BlissPoint Podcasts

Guest: Ian Anderson Gray

Richard sits down with guest Ian Anderson Gray, who collaborated with over 30 experts to write The Most Amazing Marketing Book Ever. If you're a beginner in live streaming, this episode is a must-listen. Ian's most basic advice is to keep it simple and start without waiting for fancy equipment.

Guest: Katelyn Richards

Richard Bliss is joined by Katelyn Richards, founder of Crafted Careers. Katelyn’s focus and expertise are in employee retention, advocacy, and talent acquisition using the LinkedIn platform. Companies that have succeeded on LinkedIn have utilized LinkedIn’s untapped potential as a platform for turning employees into brand advocates. Richard and Katelyn’s discussion includes finding and placing candidates, highlighting traditional job ad limitations, and LinkedIn's power to engage with potential hires.

Guest: Jeff Tarran

Today's discussion with Jeff Tarran, a co-author of The Most Amazing Marketing Book Ever, emphasizes crafting compelling offers and calls to action and optimizing landing environments for customer research.

Guest: Dan Nestle

Dan Nestle emphasizes the importance of companies becoming a publisher and being able to tell their own stories, as traditional PR methods of getting media coverage are becoming less effective and costly. By focusing on publishing their own stories through owned media channels, companies can gain more validity and attract interest from others.

Guests: Giuseppe Fratoni & Al Boyle

Giuseppe Fratoni & Al Boyle, who co-authored a chapter in The Most Amazing Marketing Book Ever, wrote Chapter 13: Create a Powerful Marketing Message to Grab Your Ideal Client's Attention. Their chapter covers the differences and similarities between copywriting and messaging with actionable steps to improve your marketing.

Guest: Patricia Fripp

Patricia Fripp is the author of “Deliver Unforgettable Presentations.” She specializes in turning brilliant executives, engineers, and experts in all fields into corporate rock stars.

Guest: Keith Gilbert

Keith Gilbert is a specialist in sales enablement. One of the things that leaders find challenging today, particularly in this selling environment, is how to teach their team to find their customers, engage with them, and talk to them.

Guest: Stewart Townsend

If you want to find a platform to share your message with the world, look no further than Podcast Hawk, co-founded by the dynamic Stewart Townsend, who joins me today on Digital First Leadership. While LinkedIn is an excellent platform for sharing your ideas, nothing beats having a genuine conversation with your audience, and that's exactly what a podcast offers.

Guest: Richard van der Blom

Richard Bliss and Richard van der Blom announce a soon-to-be-released book they are co-authoring. It will be packed with immediately useable strategies to use LinkedIn effectively. LinkedIn is not just a platform for finding jobs. There is so much untapped potential on LinkedIn for social selling, finding and connecting with prospects, finding buyers, as well as finding hires.

Guest: Susanne Tedrick

Susanne Tedrick is my guest in this episode of Digital First Leadership. She advocates for women of color entering the tech industry and helps make the transition less intimidating.

Guest: Shep Hyken

In this episode of the Digital First Leader Podcast, Richard and Shep Hyken, a customer service experience expert, a Wall Street Journal and New York Times best-selling author, and an award-winning keynote speaker, talk about customer experience.

Guest: Robbie Fitzwater

In this episode, Richard is joined by Robbie Fitzwater, who is a professor in the marketing MBA program at Clemson University and the founder of MKTG RHYTHM.

Guest: Lia Bliss

In this episode of the Digital First Leadership podcast, Richard and Lia discuss how understanding and following the rules of LinkedIn's algorithm will build your brand, contacts, engagement, visibility, reach, and open doors of opportunity for you.

Guest: Bertina Ceccarelli

In this episode of the Digital First Leadership Podcast, Richard is joined by Charlene Li, a New York Times bestselling author and the Chief Research Officer at PA Consulting. They discuss how leadership needs to change, adapt, and pivot as we enter a new era of disruption.

Guest: Charlene Li

In this episode of the Digital First Leadership Podcast, Richard is joined by Charlene Li, a New York Times bestselling author and the Chief Research Officer at PA Consulting. They discuss how leadership needs to change, adapt, and pivot as we enter a new era of disruption.

Guest: Lia Bliss

In this episode, Richard invites Lia Bliss to share why Everything Is Your Fault when it comes to living your bliss life. In her new book, Everything Is Your Fault: Understanding the 6 Pillars to Unlocking Your Bliss Life, Lia explains how empowering it is to take radical accountability for your actions.

Guest: Brian Backstran

In this episode of Digital First Leadership, Richard is joined by Brian Bakstran, Senior Vice President Global Marketing at Veeam. Brian shares lots of insight, such as how Veeam has found success on a global level by getting the sales and marketing teams working together on shared goals, and how leaders can make an impact to their employees during times of change and crisis.

