Ben and Al discuss whether marketing has lost it’s personal touch, LinkedIn tips and Website design trends.
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Show notes
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183 degree fish eye lens
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Google Home Mini
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Apple HomePod smart speaker
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Mr Robot TV series
- Has marketing lost it’s personal touch?
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Keep Your Word blog
- Removing the BS from marketing and telling it like it is
- Companies forget that they are selling to people
- Marketing automation gone OTT
- Bark, personal, named emails coming through several a day
- Remarketing targeting products you’ve already bought!
- Rework – ‘Ignore this book at your own peril’ Seth Godin
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#Podvert – internetfuture.com/social-media-training
- The Best LinkedIn Profiles and Company Pages in 2017
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Social Media Management Tool – Sendible
- Google Fonts
- Font Squirrel
- Typography
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social Media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Audio edited by Donalize – ‘Goofy Vocal Groove‘ intro music by Dave Girtsman – Image Credit: My What A Big Nose You Have by Gavin Mawditt – Gift of the Gav
