The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström®: Expert Mode Marketing Technology, AI, & CX

Is your business ready to run without you? Today we’re going to talk about learning to let go as a business owner and giving more control over to your team members. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Jeff Finney, owner of Ultimate Cabinet Components, and Author of That’s It, I’m Fired. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about building a smart, scalable customer success program that utilizes the best of people, processes, and software. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Sonciary Pérez, Co-Founder of Quala, and Mentor with Techstars Boston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the importance of understanding your customers, as well as how to find ways to meaningfully scale your business while remaining successful. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Tyler “Sully” Sullivan, entrepreneur and eCommerce Email Marketing Expert, and CEO of Bombtech Golf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about going beyond the theory of agility and towards delivering meaningful customer and business value. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Preethi Madhu, CEO, Greyamp Consulting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about unifying sales teams and bringing people, processes, and platforms together to achieve a common goal. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Susan Rothwell, CRO at Vericast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the importance of agility in your career and how to know when to make a big or even a little change. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Erik Cabral, Founder & CEO of On Air Brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about how both B2C and B2B marketers can utilize Google Ads for the greatest success, and how to overcome some of the challenges that recent changes have posed. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Sean Marshall from Attribution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I’m excited to introduce a special series about the power of decision intelligence. This series is brought to you by TEKsystems, an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services and real-world application. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome TEKsystems’ senior practice director, Devang Pandya. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Organizational change of any kind requires a mix of people, processes, and technology. While the technology component is an important aspect of this mix, it is often people and processes that have the most opportunity to allow an initiative to succeed… or fail. Today we’re going to talk about the importance of ensuring you are approaching the “people and processes” component of your change initiative in the right way. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Sara Taheri, Chief Platform Owner for the Contact Center Transformation & Robotics at Prudential Financial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After nearly two years of continual adaptation and transformation, companies and their leadership need to start looking to the future in order to meet rising consumer expectations for service and overall experience. Today we’re going to talk about how leaders need to look to their customers in order to find ways to strengthen their business. Zendesk recently released its CX Trends 2022 report, which discusses key ways to improve your bottom line by putting customers first. To help me discuss this topic and the Zendesk CX Trends 2022 report, I’d like to welcome Paulette Chafe, Head of Consumer Insights & Research at Zendesk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While hybrid and remote work are here to stay in many roles across most industries, there is an even greater need for the creation of spaces that can incorporate what the workforce needs to both live and work. Today we’re going to talk about what it takes to build a place for the future of work. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Marian Marquez, Director, Business Investment Group at Arlington Economic Development. First, why don’t you tell me a little about what you do at Arlington Economic Development? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the role of the voice of the customer in driving product roadmaps. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Matt Young, CEO of User Voice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about using AI and Machine learning to achieve predictive brand intelligence, and what this means for marketers in a shift to a world of first-party data strategies. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Grant McDougall, Co-Founder & CEO of BlueOcean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the value of experimentation and getting outside of your comfort zone, and how this can lead to results both personally and professionally. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome David Wood, High-Performance Coach and Founder of Focus.ceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about XLAs - experience level agreements, and how they have an opportunity to transform how IT products and services are delivered and measured. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Weston Morris, Director of Global Strategy - Digital Workplace Services, Unisys . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the value of customer insights to business growth and how organizations can more easily understand their key audiences. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Darshan Mehta, Founder of iResearch.com and ConnectQik.com, and author of the book, “Getting to Aha! Today’s Insights Are Tomorrow’s Facts”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the current state of customer engagement, and what organizations can do to improve customer relationships by nurturing meaningful two-way relationships. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Matt Gillin, CEO of customer engagement platform Relay Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the value of storytelling for brands that continue to evolve as the role of technology continues to grow within even the most established of industries. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Jon Ebert, Manager, North American Public & Industry Relations at John Deere, a company that was founded in 1837, and continues to evolve and innovate, as its image continues to shift from being an equipment company to the tech company it truly is at heart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about CX skeptics and how to win them over to adopting customer-centric thinking in a meaningful way. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Sami Nuwar, Customer Experience Advisory at Medallia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about iterating towards genius, and how to take steps to determine what you can be truly great at doing. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Mike Zeller, author of The Genius Within, Your Natural Pathway to Impact, Fulfillment & Wealth, and recently named one of the top 8 most influential speakers to follow in 2022 by USA Today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the connection between employee experience and CX results, and how The Great Resignation is affecting the customer experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Affiliate programs can be a great way for brands to expand their reach, with nearly 80% of brands and 84% of publishers already using some form of affiliate marketing. The benefits are numerous, from low startup and ongoing costs, to targeted traffic and potentially high ROI. Many affiliate marketers struggle to track and pay out their affiliates because there can often be a lot of manual methods to tracking, using things like Excel spreadsheets and the like. I’m going to be talking with David Hiltner, CEO of Attribution, and Cameron Horton, Senior Product Manager at Attribution, who recently launched a new affiliate marketing tool that can help affiliate marketers solve some of these challenges. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about technical debt and how companies can manage this as they continue to feel the effects of pressure to continually modernize and implement more features and services to serve customers effectively.. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Imran MacMillan, Director of Application Modernization at NTT DATA Services. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about high performance teams, the business value they create, and how to create these teams. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome John Estafanous, Founder & CEO of RallyBright. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about Lean Customer Experience and how companies of all sizes can continue to deliver valuable customer experience, regardless of their stage of growth. