Ponderings from the Perch

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  • Conversations with Priscilla McKinney, founder and President of Little Bird Marketing, an award-winning agency specializing in content marketing, lead generation, branding and design. As a CEO and serial entrepreneur, Priscilla's topics range from marketing best practices, the "stunning discomfort" of entrepreneurship, market research, her love of the autoharp, and other marketing oddities.
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  • Positive Thought Leadership about Your Potential

    Positive Thought Leadership about Your Potential
    Sep 20 2024
    What if the magic behind the Cinderella story isn't a prince and a fairy godmother but rather strategies for tapping into our potential? On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO, Priscilla McKinney, talks with guest and published author Joanna Bloor about her book, Tales of Potential: The Cinderella Story You Haven't Heard. Bloor, who examines how things work behind the scenes, discusses her experience of writing a book that presents a different perspective on potential and future. She describes how she overcame initial reluctance to put her ideas on paper, resulting in a work representing her viewpoint and contributing to thought leadership in the field. Bloor and McKinney explore various elements of the Cinderella story that Bloor uses to illustrate her ideas about realizing one's potential. These include Cinderella's interaction with her fairy godmother, which Bloor interprets as a demonstration of holding one's own in front of a powerful figure, and the intentionally left-behind glass slipper, which she views as a marketing technique. Bloor discusses the importance of having a supportive squad and a decision-making "hive-mind," drawing parallels to collaborative efforts in achieving goals. By reframing these familiar story elements, Bloor presents an alternative way to consider personal narratives and potential futures, offering her perspective on what thought leadership entails and outlining marketing strategies for personal branding. "When you're sharing a story about yourself or your ideas," Bloor states, "You're blind to any other version of it." If you still need to grasp the best growth strategy framework to accelerate your career, your best marketing strategies have failed, or you need LinkedIn profile tips to help you get noticed, this is the episode for you! Joanna explains that the initial part of writing your own story, changing the narrative, and having your happy ending has to start with a bit of self-exploration. In fact, she urges everyone to start by finding out how people are describing you in the rooms where you are not present. Listen to her TWO-WORD EXERCISE, which is the best way to unlock your future. You don't want to miss it! Sponsors: Hey y’all, Priscilla McKinney here, CEO and Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing, and am very excited to announce the release of my much-anticipated book: Collaboration is the New Competition: Why the Future of Work Rewards A Cross Pollinating Hive Mind and How Not to Get Left Behind The book's chapters are designed to be time-efficient, ensuring busy professionals can easily integrate these transformative ideas into their workflow. From discussing the state of affairs in business to providing fundamental strategies and seven practical anchors for staying on course, this book offers a fresh perspective and a competitive advantage in today's complex business landscape. Visit priscillamckinney.com for more information. Get ready for another amazing Insights Marketing Day! It’s everything you need to take control of your marketing funnel in one power-packed day. You’ll hear from fun, engaging and instructive speakers who are proven authorities in digital marketing. They’ll leave their egos behind and pull the curtain back to show you what it takes behind the scenes to achieve dramatic marketing results. This year, we’ll take you on a journey from the very beginning of the marketing funnel through realizing revenue and how to create a more predictive model for success. You’ll be challenged to change your mindset, learn emerging skills and discover game-changing tools. All this while creating genuine connections with like-minded professionals. Learn, network, discover and strategize. Make Insights Marketing Day a MUST on your 2024 calendar. Visit https://insightsmarketingday.com/ and get your tickets today!
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    34 mins
  • ESOMAR Congress Flyover

