From Professional Footballer to World-Leading Visual Artist: Craig Black

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Darren: On this week’s Engaging Marketeer, I’m joined by a man who took the leap from Scottish footballer to internationally recognised visual artist. Craig Black is someone whose story hits you right in the feels—he’s turned rejection into fuel and passion into a business. He’s worked with household names like Porsche, UEFA, the Champions League, […]

STOP Taking Advice From People Who Don’t Have A Clue!

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Welcome to this week’s episode of The Engaging Marketeer. I’m Darren Jamieson, and today I want to tackle a topic that might sound counterintuitive coming from someone in digital marketing — especially someone who literally advises people for a living. But hear me out.

Using FREE Images On Your Website Could Cost You THOUSANDS

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This week on The Engaging Marketeer, I want to talk about something that’s happened to two of our clients in the last few weeks. It’s the kind of thing that happens to business owners all the time—unexpected, unpleasant, and completely avoidable.

Exposing Internet Predators With Former High Tech Crime Special Agent Christopher Duff

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In today’s episode, we dive deep into a serious and difficult subject—exposing internet predators. Our guest is Christopher Duff, a former High-Tech Crime Special Agent who spent years posing online as underage children to catch predators in the act. This episode contains content that may be disturbing for some listeners, especially parents, but it’s a […]

How To Guarantee Leads From Your Website

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Hello and welcome! So, the sad reality is that the vast majority of business websites either generate no leads at all, or very few. In the next 10 to 15 minutes, I’m going to explain exactly why that is—and more importantly, what you can do about it yourself, without relying on anyone else.

Parking Charge Notices – Are They The Ultimate Extortion Scam?

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This week on The Engaging Marketeer, I’ve got another one of those stories. You know, this just keeps happening to me, but it is a brilliant example of a company that literally prints money. If you want a business idea that generates money hand over fist, with hardly any overheads, where all you have to […]

Progress Not Perfection: Hardeep Mann

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Darren Jamieson: Welcome to The Engaging Marketeer podcast, where we dive into the journeys of business professionals, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders who have carved unique paths to success. Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Hardeep Mann, a wellness coach dedicated to

Why Do Lead Magnets Fail?

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In this episode of The Engaging Marketeer podcast, host Darren Jamieson takes a deep dive into the common mistakes businesses make when creating lead magnets. He explains why most lead magnets fail, why they often don’t generate the leads businesses expect, and what you should be doing instead. If you’ve ever spent hours crafting a […]

Will Hiding Your Address On Your Google Business Profile Affect Your SEO?

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In this episode of The Engaging Marketeer, I’ll be tackling a common question about Google Business Profiles: Does hiding your address affect your SEO? I’ll explain the implications of not displaying your address, discuss why some businesses might prefer to keep it hidden, and offer alternative strategies to maintain rankings.

My Next Target For Online Warfare Has Been Identified…

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This week on The Engaging Marketeer, I’m likely going to land myself in trouble. The reason? I’m addressing companies with poor operating procedures, particularly how they handle customers when things go wrong. Something has happened recently, and

HELP! Should I Rein Myself In To Please Others?

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On this week’s episode of The Engaging Marketeer, I’m having a bit of a crisis of conscience. Maybe it’s something you can help me with. You could put your thoughts into the comments on

Become A Guest In 2025

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On this episode of The Engaging Marketeer podcast, we’ve got a very, very quick one for you as we approach the end of 2024. I’ve featured some amazing people on this podcast since

Stop BORING People With Your Business Pitches

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On this week’s episode of The Engaging Marketeer, I want to talk about how people are really, really boring with the way they advertise their business and the way they talk about what they do.

Nobody Wants Your Crappy Newsletter

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On this week’s episode of The Engaging Marketer, I’m going to be talking about how you can completely waste your time with a website and not get any business through it, because that’s what most people do.

Why Most Web Design Agencies Fail

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In this episode of “The Engaging Marketeer,” Darren addresses a prevalent issue in web design and digital marketing agencies: poor communication with clients.

Two Heart Attacks & No-Hands Massage: Jane Lee

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In this episode of The Engaging Marketeer, Darren interviews Jane Lee, a multi-faceted professional with expertise in podiatry, massage therapy, belly dancing, dog massaging and storytelling.

How BNI Saved My Life – Al Tepper

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On today’s Engaging Marketeer, Darren is speaking with a BNI legend, Al Tepper. Al is very well known within networking circles and he actually runs the training nationally for new members who join BNI, called member success program. Darren and Al discuss BNI, marketing, why he does what he does what he does and why […]

Why My Lego Collection Is Enormous!

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On this week’s episode of The Engaging Marketeer, I wanted to talk about something that is very personal to me, and that’s my obsession with

The Wizarding World Of Laura Burnett’s Funnels & Email Marketing

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In this week’s episode of The Engaging Marketeer, Darren speaks to Laura Burnett of IT Moon, a self-confessed Tech Geek and Harry Potter nerd. Able to master any software in a matter of minutes, Laura discusses all things landing pages and email marketing wizardry.

