an impactful way. David Lawrence, Co-Founder of Rocket Agency talks about the importance of using first-party data to stay competitive; through personalized targeting, greater alignment with …
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Fractional CMOs can be a game-changer for many businesses; diagnosing key problems, pivoting strategy, and reshifting team dynamics. Experienced Fractional CMOs, Taz Bareham and Danielle Stitt, share how they help businesses develop successful long-term marketing strategies and achieve their business goals. Guests: Taz Bareham and Danielle Stitt ar…
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With TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts dominating the organic social space, short form video is vital to reach large audiences and create an engaging brand image. Edwin Smith, Founder and CEO of The Social Sandwich, gives practical advice on how your brand can dominate on social platforms. Guest: Edwin is the Founder and CEO of The Social …
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Marketing and advertising shape people’s attitudes, mindsets and behaviour. Yet, the advertising industry has historically relied on stereotypes. Cindy Gallop challenges marketers to reinvent what is aspirational, and use marketing as a lever to lead a positive change in society. She challenges adland’s obsession with sexism and ageism, highlights …
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Google and Facebook are taking big strides this year to address users’ core privacy concerns, including Google Consent Mode mandatory from March 2024, and the introduction of Facebook Conversion API (CAPI). Sachin Rajah discusses what this means, and how to comply so that your marketing performance isn’t negatively impacted. Guest: Sachin Rajar is …
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Hubspot is one of the leading software brands for inbound marketing, sales, and customer service. Kat Warboys, Senior Marketing Director for Hubspot’s APAC region, discusses inbound strategy, how AI is impacting content creation, and the rapidly changing nature of marketing as it pertains to digital. Guest: Kat Warboys is the APAC Marketing Directo…
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How do you go about finding a new marketing agency, and how do you know if they’re the right fit for your business? With experience on both client and agency side, Drew McLellan, CEO of the Agency Management Institute shares how to best approach the agency procurement process. Guest: Drew McLellan has worked in advertising for 25+ years and started…
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James Lawrence answers your top 9 questions for marketing in 2024: What channels should you be playing in? What are the biggest challenges facing marketers? How are customer journeys changing and how can you measure results? Listen now. Guest: Kayley is the Marketing Coordinator at Rocket Agency, and works with the team to deliver insightful and in…
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Three agency founders discuss how marketers should balance brand building vs performance marketing, the value of creating a long-term marketing strategy and how to educate stakeholders on the role and relationship between longer-term and shorter-term marketing activities. As well as the importance of telling a story to effectively connect with your…
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With organic visits driving over half of online traffic to websites, your business must have a solid SEO strategy to compete in search results. Daniel Costa, Head of SEO at Rocket, discusses SEO trends in 2023 and the top 10 actions you need to take this year to succeed. Guest: Daniel Costa is an experienced Search Engine Optimization Consultant wi…
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Need help starting a podcast? This episode details the best way to coordinate guests, where you should stream for listeners, the process of setting up an episode and how to measure success. Kayley Melham, producer of the Smarter Marketer podcast gives a detailed guide on all you need to know about setting up a podcast. Guest: Kayley is the Marketin…
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How does GA4 compare to Universal Analytics and why might your data be inconsistent across the two platforms? Here is a simple guide to the main differences between UA and GA4 and how they might impact how you interpret and analyse your data. About the Guest: Sachin Rajah is the Head of Client Services at digital marketing agency, Rocket. He is bot…
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How can you use ChatGPT to write a blog? What about advertising copy? Is Google Bard or ChatGPT better at copywriting? Ralph Grayden, CEO and Founder of Sydney-based copywriting agency, Antelope Media, shares how you can integrate AI and machine learning effectively into all of your copywriting tasks. Guest: Ralph Grayden is the owner of Sydney-bas…
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Julian Cole, leading strategy consultant to brands including Uber, Apple, Facebook, and Disney shares his practical advice on how to create a marketing strategy. He also discusses what ‘insights’ really are, and how you can use them to drive your creative and messaging. Guest: Julian Cole is a strategy consultant to leading brands including Uber, A…
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How well do you really know your audience? In this episode, James interviews legendary international marketer and CEO of SparkToro, Rand Fishkin. He shares his thoughts on current macrolevel trends, the impact of dark social, and how you can use data to transform your strategy. Guest: Rand Fishkin is the cofounder and CEO of SparkToro, makers of fi…
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Whether you’re in your later years of university, or you’ve graduated and you’re on the search for your first full-time role. Ryan Bonnici shares his experience working for Microsoft, Hubspot, and now CMO at Gympass, while giving practical advice on how to land your first marketing role and excel in the industry. Guest: Ryan Bonicci was awarded 26t…
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If you’re running an ecommerce business you need to start planning for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Ecommerce coach Iain Calvert shares the key factors e-commerce businesses should consider when preparing for this vital period. Guest: Iain (aka “ian”, that double “I” throws a lot of people) is an Australian based eCommerce consultant and trainer …
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Out of Home media spend in Australia is now over $1bn annually and it is one of the fastest growing media channels. oOh!media is the largest out-of-home company in Australia with more than 37,000 digital and static asset locations. Josh Gurgiel, Head of Creative for oOh!media’s content and creative innovation hub, POLY reveals the power of out-of-h…
