Integrate & Ignite Podcast

Approaching marketing strategically and listening to customers will lead to stronger and better outcomes. How to do that is the topic of this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast. Join host Lori Jones and her guest May Lilley, CMO of Under Canvas, to learn more about destination marketing, the importance of customer insights, and about crafting interesting, relatable, and relevant ideas that connect with audiences.

A new take on recruiting, hiring, and retention in an ever-changing workplace environment with guest Steve Urban, CEO of Riderflex on this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast. Tune in as host Lori Jones and Steve tackle how to juggle the different mindsets and expectations of the multiple generations you may have on your team, how to accommodate a hybrid team of innovators that may be in-office or working remote, and what to expect in the future.

When Jen Henderson, founder and CEO of Tilt, first started out, she pitched her business idea 60 times in 30 days. It’s an experience many innovators, disruptors, and visionaries can relate to! Listen in to this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast to hear Jen’s story of grit and resilience, about how she controlled her destiny without sacrificing velocity, and about her recent $10 million in new investment capital!

Eric Olden, CEO of Strata Identity, has been an entrepreneur since he was a teenager and started his first business venture out of his dorm room at college. Join host Lori Jones and Eric on this episode as they share their stories about the grit and determination it takes to grow and scale a business and how to know when the market is ready.

If you are an early-stage venture, knowing what creates your enterprise value is vitally important. Tune in to this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with host Lori Jones and her guest Zane Tarence, as they discuss the ways to determine your enterprise value, and how to create your optionality. This lively and engaging conversation covers many other topics as well, including defining your legacy, transition planning, the different kinds of revenue, risk-adjusted future cash flows, and making sure that your business is investment-ready. To provide securities-related services discussed herein, certain principals of Founders Advisors, LLC are licensed with Founders M&A Advisory, LLC, member of FINRA & SiPC. Founders M&A Advisory is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Founders Advisors. Neither Founders M&A Advisory nor Founders Advisors provide investment advice.

Whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert, if you are trying to grow your business you need to network. And if done correctly, it can bridge the gaps that will ultimately help you reach business goals. Join Lori Jones and her guest Chris Borja, founder of Become a Better Networker, and get his 7-step process that will enable you to build a powerful network. Listen in here.

Brand and product integrity are the grounding principles that guided the smart and successful growth of Hammitt Bags by the brand’s founder, Tony Drockton. From its beginnings as a Southern California eCommerce company to what it is today – a luxury brand known throughout the world – Hammitt Bags and Tony’s story of how he purposefully scaled the business over time is an inspiration. Listen in to his second appearance on the Integrate & Ignite Podcast and his conversation with host Lori Jones all about how he innovated along the way, learned from his failures, and stayed focused on creating a unifying experience for the customer.

On this first episode of Season 8 of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast host Lori Jones discusses the fatal flaw shared by far too many innovators, disruptors, and visionaries with big ideas: they devalue marketing and mistakenly believe that their product or service is so cool and innovative that it will sell itself.  Tune in to hear why strategic marketing and research can differentiate in ways that help position early-stage companies for success, why some startups and growth-minded businesses fail, what those companies should look for when hiring a marketing director, and the three things you should do to gain more awareness when scaling for your company. 

The art and science of creating transformative brands with guest Emmanuel Probst, author of Brand Hacks and Assemblage – The Art and Science of Brand Transformation, is the topic of this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast. Tune in as Emmanuel shares with host Lori Jones the concept of assemblage and how building loyalty begins by getting your customers involved in the creative process and making them the hero.

Understanding your customer is all guesswork until you start marketing, researching, and mining the data. This edition of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with host Lori Jones and her guest Valentin Radu of CVO Academy and Omniconvert is full of tips for innovators and startups defining their audiences and bringing their products to market.

Leaders need to get “outside the jar” to truly understand their customers. Learn more from guest Brand Consultant Marc Stoiber on this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast. Tune in as Marc shares with our listeners his approach to what he calls, “lazy marketing,” a strategy that is customer-first and people-centric. Listen in here.

Market research takes the guesswork out of product validity, audience, segmentation, overall positioning, and many other items that are essential for startup incumbent and established businesses. Listen in to this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with host Lori Jones and her guest Michele Linn founder of Mantis Research to learn more! And to see examples of how Michele repurposes research go to https://avocetcommunications.com/podcast

For a business to achieve transformative success through building a culture of clarity, it must be relentless and leverage clear insights about the business’ customers, competition, and brand. Tune in to this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with guests Jeff Jones and Dennis Devlin authors of Three Wise Monkeys to learn more.

It takes grit to rebrand. Tune in to this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with host Lori Jones and her guest Melanie Crutchley of Creyos as they walk listeners through how they worked together on the rebrand of her company, including changing the company’s name. You can listen in here.

Earning a seat at the decision-making table: the marketer’s role in reputation and crisis management with host Lori Jones and her guest Bill Coletti on this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast. Listen in here.

Why brands invest in a product they think is right instead of asking customers what they want on this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast with guest Alex Levin of Regal. Tune in as Alex shares his experience completing a recent $38.5 million fundraising round, why it’s important to focus on high-intent customers, and how you can improve engagement rates by shifting from a “batch and send” approach to a hyper-personalized strategy.

Andy Rossmeissl of Faraday joins the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast and host Lori Jones to talk about AI-powered predictive analytics. Tune in to hear Andy’s insights and recommendations for how to have a better understanding of how your customers might interact with your brand in the future, but also how they have engaged with it in the past.

Join host Lori Jones and her guest George Kapernaros of the YOCTO Agency for a deep dive into personalized email marketing strategies on the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast.

Tune in as Lori Jones and her guest Stephanie Cox CEO of Lumavate redefine what it means to truly connect with your audience with personalized marketing strategies.

Never before have customers been more empowered. Today’s customer wants to try before they buy and to self-serve. Listen in to host Lori Jones’ conversation with Liza Adams, senior technology marketing executive, on this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast to learn more.