Guest: Jeff Goldstein

In this episode of the Digital First Leadership Podcast, Jeff Goldstein returns and gives us the final steps of his Winning the Six-Figure Sale process. Jeff is a consultant for sales leaders and teams and helps them win complex six and seven-figure sales.

Guest: Thomas Stanley

Chainalysis is a blockchain data platform that provides cryptocurrency security and compliance. The revolutionary world of cryptocurrency and NFTs is changing the financial world as it is evolving and becoming more prominent.

Guest: Jeff Goldstein

In this episode, Richard is joined by Jeff Goldstein, former head of sales in major tech companies turned solopreneur. They discuss what a complex sales campaign is and the first 5 out of 10 steps needed to win more big deals.

Guest: David Reilly

In this episode, Richard Bliss and his guest, David Reilly, discuss what goes into forming partnerships between companies. They dive into what it takes for a vendor to become a partner and what companies look for when deciding which vendors will turn that corner to become partners.

Guest: David Meerman Scott

In this episode, Richard Bliss and David Meerman Scott have a conversation about the evolution of marketing and public relations from the days before the digital world and now. Learn the old rules and the new rules: what is the same and what has changed.

Guest: Richard van der Blom

In this episode, Richard dives into LinkedIn strategy again with Richard van der Blom, co-founder of Just Connecting, a LinkedIn and Sales Navigator training company. Richard and Richard discuss the updates, changes, and implications of the newly released 2021 LinkedIn Algorithm Report.

In this episode, Richard Bliss gives specific action items and clearly explains how to hack the LinkedIn algorithm. These teachings are the foundation of his work training remote sales teams and empowering leaders to action through his keynote speaking engagements and weekly newsletters.

In this episode, Richard Bliss helps teams bring LinkedIn strategy and action together, as he talks about social selling as a team boosting strategy. Richard has helped hundreds of sales teams implement these online strategies and encourages digital-first leaders to empower their own teams.

Guest: Richard van der Blom

In this episode, Richard dives into LinkedIn strategy with Richard van der Blom, the founder of Just Connected, a LinkedIn and Sales Navigator training company that is responsible for the yearly LinkedIn Algorithm Report.

Guest: Jared Karol

In this episode, Richard speaks with Jared Karol, a long time friend and author of an upcoming book on Racism. Jared is self described as a Facilitator of Difficult Conversations and works as an Inclusive Leadership Coach aiding corporations in expanding and addressing diversity.

Guest: Howard Tiersky

In this episode, Richard sat down with Howard Tiersky, the CEO and founder of FROM, a Digital Transformation Agency that helps companies deliver digitally-powered customer experiences.

Guest: Hang Black

In this episode, Richard sits down with Hang Black, the VP of Revenue Enablement at Juniper Networks and author of recent book titled Embrace your Edge, focusing on inclusivity and accessibility.

Guest: Peter McKay

In this episode, Richard speaks with Peter McKay, the current CEO of Snyk, a network security company currently experiencing tremendous growth.

Guest: Tom Mendoza

In this first episode of season two, Richard sits down with Tom Mendoza, a current Member of the Board of Directors at UiPath, Varonis and VAST Data. He’s also the Vice Chairman and former President at NetApp.

In this episode, Kiera and Lia tell about where they learned how vital tenacity, grit, and the willingness to work hard directly led them to success in their lives.

In this episode, Kiera and Lia analyze the importance of upleveling the people in your life.

In this episode, Kiera and Lia share some of their current goals with us and explain why it is important to keep our goals short-term, actionable, and measurable.

You don’t have to talk about politics, the elections, religion, or global events. Have any number of acceptable conversation topics at the ready. That’s how you get through the holiday get-togethers.

We all have good days, and we have bad days. And that’s ok. But what do you do on the days you can’t give 100%? Don’t give up! You can move forward by giving at least 1% on those emotionally, mentally, and physically challenging days.

As a woman in a male dominant field, you do not have to be quiet. And you do not have to be masculine to be valued. You can laugh easily, dress in dresses, and speak to men with authority, as a woman. A perfect way to show up with confidence is to do the legwork, especially in networking.

Many of us feel alone at times. We struggle and question things in our life. For those looking for a tribe of women to connect with, women’s retreats bring women together.

As a woman in a male dominant field, you do not have to be quiet. And you do not have to be masculine to be valued. You can laugh easily, dress in dresses, and speak to men with authority, as a woman. A perfect way to show up with confidence is to do the legwork, especially in networking.