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The Bacon Podcast with Brian Basilico | CURE Your Sales & Marketing with Ideas That Make It SIZZLE! — 290 episodes
Episode 990 – 3 Ways I Like to Use Artificial Intelligence
Episode 989 – Let’s Keep This Between Us…
Episode 988 – Reinventing Networking
Episode 987 – The 3 Things That Make Marketing Harder
Episode 986 – Superman vs The Boogeyman
Episode 985 – What’s Old Is New
Episode 984 – FACT: Two Things Could Be True At Once
Episode 983 – Visual Impact – The Rights and Wrongs of Images In Marketing
Episode 982 – Best Of – Seconds… Chance Interactions
Episode 981 – The PATH to Profits
Episode 980 – All Marketing (and Sales) are Personal
Episode 979 – Why?
Episode 978 – Keeping The Main Thing… The Main Thing!
Episode 977 – AI Machine Learning vs “I” Human Learning
Episode 976 – Embrace the Individual and Embrace the Resistance – Encourage Small Wins!
Episode 975 – What To Do When What Was Working… STOPS WORKING!
Episode 974 – When Less… is MORE!
Episode 973 – Best Of – Sales & Marketing… It’s a MATH Problem
Episode 972 – Out with the New and In with the Old – WHY Should You C.A.R.E.?
Episode 971 – The New Artificial Intelligence Internet Traffic Jam and WHY You Should Care?
Episode 970 – Man vs Machine – A Brief History of Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence
Episode 969 – Steve Jobs vs Artificial Intelligence
Episode 968 – Data is a Gift… Share The Love!
Episode 967 – Organic Marketing – How Artificial Intelligence Can Sweeten Relationships
Episode 966 – Artificial Intelligence Decisions… Data Determines the Destination
Episode 965 – BACON – Chapter 17- So Much Peopling
Episode 964 – BACON – Chapter 16- The “Known Knowns”, “Known Unknowns”, and “Unknown Unknowns” of Marketing
Episode 963 – BACON – Chapter 15: Unicorns are REAL… Business Leads are NOT
Episode 962 – BACON – Chapter 14: Embrace the Inbox (You’ve Got Mail)
Episode 961 – BACON – Chapter 13: 5 Myths & 5 Remedies to Cure Internet Marketing Fatigue
Episode 960 – BACON – Chapter 12: Connected Content
Episode 959 – BACON – Chapter 11: Persuasion Versus Thought Leadership
Episode 958 – BACON – Chapter 10: The Connection Conundrum!
Episode 957 – BACON – Chapter 9 – Trust Me…
Episode 956 – BACON – Chapter 8 – Like Me… Like You!
Episode 955 – BACON – Chapter 7: Getting to Know You
Episode 954 – BACON – Chapter 6: Know – Like – Trust
Episode 953 – BACON – Chapter 5: Get Out…
Episode 952 – BACON – Chapter 4: It’s Not About You, It’s About Business
Episode 951 – BACON – Chapter 2: Babies, Puppies & BACON
Episode 950 – BACON – Chapter 2: Cha-Cha-Cha – Changes
Episode 949 – BACON – Chapter 1: Relationship Marketing
Episode 948 – I’ll Take My Bacon… Extra Crispy – A Prologue
Episode 947 – Out With the NEW… In With the OLD!
Episode 946 – Best Of – Foresight 2024 – Forecasting Future Profits with Mark SA Smith
Episode 945 – Sales & Marketing… It’s a MATH Problem
Episode 944 – Best Of – How To Build Awesome Business Relationships Through Email with Ely Delaney
Episode 943 – Moral Marketing… (and why it’s tough)
Episode 942 – Best Of – How To Maximize Your Networking In 2023 with Mike Verret
Episode 941 – Look Back… Move Forward
Episode 940 – Best Of – Creating One Million Jobs Through Collaboration with Dennis Yu
Episode 939 – Winning Lessons from 2023
Episode 938 – Best Of – Books Are Not Just For Paper Anymore And Why YOU Should Write One with Heidi Thorne
Episode 937 – Fail Forward
Episode 936 – Best Of – Leveraging Relationships And Reinvention with Michael O’Neal
Episode 935 – It’s the Most Thankful Time of the Year
Episode 934 – Best Of – Reinventing Sales Teams with Rent-A-Rep with Bill Guertin
Episode 933 – What is Relationship Marketing?
