Converge Coffee
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
135 episodes of Converge Coffee since the first episode, which aired on October 9th, 2017.
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Episode 7: How Startups and VCs Market Themselves
April 27th, 2018 | Season 2 | 37 mins 26 secs
buyer experience, customer experience, design, high alpha, marketing tech, marketing technology, martech, messaging, srikar kalvakolanu, startup marketing, vc marketing, venture capital marketing
In this episode, Sean sits down with Srikar Kalvakolanu, Strategy & Innovation Specialist, at High Alpha, and talk how startups and venture capital (VC) firms market themselves. They dive deeper on how High Alpha markets themselves and the startups they create. Srikar touches on how important marketing is at the beginning of creating a business.
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Episode 6: Grow Your Event Marketing Through Community Based Relationships
March 28th, 2018 | Season 2 | 27 mins 55 secs
centric indiana, centric indy, customer experience, day of innovation, event marketing, innovation, jason williams
In this episode, Sean sit down with Jason Williams, Executive Director, at Centric Indy, and talk about how to put on a great event. They dive deeper on how to draw the right crowd and get sponsors by building strong relationships. Jason and Sean go on to talk about Centric's community based focus. Learn how Centric cultivated innovation in Indiana.
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Episode 5: Don't Let Your Talent Strategy Flounder with Poor Marketing
March 14th, 2018 | Season 2 | 36 mins 50 secs
brent shopp, employee experience, employer brand, ksm consulting, talent brand, talent pipeline, talent strategy, unemployment
In this episode, Sean sits down with Brent Shopp, senior consultant, at KSM Consulting, and talk about part of a strong talent strategy is employer branding, your talent brand. They dive deeper talking about unemployment and the talent pipeline. As unemployment continues to drop and education struggles to keep up with the needs of industry, the race for talent will continue to be run. Companies must now look at ‘Talent’ as a function of their business. Like accounting, or sales, talent is the fuel that separates growing businesses from floundering businesses.
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Episode 4: Building an Influencer Marketing SaaS Product
November 1st, 2017 | Season 1 | 31 mins 57 secs
influencer marketing, joe sinkwitz, marketing agency, marketing tech, marketing technology, martech, search engine optimization, seo
In this episode, Sean sits down with Joe Sinkwitz, co-founder, CEO at Intellifluence, and talk about how Joe balances his marketing agency work while building an influencer marketing SaaS product. Joe and Sean dive deeper into SEO and influencer marketing changes and best practices.
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Episode 3: Putting Heart into Your Marketing to Scale Your Company
October 26th, 2017 | Season 1 | 33 mins 34 secs
employee experience, heartrepreneur, marketing, messaging, scaling business, terri levine
In this episode, Sean sits down with Terri Levine, founder of Heartrepreneur, and talk about how she owned 6 businesses all sold for many millions of dollars - the first one after a few years in the early 80s for over a million and one start up she did over 88 million in less than 6 months. They go deeper in how she markets and the whole idea of putting heart into your business.
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Episode 2: Marketing a Growth Hacking Product
October 16th, 2017 | Season 1 | 39 mins 23 secs
affiliate marketing, growth hacking, jack paxton, marketing tech, marketing technology, martech, viral marketing
In this episode, Sean sits down with Jack Paxton, co-founder of Vyper, and talk about why marketers need a growth hacking strategy before they select a product. Paxton explains how he growth hacked building Vyper and why he listens to his customers to make Vyper a better product for viral growth hacking.
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Episode 1: A Novel (Writing) Approach to Content Marketing
October 9th, 2017 | Season 1 | 26 mins 29 secs
content marketing, erik deckers, messaging, writing
In this episode, Sean sits down with Erik Deckers, president of Pro Blog Service, and talk about why content marketers lie about saying they're storytellers. The 7 How Tos and 5 Ways isn't telling a story. Deckers gives 4 key takeaways on what are the most important fiction writing techniques to bring back to content marketing.