An interview with Fiachra O'Marcaigh, Director at Amas. Amas helps companies and State organisations to make better use of online channels to communicate, interact and transact. Also joining Fiachra andmyself for the discussion on copywriting is one of Ireland's foremost freelance copywriters - Robert Hayes-McCoy who gives some practical advice on how to best devise copy for the direct mail medium. PLEASE Note that a copy of Rober's book 'Persuasive Direct Marketing' has been donated by Robert and to be in with a chance to win, just put a comment in telling us why you would like to get a copy. The most creative answer will be sent a copy.

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An interview with Ad Fx Awards winners, Sharon Fitzparick, Director at Ogilvy and Mather (Ireland) who discusses the Deep River Rock mineral water advertising campaign and Diane Tangney, Strategic Planning Director of Cawley Nea TBWA who discusses the Mc Donalds Good Employer campaign. The ADFX Awards honour the most effective advertising campaigns that appeared in both the Irish and International markets between June 30th 2004 and July 31st 2006. Entries are submitted from IAPI member agencies or advertisers whose campaigns were produced by an IAPI member agency. Full details on the awards may be found on the IAPI website.

An interview with Liam Birkett on the topics of trademarks and patents. Liam Birkett's career began in office management, Carton Brothers, wholesale grocers, then extended into sales and marketing. He was involved in the launch of Mace and VG group trading in Ireland. His experience extended into wholesale, retail, cash & carry, direct marketing and consultancy on a national and international basis. He then worked in the cosmetic industry and later moved into O'Kennedy Brindley Advertising as an account executive. With colleagues from the advertising agency, he founded Bernardini, Birkett & Gardner Ltd, a design/marketing consultancy which, for more than 20 years was responsible for corporate identities and many marketing initiatives for Stokes, Kennedy Crowley, Waterford Foods, Monaghan Co-op, Smurfit/K Club, GAA branding as well as graphic and packaging projects for high profile clients. He also, as special projects, undertook major international marketing assignments for high profile clients, Irish Biscuits, and PARC to name but two. Being an inventor who has experienced the patenting process first hand and sold the inventions, he is acknowledged as working in familiar territory by those he advises. For over 7 years he was an intellectual property consultant with the biggest IP firm in Ireland and now runs his own consultancy. He can be contacted at birkett@eircom.net

This podcast features an interview with Marc Charron, Managing Director Europe for Tripadvisor which is an internet phemonenom. With 22million subscribers and some 5 million reviews on site, Tripadvisor is the world's most trafficked hotel and holiday review site. The interview was recorded at the SMILE Conference 2006 Ireland's premier conference for the tourism and hospitality sector, where Marc was a guest speaker. In the interview Marc gives an insight into the success of Tripadvisor and the opportunities that exist for companies who are prepared to engage in online dialogue with their customers.

The podcast also features a debate on the extent to which the Internet is the future of advertising. The debate was held as part of the third Empathy Marketing Conference Empathy marketing is an Irish internet success with its Pigsback.com internet site having 250000 subscribers seeking benefits from a range of FMCG and services companies. The debate was chaired by Pigsback MD Michael Dwyer.

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In the run up to the International Wireless Conference to be held in Dublin on Ocotber 18th, I interviewed John Strand of Strand Consult John is one of the best-known mobile wireless consultants in the business. Anyone who has met John knows that he always speaks his opinion. Being honest - and giving his honest opinion on current issues in the mobile industry has become John's trademark - even when it means being controversial or treading on some toes. John Strand's uncanny ability to predict coming challenges for the mobile market and his straightforward attitude to what customers are doing right and wrong has made John a valued speaker at mobile conferences all over the world and he is constantly quoted in the Scandinavian and International press.

The podcast also features an interview with Darrell Crowe, Sales and Marketing Manager of Repak Repak is Irelands first voluntary initiative between industry and the Department of the Environment designed to meet industrys producer responsibility obligations under the EU directive on packaging and packaging waste.

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The Sharks Advertising Festival is one of Europe's most successful festivals of its type and has just celebrated its 44th running. Held from the 7-9th September, in the beautiful coastal town of Kinsale, Co.Cork, the festival drew over 1000 entries from around the globe. To consult a full list of the winners check out the Sharks link on the IAPI Website where a full list of winners can be consulted together with the line up of speakers. This podcast was recorded after the main awards ceremony and includes interviews with delegates, judges, organisers and visiting media.

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An interview with David Connor of Pareto 3D Marketing where David explains the concept of experiential marketing. David uses case studies from Lynx deoderant and AIB Bank

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Interview 1 - interview with Martin Murray, CEO of Interactive Return where Martin reports back from the world's largest search engine conference held in San Jose in mid-August. Martin explains the main trends in search engine marketing and discusses the growth prospects for SEM and which sectors are showing best prospects.

