Episodes

  • How Sales and Marketing Effectiveness Turns into Revenue Generation

    How Sales and Marketing Effectiveness Turns into Revenue Generation
    Nov 22 2024
    Why are traditional market research firms getting left behind in the industry's rapid evolution? On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO Priscilla McKinney talks with Tony Brown, founder of SKAIL, about transforming revenue generation strategies beyond traditional relationship-based selling. The urgency of this transformation is evident in recent industry reports, which show traditional firms growing at just 3% while the overall industry enjoys a 7.6% expansion rate. McKinney and Brown discuss how market research firms can adapt to changing market conditions, particularly focusing on marketing effectiveness in their business development efforts. Brown, with over 25 years of experience as a fractional sales leadership consultant, shares insights on helping research firms transition from reputation-based growth to proactive business development, emphasizing the importance of measuring marketing automation ROI. "Sales is not really about sales," Brown explains. "It's truly about understanding your clients' needs and understanding that you personally have a skill set that is of value." They also discuss the evolving role of conferences in business development, the challenges of balancing "seller-doer" roles within research firms, and the importance of properly implementing CRM systems. Brown emphasizes the need for cohesive strategies that align marketing efforts with sales processes, while McKinney highlights the critical connection between customer experience and revenue growth. The conversation touches on how AI's advancement might actually increase the value of qualitative research, positioning firms for future success if they can adapt their sales and marketing approaches accordingly. Sponsors: Priscilla McKinney has taught many forward-thinking B2B professionals how to build a personal brand and create a presence on social media that advances their careers, showcases their thought leadership, and creates a dynamic relationship that expands their network. Now, she has put together a giveaway with the tools to make your social influence life easy. Click HERE for a chance to win this exciting package of goodies to start building your social influence today! (drawings to be held at stated dates) 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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    28 mins
  • How to Build Your Social Influence in a Trust Economy

    How to Build Your Social Influence in a Trust Economy
    Nov 8 2024
    Trust and human connection are driving innovation in our digital world. On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO Priscilla McKinney talks with global trust expert and author Philipp Kristian about developing a thought leadership strategy that transforms how businesses approach social selling and building your social influence in the digital age. McKinney and Kristian discuss how the trust economy is revolutionizing business relationships and social influence, drawing from Kristian's extensive work with Fortune 500 companies and his book "The Trust Economy: Building Strong Networks and Realizing Exponential Value in the Digital Age." Through their conversation, they explore how technology is scaling human connection and why innovation naturally emerges in environments where trust flourishes."What technology is doing [is] scaling human connection," Kristian explains. "When we scale human connection and trust, all of a sudden, there are a huge number of possibilities, and innovation happens only when there is connection." They also discuss the neuroscience behind problem-solving, the value of diverse perspectives in decision-making, and practical techniques for effective social selling through authentic relationships. Their conversation touches on the importance of collaborative leadership, the power of vulnerability in innovation, and how businesses can develop a thought leadership strategy that builds genuine trust and influence. Sponsors: Priscilla McKinney here! 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. 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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    35 mins
  • Best Practices for Successful Account Based Marketing (ABM)

    Best Practices for Successful Account Based Marketing (ABM)
    Oct 25 2024
    Ready to stop chasing every lead and focus on the ones that matter? On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO Priscilla McKinney talks with guest and CRO Stephanie Douglass about Account-Based Marketing (ABM). As a B2B lead generation agency, Little Bird Marketing shares insights on this targeted and customer driven marketing strategy that focuses on identifying and pursuing specific high-value accounts rather than casting a wide net with traditional demand generation approaches. McKinney and Douglass discuss marketing effectiveness through the three-tiered approach to ABM: one-to-one (highly personalized campaigns for specific large accounts), one-to-few (targeting similar companies within specific industries), and one-to-many (broader targeting that resembles traditional demand generation). They explore the FIRE framework for selecting target accounts: Fit (alignment with ideal customer profile), Intent (showing interest in solutions), Relationship (existing connections), and Engagement (interactions with company content). "One of the key differences between demand generation and account-based marketing is what you start with," Douglass explains. "In DemandGen, you're trying to create demand for a product that you have, but in account-based marketing, you're trying to identify the people who are gonna buy your product first." They also discuss the importance of proper data management and CRM implementation through platforms like HubSpot, including the critical role of HubSpot lifecycle stages in tracking prospect engagement. The conversation explores the distinction between true personalization versus simple token replacement in marketing communications, and the resource requirements for executing effective ABM campaigns at different tiers. The conversation touches on the value of maintaining quality customer relationships over pursuing purely revenue-based partnerships. Sponsors: Priscilla McKinney here, CEO and Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing. 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 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.
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    25 mins
  • QuestionPro’s XDay North America 2024: A Little Bird Marketing Flyover

