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Elizabeth Merrick May, Nest

Engagious Podcast: Elizabeth Merrick May, Customer Strategist at Nest

Elizabeth has been a client, co-presenter, and industry friend for years. From her days at HSN (formerly Home Shopping Network), to her role within the Market Research Association (MRA), to her strategy and insights work at Nest, Elizabeth is without a doubt one of the smartest and most talented people I’ve ever worked with. It’s my absolute honor to have her on this podcast.

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Engagious Podcast - Brian Gottlieb

Engagious Podcast: Brian Gottlieb, In Business, Like Politics, Reputation is Everything

Having worked as a staffer on Capitol Hill, public policy consultant, pollster, and corporate communication strategist, Brian Gottlieb knows a thing or two about getting a point across and engaging an audience. In this podcast, we dig in to Brian’s diverse career and get his take on a wide variety of topics. In this time of political divide and corporate reputation challenges, Brian’s experience and advice are particularly timely.

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Building relationships with your clients

Vendor versus Partner… What’s in a Name? Quite a Bit, Actually

As I was reading Isabelle Albanese’s recent and well-reasoned op-ed piece in Quirk’s about the evolving relationship between market research suppliers and their clients, I was reminded about our own post discussing the Dialsmith Code (Behind the Dialsmith Code). In her piece, Albanese, who founded and heads up her own […]

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Dial testing for political research

The Tech Behind Political Message Testing

Certainly, any successful political campaign starts with having a strong candidate. But, to be successful in today’s political climate, campaigns also need to be nimble with their message, and keep pace with the shifting moods of voters and the 24-hour news cycle. For this, campaigns need a crack research team […]

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Kristen Soltis Anderson

Engagious Podcast: Kristen Soltis Anderson, Engaging the Millennial Voter

When I asked my business partner, Rich, who would make a great podcast guest to chat with about crafting engaging messaging in politics and public policy, he replied Kristen Soltis Anderson without skipping a beat. And, I’m glad he did! Kristen is a respected pollster, co-host of the bipartisan podcast http://www.thepollsters.com/, co-founder of polling and consulting firm Echelon Insights, and regularly lends her voice to ABC News, MSNBC, FOX News, and more.

In this conversation, Kristen and I talk about messaging in the era of social media, the public’s trust in social media platforms, the use of visual storytelling in effective messaging, and what she’s learned from hosting her own successful podcast.

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