John Espirian
John at heart is a technical copywriter working for himself having previously held roles at Sky and Fujistu, although we hope he won’t mind us saying that we also consider him one of the most useful sources for Linkedin knowledge on the web. Specifically, John focuses on organic Linkedin, which is where our focus is in this session. John is also the recent author of ‘Content DNA’ which is available on Amazon right now.
Work aside, John is an interesting chap despite an unfortunate affection for Liverpool FC – we’ve still got my fingers crossed the season will be cancelled before they can be crowned champions. John is a Lord (technically), his first music purchase was ‘’Informer’ by Snow’ and John also voted 162 for Leona Lewis to win the X factor back in 2006, which we’re not sure is something to be proud of.
John Espirian’s talks with The Marketing Meetup:
When was the last time you asked your customers how they feel?
When we started talking to our clients, in what ultimately became a rebrand (not all conversations lead to a rebrand, fear not) we found that there was a disconnect between…
Punk Rock Marketing
I’m not a marketer, neither am I a punk, but coming from a lifetime of working in the broadcast and print media I do understand audiences and I know how much people appreciate content that makes them think, makes them smile and makes them pay attention. Isn’t that the...
Why The Marketing Meetup is going to Newcastle and Manchester?
The Marketing Meetup is an community by marketers, for marketers. We’re brining our events up to Newcastle and Manchester and wanted to explain why.
What file formats should your designer be providing your logo in?
Here is a straightforward guide to vector and raster images and the file types you need to get your logo delivered in from your designer.
How to Exhibit Successfully: Driving Expo Success
Exhibitions are expensive. But you can exhibit successfully by building a marketing campaign around your booth to capture leads and justify your investment. Our story begins with a common problem for new startups. Mixam had never done any marketing. Our booklet...
Lessons from 30 years in PR: Do’s and Don’ts
What does 30 years of working in PR teach you? Well, quite a lot actually! In this quick Do’s and Don’ts, we share Bron Eames’ lessons.
Google Ads on small budgets: the talk notes
Google Ads are a massive part of the marketing mix for many, but also a complete mystery for loads more. In this funny talk we demystify Google Ads.
Content marketing for small teams: The Fundamental Checklist
This is a guest blog post from Helen Brooks of Further, following her talk at The Marketing Meetup: Norwich. This blog post is designed to compliment the talk, providing you the opportunity to quickly glance at all the info you need to check if your content is hitting...
The Marketers Guide to Printing
In this blog post, Adam Smith provides the ultimate guide to printing for marketers everywhere.
Top 5 marketing priorities for 2019 – Mira Nair
This post was originally published on Mira's LinkedIn here. Another New Year ritual is upon us as marketers. Predictions of top 2019 marketing trends now abound. They may seem bewildering in their diversity. It's like that proverb about blind people feeling different...
| Date | Time | Speaker | Name | Location | Get yo' space |
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| 9 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Share challenges and tap into the experience of the TMM Bucks community | TMM IRL: The Reading Room Roundtable | Buckinghamshire | Sign up here |
| 10 Sep | 17:00 - 20:00 EDT | Nick Lafferty at Profound, Alexia LaFata at Meta, and Will Guevara at Amsive | AI Search Meetup in New York | New York | Sign up here |
| 10 Sep | 17:30 - 20:00 CEST | Claire Millward, Founder at Block Digital | TMM IRL: How to Build Personal Branding for LinkedIn | Amsterdam | Sign up here |
| 10 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Sara Thompson, Director of Marketing & Fundraising for Dorset Wildlife Trust | TMM IRL: Quick & dirty wins – how Dorset’s Wildlife Trust’s quickest fundraising campaign collided with a community’s passion to save Upton Heath | Bournemouth | Sign up here |
| 14 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Mark Bjornsgaard, Founder & CEO at System Two Group | TMM IRL: Startups which never fail – how the process always wins | Guildford | Sign up here |
| 14 Sep | 18:30 - 20:30 ADT | Maria Prudnikova, Marketing & Communications Advisor at Doane Grant Thornton LLP | TMM IRL: When marketing meets culture – the mistakes we don’t see coming | Halifax | Sign up here |
| 15 Sep | 12:30 - 13:30 BST | Vivi Koroma Kala, award-winning marketer and content creator | Personal branding for the days it feels like nobody’s watching | Online | Sign up here |
| 15 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Amy Griffiths CEO at The Feed; Mat Finch, Founder at Finch Design Co; and Beth Moseley at Beth Moseley Photography | TMM IRL: Managing Stakeholders – a Panel Discussion | Norwich | Sign up here |
| 15 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Ethan Lambert, Director at Run At Light Media | TMM IRL: Mastering Google AI – What Real-World Testing Reveals | Liverpool | Sign up here |
| 15 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Dan Wiggins, Founder at RedCore Digital & Lily Jones, Demand Generation Executive at Moneypenny | TMM IRL: AI, Search & The Future of Marketing | Wrexham | Sign up here |
| 15 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Andrew Rich, Quality Assurance Tester at Vially; and Sean Tobin, Growth Manager at .IE Domain Registry | TMM IRL: What are Digital Accessibility & Trust? An Evening with Vially & .IE | Dublin | Sign up here |
| 15 Sep | 18:30 - 20:30 CEST | MC Casal, Transformation and Foresight Strategist at Futurities | TMM IRL: Welcome to the Future. You Should Have Been Here Yesterday | Geneva | Sign up here |
