Sean Sullivan
Co-Host of Converge Coffee
Currently helping companies with their demand generation and revenue operations specfically in go to market (GTM) and data strategy for their whole revenue engine. I love bridging the gaps between human behavior and sustainable revenue structures. My expertise is using podcasting to build aligned enablement across the whole company and educate on customer experience (CX). My ultimate goal is to pair great CX with RevOps.
My passion here is sharing guests' stories to help listeners with their marketing and customer experience problems. And plus having a bit of coffee doesn't hurt anyone.
Before Converge Coffee, I did growth marketing and revops for various agencies and tech companies ranging from B2BC strategies and technical implementations.
Involved in from a...
Mindset focus - Dreamfuel
Career focus - Pavilion & Grow Blocks
Community focus - Lilly Scholars Network and Indiana Donor Network
Been a Podcast Guest on:
Next Pivot Point - The Personal Side of Being An Ally
Podscribe - Converge Coffee Using Podscribe
SquadCast - Myth Busting: How to Start a Podcast
Uncensored Advice For Men - Gaining CTRL with Sean Sullivan
I see adding value into each of my focuses - either time or resources - rather than making another social media account to connect. People buy from people who deliver great customer experiences all around how our mindset helps to truly connect.
I'm looking for fractional roles in growth marketing and revenue operations particularly focused on...
- End to end data alignment in the entire bowtie model
- GTM facilitation to help marketing teams focus on strategy and execution
- Create media engines to scale enablement and create demand for the whole company
Along the way, I've interviewed excellent guests talking about their experiences. And I'm always on the look out for great guests.
Sean Sullivan has hosted 146 Episodes.
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Episode 50: Marketers Arent the Only Storytellers
October 18th, 2019 | Season 3 | 24 mins 39 secs
customer experience, marketing messaging, wes windham, woven, woven teams
In this episode, Sean sits down with Wes Windham, Founder and CEO at Woven- Evidence-based developer hiring platform. They dive into why Wes wanted to get into help solve the hiring process with Woven. They go deeper into why storytelling is the key to a good hiring process as either an interviewer or candidate.
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Episode 49: Using Social Media Enabled eBooks to Market Your Book
October 15th, 2019 | Season 3 | 34 mins 11 secs
ahathat, customer experience, mitchell levy, the aha guy
In this episode, Sean sits down with Mitchell Levy, The AHA Guy at AHAthat who empowers experts, marketers, thought leaders, and businesses to share their genius. They dive into how Mitchell started AHAthat and how to write a book easier with him than by yourself. "Its all about balance of time and money", say Mitchell. They end the episode of how people leverage their reputation to monetize a book, a product, or anything they sell.
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Episode 48: Marrying Design and Tech Together to Build a Better Customer Experience
October 14th, 2019 | Season 3 | 15 mins 10 secs
california closets, conventional marketing, customer experience, experimental marketing, marcus hall, marketing design
In this episode, Sean sits down with Marcus Hall, President and Partner of California Closets. They dive into how you marry design and tech together. They go deeper into how should companies leverage conventional and experimental marketing methods to up-leveling a brand.
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Episode 47: How Design Leads to Better Customer Engagement
October 13th, 2019 | Season 3 | 17 mins 34 secs
customer experience, default design, marketing design, nemanja zivkovic
In this episode, Sean sits down with Nemanja Zivkovic, Director of Operations at Default Design. They dive into why defining conversions first is important. They go deeper into why conversions, marketing automation, and website personalization need to align for great customer engagement.
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Episode 46: Lessons from Starting Up
October 12th, 2019 | Season 3 | 22 mins 26 secs
customer experience, jeroen corthout, marketing technology, martech, salesflare
In this episode, Sean sits down with Jeroen Corthout, co-founder and CEO of Salesflare. They dive into Jeroen's passion to make CRMs easier for clients which lead him to create Salesflare. They go deeper in first marketing strategies and constant improvements to the product.
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Episode 45: Building Great Paid Digital Media Structures
October 11th, 2019 | Season 3 | 23 mins 6 secs
elevated marketing solutions, jennifer denney, marketing messaging, marketing technology, martech, paid digital media, paid media, paid online advertising
In this episode, Sean sits down with Jennifer Denney, Founder and CEO of Elevated Marketing Solutions. They dive into Jennifer's extensive marketing background and why she started a paid marketing company. They go deeper into the importance of segmenting and funneling audiences and what is the difference between Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn advertising platforms. Jennifer leaves some great advice on how to make paid ads simpler.
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Episode 44: The Growth of Podcasting
October 10th, 2019 | Season 3 | 22 mins 51 secs
begin podcasting now, growth now movement, justin schenck, podcast marketing, podcasting
In this episode, Sean sits down with Justin Schenck, Founder of Growth Now Movement and Begin Podcasting Now. They dive into why he started his podcast businesses. They go deeper into podcast marketing essentials a lot of companies miss. Justin gives his insight on where podcast is going.