    ESOMAR Congress Flyover
    Sep 13 2024
    Learn how market researchers navigate the complex market landscape to deliver more accurate and valuable insights. On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO, Priscilla McKinney, gives you her 2024 ESOMAR Congress flyover, held in Athens, Greece. The ESOMAR Congress is the premier global gathering for market research professionals. It brings together industry leaders to explore cutting-edge trends, share innovative methodologies and shape the future of marketing research. McKinney’s guests discuss key topics such as the integration of AI in qualitative research, the use of virtual reality for enhanced consumer engagement and the challenges of conducting research in niche markets. She also highlights strategic insights from industry thought leaders, such as Ray Poynter, who emphasizes the importance of embracing diverse perspectives in today's global market research landscape. "The first thing we have to accept," Poynter explains. "Is [that] there is not one human point of view, there are many human points of view from around the world." Included here are all of our guests' LinkedIn profiles. If you find any of them or what they do interesting, then feel free to reach out, and let them know that Little Bird Marketing sent you their way: Alessandro Imborgia, Sebastian Stahlofen, Anne Brown, Belinda Brown, Julia Polakova, Martha Llobet, Syed Sumaya Bukhari, Jagriti Shahi, Francesc Bruna Jordà, Scott Worthge, Pravin Shekar, Nicha Tanskul, Paul Gaudette, Killi Hammock, Jon Puleston, JD Deitch, Adrian Sanger, Pratik Sawant, George Zdanowicz, Tibor Darabont, Marya Kaska and the aforementioned Ray Poynter. Again, if you do decide to reach out, let them know that Little Bird Marketing sent you their way! Sponsors: I am very excited to announce the release of my much-anticipated book: Collaboration is the New Competition: Why the Future of Work Rewards A Cross Pollinating Hive Mind and How Not to Get Left Behind The book's chapters are designed to be time-efficient, ensuring busy professionals can easily integrate these transformative ideas into their workflow. From discussing the state of affairs in business to providing fundamental strategies and seven practical anchors for staying on course, this book offers a fresh perspective and a competitive advantage in today's complex business landscape. Visit priscillamckinney.com for more information. Get ready for another amazing Insights Marketing Day! It’s everything you need to take control of your marketing funnel in one power-packed day. You’ll hear from fun, engaging and instructive speakers who are proven authorities in digital marketing. They’ll leave their egos behind and pull the curtain back to show you what it takes behind the scenes to achieve dramatic marketing results. This year, we’ll take you on a journey from the very beginning of the marketing funnel through realizing revenue and how to create a more predictive model for success. You’ll be challenged to change your mindset, learn emerging skills and discover game-changing tools. All this while creating genuine connections with like-minded professionals. Learn, network, discover and strategize. Make Insights Marketing Day a MUST on your 2024 calendar. Visit littlebirdmarketing.com/insights-marketing-day and get your tickets today! Glimpse is a next-generation market discovery platform uniting human insights and AI-enhanced performance. It empowers marketers, researchers, and creators to make effortless decisions, create powerful content, and gain a perpetual advantage. The platform allows users to ask questions, find audiences, and analyze diverse data sources, uncovering behavior, emotions, awareness, and purchasing decisions through AI. Glimpse's capabilities extend beyond surveys, offering enterprise-grade digital twins and AI personas for real-time conversations with key audiences. To learn more, visit Glimpseahead.ai.
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • How to Use AI to Improve Your SEO Content Strategy

    How to Use AI to Improve Your SEO Content Strategy
    Sep 6 2024
    AI's potential in SEO lies not in replacing human expertise but in enhancing it strategically as part of a comprehensive content marketing strategy. On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO, Priscilla McKinney talks with guest and Orbit Media CEO Andy Crestodina, about the role of AI in modern SEO strategies. Crestodina, known for leading with value and always being helpful, brings over two decades of digital content marketing experience to the table. As the co-founder of Orbit Media, a web design company in Chicago, he's been at the forefront of content marketing and SEO trends, making him the perfect guest to shed light on this timely topic. Crestodina delves into AI's strengths and limitations in content creation. He explores the importance of human creativity in crafting compelling content and explains how AI can be leveraged effectively in the content auditing process. Crestodina discusses using AI as a tool to enhance human-created content rather than as a replacement for human expertise, a crucial consideration for any content marketing agency. "AI can offer an interesting perspective," Crestodina notes, "but if you don't give it the right persona first, what it gives you back is very watered down, generic, and undifferentiated. I joke that AI might as well stand for Average Information." They also discuss the future of SEO and content marketing in an AI-driven world. Crestodina offers practical advice on how marketers can adapt their marketing strategy to incorporate AI tools effectively while maintaining the human touch that makes content resonate with audiences. Listeners will gain valuable insights into balancing technological advancements with tried-and-true marketing principles, including how to conduct thorough marketing analysis to inform their AI-enhanced content strategies. Sponsors: Get your research done anywhere around the world quickly and efficiently with Gazelle Global! Are you looking for experts and tools to collect research data worldwide? Global sampling, field management, data collection? These are just some of the services that Gazelle Global provides with much, much more! Visit gazelleglobal.com to learn more about how our expertise can help you unearth quality data that drives meaningful insights. Get ready for another amazing Insights Marketing Day! It’s everything you need to take control of your marketing funnel in one power-packed day. You’ll hear from fun, engaging and instructive speakers who are proven authorities in digital marketing. They’ll leave their egos behind and pull the curtain back to show you what it takes behind the scenes to achieve dramatic marketing results. This year, we’ll take you on a journey from the very beginning of the marketing funnel through realizing revenue and how to create a more predictive model for success. You’ll be challenged to change your mindset, learn emerging skills and discover game-changing tools. All this while creating genuine connections with like-minded professionals. Learn, network, discover and strategize. Make Insights Marketing Day a MUST on your 2024 calendar. Visit https://insightsmarketingday.com/ and get your tickets today!
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    33 mins

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