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Andrew LeRay, Director of Brand Marketing at NWSL, is trying to close the gap between people who instantly recognize those four letters and people who still ask what they stand for.He breaks down where building a brand for a sports league is different than building 1 for a product, how the players become the brand, and how a Call Her Daddy cameo and a hydration partnership with Alex Cooper's Unwell became one of the league's biggest growth unlocks.Plus what changes when you go from a 150-year legacy brand like MLB to a self-described challenger brand only 3 years into its current era, and the Marketing hill Andrew will die on.If you're a Marketer who wants to build something people actually recognize, this episode is for YOU.Hit follow and drop us a rating if this one lands. It genuinely helps us book bigger guests.Follow Andrew: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewleray/ Follow Daniel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featured Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketingSign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter: www.workweek.com/brand/the-marketing-millennials Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit: www.workweek.com

What if your whole Marketing plan was really just 1 big math problem?Amanda Cole, CMO at Bloomreach, breaks down pipeline math: how to start with a revenue number and work backwards to the win rate, budget, and headcount that'll get you there.Plus, why she plans off median win rate instead of the average, and why she splits targets when a vertical converts seven points lower than the core.She and Daniel also get into how pipeline math turns a tense sales negotiation into a calm one. (Want 10x coverage? Here's what it costs you in reps you can't hire.)Finally, she makes the case that briefs don't matter anymore, why she handed her CEO direct access to the data and stopped writing reports (including the AI stack behind it all).If you're a Marketer who wants to tie every dollar you spend back to revenue, this episode is for YOU.Hit follow and drop us a rating if this one lands. It genuinely helps us book bigger guests.Follow Amanda:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandajoycole/ Follow Daniel:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featuredTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketingSign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter:www.workweek.com/brand/the-marketing-millennialsDaniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit:www.workweek.com

It's July, but the smart money is already building content for 2027. You have about 60 days before the window opens, and the good news is, you probably have most of what you need to get started now. Jay and Daniel break down the exact content to have ready before October hits, why calendars are the format that gets consumed the most in Q4, how to remix content you already have instead of starting from scratch, and why adding 2027 recency signals to your resources page gets you pulled into AI answers before your competitors. If you're a Marketer who wants to prime their pipeline before 2027, this episode is for YOU. Hit play, then follow the show and leave a comment. It helps more than you'd think. Follow Jay: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schwedelson/ Podcast: Do This, Not That Follow Daniel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featured Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter: https://themarketingmillennials.com/ Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit: https://workweek.com/

Email isn’t dead. But most Marketers are measuring it the wrong way. Daniel sits down with Naomi West, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Customer.io, to break down what actually makes a “good” email and why beautiful design, open rates, and fancy templates aren’t the metrics you should be obsessing over. From why web design trends fall apart inside the inbox, to why text-based emails often outperform heavily designed ones, Naomi unpacks the myths that are holding email marketers back. They also dive into lifecycle strategy, event-triggered emails, working with engineers, testing frameworks that actually produce statistically significant results, and why communication skills might matter more than any tool you use. If you’re an email marketer who wants to move beyond templates and start driving real engagement and conversions, this is the episode for YOU. Follow Naomi: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naomiwest1000/ Follow Daniel: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing/ Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter: www.workweek.com/brand/the-marketing-millennials Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit: www.workweek.com

Every school is on social media. Almost none of them have built anything like what MIT has. Daniel sits down with Jenny Fowler, Director of Social Media Strategy at MIT and author of a book on organic social media, to break down the playbook behind growing the university's following to more than 7 million people across platforms, entirely organic, in a category most brands would consider one of the hardest to win. Jenny walks through her six M framework (mission, message, medium, management, metrics, monitoring) and why "medium," picking the one platform you can actually dominate, is the piece most brands skip first. She also explains why she refuses to chase algorithm changes, staying the course on strategy even when the numbers dip, because reacting to every shift means the algorithm never actually learns your audience. Plus, Jenny breaks down her "dream team" structure for a social department (a director, a manager, and specialist creators instead of platform experts), why social needs to sit at director or VP level to survive internal pressure, and how she stress tests every post for how it could get misread or trolled before it ever goes live. If you're a Marketer who wants a real playbook for building community instead of just a following, this is the episode for you. Follow Jenny:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennylifowler/ Follow Daniel:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featuredTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter:www.workweek.com/brand/the-marketing-millennials Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit: www.workweek.com

