• Agile Marketing Principle 8: Long-Term Marketing Success Benefits from Operating at a Sustainable Pace
    2025/11/06

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    In this episode, Nick covers probably one of the most important principles: understanding how to operate at a sustainable pace to generate long-term marketing success. Agencies and marketing teams alike struggle from burnout because in marketing - the iron burns really hot. Learn the red flags of marketing burnout and how to protect your team - and culture - at all costs.

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    19 分
  • Agile Marketing Principle 7: Build Marketing Programs Around Motivated Individuals and Trust Them to Get the Job Done
    2025/10/31

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    In this episode Nick goes hard in the paint discussing the importance of motivation and trust with your marketing team. Agile marketing is really about people and giving them the freedom and structure to be successful. Nick provides a number of tips and tricks to ensure that you're giving your team the autonomy they need to succeed.

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    19 分
  • Agile Marketing Principle 6: Organize in Small, Cross-Functional Teams Where Possible
    2025/09/25

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    In this latest (and late) episode of Sneakers and Strategies, Nick catches listeners up on life and explains why agile works best when you have the right teams (and people) in the room.

    Also, listeners are invited to Forum Communications' first ever webinar hosted by Nick Kastner on how recent changes to Google search results are impacting businesses in regards to website traffic, analytics, and how brands can operate in this new environment. The webinar will be held on Tuesday, September 30 at 11:30 am EST.

    You can register for the webinar by clicking here.

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    17 分
  • Agile Marketing Principle 5: Take Chances and Learn from Your Failures
    2025/07/17

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    What does it look like to have the safety of failure on your marketing team? Many organizations struggle with the idea of failure not realizing this is how they learn. This week's episode is all about learning how to grow from failure, actual encourage risk, and being smart along the way.

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    9 分
  • Agile Marketing Principle 4: Plan Only to a Level Sufficient to Ensure Effective Prioritization and Execution
    2025/07/07

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    Careful building big-bang campaigns with long planning times. In agile marketing, the goal is to ensure that we are delivering value quickly and to do that - we have to plan accordingly. This week covers the 4th principle provides some ideas on how to ensure your plan isn't over-cooked from the get-go.

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    16 分
  • Agile Marketing Principle 3: Embrace and Respond to Change to Enhance Customer Value
    2025/07/03

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    No marketing plan is perfect, but learning to learn and adjust frequently is one of primary jobs of a marketer. After a week of adjusting to change - this week Nick discusses this very topic and the importance of focusing on the customer and not your plan.

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    23 分
  • Agile Marketing Principle 2: Seek Out Different and Diverse Points of View
    2025/06/19

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    Sometimes our marketing teams become echo chambers for our leadership. They start to sound like our CEOs or marketing directors and struggle to create anything new. Agile marketing works to prevent that by encouraging diversity of opinion and point of view.

    This week's episode dives into that topic with 5 points that you can use today to ensure that your team creates value in everything they do.

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    15 分
  • Agile Marketing Principle 1: Transparency
    2025/06/12

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    Continuing on in season 3 on agile marketing, Nick talks about the importance of transparency in marketing across the organization including your relationship with leadership and your marketing agency.

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    19 分