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This podcast is about building a strong customer experience (CX) community. Each episode will be packed with information at your fingertips. Think of this podcast as talking to the speaker right across the table and walk away with content to actually use. No more list posts because most people struggle with implementation. This is about proving CX through small, simple actionable ideas that make huge impacts.
We dive deeper in the 4 go to market (GTM) success cores to achieve and prove customer experience: Messaging, Design, Tech, and Experience. These 4 essentials don't only apply to marketing. Guests have marketing, sales, customer experience, revops, recruiting, data, and product backgrounds. Today, each business function grows either through customers or employees converging back to those 4 success cores.
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  <title>Episode 74: Not Only Knowing the Tech, You Need to Have the Focus and Drive</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Sean sits down with Darrell Alfonso, an award winning Martech and marketing operations professional. They dive into how life at Amazon has been treating him his first few years. They go deeper into how marketing pros can demonstrate their value. Darrell also gives some great advice on his career experience and how he has helped others find their marketing work niche themselves.</itunes:subtitle>
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&lt;p&gt;More about Darrell. &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrellalfonso" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrellalfonso&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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