Episode 18 - Meet The Business Lead CMO – Strategic, Commercial, Tech-Literate and the Connector at the C Suite

11/25/20 • 39 min

Time For A Reset Marketing Podcast: Insights from Global Brand Marketers

In this episode I talk to Wendy McEwan who is brilliantly qualified to talk about the future of marketing and where tech and data fit in. Wendy has had a diverse career including brand side, publisher side, ad tech and SaaA and now runs marketing in APAC for Knight Frank and sits on the Marketing Society board. In her “Reset”, Wendy calls out how the #wfh trend brought abt by covid is putting more jobs under threat from automation. She shares her views on the two different types of CMO – the legacy “Brand CMO” versus the “Business Lead CMO” who sits at the top table and connects customer experience, sales and marketing to drive growth. Wendy also warns publishers to be wary as brands no longer have the same reliance on them to access audiences and calls for marketers to more pro-actively up-skill themselves.

An episode packed with unique insight and candour that you won’t want to miss!

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An episode packed with unique insight and candour that you won’t want to miss!

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Episode 17 - Striking the Right Balance Between the “What” and the “How”

In this episode Paul chats to Chris Carter, Marketing & E-Commerce Director of Specsavers where he tells us about “ditching the marketing plan around mid-March” and how this “liberated and empowered” the marketing team. Chris shares how he and the team, during the early weeks of Covid19, established new principles such as focusing on just one goal each week. Chris tells us about the increased importance of hyper-local & data driven strategies to support their 900 high street stores. He shares some great insights on how Specsavers segments and targets its media plus reminds marketers to focus on marginal gains and the behaviours that drive success.

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Episode 19 - Why Brands Must Behave Like Influencers and Behind the Scenes in the World’s First TikTok House

In this episode with a difference, Paul talks to Timothy Armoo, founder and CEO of Gen Z agency Fanbyte, winner of Entrepreneur of the Year and one of the Evening Standard’s ‘Most Influential People’. Tim was also behind the world’s first Tik Tok House which he launched during lockdown. Tim gives it straight about where brands are missing the point when it comes to working with influencers and platforms like TikTok. He gives great insight in to the selective brands that are getting it right and the bigger commercial opportunity when thinking long-term. Tim also reveals the secret behind why Tik Tok is growing so fast, why its competition is not Instagram and why brands must think like influencers themselves to ride this wave.

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