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The Accidental Marketer Podcast — 96 episodes

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Why Paramount Beat Netflix: The Strategic Power of Playing the Game Forward

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Growth Starts with Subtraction: Rationalizing Your Portfolio to Win

3

What B2B Technical Leaders Can Learn from Ring's Super Bowl Misstep

4

How AI is Rewriting the B2B Growth Funnel

5

Why Generational Labels Fail — and What Segmentation Gets Right

6

Looking Ahead to 2026: The Trends That Will Shape B2B Strategy

7

The Year in Review: What 2025 Revealed About Strategy and Readiness

8

Why Great Companies Lose Their Way

9

Why Your Best Storytelling Should Not Mention Your Product

10

Why Storytelling Makes or Breaks Strategy

11

AI-Powered Pricing: More Precision, Less Guesswork

12

Why Your Sales Team Isn't Using Your Strategy

13

Using AI to Strengthen (and Streamline) Your Value Proposition

14

Want Better Stories? Start With Better Positioning

15

Using AI to Spark and Strengthen Differentiation Strategy

16

The Fog of AI: Lessons from the Last Digital Disruption

17

How AI is Reinventing the "Ability to Win" Analysis

18

How AI Supercharges the Attractiveness Criteria

19

Segmentation That Works: How AI Is Transforming the Hardest Part of Strategy

20

Scenario Planning in Uncertain Times: Using AI and Tools to Stay Ahead

21

How to Raise Prices After a Tariff—Without Losing Your Customers

22

AI and the Benefits Ladder: Getting to What Customers Really Want

23

AI for Stakeholder Mapping: Spot Power Shifts Before Your Competitors Do

24

AI for Execution: How Marketers Can Finally Escape the Execution Trap

25

The Strategy Shortcut You're Probably Overlooking

26

AI in Strategic Analysis: Combining Technology with Expertise

27

How AI Supercharges Wargaming for Strategic Planning

28

Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Giants: Intel, GE, and Beyond

29

Trends and Technologies Shaping 2024 and Beyond

30

AI and the Coke Holiday Ad: Revolutionizing Marketing or Losing Authenticity?

31

Lessons from Nike's Challenges: What B2B Marketers Can Learn About Revitalizing Mature Products

32

Breaking Free from the Annual Planning Cycle

33

Market Shaping: Strategies for Redefining Your Competitive Landscape

34

What B2B Leaders Can Learn from Southwest Airlines' Mistakes: Staying Ahead of Customer Needs

35

How Archetypes Dramatically Increase Regional Buy-In to Your Global Strategies

36

Leveraging AI in Strategic Marketing: Insights and Innovations

37

Boost Your Business Strategy with the Magic of Predictive Tools

38

Can These Strategic Marketing Tools Help Your Team Anticipate The Future?

39

Is Your Business the only B2B Immune to Ozempic's Impact?

40

Influencing with Impact: How to Secure Buy-In for Every Strategy (Part 3)

41

Influencing with Impact: How to Secure Buy-In for Every Strategy (Part 2)

42

Influencing with Impact: What B2B's Can Learn from This Year's Best Super Bowl Ads

43

Influencing with Impact: How to Secure Buy-In for Every Strategy (Part 1)

44

What B2Bs Can Learn From 2023's Top Marketing Stories

45

How To Prepare for When Innovation is Actually Slower Than Expected

46

B2B Lessons From Barnes & Noble's B2C Success Vs. Amazon

47

Claritin's Allergy Crusade: A Breath of Fresh Marketing

48

The Different "Flavors" of Marketing Part 3

49

Value Amplified: AI's Role in Supercharging Customer Offerings

50

The Different "Flavors" of Marketing Part 2

51

What Can Be Learned from Tesla's Recent Price Changes?

52

What the Feud Between Two Professional Sports Leagues Can Teach Us About Strategy – Part 3

53

Could the Disney Plus Success Lead B2Bs to Go Direct?