Episode 932 – Best Of – Drive Growth Through The Customer Experience with Chip Royce
Episode 931 – How Well Do You Vet Your Prospective Clients?
Episode 930 – Best Of – Social Selling On LinkedIn with Brynne Tillman
Episode 929 – What do Your Leads… LEAD to?
Episode 928 – In Memorial of – Simplifying Your Sales Process with Mark S A Smith
Episode 927 – Falling for the Forest from the Trees
Episode 926 – Best Of – Training Your Staff in the Zoombie Era with Michelle Filicicchia
Episode 925 – Analog vs. Digital Relationships
Episode 924 – Best Of – Do You Have An Addiction To Average with Kellan Fluckiger
Episode 923 – Looking Into the Future… By LISTENING the Past
Episode 922 – Best Of – Expanding Your Social Reach On LinkedIn with Nimble and CEO Jon Ferrara
Episode 921 – Is it Time to Get New Business Cards?
Episode 920 – Best Of – How To Use LinkedIn To Look Sweet In The C-Suite with Deb Krier
Episode 919 – Who is More Useful to Your Business? A CMO or a CRO?
Episode 918 – Best Of – Broken Windshields & Naked Swimmers and Conducting Business In A Time Of Crisis with Perry Marshall
Episode 917 – What Does BACON Have To Do with POOP?
Episode 916 – Best Of – Will AI (Artificial Intelligence) Really Change The World Of Marketing? with Pam Didner
Episode 915 – Look Over There? How to Turn Distraction into Disruption
Episode 914 – Best Of – How To Adjust Your Mindset To Make Your Time More Valuable with Mark SA Smith
Episode 913 – Seconds… Chance Interactions
Episode 912 – Best Of – How To Deal With Psycho-Drama In Business with John Faisandier
Episode 911 – Could You Improve a Customer’s Journey with Artificial Intelligence Marketing?
Episode 910 – Best Of – Who Is Gen Z and How Do They Spend $600 Billion a Year with Kathleen Hessert and Krista Jasso
Episode 909 – Is Your Marketing an Investment or an Expense? Good Questions!
Episode 908 – Best Of – How To Turn Adversity Into Opportunity with Bogdan Rosu
Episode 907 – Making An Argument For Better Marketing
Episode 906 – The Power of Personalized Short Form Video with Austin Armstrong
Episode 905 – Making Connections… Where are the Wires?
Episode 904 – Best Of – Balancing Working From Home With Your Family In The Same Room with Matthew Brennan
Episode 903 – FOMO to ROI in 5 Easy Questions
Episode 902 – Best Of – Generate Better Sales By Communicating Through Authenticity with Ridgely Goldsborough
Episode 901 – Focusing on the 5 A-Holes of Marketing
Episode 900 – Best Of – Beacons Of Leadership with Chris Voss
Episode 899 – Dropping Knowledge Bombs And Hitting Targets
Episode 898 – Best Of – Leadership Through Mindset And Skillset with Alain Hunkins
Episode 897 – I Lost It All… And Why I’m Happy About It!
Episode 896 – Best Of – How To Scale Your Business Through An Ecosystem with Steven Hoffman
Episode 895 – Tag… You’re In! Segmenting Secrets
Episode 894 – Best Of – The Nimble C-Suite with Mark SA Smith
Episode 893 – How Can A Junk Drawer Help You Build A Healthy Business?
