Louis Grenier, Everyone Hates Marketers
Louis Grenier is the Founder of the excellent Everyone Hates Marketers — the podcast with nearly a million downloads, and organisation that fights marketing bullshit.
This is a super exciting time for Louis as recently he announced he is departing his full time role at Hotjar to take Everyone Hates Marketers full time, which is not only richly earned, but very exciting for the whole marketing community.
As a listener of Everyone Hates Marketers, we’ve come to admire Louis for three reasons. 1. His direct interviewing style that gets the most out of his guest. 2. The guests themselves – we look enviously at the two episodes he has done with Seth Godin – the first of which Seth stated that Louis provided the most invigorating podcast intro he had experienced for a long time. And 3. Louis’ consistent focus on finding not just ‘things that work’ but ‘things that work consistently for a long time’ – I..e. a pursuit of marketing truth.
Louis Grenier’s talks with The Marketing Meetup:
Tips for how to post and build a personal brand on LinkedIn
Linkedin is providing an incredible opportunity to build your personal brand right now. But how do you do it? Here’s our top tips.
Marketing Masterclass Two: The Manta Sleep Mask
How do you convince someone to invest in a $30 version of something otherwise available in a pound store? Here’s what I learned from my purchase experience of a manta sleep mask.
How we set up Zoom for Marketing Meetup Webinars
Zoom has become one of The Marketing Meetup’s most important bits of software.
And while we’ve all no doubt set up many a Zoom meeting for the purposes of quizzes and more, learning about how to do it for webinars wasn’t all that easy. So, we thought we’d create a (not short) video, on what the background operation of setting a Zoom webinar looks like.
A Marketing Masterclass: Son of a Tailor
Part of the reason I love running The Marketing Meetup is that I love seeing great marketing in action. As Rand Fishkin puts it, ‘marketing done well can be a noble act’, because it matches a ‘need’ to a solution, which ultimately improves someone’s life.
So when a company absolutely markets the sh*t out of me in a compelling way, I can’t help but feel like I want to 1) sit back and clap, and 2) learn as much as I can from them.
The ultimate marketers reading list
There is so many amazing marketing books out there, it’s difficult to keep up. Here is our recommended reading for marketers everywhere.
How marketers should be looking to up skill in 2020
Now is the time many marketers are looking to up skill. Here’s the areas we would be focusing our attention in 2020:
Diversity and The Marketing Meetup: Actions
How The Marketing Meetup is striving to do better from a diversity point of view.
How I wrote a song which meant we ended up working with Fiverr.
How I wrote a song which meant we ended up working with Fiverr. Because sometimes, you have to do things differently.
CV support for The Marketing Meetup Community, provided by Brand Recruitment and Pitch Consultants
Things are hard right now. Chances are, they will get even tougher.
And while we can’t click our fingers and make things better, we wanted to do what we could to help. So, working with our friends and partners at Brand Recruitment and Pitch Consultants, we’re offering the community 30 minute CV sessions.
A message from Sean Paul for The Marketing Meetup… no, seriously.
You know how every brand in the world is messaging you that they’re there for you right now? Well, we got Sean Paul to do ours.
Date | Time | Speaker | Name | Location | Get yo' space |
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3 Jul | 12:00 - 13:00 BST | the TKC community ... and you! | The Keynote Club | Online | Sign up here |
3 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | A panel discussion with Fiona O’Donoghue, Emily Waddell and Jim Lewis | TMM IRL: Marketing & Community – What Really Matters Now | Hertfordshire | Sign up here |
3 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Thomas Reeve, Head of Design at Zyte | TMM IRL: Decoding the Human Touch – Practical Tips for Engaging User Experiences | Northampton | Sign up here |
7 Jul | 17:30 - 20:30 BST | Kladi Vergine, Sr Creative Cloud Evangelist at Adobe | Adobe Create Now | Bristol and Bath | Sign up here |
8 Jul | 14:00 - 15:00 BST | the legends at DotDigital | The School of Email summary – your questions answered! | Online | Sign up here |
8 Jul | 15:00 - 16:00 BST | ilā Kamalagharan, Maison Mercury Jones and Bomo Piri, Native Instruments | Designed to resonate: How sonic branding shapes our experiences | Online | Sign up here |
8 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Ashleigh King, Founder of Flamingo Heights Podcast Studio | TMM IRL: Stand Out from the Crowd – The Power of Podcasting and its Place in the Marketing Mix | Newcastle | Sign up here |
