Episode 279

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Increasing Reach Through Strong Brand Identity

Kimberly Day `

Featuring Kimberly Day, Director, Marketing & Communications at Finish Thompson

March 19, 2024
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Kimberly Day is on our show this week talking about how she moved Finish Thompson, a family-run company, from advertising in trade publications to more of a brand focus, a decision that has fostered growth and recognition in just seven months. Kimberly brings insights from a broad career in many marketing and communication verticals. Finish Thompson is a highly technical, engineering-focused brand that Kimberly is making accessible to all who may need to employ their pumps and services.

Episode 278

The Deep Advantage of Value Selling

Neelam Kumar

Featuring Neelam Kumar of Meridian Adhesives

March 12, 2024

Neelam Kumar joins The Kula Ring to discuss the strength in value selling. Neelam is an advocate and evangelist of value selling and brings a wealth of knowledge to this week’s episode of The Kula Ring. We discuss the need for relationship building, both internally, between departments and externally, with our customers. We also look at asking the right questions, and discovering how to dig into what provides value to the customer or prospect.

Episode 277

Fostering Innovation, Incrementally and Radically

John Patrin

Featuring John Patrin

March 5, 2024

John Patrin joins us to discuss innovation within your organization. For the last five years, John was the head of innovation at DuPont, where he oversaw continued innovation in a Fortune 100 company already known for innovating. We discuss the incremental product innovations that most companies pursue while also getting a glimpse at larger-scale innovations that can affect business models and service offerings.

Episode 276

Creating Efficacy Through Proper Analytics

Robby Berthume

Featuring Robby Berthume, Head of Marketing at Digitize Designs

February 27, 2024

Robby Berthume, Head of Marketing at Digitize Designs is on the show this week. Robby shares some of the expertise that he has honed throughout his varied career. We talk about the need for implementing good measurement through strong metrics to ensure your marketing efforts are effective. He also shares some good advice on staying excited and keeping some personality in your corporate brand.

Episode 275

Managing Dramatically Enhanced Lead Generation

Brian Critchfield

Featuring Brian Critchfield, VP of Global Marketing at Airgain

February 20, 2024

So, you are a rockstar marketer (obviously) and you have increased incoming leads in a major way. What now? How do you manage that growth, that success? Brian Critchfield of Airgain is on the show this week giving us some insight into managing phenomenal growth (like 12x growth). We talk about helping the sales team with new leads at different stages of the funnel. Managing the huge uptick in data to sift through. And, how to keep everyone on the team engaged and driving the common goal forward.

Episode 274

Concrete Marketing Strategies and Transparent Communication Advice for B2B Manufacturers

Sherry Chapman

Featuring Sherry Chapman, VP of Marketing at Fortera

February 13, 2024

Sherry Chapman the VP of Marketing at Fortera, joins The Kula Ring this week. Sherry illuminates what Fortera, a green cement start-up, is working on; Building partnerships with counterparts in the industry, and drawing new road maps for economic development, for products that are yet to hit the market. This is a fantastic chat about green industry.

Episode 273

Competing Against Larger Brands By Choosing Not to Compete

Scott Vosburgh

Featuring Scott Vosburgh, Marketing Director at Sierra Olympia Technologies

February 6, 2024

Scott Vosburgh joins The Kula Ring this week to discuss how Sierra Olympia Technologies is facing down much larger competition. Through marketing products that the competition isn’t. Ensuring their online presence is as clean and high-performing as possible. While also keeping an eye on where the big guns in the space are ranking and finding success in online markets to capitalize for themselves.

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Kula Partners is an agency that specializes in maximizing revenue potential for B2B manufacturers.

Our clients sell within complex, technical environments and we help them take a more targeted, account-focused approach to drive revenue growth within niche markets.