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Interviews 2013 - 2016

How Marketers Stay Productive: Sam Howie of Re-leased
Brightpod
December 29, 2016
This week we feature, Sam Howie Marketing Manager at Re-leased. Re-Leased is cloud-based property management software that makes life easier for property man...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Krzysztof Adamus of FreshMail
Brightpod
December 22, 2016
This week we feature, Krzysztof Adamus Co-founder, Chief Commercial Officer at FreshMail. FreshMail is an intuitive and reliable system for sending email mar...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Sancar Sahin of Typeform
Brightpod
December 15, 2016
This week we feature, Sancar Sahin, Head of Marketing Growth at Typeform. Typeform is a tool that allows businesses to collect information from their custome...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Nugeen Aftab of Hatchli
Brightpod
December 8, 2016
This week we feature, Nugeen Aftab, COO at Hatchli. Hatchli is a crowdsourced feedback platform that helps to quickly validate ideas. In this interview, you ...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Steve Rayson of BuzzSumo
Brightpod
December 1, 2016
This week we feature, Steve Rayson, Director and at BuzzSumo. BuzzSumo is a search tool that tracks content on all social networking sites and ranks them bas...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Gaetano DiNardi of Pipedrive
Brightpod
November 24, 2016
This week we feature, Gaetano DiNardi, SEO Manager at Pipedrive. Pipedrive is a CRM & pipeline management tool that helps you focus on actions that matte...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Roz Bahrami of Skyprep
Brightpod
November 17, 2016
This week we feature, Roz Bahrami Digital Media Manager at Skyprep — a learning management system (LMS) geared towards an excellent user experience. In...
How Marketers Stay Productive: William Harris of Elumynt
Brightpod
November 10, 2016
This week we feature, William Harris, a Growth Marketer and the Owner at Elumynt. Elumynt is Growth & Marketing Agency in Minnesota with a specialty of h...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Jake Stein of Stitch Data
Brightpod
November 3, 2016
This week we feature, Jake Stein Founder and CEO at Stitch Data. Stitch evolved out of RJMetrics, a widely used business intelligence platform. In this inter...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Ed Moyse of Hey Press
Brightpod
October 27, 2016
This week we feature, Ed Moyse Founder of Hey Press. Hey Press is a search engine for startup journalists. You search for a keyword, then they scour the net ...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Rameet Chawla of Fueled
Brightpod
October 20, 2016
This week we feature, Rameet Chawla Founder of Fueled. Fueled is a full service iPhone app design and development agency that specializes in building custom ...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Scott Rogerson of Upcontent
Brightpod
October 13, 2016
This week we feature, Scott Rogerson CEO at Upcontent. Upcontent is a content marketing managed services company that exists to power conversations between c...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Martijn de Kuijper of Revue
Brightpod
October 6, 2016
This week we feature, Martijn de Kuijper Co-Founder of Revue. Revue is the easiest tool to create an email digest newsletter. In this interview, you can read...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Bradley James of CIN7
Brightpod
September 29, 2016
This week we feature, Bradley James Online Marketing Manager at CIN7. CIN7 is a cloud-based inventory and manufacturing system aimed at providing solutions f...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Matt Aunger of Deveo
Brightpod
September 22, 2016
This week we feature Matt Aunger, Lead Marketing Engineer at Deveo. Deveo is an enterprise grade software production platform with code hosting and collabora...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Lucjan Kierczak of Survicate
Brightpod
September 15, 2016
This week we feature Lucjan Kierczak, Inbound Marketer at Survicate. Survicate is an online feedback system you can install on any website. The system claims...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Vasco Vasconcelos of Kinematix
Brightpod
September 8, 2016
This week we feature Vasco Vasconcelos, European Marketing & Sales Manager at Kinematix. Kinematix is a body dynamics company offering healthcare and fit...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Kerry Hayden of HouseCall Pro
Brightpod
September 1, 2016
This week we feature Kerry Hayden, Marketing Coordinator at HouseCall Pro. HouseCall Pro is a cloud-based field service management app for service profession...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Bharath Ganesh of Zarget
Brightpod
August 25, 2016
This week we feature, Bharath Ganesh Head of Digital Marketing at Zarget. Zarget is a new age CRO software with integrated A/B testing, Split Testing, Heatma...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Gurpreet Singh of Pixpa
Brightpod
August 18, 2016
This week we feature Gurpreet Singh, Founder and CEO of Pixpa. Pixpa is an online portfolio website builder for professional photographers, artists, architec...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Jason Anderson of Datagame
Brightpod
August 11, 2016
This week we feature Jason Anderson, Founder of Datagame. Datagame is the DIY survey gamification platform that enhances surveys and digital content with int...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Rohan Mahtani of Instamake
Brightpod
August 4, 2016
