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In this episode, we’re joined by Paddy Moogan. Paddy is Founder of The New Leader, a training platform that enables agency teams to become more effective managers and leaders. He also works with agency founders as a coach and non-exec director to help them navigate the world of agency life. Previously, he spent ten years as CEO and co-founder of Aira, a digital marketing agency based in the UK.

This episode dives deep into the practical skills that separate mediocre managers from inspiring leaders. You'll discover why active listening is Paddy's secret weapon (born from an unexpected place), and how to deliver difficult feedback in ways that motivate rather than discourage. Whether you're struggling with delegation, managing remote teams, or having tough conversations about performance, Paddy offers actionable strategies that work in the real world of agency life.

| A good leader is probably someone who listens... They're better at listening to people. They try to empathize. They try to have a high degree of emotional intelligence, and I think really, they're quite selfless in many ways. ~ Paddy Moogan

This episode is for you if you’re curious about the following:

1. How to become a good manager
2. If you're in a management role and you don't have any management experience or training
3. How can you improve your management skills
4. How you can improve your leadership skills, no matter what your professional position.

Connect With Paddy

• Visit The New Leader website
• Connect with Paddy on LinkedIn
• Follow Paddy on Bluesky
• Follow Paddy on Mastodon

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Welcome to Season Three of Digital Marketing Victories Podcast. In this first episode, we’re joined by Dana DiTomaso, Founder & Lead Instructor at KP Playbook and President & Partner at Kick Point, where she helps people and teams do better marketing.

This episode is for you if you’re curious about the following:

1. You want to develop your analytic thinking. 
2. You want to be comfortable analyzing data and using it to persuade others.
3. You need tips around selecting and presenting data when you're persuading others to change their behavior.
4. You want to use data to guide a ruthless prioritization process to streamline your marketing requests.

Connect With Dana

• Visit Dana’s website 
• Learn about Kick Point
• Connect on LinkedIn, Bluesky and Mastodon
• Kick Point Playbook’s YouTube channel
• Find Dana’s decks on SpeakerDeck

Resources

Find resources mentioned on episode webpage.

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About This Episode

Join us as scaling consultant, Zac Stucki, unveils his secrets to using Jobs to Be Done Theory in your marketing program.  Zac is passionate about the jobs-to-be-done theory and how it can improve marketing effectiveness. He is an operations consultant with over 7-years of experience. He has a master's degree in business administration from a top-tier university and has worked with businesses throughout the United States. His work has helped to scale companies from 7 to 8 figures by understanding their customer’s jobs to be done, finding and fixing their operational limitations, and reducing project timelines.

This episode is perfect for you if you’re curious about the following:

1. How to utilize the jobs to be done theory to improve the messaging to your current and potential customers.
2. How to standardize processes to make marketing more efficient and effective, cut waste, reduce project timelines, and reduce customer churn.
3. How to conduct compelling customer interviews and build effective customer journeys that will positively impact your marketing efforts.

Tune in for an insightful conversation with Zac Stucki!

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About This Episode

Gus Pelogia is a journalist turned SEO, conference speaker, and once-in-a-while blogger. He is currently an SEO Product Manager at Indeed, the #1 job site in the world, with over 250 million unique visitors every month. Gus has worked in-house and at digital agencies in Argentina, the Netherlands, and Ireland. He spent five years as an Account Manager and Team Lead at agencies such as Spark Foundry (Core) and Wolfgang Digital, working with clients from travel, e-commerce, and professional services, winning several industry awards such as Digital Media Awards, The Drum Search Awards, and Irish Content Marketing Awards. Currently, Gus is also a judge for the EU Search Awards.

This episode is for you if you’re curious about the following:

1. How thinking like a product manager could help your developer relationships.
2. Tips for pivoting your career toward product management.
3. How to tell your story effectively to sell through your SEO tests.
4. How to present your story effectively to win awards.

"The idea of putting stars together, it's something that you take with you as a journalist, no matter what you do." - Gus Pelogia

Join us as we delve into an enlightening conversation with Gus Pelogia, the SEO Product Manager at Indeed, who brings his journalistic background to bear on his current role. Gus shares his wisdom on how adopting a product manager's mindset can align people effectively with a marketing strategy and how transitioning to product management can be a game-changer in your career. A wealth of tips and insights from Gus await you in this episode.

Tune in for a captivating conversation with Gus Pelogia!

Connect With Gus

• Connect with Gus on LinkedIn
• Follow Gus on Twitter
• Learn more about Gus on his website
• Find Gus on Growth Mentor
• His BrightonSEO slides

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About This Episode

We talk to Helene Jelenc, an SEO specialist at Flow SEO with a strong background in anthropology and research. She is an expert in active listening and note-taking, and has an anthropological approach to her work which she applies to her content creation, outreach, and persona creation.

This episode is for you if you’re curious about how an anthropological approach to outreach, content, and persona creation could enhance your SEO work. 

"Put yourself in someone else's shoes. It may seem really bizarre at first when you hear something that is completely different from what you do, but if you just take a moment and realize that maybe that culture or that person just came from a completely different set of circumstances, have a different set of values and that you should be understanding that culture or those behaviors on the basis of that historical, political, cultural aspects." - Helene Jelenc

You Will Learn

1. How anthropology can contribute to a holistic perspective.
2. The benefits of practicing active listening and note taking during interviews.
3. The impact of different platforms and audiences on content creation.

Connect With Helene

• Connect with Helene on LinkedIn
• Follow Helene on Twitter
• Consulting Helene (Company)
• Wandering Helene (Blog)

Resources
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About This Episode

We talk to Jo Juliana Turnbull, a freelancing marketing consultant, who shares her insights on how to build strong relationships remotely based on emotional intelligence and tidbits from her recent BrightonSEO talk on the subject.