Episode 892 – Work-Life Balance with BeFamily and Gavin Zuchlinski
Episode 891 – The Devil Is In The Details… In The Data
Episode 890 – Best Of – Email Systems Follow-Up and Sequencing with Luis Xavier
Episode 889 – Fad, Fame, Or Fortune… It’s About Business (and Time)
Episode 888 – Best Of – Knowing Your Personality Why with Lisa Schermerhorn
Episode 887 – Your CPA Wants to Know Your CPA
Episode 886 – Best Of – Why “FREE” Is A Four Letter Word That’s Bad For B2b Businesses? with Mark S.A. Smith
Episode 885 – The Power of Awareness & The Awareness of Power
Episode 884 – Best Of – How The AMA, iContact, and Pizza Can Help You Market Better with Hank Hoffmeier
Episode 883 – Winning with Rightsourcing and Content Creation
Episode 882 – Best Of – How Interrogating Terrorists Can Help Sales with Colton Seale
Episode 881 – The Grass May Be Greener on the Other Side of the Fence (But You Still Have to Mow It)
Episode 880 – The New Content Culture with Keith Reynolds
Episode 879 – Is Your Content a Tapas or Family Style Meal?
Episode 878 – Jolt Your Sales Team to Epic Results with Larry Long Jr.
Episode 877 – Influence vs. Inspiration… It Takes Emotional Intelligence
Episode 876 – Assess Your Way To Success with Jim Reklis
Episode 875 – Charging Your Content – Seeing The Light
Episode 874 – Best Of – Managing Your Social Media Marketing Calendar Using CoSchedule with Garrett Moon
Episode 873 – Elevating Your Content – Topic, Title… Then Tool!
Episode 872 – Best Of – How To Avoid A Great Resignation At Your Company with Mark Babbitt & S. Chris Edmonds
Episode 871 – The Dollars Are In The Data
Episode 870 – Best Of – How Artificial Intelligence Can Improve Your Business Meetings with Avish Bhama
Episode 869 – Engagement… to The Power of 3
Episode 868 – Best Of – Creating Leverage In Person and Online with Cloris Kylie
Episode 867 – Passengers… Prepare For Landing – Guiding Website Visitors to Their Destination
Episode 866 – Is Radio Still Relevant in this Digital World? with Bob Kastl
Episode 865 – What’s for Dessert? How to Simplify Your Website to Increase Sales
Episode 864 – Best Of – How To Scale Your Business Through An Ecosystem with Steven Hoffman
Episode 863 – How Can a Golf Swing Help You Build a Marketing SYS-TEM?
Episode 862 – Best Of – Bending Reality – Make The Impossible Probable with Victoria Song
Episode 861 – Stick a Pin in Your Vision Board… So What’s the Point?
Episode 860 – From Downturn To Disaster – Business Continuity with Erika Andresen
Episode 859 – Are You Networking in a Hierarchical or Node Mode?
Episode 858 – Best Of – Making Your Content Larger Than Life In Medium with Jeff Herring
Episode 857 – What’s Your Marketing Mousetrap? – Part 3
Episode 856 – Best Of – Using Email Drip Sequences To Supercharge Your Sales Process with Shawn Finder
Episode 855 – What’s Your Marketing Mousetrap? – Part 2
Episode 854 – Profitable Virtual and Hybrid Events with Julie Migliacci
Episode 853 – What’s Your Marketing Mousetrap? – Part 1
Episode 852 – Best Of – The Website Success Holy Trinity with Kurt Scholle
Episode 851 – Don’t Become An Expense – Become Invaluable
Episode 850 – Best Of – Dealing With Change And Becoming Undisruptable with Aidan McCullen
Episode 849 – Are Your Processes Putting Progress in Purgatory?
Episode 848 – Drive Growth Through The Customer Experience with Chip Royce
Episode 847 – Are You Whiffing the WIIFM?
Episode 846 – Best Of – Career Hacks For 20 & 30 Somethings with Tom Agan
Episode 845 – Are You Whiffing the WIIFM?