This week we feature Rohan Mahtani, Founder of Instamake. Instamake’s free curated collection of resources is perfect if you want to quickly create your on...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Matias Rodsevich of Impraise
Brightpod
July 28, 2016
This week we feature Matias Rodsevich, Global PR Manager at Impraise. Impraise is a web and mobile app that makes it very simple and engaging to share action...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Marcel Panse of Teletext
Brightpod
July 21, 2016
This week we feature Marcel Panse, content marketer at Teletext. Teletext is a content management service based on Javascript. In this interview, you can rea...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Hagi Trinh of Recruitee
Brightpod
July 7, 2016
This week we feature, Hagi Trinh Content Marketer at Recruitee . A global recruitment platform that offers resources, advice, and connection opportunities f...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Yael Slater of WalkMe
Brightpod
June 16, 2016
This week we feature, Yael Slater Content Marketing Director at WalkMe– the leading digital guidance and engagement platform that simplifies the user exper...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Steve Barrett of Go Reception
Brightpod
June 9, 2016
This week we feature, Steve Barrett Co-Founder and CEO at Go Reception . Go Reception is a Visitor Management Software and a monthly subscription service wi...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Nithya Rajaram of SupportBee
Brightpod
March 3, 2016
This week we feature, Nithya Rajaram Co-founder of SupportBee .SupportBee’s Help Desk Software helps your team collaborate on customer support. In this in...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Babak Hedayati of TapClicks
Brightpod
May 26, 2016
This week we feature, Babak Hedayati Chairman and CEO at TapClicks . TapClicks is an MarTech company that caters to digital agencies, local-media, and enter...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Ilse Schoemaker of Trekksoft
Brightpod
May 19, 2016
This week we feature, Ilse Schoemaker Inbound Marketing Strategist at Trekksoft. Trekksoft is online booking software used by tour operators and activity pro...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Alex Bashinsky of Picreel
Brightpod
May 12, 2016
This week we feature, Alex Bashinsky Co-founder and CEO of Picreel. Picreel is a marketing tool that allows you to track visitor activity on a specific page ...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Dmitri Eroshenko of Relenta
Brightpod
April 28, 2016
This week we feature, Dmitri Eroshenko Founder of Relenta. Relenta is an email-based contact and task management platform that replaces information overload ...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Osvaldo Ostermann of ExxpertApps
Brightpod
April 21, 2016
This week we feature, Osvaldo Ostermann Resarch & Development Director at ExxpertApps. ExxpertApps is a Next Generation Enterprise Application that boast...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Rudy Bianco of Marketeer
Brightpod
March 17, 2016
Marketeer Team. Image courtesy: marketeer.coThis week we feature Rudy Bianco, Founder of Marketeer. Marketeer is an intelligent CRM app which let you interac...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Juan Parra of Accelo
Brightpod
March 10, 2016
This week we feature, Juan Parra Digital Marketing Manager at Accelo. Accelo CRM is the only sales and marketing platform built specifically for professional...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Brian Casel of Audience Ops
Brightpod
January 7, 2016
This week we feature, Brian Casel Founder of Audience Ops. Audience Ops offers done-for-you content marketing, blogging, and email marketing to online busine...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Dimitris Athanasiadis Of Megaventory
Brightpod
February 11, 2016
This week we feature, Dimitris Athanasiadis Business Development & Marketing Manager at Megaventory. Megaventory is an affordable, web-based solution for...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Jenni Brown Of Cronofy
Brightpod
February 4, 2016
This week we feature, Jenni Brown, Senior Social Media and Content Marketing Specialist at Cronofy. The Cronofy API allows developers to integrate with their...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Jessica Day Of IdeaScale
Brightpod
January 21, 2016
This week we feature, Jessica Day Director of Marketing at IdeaScale. IdeaScale is the leading innovation management software platform for the enterprise, go...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Michael Brecht Of Doodle
Brightpod
January 14, 2016
This week we feature, Michael Brecht CEO of Doodle. Doodle is an online event scheduling tool for planning and allocating time for events such as meetings, d...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Francisco Ruiz Of Ranktab
Brightpod
December 17, 2015
This week we feature, Francisco Ruiz, Co-founder and CEO of RankTab. RankTab is a group decision making platform that leverages the collective intelligence o...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Sean Si Of Queryz
Brightpod
December 10, 2015
This week we feature, Sean Si, CEO and Founder of SEO Hacker and Qeryz. A start-up, data analysis and urgency junkie who spends his time inspiring young entr...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Matthew Stibbe Of Turbine
Brightpod
December 3, 2015
This week we feature Matthew Stibbe, CEO of Turbine. Turbine lets companies deploy online self-...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Søren Pommer Of Gluu
Brightpod
November 26, 2015