"The higher your emotional intelligence, the better your relationships, the more successful you will be with digital marketing strategies and SEO." - Jo Juliana Turnbull

Jo is a freelancing marketing consultant in Barcelona, Spain, and the founder of Turn Digi. She was a runner up for Digital Women's Innovator of the Year in 2021. She is also an organizer of Search London, a 12-year-old organization. She has been working remotely since 2010 and has lived in 9 countries.

You Will Learn

1. How can understanding and improving emotional intelligence help build better relationships and further your career?
2. What behaviors can help build good relationships and how do they differ online and offline?
3. What actionable steps can be taken to improve empathy skills and build strong relationships?

Connect With Jo

• Learn more about Turn Digi
• Follow Turn Digi on Twitter @TurnDigi
• Learn more about Search London Meetup group
• Follow Search LDN on Twitter @SearchLDN
• Follow Jo on Twitter @SEOJoBlogs
• Connect with Jo on LinkedIn

Resources

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About This Episode

With the goal of empowering executives to unleash their potential, Dana Theus, CEO of InPower Coaching, offered her expertise in communication and relationship skills. We talked about how to use those skills to help persuade leadership, colleagues and overall become a better digital marketer, especially if you’re a woman.

"I do a lot of work with women, especially women on the leadership track because the system was built for men, not women. Women need an extra way to think about success that feels authentic to who they are. When we are our best selves, we will be more successful in the world."

- Dana Theus

In this episode, you will learn:

1. How can digital marketers become more effective when communicating negative news?
2. How can you become a better listener to build empathy and understanding?
3. Tips for persuading the C-suite vs cross teams. 
4. Tips for building relationships and be more influential in virtual meetings.

Dana Theus helps executives activate their most authentic leadership qualities and elevate their natural abilities to grow and lead others. She is a seasoned marketing executive with experience in Fortune 500 companies, tech startups, and nonprofits.

This episode of Digital Marketing Victories is about communication & relationship skills. Dana Theus shares with us to manage your work relationships, plan your career development, and develop better leadership habits that improve your ability to be more impactful. 

Lastly, she gives tips on building relationships and understanding your clients and coworkers better to be more persuasive.

If you’re interested in learning how to build relationships more effectively, learn tips for how to deliver bad news successfully, this episode is for you. 

Connect With Dana

• Learn about InPower Coaching
• Connect with Dana on LinkedIn
• Follow Dana on Twitter @DanaTheus

Resources

• InPower Dimension Coaching Facebook Community 
• Free career coaching resources

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About This Episode

In this episode of the Digital Marketing Victories podcast, Tony Kopetchny shares his insights on how to be persuasive in managing a digital transformation project - from reading the room to successfully handling moments of conflict with clients. 

"The reason everyone's getting upset with you isn't about the technology, it's because you're changing the culture."

Tony Kopetchny is the co-founder and CEO of ParsonsTKO, an engagement architecture consulting firm that serves mission driven organizations. He holds a BA in Film from Temple University and an MA in International Communications from American University. He currently resides in Fort Worth, Texas with his wife, daughter and three doggies, Rocky, Apollo and Philly.

In This Episode, You Will Learn

• How technology affects people's behavior 
• How to manage change within an organization 
• The importance of audience segmentation

Connect With Tony

• Learn about ParsonsTKO
• Connect with Tony on LinkedIn
• Follow Tony on Twitter @tonykopetchny

Resources
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About This Episode

In this episode we talk to Morgan, the Director of SEO at Statwax and dive into how she managed to grow an SEO team from just her (and she was completely new to SEO) to a five member team in under two years. 

If you need to convince your agency or boss that you’re underwater and need a team, or you’re a young woman looking to advance your career in the SEO industry, this episode is for you.

In This Episode, You Will Learn

• How to advance from an SEO specialist to an SEO director in under two years.
• How to persuade your company or management to invest in SEO resources and hires.
• Morgan’s strategy for growing and managing her team from one to five in less than two years.
• If you’re new to SEO, how you can expand your network and understanding of SEO.

Connect With Morgan

• Visit the Statwax website
• Connect with Morgan on LinkedIn
• Follow Morgan on Twitter

Resources Mentioned

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About This Episode
In this episode, we spend some time talking about empathy in the client/agency relationship with Will Russell of Russell Marketing. Along the way he highlights how having empathy for his clients (mostly entrepreneurs launching their first product via a crowdfunding campaign) is essential to ensuring their buy-in to his agency’s marketing approach. And he’s had HUGE wins with that agency including launches such at: 

• WeatherFlow TEMPEST (a cutting-edge weather station that raised $2,149,547 at launch) and 
• COFFEEJACK (a pocket-sized barista that raised $1,610,835 at launch).

This episode is for you if you are launching a brand or product on crowdfunding platforms like Indiegogo, Kickstarter, or if you want us to talk about how to create a culture of empathy among your employees and integrate that empathy into your work process.

Key takeaways

• Using empathy can build stronger human relationships and be more persuasive.
• How to work with your clients to get them to buy into your work process.
• How to launch on platforms like IndieGoGo and Kickstarter with Russell Marketing’s Five Step High-Profit Launch System (Validation, Audience Acquisition, Audience Engagement, Audience Conversation, Scale & Optimize).

Connect With Will

• Visit the Russell Marketing website
• Visit the Russell Gives Foundation website
• Connect with Will on LinkedIn
• Follow Will on Twitter

Resources Mentioned

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