Episode 844 – Reinventing Sales Teams with Rent-A-Rep with Bill Guertin
Episode 843 – Marketing – Strategy vs. Plan
Episode 842 – Best Of – The Emergence Of Tribalism In Social Media with Brian Kinghorn
Episode 841 – Resolutions Vs. Reinventions
Episode 840 – Will AI (Artificial Intelligence) Really Change The World Of Marketing? with Pam Didner
Episode 839 – Half Baked Cookies – How To Cook Your B2b Marketing to Perfection
Episode 838 – Work Is Not Where You Work? It’s What You Do! with Stan Phelps
Episode 837 – 4 Signs Your Marketing Strategy is Not For B2b Sales
Episode 836 – How To Maximize Your Networking In 2023 with Mike Verret
Episode 835 – 5 FREE Things That You Want To Maximize in 2023
Episode 834 – Looking Back & Forth – Insights for 2023
Episode 833 – The 5 Types of Golfers (What They Can Tell You About Your Business Style)
Episode 832 – Best Of – Creating Content Art – Interviews with 6 Content Creation Specialists
Episode 831 – Looking Back & Forth… What Are You Thankful For?
Episode 830 – The Limitless Value Of Creativity with Blamah Sarnor
Episode 829 – The 5 Keys To Successful B2b Marketing
Episode 828 – Best Of – The History of CRMs and Why People Don’t Use Them Enough with Jon Ferrara
Episode 827 – The Distraction Attraction
Episode 826 – Best Of – Envisioning Better Social Media Interaction Using Planable with Xenia Muntean
Episode 825 – Marketing and Sales = Poison or Antidote
Episode 824 – Best Of – Look Into My Eyes and Sell More with Umar Hameed
Episode 823 – It’s Not What They Say… It’s What They Do… CONSISTENTLY
Episode 822 – Best Of – The Transformational Economy with Mark S.A. Smith
Episode 821 – Well Would You Look At That? Lessons Learned from Lifelong Learning
Episode 820 – How To Make Your Business Stand Out Like a Pink Goldfish with Stan Phelps
Episode 819 – Consistent Communication… Are You Picking Up What I Am Putting Down?
Episode 818 – How A Ping-Pong Table Could Save Your Business (or Maybe Not?)
Episode 817 – The 5 Half-Truths of B2b Sales and Marketing (You Have Probably Been Fed)
Episode 816 – Best Of – Envisioning Better Social Media Interaction Using Planable with Xenia Muntean
Episode 815 – Seasons… Cold Weather Can Nudge Business to Heat Up
Episode 814 – Best Of – Making The Most Of Video In Your Marketing Mix with Lou Bortone
Episode 813 – Name That Tune – Has Your Brand Voice Evolved With Your Business?
Episode 812 – Best Of – ATTENTION – How To Stay Safe Through Situational Awareness with Brian Searcy
Episode 811 – How To Exceed Expectations? Find Someone Who Cares!
Episode 810 – How To Hire Amazing Employees with Jeannette Seibly
Episode 809 – It Pays to Follow The Instructions and Sometimes You Have To Write Your Own
Episode 808 – How Interrogating Terrorists Can Help Sales with Colton Seale
Episode 807 – You Get What You Pay For… Some Assembly Required
Episode 806 – Best Of – Following The North Star to Your Success with Dan McPherson
Episode 805 – Success Is Personal and How To String Together Little Wins
Episode 804 – Best Of – Reading Body Language & Facial Expressions In The Age Of Zoom & Masks with Blanca Cobb
Episode 803 – If You Want Change, Results or Success, You Have To Take Your Own Pulse and Own It!
Episode 802 – Best Of – Pay It Forward Tuesdays with Chuck Hester
Episode 801 – Modern Website Makeover – Less Nav and More Salve (or Solve)
Episode 800 – Best Of – The Science Of Networking with Frank Agin
Episode 799 – Innovation Is More Than Just A String (Theory)
Episode 798 – How Consistent Content Creates Consistent Connections with Warren Whitlock
Episode 797 – What’s LOVE Got To Do With It? In Marketing – EVERYTHING!
Episode 796 – Best Of The Melding Of Mindset And Training with Marla Tabaka and Michelle Filicicchia
Episode 795 – 2 Things that Probably Won’t Work for Your B2b Business
Episode 794 – How The AMA, iContact, and Pizza Can Help You Market Better with Hank Hoffmeier
Episode 793 – Boy… Do I Have A Deal For You? Deals From The Trenches And The Search For Value And Truth!