This week we feature, Søren Pommer CEO of Gluu — an all-in-one process work platform. Make processes, roles and work instructions easy to create, comm...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Jacob Firuta Of LiveChat
Brightpod
October 22, 2015
This week we feature Jacob Firuta, Customer Success Manager at LiveChat. LiveChat is a solution dedicated for e-commerce a...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Aditya Kshirsagar Of Whatfix
Brightpod
October 15, 2015
This week we feature, Aditya Kshirsagar Communication Manager of Whatfix. Whatfix is a tool that lets anyone create and share how-to guides on any site. In t...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Oskar Glauser Of MinuteMailer
Brightpod
October 8, 2015
This week we feature, Oskar Glauser Founder of MinuteMailer. Minutemailer is a smart and time efficient service that helps businesses improve their marketing...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Chitra Balachandran Of Wooplr
Brightpod
October 1, 2015
This week we feature, Chitra Balachandran, Manager of Social Media & Content at Wooplr. Wooplr’s mission is to connect people with stores based on inte...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Diego Wyllie Of Tracking Time
Brightpod
September 10, 2015
This week we feature, Diego Wyllie Co-Founder of Tracking Time. TrackingTime is a collaborative time tracking application that helps companies manage their p...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Jamie Bell Of Flywheel
Brightpod
September 3, 2015
This week we feature Jamie Bell, Marketing Coordinator at Flywheel. Flywheel is hosting infrastructure enabling web designers, freelancers and creative agenc...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Alexander Kesler Of TestUp
Brightpod
August 27, 2015
This week we feature, Alexander Kesler Founder of TestUp and inSegment. TestUP is a cloud-based, integrated hiring platform that organizes employee pre-scree...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Benjamin Zenou Of SimpliField
Brightpod
August 20, 2015
This week we feature Benjamin Zenou, CEO & Co-Founder at SimpliField. SimpliField is a B2B mobile solution that streamline...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Caroline Phillips Rodin Of Grovo
Brightpod
August 13, 2015
This week we feature Caroline Phillips Rodin, Director of Performance Marketing at Grovo. Grovo is a better way to l...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Andrew Donnelly Of Mikogo
Brightpod
May 21, 2015
This week we feature Andrew Donnelly, Online Marketing Manager at Mikogo. Mikogo is a free screen sharing solution for online meetings, web conferencing and ...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Tim Fouracre Of Clear Books
Brightpod
May 14, 2015
This week we feature Tim Fouracre, Founder and CEO at Clear Books. Clear Books provides online accounting software that includes bookkeeping and invoicing fe...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Chelsea Scholz Of Unbounce
Brightpod
May 7, 2015
This week we feature Chelsea Scholz, Campaign Strategist at Unbounce. Unbounce Marketing Solutions provides self-serve hosted services that enable marketers ...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Tony Chan Of PerfectAudience
Brightpod
April 30, 2015
This week we feature Tony Chan, Director of Customer Success at PerfectAudience. Perfect Audience is a retargeting platform that lets marketers bring back lo...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Victor Magic Of Nicereply
Brightpod
April 23, 2015
This week we feature Viktor Magic, Product Owner at Nicereply. Nicereply is a web-based customer satisfaction survey software. In this interview, you can rea...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Annika Helendi Of Toggl
Brightpod
April 16, 2015
This week we feature Annika Helendi, Lead Generation Manager at Toggl. Toggl is an online time tracking tool. It features 1-click time tracking and helps you...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Chris Stainthorpe Of CustomerSure
Brightpod
April 9, 2015
This week we feature Chris Stainthorpe , Founder of CustomerSure. CustomerSure is simple web-based software to help you collect, share and act on customer f...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Greg Kazulak Of Positionly
Brightpod
March 19, 2015
This week we feature Greg Kazulak , Co-founder and CEO of Positionly. Positionly is a SEO software that can do some very specific things for your business. ...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Deven Patel Of Cyfe
Brightpod
March 12, 2015
This week we feature Deven Patel , Founder of Cyfe. Cyfe is an all-in-one business dashboard app that helps you easily monitor all your business data from o...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Maciej Zawadziński Of Piwik PRO
Brightpod
March 5, 2015
This week we feature Maciej Zawadziński , co-founder and CEO of Piwik PRO, the company providing enterprise analytics services and Clearcode, a software ho...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Patrick Perlmutter of Infinit
Brightpod
February 26, 2015
This week we feature Patrick Perlmutter, Head of User Experience at Infinit. Infinit is a fast and secure file sharing app that lets you easily share files a...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Robert Millar of Qhub
Brightpod
February 19, 2015
This week we feature Robert Millar, Owner & Chief Enthusiast at Qhub. Qhub.com is the leader in Q&A Software. It’s the simplest way to add fully fe...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Felix Tarcomnicu of ProOptimization
Brightpod
February 12, 2015
This week we feature Felix Tarcomnicu. He has build ProOptimization to help you take your online marketing strategy to the next level. In this interview, you...
