by Dave Hayward | Apr 20, 2025 | AI, AI agents, AI RAG, B2B Marketing, Founder-led marketing, Fractional cmo, Marketing, Marketing as a service, Marketing technology, Nadia Ellis, Personal stories, Podcast, Psychology, Public speaking, RAG, Slideshow, Strategy
Time to stop worrying and start building your hive of AI agents When I first started thinking seriously about AI agents, I felt the same way I did when I first encountered AI. Too technical. Too complex. A little too much time upfront. I’m fortunate to be surrounded...
by Dave Hayward | Apr 17, 2025 | AI, B2B Content Strategy, B2B Marketing, Creativity, Digital marketing, Fractional cmo, Life and work, Marketing, Marketing technology, Psychology, Public speaking
In this episode of Slideshow, host Dave Hayward speaks with marketing and AI expert Nadia Ellis from Curiosity about the transformative power of AI agents in business and personal productivity. Nadia shares her journey from a traditional marketing role to becoming an...
by Dave Hayward | Dec 28, 2024 | Strategy, AI, Brand, Conference, Content, Copywriting, Creativity, Marketing, Marketing technology, Performance marketing, Psychology, Public speaking, Revenue
Our most popular reads from 2024 In 1849, French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” – “the more things change, the more they stay the same”. When I reviewed our best work from 2024, I noticed an unintended...
by Dave Hayward | Nov 20, 2024 | AI, Conference, product, Product marketing, Productivity, Public speaking
Some of the brightest brains in tech are not AI experts yet. I left Spark Accelerate last week with my head hurting from trying to retain all the information generated by the incredible speakers and content. One of the standouts was Edmundo Ortega’s keynote, “An...
by Dave Hayward | Aug 29, 2024 | Digital marketing, Conference, Public speaking
The final day of DigiMarCon was notable in its focus on actionable, technical, and platform-specific insights. Like Day 1, we were blessed with deep domain experts who matched strategic vision with actual how-tos. It was “inside baseball” for digital marketers, with...
by Dave Hayward | Aug 29, 2024 | Conference, Digital marketing, Public speaking
In August, I spent two days with intensely bright people discussing digital marketing at DigiMarCon. COVID struck some key talent, so I became emcee at short notice. It was an honour to introduce so many great speakers. Here, in brief, is what was discussed on Day 1:...
