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Episodes

Aug. 1, 2023

Will Generative Artificial Intelligence Replace Writers?

On today's episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries turn to artificial intelligence to write a script for today's episode about (you guessed it) generative AI. Fair warning, the duo goes off-scri...

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July 18, 2023

The Big Advantages of Embracing This Bias

On today's episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries discuss another counterintuitive topic: the advantages of embracing bias! Specifically, how does understanding and reacting appropriately with ...

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July 11, 2023

What Rising Advertising Spend Means for You

On today's episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries unpack Magna's 2023 Global Advertising Spend Report. But don't be fooled by the headline! Our favorite marketing conversationalists take a deep...

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June 27, 2023

Why it Matters That Some People Bat 0.500

On today's episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries chat through knowns and unknowns to arrive at optimal resource allocation. Marketing and sales leaders collect enough data to prove empiricall...

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June 20, 2023

Why it Matters That Nobody Bats 1.000

On today's episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries chat through the implications of acknowledging that nobody bats a thousand. Sometimes it's the wrong audience, a miss on the selected channel,...

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June 6, 2023

Is This Relationship Only About Me Buying Something from You?

On today's episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries discuss when to cut ties with a former client and when to maintain the relationship. Some relationships are purely transactional because the p...

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May 30, 2023

Are Brands Using TikTok on Borrowed Time?

On today's episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries try to avoid the controversy surrounding TikTok bans and lawsuits. Instead, they dive in from a sales and marketing perspective! TikTok videos ...

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May 23, 2023

Getting the Pluck to Pluck Competitors' Customers

On today's episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries don't talk about customer service. Instead, they talk about developing the pluck to steal customers from competitors with notoriously bad cust...

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May 16, 2023

The Spring Cleaning Episode: From Setup to Tidy-up

On today's episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries flip the script on the advice that marketers should always be testing and scaling new tactics. Yes, there is a place for trying new ways to gro...

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May 9, 2023

Is Print Advertising Dead? Maybe It's the Answer You've Been Looking…

On this episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, the Dean of Discovery, Eric Reed , and Mr. Marketing, Colin Jeffries , question conventional wisdom that print is dead. It may be shortsighted to write newspaper and magazine ...

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May 2, 2023

The Doppler Effect: What Revenue Drivers Need to Consider

On this episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, the Dean of Discovery, Eric Reed , and Mr. Marketing, Colin Jeffries , explore how the Doppler Effect applies to marketing and sales. While conventional wisdom says to look a...

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April 25, 2023

CRMs Don’t Manage Relationships

On this episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, the Dean of Discovery, Eric Reed , and Mr. Marketing, Colin Jeffries , stand in awe of software. But are marketing and sales leaders over reliant on automation? It takes time ...

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April 18, 2023

How to Avoid Numerical Malpractice

On this episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries get into the importance of context and the true meaning of what a number means in the understanding of your marketing and campaigns. Numbers are a...

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April 11, 2023

Why Marketers Should Venerate Followership

On this episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries unpack the common default of worshipping leaders and ignoring followers. This conversation should turn that setting on its head, as they uncover t...

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April 4, 2023

Is “Don't Take it Personally” Good Advice?

On this episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries chat through the positives and negatives of taking marketing and sales personally. How do we separate ourselves from the products or services we ...

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March 29, 2023

Meta Did What? Why?

On this episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries talk about the Meta and the Metaverse. Can one brand own it? Is the full recreation of the physical world "Ownable"? Bombastic, arrogant, explosiv...

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March 21, 2023

Was Your Old Man Right?

On this episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries talk about the payoffs of embracing "dadness" by brands. Old wisdom said to accentuate pain points to solidify product need. More recent marketi...

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March 14, 2023

Why Scheduling is Backfiring and What We Should Do Instead

On this episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries rethink social media scheduling. Are brands making social media anti-social through the use of scheduling tools like Hootsuite, Agorapulse, Sprout...

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March 7, 2023

Do You Have the Chutzpah to Take Great Content Cues?

On this episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries take a counterintuitive stance and argue against voluminous content creation. Instead of being middle-of-the-road (boring), how do we stand out an...

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Feb. 28, 2023

Why Marketers Should Stop Leaving Copyright Decisions to the Legal Te…

On this episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries converse about why marketers should lead their organization's copyright decisions. Leaving intellectual property protection only to the legal team...

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Feb. 21, 2023

Should College Students Major in Sales?

On this episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries answer the question: should college students major in sales? With fewer than 60 universities in the United States offering sales as a major, is t...

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Feb. 14, 2023

A Walk on the Wild Side or Total Brand Suicide?

On this episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries walk the fine line between attention-grabbing advertising and brand suicide--which may also translate to career suicide for marketing leaders! Ho...

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Feb. 7, 2023

In the Land of the Blind, the One Eyed Man is King!

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Jan. 31, 2023

What to Do When Divorce is Imminent

On this episode of the Rethink Marketing Podcast, Eric Reed and Colin Jeffries unpack the side of sales and marketing where relationships falter and fail. Breakups can be a relief for customers but devastating to businesses,...

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