Interview 2 - interview with John Wood, Senior Analyst at IQ Content, who discusses the challenge of using focus groups as a means of testing website usability. In the interview John discusses also a new product from Google - the Google Search Appliance - that they have the exclusive license for in Ireland.

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Interview 1 - interview with Pat Mannion, commercial director of JC Decaux (Ireland) where Pat discusses the trends in the outdoor media landscape and the new technologies that are increasingly being used. Pat mentioned in the interview that you may send him an e.mail at info@jcdecaux.ie if you wish to get more examples of case studies that JC Decaux have done in outdoor advertising.

Interview 2 - interview with James Kennedy of Irish mobile software company Smartnote, who are among the pioneers of trials of delivering podcasts direct to people's mobile phones.

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A Special Podcast on the topic of Sports Sponsorship

Interview with John Trainor of Onside Sponsorship a specialist sponsorship consultancy company who discusses sports sponsorship in the context of sponsorship overall. John examines the challenges that sports scandals will have on sponsors attitudes and gives us an insight into the scale of sports sponsorships such as the London Olympics 2012.

An interview John Redmond of Slattery Communications where he heads up the sports and sponsorship division. In a wide ranging interview, John gives his opinion on how sports sponsorship is evolving and the motivations that are driving more companies to consider this as a form of marketing communication. John explores the sponorship opportunities for the Ryder Cup which is coming to Ireland in September 2006 and his perspective on what sports properties are likely to receive more attention from sponsors in the future.

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The Persuaders Marketing Podcast returns after a four week break. Among those who stood in for me while I have been off air has been Gerard Tannam of Islandbridge Brand Direction Gerard took over the mike on July 14th, Bastille Day, and so it was appropriate that his show explore Franco-Irish marketing issues.

During the interview Gerard talks to Miriam Doyle of Mimitoys. Miriam is a French mother of 2 toddlers, Molly 4 and Malachy 3, who has established a successful toy business in Ireland.

Anne Marie Roynane is a founder of Terraconnecta - a Paris based recruitment company with proven track record working with corporations across all sectors in Europe, Asia, Africa, US and Latin America, and is uniquely placed to comment on the cultural challenges to doing business in France.

John Crawley of Ouicando . John has a proven track record as a successful businessman in designing company strategy, arranging complex financial & property transactions, providing a decision supporting Finance role to businesses, leading and directing large & small teams as well as organisational transformation and change management.

An interview with John Saunders of Fleishman Hillard - John Saunders founded the company in 1990 and has managed its growth to Ireland's largest public relations consultancy and one of Fleishman-Hillard's most successful international offices.

In 2004, John was appointed Fleishman-Hillard's Regional Director of Europe. In his role he is responsible for the firms offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Dublin, Frankfurt, Milan, Munich, Paris, Prague and Warsaw. He is also responsible for relationships with a range of affiliate partners throughout Europe.

In a wide ranging interview John assesses the whole spectrum of activities carried out by Public Relations consultancies: consumer PR, crisis management, reputation management. He gives case examples such as Budweiser and TWA to illustrate best and worst practice.

John is also President of International Communications Consultancy Organisation

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Sales Coaching, Marketing Outsourcing and Radio Syndication are the topics included in this extended version of The Persuaders Marketing Podcast.

Show notes and timeline:

1'25" Interview with Frank Dick MBE. Coaching has been Frank's passion for decades, inspiring world-beating performances from some of the top names in sport - Daley Thompson, Boris Becker, Gerhard Berger and Katarina Witt. He is currently involved with Denise Lewis, Ronnie Irani, Justin Rose, Marat Safin, Ipswich Town Football Club and Jean Todt (Ferrari Formula One Manager). In business, he has helped develop a coaching culture in British Telecom, Unilever, Shell, Abbey National and Rolls Royce. In this interview, conducted at the Sales Institute of Ireland annual conference, I discuss with Frank the distinction between leadership and coaching in the context of effective selling.

12'45" Interview on the topic of outsourcing in marketing with John Fareed of Fareed and Zapala hospitality marketing consultants and Nora Duggan of outsourcing specialists Alternatives.

34'50" A Brief Word on Branding with Gerard Tannam

37'56" An Interview with Dusty Rhodes from Digital Audio Productions who has just secured the contract to broadcast an Alice Cooper radio show every Saturday night on Irish radio. In the interview we discuss the impact of podcasting and digital radio generally on existing broadcast formats.