Episode 792 – Best Of – From Dot Com Drummer To Data Real Estate Agent – How Computing Power Effects Your Business with Bill Winsininski
Episode 791 – Seeing The World Through A Fresh Set Of “I”s
Episode 790 – Best Of – Life Lessons For Success with Tag Team Member DC Glenn
Episode 789 – You Can’t Always Get What You Want? But If You Try Sometimes…
Episode 778 – Using Conscious Focused Actions To Grow Your Business with JV Crum III
Episode 787 – “You Can Sell Anything!” (With A Little Help From My Friends)
Episode 786 – Best Of – What Does Value Mean To Your Customers? with Bob Burg
Episode 785 – A Goal is Not a Strategy, But a Strategy Needs a Goal
Episode 784 – The Purpose Driven Economy with Mark S.A. Smith
Episode 783 – When is 10 Greater Than 1000? (Hint It’s All About Relationships)
Episode 782 – Why “FREE” Is A Four Letter Word That’s Bad For B2b Businesses? with Mark S.A. Smith
Episode 781 – Why “FREE” Is A Four Letter Word That’s Bad For B2b Businesses?
Episode 780 – Best Of – Understanding Thought Leadership And Influence Personas with Jim Barry
Episode 779 – The Secret 3 B’s of Finding Your Perfect Customer
Episode 778 – Best Of – Managing and Scheduling Your Social Media Posts In Planable with Vlad Calus
Episode 777 – Three Questions With The Same Answer – Know, Like, & Trust
Episode 776 – Best Of – Better Relationship Emotional Intelligence Using Crystal with Drew D’Agostino
Episode 775 – The Power of Three… With Sales & Marketing
Episode 774 – Aligning Your Sales & Marketing Authenticity with Brent Keltner
Episode 773 – My GREATEST Sales Success… (Selling My Wife On Moving)
Episode 772 – Best Of – The Dream Vs Reality Of Crappy Marketing with Jonny Cooper
Episode 771 – 3 Signs From God That It’s Time To Move On…
Episode 770 – Best Of Unleash Your Primal Brain (And Understanding Your Customers) with Tim Ash
Episode 769 – No One Can Serve Two Masters… But You Can Serve Two Clients At The Same Time!
Episode 768 – Best Of – Connect – Direct – Project Your Business with Michael Verret
Episode 767 – Networking Is All About Give And Take But Success Takes Giving
Episode 766 – What Is Your Business REALLY Worth? with Henry Kaskov
Episode 765 – Are Your Signing Up Your Customers To The Right Channel?
Episode 764 – Hire Higher with Andrea Hoffer
Episode 763 – Good Things Come In Threes – The Marketing Trifecta Meets The Management Triad
Episode 762 – How To Scale Your Business Through An Ecosystem with Steven Hoffman
Episode 761 – Avoid The Superman Syndrome – You Need The Justice League
Episode 760 – Best Of The Psychology of Intentional Social Media with Brian Kinghorn
Episode 759 – How To Land The Right Client (Hint: It’s About Connections)
Episode 758 – Never Wear Pants Again with Chris Martinez
Episode 757 – It’s People… Making Green Takes PEOPLE!
Episode 756 – Top Of The Mountain Leadership with Tiffany Prince
Episode 755 – How To Document Success? What Gets Captured – Gets Updated (With A Nudge)
Episode 754 – The Transformational Economy with Mark S.A. Smith
Episode 753 – How To Give Your Sales Team A Little Empathy To Share With Your Customers?
