23 episodes

Marketing advice for marketers sick of the same old podcast. Come be a fly on the wall of the discussions of two marketers bringing new, innovative ways of delivering content into the world of B2B. No outlines, no pre-determined discussions, just real conversations about content marketing.

Cheat Codes: Play The Marketing Game On Easy Mode Todd Clouser and Obaid Durrani

    • Business
    • 5.0 • 3 Ratings

Marketing advice for marketers sick of the same old podcast. Come be a fly on the wall of the discussions of two marketers bringing new, innovative ways of delivering content into the world of B2B. No outlines, no pre-determined discussions, just real conversations about content marketing.

    Let's Clear Up This Huge Misconception About Owned Media

    Let's Clear Up This Huge Misconception About Owned Media

    Hockeystack has The Flow.

    Lavender has LavenderLand.



    We've both bet the house on building out a very specific type of media company—a Netflix-style streaming service. And a common misconception is that the goal is to de-platform the audience from social media to that owned asset. But it's just that...A misconception.



    In this episode, we dive into the real reason we're building out a streaming service to house all of our content series.

    • 21 min
    The Lost Episodes, Part 1: All The Generic Advice You Hear is True

    The Lost Episodes, Part 1: All The Generic Advice You Hear is True

    Recorded in April 2023. We discuss how we created The Easy Mode Framework, how we ended up implementing it at Cognism (and being mentioned in Alice de Courcy's first book!), and how we were able to throw together a promising and fun side-gig.

    • 27 min
    The Easy Mode Framework, Part 8: Iteration

    The Easy Mode Framework, Part 8: Iteration

    Recorded in February 2023. We've finally arrived at the final part of The Easy Mode Framework: Iteration. In this short episode, we'll go over what to do at this stage of the framework, as well as which parts of the framework are one-time processes and which are repeatable steps.

    • 7 min
    The Easy Mode Framework, Part 7: Performance

    The Easy Mode Framework, Part 7: Performance

    In this episode, Todd and Obaid go over Part 7 of The Easy Mode Framework, Performance. There are six things you want to look at when trying to understand the performance of the content you're creating based on this framework. We'll speak in detail about seeing an increase in engagement from your ICP, questions/comments you can dive deeper on from your ICP, DMs/relationships with people from your ICP, collabs and podcast invites, tags in other conversations regarding the topic(s) you're building content on, and increase in follows from your ICP.

    • 27 min
    The Easy Mode Framework, Part 6: Distribution

    The Easy Mode Framework, Part 6: Distribution

    In this episode of Cheat Codes, Todd & Obaid go over Part 6 of The Easy Mode Framework, Distribution. We go over the bad advice that is out there on this topic and then discuss a practical plan you can create and follow at your company to effectively distribute your content. 

    • 31 min
    The Easy Mode Framework, Part 5: Creation

    The Easy Mode Framework, Part 5: Creation

    In this episode of Cheat Codes, Obaid and Todd go over Part 5 of The Easy Mode Framework, Creation. Creation is broken down into 4 smaller parts: Substance & Delivery, Effort/Payoff, Substance & Delivery, and the Consumption Experience. Instead of this part of the framework going over how to create content (since you already know that), it goes over important things you should keep in mind when it comes to content creation. Check out this can't-miss episode and level up your content game. 

    • 37 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
3 Ratings

3 Ratings

Grayson Hogard ,

From LinkedIn to the podcasts

Always insightful and easy to digest! Even for a novice marketer like me.

Keep killing it!

LordVic ,

I feel bad for other B2B marketing podcasts.

Two of my favorite LinkedIn follows coming together for a podcast? Game over.

But in all seriousness, I’m two episodes in and already love it. Obaid’s story and breakdown about his content marketing journey in episode 2 was such a perfect example of how the focus of many B2B marketers is still incredibly misguided.

Really enjoying learning about Todd’s journey as well.

Can’t wait to see where they take this.

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