In this edition of The Persuaders Marketing Podcast, I interview two of the students from the Masters degree in Advertising at Dublin Institute of Technology. As part of their course, they formed competing 'agencies' to pitch for the Budweiser account. Representatives from Budweiser as well as numerous industry representatives attended a presentation and reception where the competing teams put forward their advertising strategy. In this podcast we get a chance to listen to their approaches. PLEASE PUT IN A COMMENT TO TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK OF THEIR IDEAS. In addition in the podcast I interview Paul Kavanagh. Starting his radio career in Ireland over 20 years ago in the era of pirate radio, Paul is recognised as one of Europe's top radio station consultants and has worked with over 30 stations here. At present he is the Managing Director of Riviera Radio in Monaco, France.

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With Google, Amazon, ebay and yahoo having their European base in Ireland, it should come as no surprise that recriutment for the internet marketing sector is booming here. In this programme I interview Gary Mullen, Director of Prosperity Consultants about the types of roles being recruited for, the salaries that are on offer and the strategies required by overseas candidates to pick up a job in Europe's internet marketing capital. In addition I get some feedback from Fergal O'Byrne of the Irish Internet Association from their recent conference which featured keynote addresses from Google, Yahoo, and MSN as well as from the founders of internet chat space phenomenon for Irish and UK teens Bebo.

Plus at the start of the podcast I speak to some of the marketers of the future - from the Mercy Secondary School in Galway who recently won the AIB Bank competition for secondary schools.

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Last week I was asked to chair the Initiative Media sponsored Dialogue session on the radio market - held co-incidenally in one of Dublin's trendiest clubs called POD. Anyway the seminar had a lot of very interesing speakers. On the client side Paul Farrell from O2 gave a great presentation on the way that company is exploring the digital media revolution. Paul Kavanagh's presentation centred on how as a consultant to Riviera Radio in Monaco he helped the station to climb from 30th to 7th place in the local market there. Other speakers included producer Mark Robinson from Australia who gave a very interesting insight into the process of producing good programming and from Mindshare, David Sneddon put the performance of radio in a broader total media context. On this podcast I thought I would share a presentation from freelance creative consultant Nick Kelly that I know the audience found both fascinating and hilarious in equal measure. If you haven't heard some of the radio ads he will be showcasing you are in for a treat. I've no doubt you'll be forwarding them to your peers for a good laugh. YOU CAN AUTOMATICALLY RECEIVE EACH NEW EPISODE OF THE PERSUADERS MARKETING PODCAST BY SUBSCRIBING FROM THE i-TUNES PODCAST DIRECTORY.

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Advertising insights from John Fanning, Chairman of Mc Connells Advertising and a veteran of the Irish and UK advertising industry for over 40 years. John discusses his early career in advertising and his take on the challenges faced by the sector today. As someone with a passionate interest in the process of branding, John explores the challenges faced by small indigenous players in the face of a globalised marketing communications assault. John Fanning's musings on branding can be reviewed at Mc Connells Advertising Branding Papers

 

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An interview with Ashling Brennan, Account Director at Interactive Return

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In this Podcast I interview Krishna De founder of personal development and branding consultancy Oneocean Group.

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In this edition of The Persuaders Marketing Podcast, I interview one of the UK's top experts in Direct Mail, Andy Owen. Andy is a popular speaker at Direct Marketing events in Europe and the Middle East and has published a book and DVD on the topic of direct marketing. His website CopywritingThatSells is a treasure trove of information for those looking for a winning edge in their DM communications.

In this Podcast, I have uploaded a number of episodes of A Brief Word on Branding which is a regular feature on the radio show. Presented by Gerard Tannam of Islandbridge.com Brand Direction, the series is an insightful take on the challenges faced by brand builders everywhere. Gerard offers a unique perspective on the branding strategies employed by companies such as Guinness and Nike and contextualises them in the maelstrom of the modern consumer era. Check out the Islandbridge website for further articles on the topic of branding and real life examples of branding projects in progress. http://www.islandbridge.com

In this interview with John Trainor of OnsideSponsorship we explore the trends in sponsorship, both in Ireland and internationally. While sport sponsorships continue to garner the bulk of sponsorship funds, media and music sponsorships are increasing. What sectors of sponsorship are growing and how are property owners managing to leverage maximum benefit from their assets?

Recording of an interview with Donald Douglas, of Return2Sender.ie - Irish company with extensive blue chip client base who specialise in organising promotional campaigns via text messaging.

This is an interview I conduced with Fiachra O'Marcaigh of AMAS who specialise in advising clients on how to manage content for their websites. Fiachra is a former Irish Times journalist.

One of my guests on the show this week (10th February ) was Dan Hill, founder of US company Sensory Logic. In our telephone conversation we discussed the extent to which most of our thought is not conscious ( over 99% according to Dan) and the ramifications for this for advertisers. Dan pointed to the growing body of academic research pointing to the powerful impact the visual has on developing an emotional response to messages - with the role of copy being less important than many give credit for.