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Episode 43: Digital Advertising Solutions and Expectations: Insights from the Sales Side of the Table
October 9th, 2019 | Season 3 | 19 mins 56 secs
digital advertising, doug mankiewicz, marketing technology, martech, orange142
In this episode, Sean sits down with Doug Mankiewicz, VP of Business Development at Orange142. They dive into how his team sells digital advertising solutions to national and international clients. They go deeper into messaging and customer service are the foundation of their sales strategy. Doug also mentions what are the capabilities with digital advertising and gives insight of what Orange142 is doing for their clients.
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Episode 42: Messaging in a Wild West Industry
October 8th, 2019 | Season 3 | 27 mins 28 secs
clearobject, iot marketing, john mcdonald, marketing messaging
In this episode, Sean sits down with John McDonald, CEO of ClearObject. They dive into how his team markets internet of things (IoT). They go deeper into how to ClearObject has partnered with educational institutions to build clear evidence of how IoT helps companies and institutions.
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Episode 41: Creating Mad Marketing with Customer Experience
October 7th, 2019 | Season 3 | 27 mins 43 secs
anthony duncan, customer experience, mohammed m. mahdi, the mad optimist
In this episode, Sean sits down with Mohammed M. Mahdi and Anthony Duncan, co-founders of The Mad Optimist. They dive into why they started the company. They go deeper into how to the company's messaging and pivot more to the customer service and employee focus of their company.
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Episode 40: Agile Marketing Framework
October 6th, 2019 | Season 3 | 25 mins 9 secs
agile marketing, anthony coppedge, customer experience
In this episode, Sean sits down with Anthony Coppedge, Agile Marketing Consultant. They dive into Anthony's methodology, "MOGSA" - Mission, Objectives, Goals, Strategies, and Actions. They go deeper into how to build an agile framework for marketing. They end chatting about actual and actionable experiences others can take from Anthony's advice.
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Episode 39: Message Testing with Micro Experiments and Simplicity
October 5th, 2019 | Season 3 | 22 mins 14 secs
jumblethink, marketing messaging, michael woodward, test marketing messaging
In this episode, Sean sits down with Michael Woodward, CEO and Founder of jumbleThink. They dive into Michael's passion to help others and why he started jumbleThink. They chat about creating Micro Experiments to test messaging and audiences. Michael offers great insight on why and how keeping messaging simple to quickly test its effectiveness.
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Episode 38: Performance Based Marketing
October 4th, 2019 | Season 3 | 18 mins 57 secs
customer experience, marcia barnes, performance based marketing, performance marketing, valve and meter
In this episode, Sean sits down with Marcia Barnes, CEO and Founder of Valve+Meter. They dive into Marcia's extensive marketing background and why she chose to start a marketing agency. They dive in what performance based marketing is and what marketing should be for companies. Marcia offers great insight, humility, and humor in this episode.
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Episode 37: Building out Partnerships to Serve Locals
October 3rd, 2019 | Season 3 | 21 mins 43 secs
customer service, customer success, kristin van busum, local marketing, marketing messaging, project alianza
In this episode, Sean sits down with Kristin Van Busum, Founder of Project Alianza. Kristin has an interesting background working for RAND Corporation, a global policy think tank that provides objective research to policymakers. She attended New York University, Butler University, and was a Fullbright Scholar and recipient of a Fulbright Alumni Innovation Grant for Global Education. They dive into how Kristin started Project Alianza and the unique marketing approach the company has. They dive deeper into understanding who we are marketing to and importance knowing what people need.
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Episode 36: Break the Wheel: Focus on Making the Best Marketing Decision for Your Customers
October 2nd, 2019 | Season 3 | 30 mins 29 secs
customer experience, jay acunzo, marketing best practices, marketing messaging, marketing showrunners
In this episode, Sean sits down with Jay Acunzo, Founder of Marketing Showrunners and Unthinkable Media. Jay has an excellent career spanning from Google to HubSpot to NextView. They dive into how he saw patterns that weren't for him in marketing. So he decided to write a book and start a company focusing on making the best decision for you, regardless of best practice.
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Episode 35: How to Learn from Marketing Failures and Grow the Company
October 1st, 2019 | Season 3 | 18 mins 34 secs
customer experience, kyle lacy, lessonly, marketing messaging, marketing tech
In this episode, Sean sits down with Kyle Lacy, CMO at Lessonly. They dive into how the Lessonly Marketing Team decided what digital metrics were essential for growth. They chatted about the launch of Lessonly's website redesign and the strategy behind the project. And they talk about growing from our marketing failures to be stronger than ever.