How Marketers Stay Productive: David Cacik of LiveAgent
Brightpod
February 5, 2015
This week we feature David Cacik, Marketing Director at LiveAgent. LiveAgent is a complete Helpdesk & Live Chat software. LiveAgent is web-based and feat...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Talia Shani of Yotpo
Brightpod
January 29, 2015
This week we feature Talia Shani, Content & People Person at Yotpo. Yotpo is a marketing platform for eCommerce stores. Yotpo helps online stores generat...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Ilya Semin of Datanyze
Brightpod
January 15, 2015
This week we feature Ilya Semin, Founder at Datanyze. Datanyze is the sales prospecting tool powered by technology data. By crawling millions websites each d...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Didi Zheleva of InTouch CRM
Brightpod
January 8, 2015
This week we feature Didi Zheleva, Content and Digital Marketing Executive at InTouch CRM. InTouch is an integrated CRM and communications system designed fo...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Cezar Floroiu of Skillmeter
Brightpod
December 11, 2014
This week we feature Cezar Floroiu, founder at Skillmeter. Skillmeter is a testing platform that is simple, fast and intuitive. You can create tests, assign ...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Nick Harley of Raygun
Brightpod
December 4, 2014
This week we feature Nick Harley, Technical Marketer at Raygun. Raygun is a leading error and crash reporting tool to help developers discover and resolve so...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Alice Default of Frontapp
Brightpod
November 27, 2014
This week we feature Alice Default, Digital Marketer at FrontApp. Front takes out the pain of shared inbox’s by introducing col...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Marvin Strauss of Reamaze
Brightpod
November 20, 2014
This week we feature Marvin Strauss, Customer Experience Guru at Reamaze. Reamaze is lightweight customer support software developed for small businesses. In...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Mila Shvets of TeamDesk
Brightpod
October 30, 2014
This week we feature Mila Shvets, Digital Marketer at TeamDesk. TeamDesk is an online database that enables teams to easily create web-based databases or use...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Patrick Dodd of Blinksale
Brightpod
October 23, 2014
This week we feature Patrick Dodd, President at Blinksale. Blinksale is a web platform and application that allows users to send invoices. In this interview,...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Jesse Terry of Fusion Invoice
Brightpod
October 16, 2014
This week we feature Jesse Terry, Founder of FusionInvoice. FusionInvoice is a self hosted invoicing system for freelancers and small businesses. In this int...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Phil Haslehurst of Decibel Insight
Brightpod
October 9, 2014
This week we feature Phil Haslehurst, Marketing Manager at Decibel Insight . Decibel Insight is a lead insight tool designed for webmasters to gather intell...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Ami Brabbins of Slidebank
Brightpod
October 2, 2014
This week we feature Ami Brabbins, Business Development Director of Slidebank. Slidebank is an online PowerPoint Management Software service that lets your s...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Dave Rigotti of Bizible
Brightpod
September 25, 2014
This week we feature Dave Rigotti, Head of Pipeline Marketing at Bizible. Bizible offers an integrated marketing analytics platform for marketers to optimize...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Kristin Calve of LiftMetrix
Brightpod
September 18, 2014
This week we feature Kristin Calve, Vice President at LiftMetrix. LiftMetrix instantly creates a customized social media marketing plan to drive your key bus...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Anna Byrne of Scorebuddy
Brightpod
September 11, 2014
This week we feature Anna Byrne, Digital Marketer at Scorebuddy. Scorebuddy is a web-based staff quality and monitoring tool for contact centers that is easy...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Jordan Skole of Ambassador
Brightpod
September 4, 2014
This week we feature Jordan Skole, Minister of Marketing at Ambassador. Ambassador provides referral marketing software enabling companies to reward their cu...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Aaron Beashel of Campaign Monitor
