Not Another Business Podcast with Mark Havenner
A weekly down-to-earth exploration of marketing and communications for business leaders. With 20 years in marketing/comms and almost 15 of them in an integrated agency, Mark has worked with many different businesses and industries and has learned firsthand what works and what doesn't. As we weather uncertainty, it is more important now than ever that business leaders think through the old ways of doing things. Mark provides industry-busting insights, a distillation of marketing speak, and real-world strategies and tactics you can use in your business today.
Episodes
10 episodes
10: How to Announce Your Thing
It's hard to know what to do about announcements these days and it often becomes a PR problem as companies and organizations rely on press releases and pounding the pavement on media relations to get results.In this episode, I dive deep...
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45:34
9: What’s Your 100 Year Plan?
Beyond your own legacy, what’s the impact you’re after? What if we considered time beyond ourselves, into the 100 years that frames our life in both directions? From the cultural context that shaped you, to the society that will e...
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40:45
8: Let’s Be Honest About Gratitude
People talk a lot about gratitude, especially this time of year. The extremely complex sentiment of gratitude is now ubiquitous. Gratitude often reads as insincere, surface-level platitudes—watch your social media feed this week. The pr...
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Episode 9
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50:45
7: You Have an Audience of One
Every business leader needs to understand their unique target audience intimately. Let’s face it, we all want to be understood. It’s the foundation of every connection. Typically, client discovery is through the limited lens of mark...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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48:23
6: The Truth About SEO
SEO is thrown around the business world like it is some mystical art--or worst like it's special seasoning with a secret recipe.Let's sit down and explore what SEO is, what it's not, and why it's important--but from a business leader's ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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49:07
5: Why Gen Z is the Only Generation We Should Be Watching
If you are focused on any generation other than Z your business may be antiquated--or it soon will be.In this episode, I explore generation marketing and advise on how to make it useful rather than fall into assumption traps. We go into...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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59:06
4: The Business Leader Hero's Journey
The power of storytelling can be used to create your business story. Doing so crystallizes your purpose, your vision, and even what your business goals, metrics, and outcomes need to be. I'll walk you through an exercise where we a...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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53:07
3: The Secret to a Successful Media Strategy
Public Relations is broken.Professionals are using antiquated approaches, and it isn't working. Journalists and publications are refusing to participate in brand communications, third-party endorsements are decreasing in value among the...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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54:09
2: The Biggest Mistake I See Business Leaders Make
After twenty years in the business, I've worked with many business leaders, and this is the number one mistake I see them make.And I won't make you listen to the podcast to find out what the mistake is.The biggest mistake I see ...
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Episode 2
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36:32
1: A New Business Journey Into Uncertainty
Uncertainty is now a constant and the business world has fundamentally changed. Nothing is as it was.Business leaders struggle to know how best to guide marketing/communications. It sometimes feels like they are steering blind.M...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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