Channel Chat Podcast
Marc Sumner - Robertson Sumner Ltd
Welcome to the Channel Chat podcast – home of the podcast which has now proudly become the voice of the IT channel 🎙
Since the Podcast’s inception in 2019, the Channel Chat studio has hosted some of the IT channel’s biggest names – with regular host, Marc Sumner, asking the questions that many others are afraid to! 🤭
Numbers wise, we now reach over 15,000 listeners per episode in over 32 countries and have hosted 6 live events.
Click subscribe to keep on top of all our latest content 👀
Since the Podcast’s inception in 2019, the Channel Chat studio has hosted some of the IT channel’s biggest names – with regular host, Marc Sumner, asking the questions that many others are afraid to! 🤭
Numbers wise, we now reach over 15,000 listeners per episode in over 32 countries and have hosted 6 live events.
Click subscribe to keep on top of all our latest content 👀
Episodes
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Oct 11, 2020 • 21min
#102 - Anita Wosket
Anita Wosket, Head of Strategic Sales at Westcoast
Oct 7, 2020 • 20min
#101 - Yvonne Matzk
Yvonne Matzk, Founder at Coachere
Oct 4, 2020 • 24min
#100 - Kate Wood
Kate Wood, Award Winning Culture Director
Sep 30, 2020 • 34min
#99 - Nikki Wilton
Nikki Wilton, Sales Leader
Sep 7, 2020 • 21min
#91 - Cathi Low
Aug 27, 2020 • 26min
#89 - Jennifer Norman
Her story is fascinating, from ballerina 🩰 to barmaid🍻 to tech enthusiast. 👩💻 But the overall message I got from her was that any woman can come into tech and be successful. Let’s be candid. Very few of us really knew what we wanted to do at 18/19 years old. I certainly didn’t. At 18 I was working as trainee accountant and got fired 🔥 🤦♂️ ... #enoughsaid So if that’s the case, what else can we do to encourage young women to consider technology as an industry for their careers?
Aug 20, 2020 • 47min
#88 - Mark Williams
Host Mark Reddy was joined by Head of Commercial at Bytestock (LA Micro Group), Mark Williams. Mark started his career as a professional footballer playing for Brentford and Barnet respectively. In 2012 Mark joined LA Micro Group in a new business role and has progressed within the business to now head up Bytestock division. Mark offers great advice around starting out in IT sales, on-boarding and managing clients and also tips on the tough task of being a billing manager.
Jul 22, 2020 • 36min
#87 - Stephen Bartlett
Today Marc is joined in the virtual studio by the CEO & Founder of Social Chain, Stephen Bartlett. Social Chain a publicly traded social media company that uses owned media, marketing and technology to build Social Brands. In the last few years, he has become an award-winning entrepreneur, speaker and investor, and now leads a company of 700+ team members across 5 countries. Marc and Stephen discuss the influence of social media channels in business today and how you could go about building your personal brand as well as some of the do's and don'ts when it comes to getting the best results on social media.
Jul 10, 2020 • 41min
#86 - Mike Norris
In today's season finale Marc gets back in touch with the Group CEO of Computacenter Mike Norris. They catch up at the end of the lockdown (having originally spoken in April) to look at the state of the IT channel and the wider UK economy. Marc and Mike also look at the impact of the governments furlough scheme and what the 'bounce-back' might look like. Marc also discusses the famous Computacenter sales kick offs and the impact of the CC FMES jacket on helping to build a successful culture.
Jul 9, 2020 • 25min
#85 - Brian Day
Today Marc has been joined in the virtual studio by the CEO of Fuze; Brian Day. They discuss the changing landscape for his business at Fuze and the future of the workplace with employees in many areas still unable to return to their office locations. They also talk about the future investments the business will be making in other markets and what the outlook is for the short and medium term.