    QuestionPro’s XDay North America 2024: A Little Bird Marketing Flyover
    Oct 11 2024
    **This episode of Ponderings from the Perch is a replay of a popular episode first aired on Digital Transformation Success, the premier podcast for no-nonsense discussions of digital innovation in business.** No matter how advanced the technology it uses, market research still needs astute judgment… and the best judgment comes from humans. On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO, Priscilla McKinney, gives her patented Conference Flyover of Question Pro’s XDay 2024 in Austin, TX. XDay is a premier event where the best and brightest in market research come together to both network and share insights. Mckinney, and Little Bird Marketing CRO, Stephanie Douglass, talk with industry experts, such as Garry Batroff of Thematic and Ibby Sayed of Cotera (who is also a fellow podcaster). Question Pro’s Cecil Puvathingal joins Priscilla in a conversational recap about what they heard and felt throughout the day. There were moments of inspiration – both personal and professional. They talk about conversations they had about solving timely problems in business including thoughts around digital innovation, data integrity, customer satisfaction, employee relations, communication gaps, maintaining a high survey response rate, and the impact of AI. Many colleagues were mentioned and some interviewed. Expand your network immediately by connecting with them on LinkedIn. We’ve made it easy for you with each link: Ibby Sayed, Gary Batroff, Cecil Puvanthingal, Stanley Gibbs, James Canga and Jeff Noonan,Mainak Mazumdar, Tim Sanders (who, by the way, is also a published author), Dr. Andrea Hollingsworth, Stan Sthanunathan, Julie Rodda Ph.D, Stephanie Murphy Ph.D, Mainak Mazumdar and of course, Vivek Bhaskaran, founder and CEO of QuestionPro. 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. Priscilla McKinney has taught many forward-thinking B2B professionals how to build a personal brand and create a presence on social media that advances their careers, showcases their thought leadership, and creates a dynamic relationship that expands their network. Now, she has put together a giveaway with the tools to make your social influence life easy. Click HERE for a chance to win this exciting package of goodies to start building your social influence today! (drawings to be held at stated dates)
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    44 mins
  • Greenbook's IIEX LATAM: A Little Bird Marketing Flyover

    Greenbook's IIEX LATAM: A Little Bird Marketing Flyover
    Oct 4 2024
    Today, Miami. Tomorrow, the world! On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO, Priscilla McKinney, gives you her conference flyover of Greenbook’s IIEX LATAM in Miami, Florida. IIEX LATAM is a conference dedicated to exploring the latest trends, technologies, and methodologies in market research, with a specific focus on gathering market insights from the Latin American region. She talks with leaders in market research about evolving marketing strategies and consumer insights in Latin America and how Spanish and Portuguese are needed for conducting representative market research in the U.S. McKinney's guests, such as Natalia Infante Caylor, Brian Ewan, and Ricardo Alvarez, discuss topics like the importance of understanding Hispanic markets, the role of AI in revolutionizing marketing analysis, and the challenges of discrete choice modeling. The conversations delve into various aspects of marketing strategy, from the nuances of multicultural research to the impact of fintech on traditional banking in Latin America. Guests also explore the controversy surrounding terminology like "Latinx" and the growing need for customization in research approaches. "AI is revolutionizing everything," explains Alvarez. "It's going to make a big impact." Here are the names and LinkedIn accounts for all of McKinney's guests. If you find any of them interesting and want to link up with them, feel free to do so. But if you do, please let them know that Little Bird Marketing sent you their way: Natalia Infante Caylor, Brian McEwan, Cassiano Albequerque, Elizabeth Hecht, Emmily Maduro, Erica Ross, Gabriel Velez, Natalie Pusch, Ricardo Alvarez, and Tal Oren. . Use this podcast and list to immediately expand your network and start meaningful conversations! Special thanks to Carlos Hevia and the Multilingual Connections team for a fun photo booth experience at the event. Sponsors: 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. EMI Research Solutions is a leading online sample consultancy dedicated to delivering high-quality, unbiased data tailored to the needs of their clients. Built on the foundation of quality, they were the first sample provider to recognize and implement sample blending as a best practice to reduce the sample bias inherent within and across panels. Their unique strategic sample blending methodology was built based on more than 11 years of research-on-research into the sample industry, making them an industry expert in the space. You can learn about EMI, their solutions, and download their annual report on the sample industry, called The Sample Landscape, by visiting their website at http://www.emi-rs.com .
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    55 mins
  • 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
  • Why Have a System for Effective Content Marketing

    Why Have a System for Effective Content Marketing
    Sep 6 2024
    It’s time to rethink how businesses use marketing. On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO, Priscilla McKinney, talks about our proprietary SOAR™ - Strategy, Organization, Accountability, and Repeatability - system, a structured approach to marketing. While many businesses use systems for everyday tasks, like shopping lists and calendars, many abandon this systematic thinking when it comes to marketing. The SOAR™ system, on the other hand, is designed to help businesses create a sustainable lead generation system. It is broken down into three main elements: understand, unlock and unleash. The "understand" phase focuses on laying the groundwork by clarifying who the target audience is, establishing clear goals, and evaluating existing marketing assets. In the "unlock" phase, emphasizes the importance of organizing content into clusters to establish authority on specific topics in search engines. And finally, the "unleash" phase involves implementing paid promotions to amplify organic success and analyzing results to determine what's working and what isn't. Throughout her discussion, McKinney emphasizes that a good marketing plan should help identify which activities to stop rather than simply adding more initiatives, promoting what she calls "radical simplicity" in marketing strategy. "Marketing isn't just about creating pretty graphics or clever taglines,” McKinney explains. “It's about creating a sustainable, measurable system that generates leads and helps your business grow." McKinney then explains how the SOAR™ system can actually be implemented in the workspace, depending on a company's needs and circumstances, such as if a company has or does not have a marketing department. She also shares a success story about implementing the system with thinknow, a multicultural market research firm, where they developed five different ideal client buyers and reorganized their content strategy, leading to tangible results within six months. Sponsors: Priscilla McKinney here, CEO and Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing. 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. Priscilla McKinney has taught many forward-thinking B2B professionals how to build a personal brand and create a presence on social media that advances their careers, showcases their thought leadership, and creates a dynamic relationship that expands their network. Now, she has put together a giveaway with the tools to make your social influence life easy. Click HERE for a chance to win this exciting package of goodies to start building your social influence today! (drawings to be held at stated dates)
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    15 mins