54

What the Feud Between Two Professional Sports Leagues Can Teach Us About Strategy – Part 2

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What the Feud Between Two Professional Sports Leagues Can Teach Us About Strategy

56

The Different "Flavors" of Marketing

57

Can a Strategy Improve Your Company's Culture?

58

How to Identify, Classify and Handle Risk

59

How Risk Creates Opportunity for Strategic Marketers

60

Special Edition: 3 Key 2022 Stories and How We Can Leverage Them Next Year

61

S.13, Ep. 3 - The Critical Role of Brand In Inflationary Times

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S.13, Ep. 2 - Why Netflix Got Burned From Their Latest Price Hike

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S.13, Ep.1 - Strategies to Prosper in Inflationary Times

64

S.12, Ep. 3 - Here's the Metrics That Will Unify Sales and Marketing Once and For All

65

S.12, Ep. 2 -How the Post-Pandemic World Will Revitalize the Strategy of Segmentation

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S.12, Ep. 1 -How Marketing Is Becoming More Helpful to Sales Teams Post-Pandemic

67

S.11, Ep. 6 - How To Scale a Platform

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S.11, Ep. 5 - Should You Create a Platform Instead of Just Selling On Someone Else's?

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S.11, Ep. 4 - How to Build Your Very Own B2B Platform Strategy

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S.11, Ep. 3 - Should You Join a B2B Platform?

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S.11, Ep. 2 - Participating In Your Industries Developing Ecosystems: Lead, Follow or Wait?

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S.11, Ep. 1 - Why Knowing The Differences Between Ecosystems + Platforms Is Vital To Your B2B Org

73

S.10, Ep. 5 - When Can a B2B Price Like An Airline or a Hotel?

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S.10, Ep. 4 - Does It Ever Make Sense to Give Away a Jet Engine for Free?

75

S.10, Ep. 3 - How To Get the Salesforce to Listen To Your Pricing Guidance

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S.10, Ep. 2 - Why Being Half Blinded Will Sabotage Your Pricing Strategy

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S.10, Ep. 1 - How to Avoid This Massive Pricing Sin Made in Business

78

S.9, Ep. 7 - Why Building Unique Value Props Is More Scientific Than You Think

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S.9, Ep. 6 - Are You Content to Let AI Do Your Customer Needs Segmentation?

80

S.9, Ep. 5 - How To Sculpt Fog: Why Influence Mapping Is More Art Than Science

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S.9, Ep. 4 - How To Use Trend Science to Ignite Customer Loyalty

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S.9, Ep. 3 - Why You Need Not Abandon Art When Interpreting Data

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S.9, Ep. 2 - Why The Science of Marketing Doesn't Require a Lot of Data

84

S.9, Ep. 1 - Art or Science? Why Marketing Is Actually Like an Oreo Cookie

85

S.8, Ep. 5 - How To Market and Price Effectively After You've Created a New Category

86

S.8, Ep. 4 - Hitting the Jackpot By Reaching Out to New Stakeholders

87

S.8, Ep. 3 - How Segmentation Can Help You Revolutionize a Category

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S.8, Ep. 2 - Want Our Top Advice For Creating A New Product Category?

89

S.8, Ep. 1 - Three Fascinating Reasons For Your Surprisingly Disappointing Results

90

S.7, Ep. 6 - How the Sugar Lobby Used Marketing to Make Fat the "Bad Guy"

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S.7, Ep.5 - Is This Emotional Campaign Slogan Really Why Trump Won in 2016?

92

S.7, Ep. 4 - Can You Learn Positive Lessons From This Convict's Egregious Pricing?

93

S.7, Ep. 3 - 3 Potent Lessons Learned From a Public Health Tragedy

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S.7, Ep. 2 - Can the Social Dilemma Teach Marketers Helpful Lessons?

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S.7, Ep. 1 - What Can You Learn From a Business That Promotes Wanton Infidelity?

96

S.6, Ep. 5 - Making a Reverse ROI Argument