The Cambridge Marketing Podcast

Career Options in Marketing

If you're working in the world of marketing, and are thinking about the "next step", then this week's podcast is an essential listen.  I'm joined by three different contributors as we look at Interim Management, Leadership and Entrepreneurship. 

 

Nick Wake, Jaspar Robertson and Alison Theaker with Kiran Kapur.

Opinionated Marketers on: Changing Work Patterns

As Domino's Pizza launch a huge "post Covid-19" recruitment drive, our opinionated marketers discuss the changing work patterns that we're likely to see over the next 12 months.  Kiran Kapur and Charles Nixon discuss, with further reading here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57310154 and https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/inflation-rate-cpi

Apprenticeships 101

This week, everything you ever wanted to know about apprenticeships but were too frightened to ask!  

How do you take on an apprentice?  Where do you find an apprenticeship?  How old do you have to be?  In the next 20 minutes, you'll find out (and more!)

Opinionated Marketers on: Instant Gratification

This week our Opinionated Marketers consider whether the big supermarkets have been "caught napping" as Millennials seek quicker delivery times and new businesses oblige.  

The Chartered Institute of Marketing

This week we speak to James Farmer, Head of Brand and Marketing Communications at the Chartered Institute of Marketing.  We talk about the challenges of Marketing to Marketers, and explore the benefits of CIM membership.

Opinionated Marketers on: Supply Chains

Bricks, Roof Tiles and Cadbury's Flakes all have one thing in common.  Supply issues.  This week our Opinionated Marketers discuss whether it really IS an issue, or more of an 'opportunity'.  

Associated reading here: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/may/15/building-crisis-looms-as-dwindling-supplies-bring-sites-grinding-to-a-halt and https://smallbusiness.co.uk/2020-set-to-be-record-year-for-new-companies-created-2551479/ 

Marketing in Estate Agency

This week, we consider how marketing property for sale has changed in the last 15 years.  My guest is Rowan Waller, owner of "Wallers Estate Agents" in Oxford.  We'll discuss how the internet revolutionised Estate Agency, and consider how it might look in another 15 years time.

Opinionated Marketers on - PROFIT

This week - two stories make us consider whether Corporations behave in a hypocritical way, contrary to CSR claims that they regularly make.

Our opinionated marketers are Kiran Kapur and Charles Nixon, with further reading here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57050690

https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/us-attorneys-general-urge-facebook-to-drop-plans-for-an-instagram-for-kids-995120

A Podcast on Podcasts

This week, we talk Podcasting.  My special guest is a radio presenter, producer and editor of this very podcast - Daniel Fox.  He'll offer you top tips to make your Podcast sound professional and, most importantly, get an audience.  

Opinionated Marketers on: THE OBSOLESCENCE BLAME GAME

This week Kiran Kapur and Charles Nixon discuss the BBC Radio 4 programme "Dare to Repair", and why the blame for built in obsolescence SEEMS to be falling at the feet of marketers.

Hear the original programme here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vgh8