Episode 752 – How To Avoid A Great Resignation At Your Company with Mark Babbitt & S. Chris Edmonds
Episode 751 – LinkedIn Wants Your New And Old Content (HINT: And So Do Your Prospects & Clients)
Episode 750 – Career Hacks For 20 & 30 Somethings with Tom Agan
Episode 749 – Turbo-Charge Your Sales Engine in 2022 – Fueling Your R.A.C.E
Episode 748 – From Orangutan To Rocket Scientist with Ryan Weiss
Episode 745 – Turbo-Charge Your Sales Engine in 2022 – Going Fishing
Episode 746 – The Nimble C-Suite with Mark SA Smith
Episode 745 – Turbo-Charge Your Sales Engine in 2022 – A Simple Truth
Episode 744 – Look Into My Eyes and Sell More with Umar Hameed
Episode 743 – Turbo-Charge Your Sales Engine in 2022 – The Search For The Easy Button
Episode 742 Email Systems Follow-Up and Sequencing with Luis Xavier
Episode 741 – The Anatomy Of An Ebook (I Wrote For My Business) – A Marketer’s Journey
Episode 741 – The Anatomy Of An Ebook (I Wrote For My Business) – A Marketer’s Journey
Episode 740 How To Turn Adversity Into Opportunity with Bogdan Rosu
Episode 739 – Addition Through Subtraction – When Less Leads To More!
Episode 738 – Knowing Your Personality Why with Lisa Schermerhorn
Episode 737 – Finding Joy – In Your Business And In Life
Episode 736 – Creating Content Art – Interviews with 6 Content Creation Specialists
Episode 735 – How To Treat Your Content Like You Are An Artist? What’s Your Canvas?
Episode 734 – Generate Better Sales By Communicating Through Authenticity with Ridgely Goldsborough
Episode 733 – You May Want Leads… But What You Really Need Is Prospects?
Episode 732 – What’s An Audience Blueprint vs A Brand Blueprint with Mike Verret
Episode 731 – How Will Changing Your Marketing… Actively Improve Your Sales Success?
Episode 730 – Becoming A Trusted Advisor – Part 2 with Mark SA Smith
Episode 729 – The 10 Most POWERFUL Words In Business (Besides Thank You!)
Episode 728 – Becoming A Trusted Advisor – Part 1 with Mark SA Smith
Episode 727 – Relationship Marketing For Success? Connect With Someone And Their Network
Episode 726 – Overcoming The Red Tape Of Filling Jobs With Foreign Workers with Jacki Lentini
Episode 725 – Marketing B2b For Better Sales – 3 Things It Is & 3 Things It Is NOT?
Episode 724 – Framing Your Negative Messages In A Positive Way with Jeff Ward
Episode 723 – Why Is Artificial Intelligence So Bad At Sales And Marketing?
Episode 722 – Creating One Million Jobs Through Collaboration with Dennis Yu
Episode 721 – The Bento Box And How To Bite Size Your Marketing Messages
Episode 720 – The Psychology of Intentional Social Media with Brian Kinghorn
Episode 719 – Why Social Media is NOT Effective As Advertising? (Well Sort Of)
Episode 718 – Working, Selling, and Leading By Finding Your Authenticity & Flow with Victoria Montgomery Brown
Episode 717 – Want Clients To Really Take A Look? Put It In An Ebook
Episode 716 – Fostering Innovation In Your Business with Dan Toma
Episode 715 – Critical R.A.C.E. Theory and How To Win With YOUR Business?
Episode 714 – Good Comes First – Leadership Tips with Mark Babbitt & Chris Edmonds
Episode 713 – Content Marketing Trends – Is Your Business Chasing The Wrong Ball?
Episode 712 – Best Of – The 3 P’s of Increasing Your Sales with Phil Gerbyshak
Episode 711 – How Can A Great Marketing System Overcome Disruption In Business?
Episode 710 – A Business Ready To Sell… Is A GREAT Business with Mark SA Smith
Episode 709 – Want To Sell Your Business? Use Marketing To Increase Your Valuation
Episode 708 – Dealing With Change And Becoming Undisruptable with Aidan McCullen
Episode 707 – What Is The Secret B2b Marketing Formula? (Math is Hard – Success Is Not)
Episode 706 – Best Of – Timbits Selling and Delivering Value with David Priemer
Episode 705 – A Bolt Of Lightning – Inspiration vs Disruption?
Episode 704 – Trust Based Selling with Ari Galper
Episode 703 – Life Just Happens… While You’re Running Your Business
Episode 702 – Beacons Of Leadership with Chris Voss