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Robert Dew, Partner, CapFeather Global, and co-author of Lean CX: How to Differentiate at Low Cost and Least Risk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While there is a lot of talk about the importance of customer experience and employee experience, both of these become even more valuable when we consider a third component: business experience. Today we’re going to talk about the relationship between customer experience, employee experience, and business experience. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Leon Gilbert, Senior Vice President & General Manager at Unisys - Digital Workplace Services. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about how to utilize a continuous growth mindset in order to achieve career success. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Gina Tokar, Vice President, Business Operations, Panasonic Systems Solution Company of North America, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about operationalizing great patient experience, and how to prioritize this while continuing to deliver great services. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Lorie Dolo, Patient Experience Designer and Health Care Operations Expert Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today we’re going to talk about agility in our systems of measurement, and how we approach meaningful change in customer experience in an organization. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Desirree Madison-Biggs, Head of US Advisory Services at Teresa Monroe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about continually shifting consumer expectations and how brands need to adapt in this world where customer experience is increasingly a point of competition. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Kiel Harkness, VP of Global Marketing and Development at UPS Capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the healthcare customer experience and how customers are shifting their preferences to want better digital experiences. This means that healthcare providers need to keep up with these demands while providing better and more personalized experiences across channels that include both online and offline ones. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome John Nash, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at Redpoint, a CX software provider. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marketers face many challenges in the work, from continually changing consumer behavior, to internal competition for resources. In order to be most effective, marketers need to be able to justify their investments of time and resources with reliable numbers and clear ROI. Today we’re going to talk about the value of having actionable insights and attribution metrics for marketing leaders and teams so that they can clearly articulate the success of their efforts, and so that they are able to clearly point to which areas are driving the most business value. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome David Hiltner, CEO of Attribution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the importance of having a guide and a strong technology strategy that helps you identify the paths you should take, whether it is platform adoption, digital transformation, or other initiatives. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Emil Pilacik, President & CEO, EMCO Technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the citizen experience, and how a more holistic view of data utilizing the internet of things (or IoT) can improve how the public sector is able to provide services and a better experience to individuals. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Jerry Power, CEO of I3 Systems and Co-Founder of the I3 Consortium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about how shift-left testing is able to speed up digital experience and digital transformation initiatives, while also improving quality of software and the end-user experience. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Eran Kinsbruner, Chief Evangelist, Perforce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the importance of diversity in leadership teams, and how this can translate to tangible benefits for organizations. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Eva Huston, Chief Strategy Officer at Duck Creek Technologies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about customer journey management and its relationship to change management. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Erin Zentz, Director of Experience Design, AARP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the role of data science in multi-touch marketing attribution, and the power of marketers and data scientists working together to achieve greater success. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Cameron Horton and David Hiltner of Attribution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I’m excited to introduce part 3 of a special 3-part series about the talent strategies required to address the looming skills gap, build the future workforce and accelerate transformation. This series is brought to you by TEKsystems, an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services and real-world application. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Leslie Deutsch, Executive Director of Learning Solutions at TEKsystems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I’m excited to introduce part 2 of a special 3-part series about the talent strategies required to address the looming skills gap, build the future workforce and accelerate transformation. This series is brought to you by TEKsystems, an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services and real-world application. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Lauren Kolodrubetz, Executive Director of Diversity Marketplace Solutions at TEKsystems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I’m excited to introduce part 1 of a special 3-part series about the talent strategies required to address the looming skills gap, build the future workforce and accelerate transformation. This series is brought to you by TEKsystems, an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services and real-world application. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Nina Kindrick, the Director of the National Recruiting Center at TEKsystems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the relationship between leadership and the quality of the customer and employee experience. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Faisal Pandit, President of Panasonic System Solutions Company of North America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the need for a balance between consumer privacy and providing advertisers with meaningful data which can ultimately benefit both parties when done well and with the proper intent. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Anudit Vikram, Chief Product Officer at MediaMath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about Agile in Sales and Marketing – two areas that are not known for applying Agile - by creating and maintaining an agile mindset on a global scale, and how the lessons learned apply to every area of the organization. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Anthony Coppedge, Global Agile Digital Sales Transformation Lead at IBM. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about the growing need for businesses to adapt to heightened customer experience expectations. Between a continually changing business environment, to increasingly sophisticated consumers, this presents a need for companies to tackle these challenges from multiple angles and perspectives. Recently, Optimizely, one of the leading providers of digital experience platform solutions, announced the results of a global study of nearly 1200 business executives and 5,000 consumers around the globe, that shines a light on both the expectations of customers and the challenges that companies face in delivering on these expectations. To help me discuss this topic, and the results discussed in this report, I’d like to welcome Alex Atzberger, CEO of Optimizely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about personalization in a post-cookie era. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Amber Armstrong, Chief Marketing Officer at LivePerson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to a special episode of the show brought to you Attribution, an advanced multi-touch attribution company that empowers every marketer with the data to convert more buyers and maximize ROI. You can learn more about Attribution at www.attributionapp.com Today we’re going to talk about the power of doing marketing attribution well, and the impact that it can have on your marketing objectives. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome David Hiltner, CEO, Attribution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re going to talk about how to create better customer experiences through more effective search and content discovery. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Jason McClelland, CMO at Algolia, a leading API Platform for Search and Dynamic Experiences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices