Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks on disagreement without disembowelment. 93% of us hate political division.
Release Date: 03/30/2022
IBM Technology hit 1 million YouTube subs. Host Martin Keen explains their strategy.
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IBM Technology's YouTube channel just hit 1 million subs last week and show host Martin Keen explains how they create content, where they get their ideas, how they promote, and how they create "broad" content to engage, and then drill down into the niches to build relationships. Keen also explains how their team collaborates to ensure content stays on track. Keen focuses mostly on AI content. He's an expert communicator and is skilled at breaking down complicated topics into a format that is understandable for a more general business audience. He leaves us with his top AI trend of 2025 as it...
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YouTuber Mike Russell On How Creators Can Improve Production and Crossing 300,000 Subs
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YouTuber Mike Russell hit 300,000 subscribers which is an incredible accomplishment. Justin Brady sits down with the media mastermind and founder of Music Radio Creative, to discuss content creation, productivity, and the long road to success in the digital landscape. Mike, a veteran in audio production and YouTube content creation, shares valuable insights on how to grow a YouTube channel organically and maintain a steady content workflow. He explains tactics to grow his channel, how to hook viewers, how to handle never-ending deadlines, AI's role in his process, and the resource he taps...
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Has earned media lost its luster? Eleanor Hawkins of Axios Communicators challenges norms.
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Many founders or CEOs dreams of a big, earned media hit in The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal. But are these big wins really the best target for outbound communications? That depends, says Eleanor Hawkins who leads the Axios Communicators newsletter. Hawkins covers communications trends, future uses of AI in marketing communications, and explains why smaller networks and niche audiences may be a better choice for your overall marketing strategy. If you're in marketing or communications and want to make your operation more efficient, listen! See the full show notes here:...
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Psy was a psyop? Tribalism pro explains how we outsource our own decision making.
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Psy was a psyop created to make South Korea cool. Soap operas were created to sell soap. And the Grand Ole Opry, the longest running radio show in history, was a marketing play for insurance. Joah Santos, founder of Warhol is a tribalism nerd who consulted for Unilever, ABInBev, Airbnb and others. He tells me underlying structure of how information spreads. "The majority of decisions are made by following other people we trust," says Santos. He's right. We offload the intellectual hard work of finding new ideas and products that will benefit our lives to various influencers and opinion...
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X/Twitter Spaces King, Mario Nawfal on journalism, the future of X, and media attacks.
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If you're an X user (fka Twitter) you know the name Mario Nawfal. Nawfal hosts the largest spaces on X, and his guests include Elon Musk, Michael Bay, Mark Cuban, Andrew Yang, and many others. After taking a break from interviews, he shares his thoughts on the future of X, CEO Linda Yaccarino, his new show Killer Whales, and a media hit piece about him. Nawfal got his start creating a blender company, but today he's the Founder of IBC Group, and the King of Spaces on X/Twitter. He explains how his spaces caught on and his secret sauce and explains why other tech founders and startups should be...
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What should founders prioritize in their marcom efforts? Allison Braley, partner at Bain Capital Ventures answers.
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As the state of the economy looks shakier by the day, Allison Braley head of marketing at Bain Capital Ventures gives founders critical advice on where to spend their marketing dollars. She explains the value earned media, and how to balance spend on brand and product. It's a whole new world and although there's plenty of cash for early stage founders, late stage founders are feeling the crunch as VCs prioritize earlier profitabaility and low burn. Braley explaind the new marcom flywheel and where to focus as a founder. See the full show notes at
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CEO of FreePower on creating new Tesla device charger and how he amassed a huge following.
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Jake Slatnick, CEO of FreePower discusses the process in creating Tesla's new free position device charger and overcoming engineering hurdles—how did he succeed where Apple failed? I also ask the direction question everyone wants to know: will this charger be on the new Cybertruck? We also discuss how he captured massive amounts of earned media and press attention. Not to mention top YouTubers like Marques Brownlee, known as MKBHD, and Justine Ezarik, known as iJustine. Was it just luck? No. Turns out he took specific steps to get the right journalist's attention. See the full show...
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David Allison is creator of the Valuegraphics database, and as of recording this interview, is closing in on his one millionth in-depth survey making his dataset iron clad. Allison is the first person in history to have built a tool allowing us to precisely communicate and position our message in a way others are neurologically wired to hear and understand. Much of failed startups, wars, and broken relationships stem from bad communication resulting from misalignment and misunderstanding of others' values. Allison believes the valuegraphics databse is a great tool for marketers, allowing...
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Journalist for The Washington Post and CNN on the state of media, pitching journalists, and AI-writing.
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Today is a special episode. Matt McFarland is a respected journalist with The Washington Post and most recently CNN discusses how to get press and pitch the right way, and media relevance in the 21st century. Has the media gone too hard on polarizing and political topics has that hurt them? McFarland also discusses the value of content strategy not just for sales but attracting media attention. In the same way, prospects are opening less pitch email, journalists are also ignoring pitches in favor of self-created content. We also dig into AI-writing. Representing both the writing and...
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What do unicorn founders know? Matthew E. May and Pablo Dominguez wrote the book.
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Matthew E. May and Pablo Dominguez co-wrote "What A Unicorn Knows" and explain there is nothing random about becoming a unicorn. Growth-focused companies think about small steps, make experimentation part of the job, and most importantly, put the time and commitment into forming a strategy. May and Dominguez are operators at Insight Partners. They joined forces to create a light book that's dense in value and detail. The book strikes the balance between something easy-to-consume but thorough and detailed enough to take your executive team through to put your company on a growth...
info_outlineWe discuss why people are so quick to throw around racist accusations for those that oppose Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, how Disney should have acted to avoid being in the center of the new Florida bill fight, and why the wide majority of Americans don't actually want the hyper-polarized state we're living in.
Did you know 93% of Americans hate how divided we are? Brooks suggests if you stand up to the whiners and tell even your own tribe "no" there's a much bigger group waiting for you on the other side.
He dispels the BS that disagreement is bad, and explains why Republicans say they are grateful for Democrats.
If we don't shut down the extremists and enter an economic civil war, he gives cultural examples of what that will look like.