Marketing Study Lab - Actionable Marketing Knowledge: The Art of Presenting Planning Creation and Delivery aka The Heros Journey with Spencer Waldron of Prezi Part 2 of 2

Hello, I’m the Lego Master of Marketing!

Odd statement to start a profile, but go with it, it’ll make sense.

You know when you have loads of Lego all over the floor and it just looks like one big pile of nothingness. Not only does it look a mess, it’s a pain when you stand on it.

I take these bricks and start to make sense of how they all fit together.

If your marketing feels like a pile of painful Lego, let’s chat and get those building blocks fitting together: peter@marketingstudylab.co.uk

Why is this an issue?

The biggest problem facing todays marketing departments is the severe lack of qualified marketers, which usually happens by accident.

It’s not your fault, this usually happens by accident.

Perhaps there was an immediate need to design a website or create some literature and you needed someone to coordinate this – before you know it, Mark is the new marketing department.

Maybe your business has experienced some rapid growth, expanded and was looking to promote within or Andrea from customer service fancied her hand at marketing and is now in charge of all corporate comms.

Or perhaps your competition is way too active on social media and you feel you need to be present on this platform as well. Get Hayley to post ‘stuff’ – she’s young enough to understand how to do this.

You get the idea!

These circumstances lead to 100s of hours of wasted time and money by focusing on the short-term tactics rather than a long-term strategic approach that will make a difference.

Even worse than this, the misplaced management of employees creates missed business opportunities, leaving money on the table that many didn't even know was there!

Hello, I’m Peter!
I can help with this.

I’ve been there, seen Marketing Departments churning out worthless tactical marketing communications that do nothing but damage a company’s reputation, wasting peoples time and reducing, not building long-term brand value.

I specialise in training programmes that will alter the mind-set of lost / forgotten / unqualified marketer's, by developing the skills needed to confidently create successful, long-term marketing strategies that generate business opportunities.

How is this done? Tell me, tell me now!

Quite simply by removing the pain points and problems than many marketers face as they haven’t had the training or been given the opportunity to develop their marketing skills through;

Strategic Marketing Planning
Professional Marketing Qualifications
Marketing Training Days
Mentoring
Tutoring

Any business that is not benefiting from the opportunities marketing will create is missing out MASSIVELY! The chances are that the marketing tactics that are being deployed focus on pushing the wrong messages of ‘Buy. This. Now’ to the wrong people (who don’t even care you exist), creating minimal awareness and even less success.

Positioning a company through a strategic marketing approach, not only carves out a point of difference for a company to differentiate themselves from the competition, but creates a unique proposition within the marketplace that highlights the problems it helps to fix for those that care enough to seek out this solution. Moving a company from a wasteful and unwanted push strategy to one that creates value where customers will actively gravitate towards this value proposition.

This changes your marketing and the marketing department from being viewed as a cost centre that haemorrhages money, to the department that creates value and saves money in the long-term.

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Happy Marketing
Peter

www.marketingstudylab.co.uk

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The Art of Presenting Planning Creation and Delivery aka The Heros Journey with Spencer Waldron of Prezi Part 2 of 2 - Episode 22

Aug 28, 2018

This episode is part two of a great two parter, you lucky, lucky people, so if you haven’t listened to the first part, do us all a favour and hop back to episode 21 and listen to the first part you will not be disappointed as our guest will not shut up about presenting and presentations – and again, it is marvelous, so marvelous in fact that this is why it’s split it into two parts - so that you can digest all this value in two manageable chunks – double delight.

Presentations are usually a great way to provide colleagues with information internally, so lets get back to our chat with Spencer Waldron, the Regional Director and Head of Story for Prezi in Europe (seamless aren’t we). Spencer has been helping to grow businesses in global markets and in marketing for more than 20 years. Where in the last episode we chatted about bad presentations and how Hollywood is catering for shorter attention spans. Let’s pick it back up on that same theme, but how we consume news in a different way that we used to, Spencer take it away.

Takeaways

- What is your hero’s journey? What has been your struggle? Start your presentations with a story. Tell a story that illustrates the point you will be talking about or want to get across. Remember those emotional connections and engagement.

- Check out the pyramid principal (link is in the show notes) – start with a statement or a conclusion or something you want your audience to believe in. From there, if further convincing is needed, provide three supporting arguments to back this up, and then three pieces of evidence for each of these, if needed. It’s a great way to structure a presentation and construct convincing arguments.

- Augmented Reality (AR) could help us with presenting in the future in more interactive, immersive ways. We already have the technology (Smart Devices), that we are used to using and used to holding up in front of our faces, so the habitual changes aren’t that major.

Happy Marketing Everyone!
Peter
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Music Featured on this Podcast:
Sleepy in the Garden
Lobo Loco www.musikbrause.de
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Links
Spencer Waldron: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencerwaldron/

Prezi: https://prezi.com

Andrew Abela From-To Think-Do Matrix (see page 10): http://extremepresentation.typepad.com/files/the-presentation---ebook---abela.pdf

Books:
Impossible to Ignore (Carmen Simon): https://amzn.to/2Maqz1O

The Hero with A Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell): https://amzn.to/2KiVZ5U

The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking (Barbara Minto ): https://amzn.to/2txW5zm

App:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com