Robbie Dutton: From Prisoner To Mentor – Using My Past Mistakes To Guide Others

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On today’s episode of the Engaging Marketeer, Darren speaks to Robbie Dutton of RDS Fitness WCFC, who is using his past to propel him forward, and helps to spread positivity through the fitness projects he offers. He takes a compassionate approach to sport, and his work is the epitome of healthy body, healthy mind. How […]

You Are Not Good Enough – What My Art Teacher Told Me In School

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On today’s episode of the Engaging Marketeer, Darren discusses something that he recently posted to social media and received great reaction on. It is a story of how, in school, Darren was told he wasn’t good enough by one of his teachers and how that almost impacted his decisions at a young age, which could’ve […]

Ariel Hubbard: Get Over Yourself & Market Your Business Properly

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On today’s Engaging Marketeer, Darren is speaking with Ariel Hubbard, who is over in Washington state, in the U.S. They talk about how she took her massage training business, during covid, from face to face onto online, how she pioneered in her industry by being one of the very first people to use social media […]

How To 10x Your Results Through YouTube Ads – Marcus Svedin

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On this episode of the Engaging Marketeer we’ve got Marcus Svedin who is a YouTube ads expert. Darren and Marcus discuss the differences between running adverts on YouTube and Facebook, how to target those ads and what kind of budgets you require to make your advertisements successful.   How Marcus got into YouTube Ads Darren: […]

How To Make Better Presentations That Sell

On this episode of the Engaging Marketeer I want to talk about presentation and public speaking, in effect, because it’s something I do a lot of obviously. I have a podcast, as you probably know you’re listening to, it but I also do a lot of talks from a stage, I do a lot of […]

Caroline Carey: The Wheel Of Souls Return – Why Are You On This Earth?

On today’s Engaging Marketeer podcast, we have Caroline Carey. Caroline helps people work out the real reason they were put on this earth because everybody’s soul has a purpose, everybody is here for a reason but most people don’t know the reason why.  Darren talks to Caroline how she does that, what kind of people […]

Tell The LinkedIn Police To F*ck Off!

On this episode of the Engaging Marketeer, I would like to talk about the LinkedIn police. Now I don’t mean anything that’s officially connected with LinkedIn. No, the LinkedIn police are those people on LinkedIn who comment on things that you have posted to tell you that you shouldn’t be posting it because this doesn’t […]

David Roberts – Buying Into & Scaling A Business For A £27 Million Exit

On this episode of the Engaging Marketeer, we have David Roberts who is the MD of Nu-Heat as well as being the host of the People With Purpose podcast. David bought into Nu-Heat many years ago and took it from, let’s just say a certain amount of turnover, to a much larger turnover and then […]

Cat Williams: From Physio Terrorist To Public Speaking Coach

Bit of a strange one on today’s Engaging Marketeer, we have the person who coached Darren on doing a TEDx talk, Cat Williams. She was the coach for all of the TEDx speakers on that event as she was also a TEDx speaker herself as well as being a speaking coach and a professional speaker. […]

Vipoola Devani: Finding Joy Through Self Awareness

On this week’s Engaging Marketeer I am speaking with Vipoola Devani about consciousness and self-awareness, which I will confess is not really my thing because I am a complete luddite when it comes to emotional awareness and emotional intelligence. But I’m going to learn something on this and I am going to change the way […]

I was dead for 29 minutes Brand Consultant Nigel Davies

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On today’s Engaging Marketeer, I am speaking with Nigel Davies from Pin Creative. Nigel has got two very exciting things about him, firstly he is a brand guru and was actually responsible for the rebrand of a company, you might have heard of, called Ford, secondly, he died. He was clinically dead for 29 minutes […]

Lyrical Marketing With Ryhmeologist Gareth Williams

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On this week’s episode of The Engaging Marketeer I am speaking with Gareth Williams, the rhymeologist. That’s right rhymeologist. Rhymeology is where he will help businesses with their marketing by creating lyrical marketing, essentially poetry for your business. Let’s see how he does that and how he applies that to businesses and also some of […]

Suzy Hunt: From Corporate Sales To Business Coaching

On today’s episode of The Engaging Marketeer, we have podcast host, business coach, sales trainer and all-round business Supremo, Suzy Hunt. Suzy came from a corporate background but realized she didn’t want to progress up the corporate ladder any further because she didn’t enjoy the experience. She wanted to go out there and help people […]

Natalie Arabella – From 24hr Party People To Fitness & Business Goal Smashing

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On this week’s episode of The Engaging Marketeer, Natalie Arabella who has gone from being a 24-hour party animal to going completely the other way and becoming a gym obsessed personal trainer, to then branching into pretty much every aspect of business you can think of. How does she find time for all of this […]

Foreign Diplomat to Australian Copywriter: Angela Pickett

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Today on the Engaging Marketeer I am speaking to Australian Angela Pickett. Angela’s very unusual career path has seen go from being a foreign diplomat in Shanghai and Vietnam to being a copywriter to businesses across Australia. I’m going to find out what exactly Angela did, how she did it and what was it like […]

Alia Coster’s Four Pillars for Success

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On today’s episode of the Engaging Marketeer, I am interviewing Alia Coster, who is an absolute tour de force of nerdom. I’m talking to her about how she was stranded in Thailand with

How I Bring Visitors to BNI Every Single Week

Today, I want to talk about something that’s a little outside of digital marketing, but it’s certainly related, in that I’ve taken a digital marketing approach to a more conventional form of marketing.

The Mistery of Words with Vishma Mistry

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Today on the Engaging Marketeer, I’m joined by Vishma Mistry. Vishma is a specialist copywriter and founder of Mistry Of Words, where she helps business to connect their values to their customers through words. Vishma and I are discussing such topics as her background in copywriting, her decision to leave the UK to move to […]

When Should You AVOID Digital Marketing?

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In this week’s episode of the Engaging Marketeer, I want to talk about something that doesn’t often get mentioned in marketing, particularly digital marketing, and that’s when should you NOT do digital marketing.

Should You List Prices On Your Website?

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On this episode of the Engaging Marketeer, I wanted to talk about pricing and the age-old question about whether you should be really upfront with your prices on your website (unless, of course, you’re running an e-commerce website where you can’t really get away with it). It’s a discussion I got involved with today and […]