· By Jordan West
Ep 439: Getting Ahead Through Product Innovation With Chris Hall, Bruce Bolt
Constant product development and innovation fueled with the most creative and up-to-date marketing strategies are keys to the success of your entire business.
In this episode, Jordan sits down with Chris Hall from Bruce Bolt. They talk about what’s working in marketing and what isn't in 2023. Chris also shares an AI tool that’s changing the game.
Listen and learn in this episode!
Key takeaways from this episode:
- Diversify your business so you have multiple legs to stand on.
- Incentivize your word-of-mouth marketing as much as possible.
- Brands must always think outside of the box and get creative with their products.
- Even the most “boring” spaces have opportunities to innovate and get creative to generate virality around their products.
- TikTok is great for getting organic content from somewhere to everywhere, but it doesn’t give brands enough helpful data analytics.
- Maverick AI is a great tool to personalize the shopping experience for people coming to your website. (Link: https://www.trymaverick.com/)
- Product development is a huge key for your business.
Recommended Tool:
Postscript https://postscript.io/
Recommended Podcast:
Limited Supply with Nik Sharma and Moiz Ali
https://limited-supply.captivate.fm/
Recommended Book:
Hero on a Mission: A Path to a Meaningful Life by Donald Miller
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57468174
Today’s Guest
Chris Hall is the Senior Marketing Manager at Bruce Bolt. They innovated battling gloves in baseball and made better-fitting gloves out of better-fitting materials that look good and last longer.
Connect and learn more about Chris Hall and Bruce Bolt here:
Website: https://brucebolt.us/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ecomm_cowboy
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrshall/
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