8 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | James Sandbrook, Co-Founder of The Marketing Meetup | TMM IRL: Manchester | Manchester | Sign up here |
8 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Jon Torrens, Communication Coach | TMM IRL: How to Train Your Fear Dragon – Becoming an Authentic Hero | Cambridge | Sign up here |
8 Jul | 18:00 - 21:00 BST | A panel of lovely people including Lucy Street, Adobe Express Evangelist & Community Advocate | Adobe Content Circles | Bristol and Bath | Sign up here |
9 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Lyndon Nicholson, CEO and Founder of the Future Group | TMM IRL: The Hollywood Method – crafting blockbuster brand stories that sell | London | Sign up here |
10 Jul | 09:00 - 16:30 BST | Coworking, Cake & Tom Garfield | Cowork Crew: How to sell without selling your soul | Reading | Sign up here |
10 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Charli Hunt, Co-Founder at The Lime One | TMM IRL: How to use LinkedIn to generate leads | Winchester | Sign up here |
10 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Ben Whitaker, Co-Founder at StopPress | TMM IRL: AI for everyday marketing. User cases over shiny tools 😊 | Lancashire | Sign up here |
10 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Karen Kerr, Founder at chicken/egg | TMM IRL: The brief is broken – Why marketing needs better questions, not more answers | Buckinghamshire | Sign up here |
11 Jul | 09:00 - 16:30 BST | Coworking, Cake & Emily Jones | Cowork Crew: 6 steps to website success | Cambridge | Sign up here |
14 Jul | 09:00 - 16:30 BST | Coworking, Cake & Steve Folland | Cowork Crew: Being Freelance – The Best Advice I’ve Stolen from 10 years of Podcasts | London | Sign up here |
15 Jul | 09:30 - 10:30 BST | Naomi Walkland, CMO of Motorway | How to grow a high functioning team | Online | Sign up here |
15 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Jorun Bork, SEO Account Manager at GIMO | TMM IRL: The Evolution of Search and AI’s Impact on SEO | Leeds | Sign up here |
15 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Tom Hastings, Co-founder of SINE Digital | TMM IRL: The Smart Marketer’s Guide to AI (and the Future You Need to Prepare For) | Brighton | Sign up here |
15 Jul | 18:00 - 21:00 BST | Chima Mmeje, Founder at The FCDC; Crystal Carter, Head of SEO Communications at Wix;Luke Carthy, Ecommerce SEO Consultant & CRO Specialist; Ryan Law, Director of Content Marketing at Ahrefs | Sip & Search Free London SEO Meetup: Is Traditional SEO Becoming Obsolete? | London | Sign up here |
16 Jul | 17:30 - 19:30 BST | Hannah Stapley-Parker, Marketing Consultant & Trainer at Well I Never | TMM IRL: How to Practise Curiosity for Better Creative Thinking | Bristol and Bath | Sign up here |
16 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | David Patrykowski, Director at Backona Analytics | TMM IRL: Stop wrestling with spreadsheets, and start having conversations with your data | Milton Keynes | Sign up here |
16 Jul | 18:30 - 20:30 EDT | Sarah Stockdale, Founder of Growclass; and Quinn Palmer, Senior Manager of Growth Marketing at Growclass | TMM IRL: Faking Human – What Marketers need to know about AI | Toronto | Sign up here |
17 Jul | 09:00 - 16:30 BST | Coworking, Cake & Charlotte Sargeant | Cowork Crew: Unlock These Audience Insights to Make Buying a No-Brainer | Northampton | Sign up here |
17 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Sarah Clarke, Business Director – Data & Strategy at McCann Media | TMM IRL: What can marketers learn from bees | Birmingham | Sign up here |
22 Jul | 14:00 - 15:00 BST | Chenell Basilio, Founder at Growth in Reverse | How to grow a newsletter in 2025 | Online | Sign up here |
22 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Katie Neal and Lauren Martin, Co-founders at The Piñata Lab | TMM IRL: From chaos to clarity – why strategy matters | Liverpool | Sign up here |
25 Jul | 12:00 - 13:00 BST | Joe Glover Co-Founder at The Marketing Meetup, Harriet Meyer Award-winning journalist and founder of AI for Media, Heather Murray Generative AI expert and top global MarTech influencer | AI on Trial | Online | Sign up here |
28 Jul | 18:00 - 20:30 BST | Dr Julia Jones, Founder of health-tech startup Holidity | TMM IRL: The Art of the Pivot – when, why and how to change your plans | Ashford | Sign up here |
2 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Rae Dixon, Senior Brand Manager at Gattaca | TMM IRL: Portsmouth | Portsmouth | Sign up here |
2 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Abi Sea, Content and Messaging Specialist | TMM IRL: Fife | Fife | Sign up here |
19 Mar | 09:00 - 17:00 GMT | lots of wonderful speakers from the TMM community 💜 | The Marketing Meetup Conference 2026 | London | Sign up here |