Rattle & Pedal: B2B Marketing Podcast
Jason Mlicki & Jeff McKay
Jason Mlicki, agency leader, and Jeff McKay, former global CMO, discuss growth, marketing, and life in professional services in this weekly podcast. The duo offers divergent thoughts on solving the issues practice leaders and marketers confront—or probably should—including stupid sh*t Marketing should NOT do, how Marketing ruins everything, the BS of professional services, and unleashing your Young Turks. Executive guests and industry experts join frequently to share their insights and experiences. It’s all served up with humor and a refreshing dose of reality from two guys who know how to grow firms.
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Jun 30, 2019 • 0sec
Acquisitions—How to Have a Successful Integration
Whether you’re the marketing leader of a firm that was just acquired or of the firm that did the acquiring, Jason and Jeff share what you should be thinking about to make sure the integration is successful.
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Jun 23, 2019 • 0sec
How to Kill a Practice
There comes a time when you just have have to put a practice to rest. But how do you know when that time has come? And how can you go about it? Jason and Jeff talk through how a professional services firm can go about killing a practice that’s no longer viable.
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Jun 16, 2019 • 0sec
How to Develop and Launch a New Service
In the second episode of a three-part series on launching and ending services in professional services firms, Jason and Jeff talk about how practice leaders can take a successful engagement and turn it into a tangible service that a firm can build at scale and get growth opportunity from.
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Jun 9, 2019 • 0sec
The Typical Mistakes Firms Make When Launching a New Service
Many professional services firms run into mistakes when they try to launch a new service, most of which could be a avoided with a little due diligence. Jason and Jeff discuss what due diligence should look like and how it can help firms avoid a lot of wasted time, energy and money.
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Jun 3, 2019 • 0sec
Marketing Heroes—Who’s Shaped Your World View?
If you had to name the people who have had the most influence on you in the world of marketing and business, who would be on your list? Jason and Jeff share the people on theirs.
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May 26, 2019 • 0sec
Dissecting the McKinsey Rebrand from the Outside
McKinsey & Company recently underwent a rebrand. While the changes they made may be subtle, the reasons for them are important. Jason and Jeff share their (somewhat opposing) opinions on the choices they made.
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May 19, 2019 • 0sec
Let’s Get Radical – An Interview About POVs with Jody Padar, Author of The Radical CPA
Jody Padar, CPA and author of The Radical CPA, joins Jason and Jeff to talk about her radical point of view and how its changing the CPA profession.
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May 12, 2019 • 0sec
Brands, Frameworks & Models: Oh My!
Brand initiatives in a professional services firm can be a bit complicated. Often times it’s because questions further upstream haven’t been answered. In this episode we’ll talk about what those questions are and what firms should be thinking about when it comes to developing and articulating a brand for their firm.
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May 5, 2019 • 0sec
POV – It’s Time to Get One
A compelling point-of-view. It’s your firm’s central philosophy that can attract clients, and repel others. While the thought of repelling clients doesn’t sound ideal, you can actually drive away business by not having a point-of-view at all. Find out why having a compelling point-of-view so important and how can you go about articulating one for […]
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Apr 28, 2019 • 0sec
Comedy & Tragedy: Leveraging 4 More Story Plots in Your Marketing Activities
This episode continues the conversation on classing storytelling frameworks that can be used in firm marketing. Jason and Jeff pick up where they left off last episode and discuss the last four story types, including The Voyage and Return, Comedy, Tragedy, and Rebirth.
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