We moved on to Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn. Meanwhile, the original mother of all social media platforms is low-key turning into one of the best, cheapest channels to reach your audience.Yep, we're talking about FACEBOOK.Jay and Daniel break down why Facebook is worth another look, and what's working there right now. They get into Facebook groups as the 1 community play that still delivers (and why Meta's new Forums app signals where the platform is headed), how brands like Dad Gang use groups for launches and product testing, and why Facebook gives them the lowest cost per registration and the highest show-up rate for B2B events.If you're a Marketer who wants underpriced attention and a channel your competitors are skipping, this episode is for YOU. Hit play, then follow the show and drop a rating. It helps more than you'd think. Follow Jay: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schwedelson/ Podcast: Do This, Not That Follow Daniel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featured Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter: https://themarketingmillennials.com/ Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit: https://workweek.com/

Eric Zenz, VP of Product Management at Salesforce, leads Agentforce Marketing, and he's here to explain what an AI agent should really be doing for Marketers.Plus, why 75% of Marketers have adopted AI but their output hasn't moved an inch, and the 1 thing that separates a useless agent from an outstanding one. And finally, the AI hill Eric will die on (spoiler: it comes down to your data).If you're a Marketer who wants to understand how AI agents actually fit into your team, this episode is for YOU.Do me a favor: follow The Marketing Millennials and leave a rating. Takes ten seconds and helps more Marketers find the show. Follow Eric: LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ericzenz/ Follow Daniel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featured Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter: www.workweek.com/brand/the-marketing-millennials Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit: www.workweek.com

How do you make plain water feel like a $300 fragrance?Allison Cullman, SVP of Marketing at Hint Water, joins Daniel to break down a campaign that turned hydration into pure desire (and why it worked). She explains why wellness got exhausting for consumers, so Hint stopped selling zero sugar and zero calories and started selling to emotions.Plus the brand's first OnlyFans page, placements from Love Island to Esther Perel, and why building future demand beats chasing the sale in front of you. If you're a Marketer who wants to take a bolder brand swing, this episode is for YOU.Do yourself a favor and hit follow so you never miss an episode, and drop us a rating while you're at it. It genuinely helps.Follow Allison: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-cullman-03829731/ Follow Daniel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featured Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter: www.workweek.com/brand/the-marketing-millennials Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit: www.workweek.com

Your best content ideas and warmest leads are already sitting in data you forgot you had. Jay and Daniel break down "AI ingestion": feeding transcripts, LinkedIn exports, and CRM data into tools like Claude so your AI actually knows your business and stays up-to-date. Daniel shares his exact prompt for turning one podcast transcript into clips, hooks, and subject lines that get watched past three seconds. Jay reveals the LinkedIn data trick that exports every connection, DM, and comment, then ranks who to reach out to first. Plus why your tools need an API connection or you'll fall behind. If you're a Marketer who wants to squeeze more content and more leads out of data you already own, this episode is for YOU. Enjoying Bathroom Break? Follow the show and drop us a rating, it genuinely helps more Marketers find us. Now go follow The Marketing Millennials. Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit: https://workweek.com/ Follow Jay: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schwedelson/ Podcast: Do This, Not That Follow Daniel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featured Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter: https://themarketingmillennials.com/

What if you managed AI agents like employees? Brandon Metcalf, CEO and Founder of Asymbl, built a hybrid workforce of humans and digital workers doing exactly that.Brandon talks to Daniel about how he treats AI agents like new hires, names and job descriptions included. Plus: the human SDR who got so good at managing an agent he got promoted to AE and closed 11 deals his first month. And how Asymbl hired 100 people in 100 days, out of 17,000 applications...with one single human recruiter.If you're a Marketer who wants to understand how AI agents and humans actually work together, this episode is for YOU.Enjoying the pod? Give us a follow and drop a rating, it helps more Marketers find the show.Follow Brandon: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/metcalf/Follow Daniel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featured Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter: www.workweek.com/brand/the-marketing-millennials Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit: www.workweek.com