Brightpod
August 28, 2014
This week we feature Aaron Beashel, Director of Content & Community at Campaign Monitor. Campaign Monitor is an online email marketing software that enab...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Leanne Graham of GeoOp
Brightpod
August 21, 2014
This week we feature Leanne Graham, CEO at GeoOp. GeoOp offers web and mobile applications that enable teams to manage jobs and staff in real time. In this i...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Jason Rodriguez of Litmus
Brightpod
August 14, 2014
This week we feature Jason Rodriguez, Community Manager at Litmus. Litmus is an email testing service for web and marketing professionals allowing users to p...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Bogomil Shopov of Usersnap
Brightpod
August 7, 2014
For our twenty second interview series, we feature Bogomil Shopov, VP Marketing of Usersnap. Usersnap is the screenshot tool for web development. Get annotat...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Haim Pekel of IQTELL
Brightpod
August 1, 2014
This week we feature Haim Pekel, Marketing Director at IQTELL. IQTELL, a cloud-based productivity tool, provides users with a virtual workspace and tools to ...
How Marketers Stay Productive : Clément Delangue of Mention
Brightpod
July 24, 2014
For our twenty first interview series, we feature Clément Delangue Head of Marketing at Mention. Mention offers a media monitoring app for brands to obtain ...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Alexandra Tachalova of SEMrush
Brightpod
July 17, 2014
This week we feature Alexandra Tachalova, Corporate Communication Manager at SEMrush. SEMrush shows you which keywords that your websites rank for and the nu...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Ravi Parikh of Heap
Brightpod
July 10, 2014
For our twentieth interview series, we feature Ravi Parikh, cofounder at Heap. Heap is web and mobile analytics app that automatically captures everything. W...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Peter Anderson of FrameFish
Brightpod
July 4, 2014
This week we feature Peter Anderson, Founder of FrameFish. FrameFish is an eyewear shopping site with a sophisticated virtual try-on system. The site brings ...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Sachin Gupta of MobiKwik
Brightpod
June 26, 2014
This week we feature Sachin Gupta, Digital Marketing Specialist at MobiKwik. MobiKwik is a digital wallet service with a turnover of close to $40 Million. Mo...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Gus Mueller of Flying Meat
Brightpod
June 19, 2014
For our nineteenth interview series, we feature Gus Mueller, President at Flying Meat. Flying Meat is a software company that makes awesome apps for the Mac....
How Marketers Stay Productive: Sofia Quintero of Geckoboard
Brightpod
June 12, 2014
This week we feature Sofia Quintero, Head of Growth at Geckoboard. Geckoboard is a hosted status board that collects business information and summarizes it f...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Suzanne Louis of 1CRM
Brightpod
June 5, 2014
For our eighteenth interview series, we feature Suzanne Louis, Marketing Specialist at 1CRM. 1CRM enables businesses to create and maintain great customer re...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Lance Padgett of Formstack
Brightpod
May 27, 2014
For our seventeenth interview series, we feature Lance Padgett, SEO specialist at Formstack. Formstack is an online HTML form builder that lets you create al...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Belle Beth Cooper of Exist
Brightpod
May 13, 2014
For our sixteenth interview series, we feature Belle Beth Cooper, co-founder at Exist.io. Exist makes sense of your life by taking your data (Fitbit, Jawbone...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Rajiv Mathew of Compassites
Brightpod
April 30, 2014
For our fifteenth interview series, we feature Rajiv Mathew, Head of Marketing at Compassites. Compassites is a niche technology firm that has expertise in b...
How Marketers Stay Productive: Alex Turnbull of Groove
Brightpod
March 25, 2014
For our fourteenth interview series, we feature Alex Turnbull, CEO at Groove. Groove is a simple online help desk software. In this interview, you can read m...