Confessions of a Pink-Haired Marketer
by Rainmaker.FM: The Digital Marketing and Sales Network · 71 episodes
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Sonia Simone delivers advice, encouragement, and the occasional rant from outside the drone of the marketing mainstream. Join her for a regular mix of monologues, interviews, and answers to your content marketing questions.
Latest episodes
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24 min
The 2 Points of Clarity that Will Make You So Much More Productive
Are you struggling to make progress on a project, a business, or something in your personal life? Find these two points of clarity for a map out of “the land of Stuck.”…
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25 min
Launching Your First (or Next) Digital Product
Ready to launch a digital product? Here’s are the first steps to get you moving … One of the greatest things you can do to boost your income, or just expand your option…
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24 min
A Quick, Enjoyable Way to Sharpen your Vision, Goals, and Values
How do we know we’re successful? How do we set up the rules of our own game so that they serve us, and give us a more meaningful life? Jonathan Nation left a nice comment on…
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24 min
Q&A from Twitter, Independence Day Version!
The keys to good sponsored content or native advertising, content for B2B organizations, and how to make connections with the big-audience content publishers … It’s Ind…
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23 min
The Difference Between Mindset and Wishful Thinking
Is an “abundance mindset” the same thing as wishing really hard and making something magically appear? I don’t think it is. Here’s why … As you may ha…
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29 min
Things I Love / Things I Hate #4: Trade Secrets, Transparency, and Lemonade Stands
When is it smart to keep your business’s “trade secrets” — and when should you blow them up? How much sharing is too much? As I was writing a quick introduc…
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24 min
Should You Swear on Your Blog?
Language is complicated, and in the context of shifting cultural norms, it gets even more complicated. So the question comes up: Is it OK to swear in our content marketing? We had…
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20 min
Up All Night to Get Lucky: Sonia’s in a New Documentary!
No, it’s not a simplistic “Secret,” but there are some very pragmatic benefits to adopting a mindset of abundance. I’m going to be in a documentary! It̵…
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25 min
The Context of a Successful Content Strategy: The Harpoon and the Net
Content marketing has been a hot buzzword for awhile now, but it’s tricky to pull off unti you understand this context. Once upon a time, combining relationship-building cont…
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27 min
My #1 Time Management Tip: Don’t Multitask; Compartmentalize
What’s one of the biggest constraints that keeps us from doing the things we want to do? We don’t have the time. Here are some thoughts on how to manage that. Remember…
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20 min
The 7 ‘Escape Pod’ Principles (Help Me Write My Book!)
This week I want to talk about the values, practices, and principles that help us build “escape pods” from whatever is not serving us. And I’d love to hear your t…
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19 min
Things I Love / Things I Hate #3: Nerdy Nummies and Crummy Content
Great content creators are made, not born. It takes a mix of a well-chosen topic, smart content strategy, attention to craft, and lots of personality. Then, as Rosanna Pansino woul…
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15 min
Leadership, Categories of One, and Purple Rain
Real leadership starts when you step up with the courage to be a category of one. I have a short episode for you this week, honoring the life of Prince and opening up some ideas ab…
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19 min
Make Better Mondays! 6 Minutes to a Happier, More Productive Week
Creative productivity is all about habits. Here’s a super quick weekly ritual (you could even do it daily) to have a brilliant week … every week It’s a funny para…
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24 min
5 Idea-Generating Techniques We Use on the Copyblogger Team
“Help! I have no idea what to write about!” We’ve all been there — and when you produce as much content as the Copyblogger team, keeping the idea stream flo…
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26 min
Blog or Podcast? 5 Questions to Help You Decide
Blogging isn’t the only game in town any more for content marketers. Podcasts are super popular as the new “do-it-yourself” content format. So which works better,…
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25 min
Two EQ Hacks: A Nifty Trick for Making Big Changes, and How to Handle Hurt Feelings
Today, two techniques that can boost your “EQ” (emotional intelligence) and help you be a happier, more productive person. Today I have two techniques for you — a…
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29 min
Things I Love/Things I Hate about Health & Fitness Marketing
Health and fitness have some of the strongest examples around of good content marketing — and unfortunately, they also have some of the sleaziest. It’s that time again!…
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30 min
A Simple, Powerful Creativity System to Capture and Generate More Ideas
Creativity isn’t just about getting inspired — it’s about strong systems to capture inspiration when it arises. Today I outline a simple system I’m using to…
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22 min
Anniversary Edition! On Finding Your Stubbornness and Going the Distance
It’s the podcast’s birthday! To celebrate, today I want to talk about one of my favorite traits: stubbornness. There are all kinds of traits our culture insists we R…