
Embracing Marketing Mistakes
Welcome to Embracing Marketing Mistakes, the essential top-ten pod for senior marketers determined to grow their brands all by learning from real-world screw ups.
Each week, join hosts Chris Norton and Will Ockenden, seasoned PR professionals with over 45 years of combined experience, as they candidly explore the marketing failures most marketers would rather forget. Featuring insightful conversations with industry-leading marketing experts and value-packed solo episodes, the podcast tries to uncover the valuable lessons from genuine marketing disasters and, crucially, the tips and steps you need to take to avoid them.
Chris and Will bring practical experience from founding the award-winning PR agency Prohibition PR, where they have successfully guided top brands to significant growth through PR strategy, social media, media relations, content marketing, and strategic brand-building.
Tune in to to turn f*ck ups into progress, mistakes into lessons, and challenges into real-life competitive advantages. Well we hope so anyway.
Embracing Marketing Mistakes
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Ever wondered why some marketing campaigns flop while others skyrocket? Uncover the secrets of transforming your marketing mishaps and f*ck ups into monumental successes with the Embracing Marketing Mistakes Podcast.
Join me, Chris Norton, and my co-owner, Will Ockenden, as we guide you through the labyrinth of marketing screw-ups, sharing our 25 years of industry insight and expertise. Promising to boost your ROI and skyrocket your revenue, we reveal how even the most costly mistakes can become powerful learning experiences that can help you grow and win.
Every week, we feature invaluable wisdom from industry-leading marketers and share real-life examples of marketing missteps so you can avoid those pitfalls. Whether you're a CMO or Head of Marketing for a high-revenue company, this podcast is packed with actionable strategies to help refine your marketing playbook and ensure your campaigns deliver unprecedented success.
Subscribe to "Embracing Marketing Mistakes" and turn every marketing failure into your own stepping stone toward record-breaking achievements.
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Have you ever experienced a marketing campaign falling flat despite all of your efforts? Do you struggle with understanding why some marketing strategies fail while others succeed beyond expectations? Well, picture this You've just finished a marketing campaign that seemed perfect on paper but ended up being a costly mistake. Well, what if those mistakes could be turned into your greatest learning experiences? What if you could double your marketing ROI while also achieving record revenue? Welcome to Embracing Marketing Mistakes. My name is Chris Norton and I'm an experienced and award-winning communications consultant with over 25 years industry knowledge and practice. As the founder of my company, Prohibition, I lead a dynamic and creative team that deliver integrated and impactful PR campaigns for diverse clients across various sectors. My agency has won more than 35 industry awards in just 12 years, including agency of the year on eight separate occasions, and I'm Will Ockenden, the co -owner at Prohibition.
Speaker 1:We work with some of the best known brands in the country, helping them connect the dots between content, marketing, PR, SEO and social media, resulting in not just brand awareness but traffic, sales and conversions. On this podcast, every week, we will feature interviews with industry leading marketers, as well as solo episodes where we will share real life examples of marketing mistakes so that you can avoid them.
Speaker 2:So if you're a CMO or head of marketing with revenues of more than 15 million, looking to achieve record revenue and double your marketing ROI, go ahead and subscribe to Embracing Marketing Mistakes wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 1:Pretty soon you'll be well on your way to never dealing with a failed marketing campaign again.