About Keith Smith
My company runs the UK's only independent company data, insight and new business tool kit that effectively levels the playing field for new business campaigns. We offer marketing, PR, creative, digital and tech agencies the opportunity to access, affordable, accurate and simple tools to develop new business strategies.
Underpinning this is the support of the UK's leading business development agencies as well as endorsements from comms industry trade organisations.
Entries by Keith Smith
Michelle Morgan: Own Your Awkward – a mental health special
How to Have Better and Braver Conversations About Your Mental Health. Creative agency leadership, diversity and inclusion, cloudbusting.
Keith Smith: Are You Lonesome Tonight? Parapraxis & New business special
Special edition: A quick 12 minutes to help you overcome any feelings of nervousness in your new business prospecting
Sam Delaney: Sort Your Head Out – Mental Health without all the Bollocks
Mental health, no bollocks, politics and advertising, agency life, podcasting, drug addiction & recovery, fatherhood, West Ham, brilliant bloke.
Marc Lewis – School of Communication Arts 2.0: Creative Class
The Starmaker. Dean of the star factory – The School of Communication Arts on diversity, creativity, chasing Ferraris. breakdowns and rebuilds, the illiterates of the 21st century and AI and lateral thinking.
Nick Looby: Attack of the Modern Zombies
The attraction of distraction
Channeling Empathy, Rapport, and human resonance
The danger of the infinite scroll
Why we use soft terms to describe terrible things
Jesus on social media
The beauty of slowing down
No tech tea time
Using words and not emojis
Parent’s fears about unregulated tech
Book sniffing and graveyard lurking
Dr Tracy Brower PhD: You’re more valuable than you think you are
35% of gen Z and 31% of millennials are planning to change jobs this year – what can employers do? Dr Dr. Tracy Brower – a sociologist studying work life fulfillment and happiness discusses:
Workforce challenges for HR teams
Mental wellness
Talent shortages
Shorter working week and productivity
The human connection
And of course AI
Adam Rubins: Close Encounters of the Growth Kind
Sharing an office with Sean Connery, how to sell a creative agency, how to acquire a creative agency, mental welfare, being genuine, selling yourself and the value of new business.
Matt Smith: Will A.I make photographers extinct?
Is AI killing off photography? 360-degree spin photography techniques and tips, How the CMO role will adapt to AI, how to avoid the new dark ages for photography, what guardrails do we need? double exposures and ghosts, innovations in photography.
Marcus Brown: The Agency Wheel of Fortune
The key to winning meetings, Big agency growth tactics, Small things to make a big impact, The art of No, How to identify great clients, How to win when you’re losing, Why commitment wins, How Ai is changing pitch responses, and the 3 ingredients every agency needs to know before they go for growth.
Interesting facts
The Fuel Podcast is brought to you with huge thanks to Matt Smith at Quijibo Design our friend, technical and artistic wizard.
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