This episode is on making brands fun, finding your unique value, and the importance of great marketing with Tech Entrepreneur & Motivational Speaker, Jonny Shannon.

Jonny’s the CEO of Gamify, a marketing company that develop video games for some of the world’s biggest brands. He’s also Australia’s most requested speaker for schools, with talks on cybersafety, anti-bullying and mental health.

Jonny has presented over 3,000 times to over 370 schools and was recently awarded Australian Motivational Speaker of the Year 2020 by Corporate Vision Magazine.

In this epic 2hr episode we cover:

• Jonny’s favourite brand
• What makes Elon Musk the most interesting person in the world
• Appearing on Shark Tank
• Jonny’s background in sales and making 100 calls a day
• Building a billion dollar company
• Surprising and delighting clients
• Dealing with bullying
• Overcoming objections in the sales process
• Why marketing is so important

Jonny Shannon is an International Tech entrepreneur and Motivational Speaker based in Sydney, Australia. He grew up in South Auckland, New Zealand and found school extremely difficult, having undiagnosed dyslexia and other disabilities which led him to failing all his subjects and being bullied. After overreacting too many times, Jonny was finally expelled for fighting too much and not showing up to school. It wasn’t until his last school that a counsellor took him aside to work through some of the key issues he was facing. The difference for Jonny was from “night to day”. He quickly turned his academic performance around and focused on his emotional wellbeing. Surprised in the difference seeing a counsellor made, he committed to doing youth work to help other students like him in the future.

After a short time in the New Zealand Army, Jonny moved to Australia to become a qualified youth-worker. He later took some time off and co-started multiple companies including being a pioneer of ‘Pushpay’, an app that helps people give to charities, now on the ASX and one of the fastest growing SasS companies in Australian history, worth over $1 Billion. He took this success and resources to re-dedicate his life to full-time youth work, this time focusing on interviewing youth psychologists and speaking at schools on various health topics.

This episode is on Search Marketing and the Death of SEO with Ben Hirons.

Over the past 20 years, Ben has started and grown three successful businesses, researched over 1000 small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) and studied the great marketers of our generation.

He is the founder of Due North, a boutique digital marketing agency specialising in search marketing.

Ben has a refreshing take on SEO and shares great advice on what you can do to win on Google.

This episode is perfect for marketers and business owners looking to get more sales from their website. If you’re currently spending money outsourcing your SEO this episode is well worth your time.

Ben Hirons is a Serial Entrepreneur, Rocket Scientist and explorer wannabe.

He is the founder of Due North, a team of marketing engineers collaborating with SMEs to drive revenue growth in the digital channels. He brings a unique and super-effective approach that combines his aerospace engineering skills with latest marketing techniques to design and build great marketing assets that stand the test of time.

Over the past 20 years, Ben has started and grown three successful businesses, researched over 1000 SMEs and studied the great marketeers of our generation. He is considered to be one of the leading marketing minds in Australian business, not to mention he has quite an interesting superpower.

• Ben’s favourite brand
• His background, studying Aeronautical Engineering
• Building and selling payments business – Merchantlink
• Winning on Google
• Launching Due North
• Lessons learned in rebuilding a search company
• Due North’s methodology to search
• Describing your ideal clients
• Killing SEO
• The difference between Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Developing a content strategy
• Ben’s favourite book — Essentialism

Hosted by former show guest Zoe Green, this episode has Dan Rowell discuss his focus on Building Extraordinary Brands.

As well as being the regular host of this podcast, Dan is a Brand Strategist and the Founder of DSR Branding. He’s also the Co-Founder of Brill Coffee, a premium freeze-dried specialty coffee business.

Episode Contents:

• Dan’s favourite brands
• Influential people
• Lessons learned from guests on the podcast
• DSR Branding’s approach to branding
• Brill Coffee
• Common myths about branding
• Favourite books
• How Dan disconnects from work

Listen to episode 17 with Zoe Green.

Dan Rowell is a Brand Strategist and the Founder of DSR Branding, an award-winning branding and design firm, specialising in rebrands for B2B companies.

Dan started DSR Branding in 2015 so that he could focus on his true passion; working closely with company founders to focus and articulate their business vision and build remarkable brands.

With over a decade of experience in the advertising and marketing industry, Dan has worked across household brands including national retailers, Australia’s biggest universities, fashion labels, and beloved sporting teams.

Since 1998, Zoe has worked on some of the world’s most iconic brands with some of the industry’s most inspiring creatives, including Harry Pearce of Pentagram, Mary Lewis of Lewis Moberly, and Max Harkness with whom she founded Co-Partnership with in 2011.