| 16 Sep | 17:30 - 20:00 BST | an Open Space session with the community 😊 | TMM IRL: Marketing ideas, challenges, and discussion with the TMM community | Bristol and Bath | Sign up here |
| 16 Sep | 18:00 - 20:30 BST | Karl Cowell, Creative Director at The Wix Guys | TMM IRL: Our story – from a silly agency idea to six figures in six months | Ashford | Sign up here |
| 16 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Nisha Haq, Founder at Iggy & Lime | TMM IRL: Every Picture Tells a Story — But Is It the Story You Intended? | Portsmouth | Sign up here |
| 16 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Tim Bond, Founder at CogniScale | TMM IRL: Beyond the chatbot – what’s next for AI in marketing teams | Brighton | Sign up here |
| 16 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Rob Fryer, Founder at BrandStorm | TMM IRL: 🐶 Who’s a Good Brand Then? 5 things dogs can teach marketers about building better brands | Fleet | Sign up here |
| 17 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Rudy Heywood, Founder at Famous Wolf | TMM IRL: Heritage Brands vs Brands With Heritage (Why Standing Still Is the Most Dangerous Move You Can Make) | Birmingham | Sign up here |
| 17 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Harmeet Singh, Co-Founder at Axies Digital | TMM IRL: The Tribal Brand – Why Community is the Ultimate Marketing Strategy in an Age of Loneliness | Northampton | Sign up here |
| 17 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Phil Willcox, Founder at Emotion at Work | TMM IRL: Anger, Contempt and Disgust – The Emotions You Wish You Were Marketing Properly | Lincoln | Sign up here |
| 17 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Nik Venios, Founder at The Ideas Agency; and Amy Bott, Marketing Director, ex-Snug, Victoria Plum & Gymshark | TMM IRL: Conquering Q4 | Cheltenham | Sign up here |
| 17 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 EEST | Anca Curcan, Head of Marketing at Explora Solutions | TMM IRL: The generalist in the era of specialists: the advantage of seeing the big picture | Cluj Napoca | Sign up here |
| 22 Sep | 14:00 - 15:00 BST | Nicole Mezzasalma, Senior Consultant at Battenhall | B2B social for when your company page gets three likes, and one of them is the MD | Online | Sign up here |
| 22 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | A panel led by Eve Macdonald, Creative Growth Strategist at KISS Branding; with Jessica Rhodes, Global Marketing Director at Paysecure, James McMath, Head of Department (B2B) at Press Box PR, and James Brown, Managing Director at Friday Solved | TMM IRL: Say something real – Marketing with an opinion when AI can write anything (apparently) | Leeds | Sign up here |
| 22 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Ben Rees, Consultant and Fractional CMO at BJRees Ltd | TMM IRL: AI won’t take your job, but you’ll need to show you still deserve it | Cambridge | Sign up here |
| 22 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Leon Calverley, Owner at Door 4 | TMM IRL: Lancashire | Lancashire | Sign up here |
| 23 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Becky Brennan, Head of Marketing at Simpkins Edwards | TMM IRL: Making marketing work (when big ideas don’t) | Exeter | Sign up here |
| 23 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Duarte Garrido, Co-Founder at DOJO AI | TMM IRL: London Brixton | London | Sign up here |
| 29 Sep | 14:00 - 15:00 BST | Charlie Marchant, CEO at Exposure Ninja | Why Your Brand is Invisible to AI (and What It’s Costing You) | Online | Sign up here |
| 29 Sep | 17:30 - 20:00 EDT | Tarek Riman, Founder at Riman Agency | TMM IRL: The New Rules of Visibility – Marketing in an AI-Driven World | Montreal | Sign up here |
| 29 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Katy Air & Chris Thornton, Co-Founders at Airgonomics | TMM IRL: Turning blocks into business breakthroughs | Fife | Sign up here |
| 30 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Eloise Leeson-Smith, Founder & Linguist at Olim | Next-Level Communications | TMM IRL: Know What You Stand For — Then Say It! | Southampton | Sign up here |
| 30 Sep | 18:30 - 20:30 CEST | Cathy White, Founder & CEO of CEW Communications | TMM IRL: How to make media work for your marketing department | Barcelona | Sign up here |
| 30 Sep | 18:30 - 20:30 EDT | Ben Wise and Darren Chiu, Co-founders at Captivate | TMM IRL: The Art & Science of Persuasion -Turning Behavioural Science Into Real-World Results | Toronto | Sign up here |
| 6 Oct | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Ryan Percival, Founder at Social with Ryan | TMM IRL: LinkedIn, with a plan | Milton Keynes | Sign up here |
| 13 Oct | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Leamington Spa | Leamington Spa | Sign up here |
| 14 Oct | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Silke Anderson, Founder at Cloud7 Marketing & AI Literacy Trainer | TMM IRL: Why Critical Thinking Is Still Our Superpower (in the Age of AI) | Hitchin | Sign up here |
| 15 Oct | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Robin Williams, Digital Consultant - Strategy, Delivery & Growth | TMM IRL: AI Did the Coding. I Did the Thinking. Here’s What I Learned | Sheffield | Sign up here |
| 20 Oct | 18:00 - 20:30 EDT | Ben Moore, Managing Director at BeReal; Ramin Beheshti, CEO and Co-founder at Caliber; further panellists to be announced! | The Marketing Meetup x BeReal: New York. How We Connect Now – AI, Socials, and Brand | New York | Sign up here |
| 21 Oct | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Reading | Reading | Sign up here |
| 29 Oct | 18:00 - 20:00 GMT | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Winchester | Winchester | Sign up here |
| 12 Nov | 18:00 - 20:00 GMT | Nikki Pilkington, SEO Consultant and SEO Content Specialist | TMM IRL: the SEO to do list that fits on a post it note | Peterborough | Sign up here |
| 12 Nov | 18:00 - 20:00 GMT | Marketing Round Table | The Marketing Meetup, St Albans | TMM IRL: Bring Your Marketing Challenge. Leave With A Plan. | St Albans | Sign up here |








