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Don Peppers Looks At The Future Of Marketing

Episode #253 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

The Marketing industry only has a handful of true innovation legends. Don Peppers is one of them. Along with his business partner, Martha Rogers, they invented the term one-to-one marketing to "illustrate the importance of treating different customers differently." In 1993 they founded their own consulting company, Peppers & Rogers Group, to help brands understand the ever-changing world of the consumer, the power of data, CRM, the customer revolution and how to make Marketing more effective. They’re currently authoring their tenth business book, Extreme Trust (about the new dynamics of competition). My jaw nearly hit the floor a month back when Don left a comment on my Blog (it was one of those, "gee, maybe I should pay more attention to what I publish if thought-leaders like Don Peppers are reading me!"). I reached out to Don to see if he would have an appetite to come on to the show to discuss what he’s working on and how the evolution of Customer Relationship Management has changed in our digital and social world. I’m thrilled and honored that he accepted my invitation. Enjoy the conversation…

You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via iTunes): Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast #253.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.

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