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Aimee Engelmann, 2022 Australian Marketing Institute CMO of the Year, shares her career advice for marketers: experience on managing senior stakeholders, picking the right job, networking with those in the industry, the value of mentorship and coaching, as well as what businesses look for in the hiring process. Guest: Aimee Engelmann is a recent gr…
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With the rise of local and "near me" searches, local SEO is becoming increasingly important for most businesses. Daniel Costa, Head of SEO at Rocket Agency, shares the 7 most important Local SEO actions you need to implement to improve results from organic search. Guest: Daniel Costa is an experienced Search Engine Optimization Consultant with a de…
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Building your personal brand as a marketer is crucial for career advancement, establishing credibility, obtaining salary increases and creating professional opportunities. This week, James interviews Fleur Brown, celebrated author of ‘The Business of Being YOU: Personal Brand Secrets of CEOs and Celebrities’. Fleur shares why you should be building…
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The rise of Amazon, "social search" and ChatGPT offer the greatest threat to Google in Australia for almost 20 years. Resident Smarter Marketer and Rocket’s in-house Marketing Coordinator, Kayley Melham, discusses with James Lawrence what marketers need to know about the evolving search industry. Guest: Kayley is the Marketing Coordinator at Rocket…
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It’s 5x more cost-effective to win business from an existing customer than having to land a new one. Kieran Krohn, Senior Sales Manager at Hubspot, shares how businesses can better engage existing customers. Guest: Kieran Krohn is currently the Senior Sales Manager at Hubspot, where he has worked for over 7 years. Previously, he was the Principle C…
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In this episode James and Stuart Jaffray, MD of highly regarded Australian B2B marketing agency, Green Hat, discuss the state of B2B marketing as we near the halfway mark of 2023. They discuss what the best performing B2B marketing teams are doing to increase leads and sales. Guest: Stuart Jaffray is the Managing Director at Green Hat, an integrate…
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Eric Siu is the Chairman of Single Grain, a digital marketing agency driving scalable and predictive revenue growth. As an investor and advisor to Fortune 500 companies and venture-backed startups, he founded Leveling Up, a business and personal growth blog. Eric is also the author of the book Leveling Up and hosts the Leveling Up podcast, where he…
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William Harris is the Founder and CEO of Elumynt, an ecommerce growth agency focused on profit via hyper scaling. Elumynt has been featured in Inc. and is an Inc. 5000 Winner and Best Workplace Winner. William has helped acquire 13 companies, including one that sold to GoDaddy. He’s also published over 200 articles about the ecommerce space in Entr…
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Three agency founders discuss how marketers should balance brand building v performance marketing. The value of creating a long-term marketing strategy and how to educate stakeholders on the role and relationship between longer-term and shorter-term marketing activities. As well as the importance of telling a story to effectively connect with your …
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Whether marketing into mainland China or Chinese speakers in Australia, a different approach to digital is needed. In this pod, Ophenia Liang shares practical and insightful advice for marketing to a Chinese audience. From the different media platforms you need to be across, to audience segmentation and online behaviours. If you’re marketing to a C…
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Discover everything you need to know about Spotify Ads in 2023. Simon Connolly, Head of SMB at Spotify ANZ, shares insights on boosting brand awareness with Spotify’s targeting options, ad specs, and how to master the Spotify Ad studio. Guest: Simon Connolly is Head of SMB, Australia and New Zealand at Spotify. Previously, Simon was a Team Lead SMB…
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Webinars can be an excellent top-of-funnel promotional activity! Eshita Durve shares practical advice for running successful webinars, including how to choose an interesting topic, setting up your event day checklist, and how to turn your registrants into paying customers! Guest: Eshita Durve leads the in-house Marketing team at Sydney-based, award…
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We interview the Founder of Australia’s largest influencer marketing company, Sharyn Smith, on influencer marketing in Australia. She discusses what influence is, how to choose the right influencer, the importance of content creation, and what you need to do to succeed in the space. Guest: Sharyn Smith is the CEO and Founder of Social Soup, Austral…
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Ben Leonard is an ecommerce consultant and the Co-founder of Ecom Brokers, a UK-based ecommerce brokerage that helps companies sell their businesses for an optimal price. Ben has been an entrepreneur since 2016 when he founded Beast Gear, a fitness equipment company that he grew to seven figures. After selling his business in 2019, Ben decided to s…
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Chad Rubin is the Founder and CEO of Profasee, a dynamic pricing platform enabling brands to predict the optimum price for every product. He has built several successful companies, including Deep and Sassy, Think Crucial, and Skubana, which was acquired by 3PL Central. As a speaker and world-class Amazon expert, Chad gives presentations about ecomm…
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In this episode, we take a deep dive into one of the most successful digital marketing campaigns in Australia over the past 5 years - Mirvac's LIV launch. Winner of multiple awards including 'Best Advertising Campaign' at Semrush Awards 2021 and 'Best use of Data' at APAC Search Awards 2022, we explore how this brand new category achieved a 15.9x R…
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Sam Olawale is the Founder of DigitalSuperSystems, a transformation-focused consulting agency specializing in scaling systems and helping people reach their full potential. As a keynote speaker, he focuses on talent development, B2B, ecommerce, business consulting, direct sales, branding, and digital marketing. Sam is also a board member of Meetgee…
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