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    <title>Converge Coffee - Episodes Tagged with “Employee Experience”</title>
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    <description>Converge Coffee connects you with business experts who have succeeded by constantly pivoting and staying motivated from lessons they learned. You get each speaker's actionable insights and feel their passion like you were sitting right across the coffee table. 
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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    <itunes:subtitle>Learn from Experts Like They Were Right Across a Coffee Table</itunes:subtitle>
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    <itunes:summary>Converge Coffee connects you with business experts who have succeeded by constantly pivoting and staying motivated from lessons they learned. You get each speaker's actionable insights and feel their passion like you were sitting right across the coffee table. 
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 8: Why Marketing Should Focus on Agile and Employee Engagement</title>
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  <itunes:title>Why Marketing Should Focus on Agile and Employee Engagement</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:author>Sean Sullivan</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Sean sits down with Eva Jackson, Director of Marketing Operations, at Emplify, and talk why companies need agile marketing and employee engagement. They dive deeper on how Emplify builds a framework for companies to understand their company health. Eva and Sean talk about her co-founding Agile Marketing Indy and how that plays into her job at Emplify.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>30:30</itunes:duration>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Sean sits down with Eva Jackson, Director of Marketing Operations, at &lt;a href="https://emplify.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Emplify&lt;/a&gt;, and talk why companies need agile marketing and employee engagement. They dive deeper on how Emplify builds a framework for companies to understand their company health. Eva and Sean talk about her founding &lt;a href="http://agilemarketingindy.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Agile Marketing Indy&lt;/a&gt; and how that plays into her job at Emplify.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More About Eva. &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-jackson-a094b219/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-jackson-a094b219/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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    <![CDATA[<p>In this episode, Sean sits down with Eva Jackson, Director of Marketing Operations, at <a href="https://emplify.com/" rel="nofollow">Emplify</a>, and talk why companies need agile marketing and employee engagement. They dive deeper on how Emplify builds a framework for companies to understand their company health. Eva and Sean talk about her founding <a href="http://agilemarketingindy.com/" rel="nofollow">Agile Marketing Indy</a> and how that plays into her job at Emplify.</p>

<p>More About Eva. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-jackson-a094b219/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-jackson-a094b219/</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>In this episode, Sean sits down with Eva Jackson, Director of Marketing Operations, at <a href="https://emplify.com/" rel="nofollow">Emplify</a>, and talk why companies need agile marketing and employee engagement. They dive deeper on how Emplify builds a framework for companies to understand their company health. Eva and Sean talk about her founding <a href="http://agilemarketingindy.com/" rel="nofollow">Agile Marketing Indy</a> and how that plays into her job at Emplify.</p>

<p>More About Eva. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-jackson-a094b219/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-jackson-a094b219/</a></p>]]>
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  <title>Episode 5: Don't Let Your Talent Strategy Flounder with Poor Marketing</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
  <author>Sean Sullivan</author>
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  <itunes:title>Don't Let Your Talent Strategy Flounder with Poor Marketing</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>36:50</itunes:duration>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More About Brent. &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentshopp/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentshopp/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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    <![CDATA[<p>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.</p>

<p>More About Brent. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentshopp/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentshopp/</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>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.</p>

<p>More About Brent. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentshopp/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentshopp/</a></p>]]>
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  <title>Episode 3: Putting Heart into Your Marketing to Scale Your Company</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:title>Putting Heart into Your Marketing to Scale Your Company</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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. </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>33:34</itunes:duration>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Sean sits down with Terri Levine, founder of &lt;a href="http://www.heartrepreneur.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Heartrepreneur&lt;/a&gt;, 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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More About Terri. &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrilevine/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrilevine/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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  <itunes:keywords>employee experience, heartrepreneur, marketing, scaling business, terri levine, messaging</itunes:keywords>
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    <![CDATA[<p>In this episode, Sean sits down with Terri Levine, founder of <a href="http://www.heartrepreneur.com" rel="nofollow">Heartrepreneur</a>, 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. </p>

<p>More About Terri. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrilevine/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrilevine/</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>In this episode, Sean sits down with Terri Levine, founder of <a href="http://www.heartrepreneur.com" rel="nofollow">Heartrepreneur</a>, 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. </p>

<p>More About Terri. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrilevine/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrilevine/</a></p>]]>
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