Rory Sutherland
Rory Sutherland started in 1988 as a graduate trainee at Ogilvy and since has risen through the ranks to the title of Vice-Chairman. This title is vague, quite consciously, but in effect gives Rory the freedom to explore advertising, as well as look to elevate the industry through his many speaking and writing for The Spectator and in his recent book, Alchemy.
He is also the owner of a Japanese toilet fact, which is a fun fact, but also pretty damn cool.
Rory Sutherland’s talks with The Marketing Meetup:
The best book recommendations for marketers
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The quick story of The Marketing Meetup
I’m the founder of The Marketing Meetup. I started the Marketing Meetup four years ago because I was a solo marketer working in a small company, I didn’t have anywhere where I could network with other marketers and I didn’t have a place where I could learn either.
Fantastic conversational marketing examples that will increase your website conversions
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The Best Marketing Tools for Marketers on a Budget
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The absolute basics of marketing
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Tips for how to post and build a personal brand on LinkedIn
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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
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| Date | Time | Speaker | Name | Location | Get yo' space |
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| 13 Aug | 16:00 - 17:00 BST | Sam Balter, Head of Content at Wistia; and Greg Kelly, Director, Technology Partnerships at Webflow | Where to Put Video on Pages That Convert | Online | Sign up here |
| 21 Aug | 16:00 - 17:00 BST | Wistia legends Sam Balter, Head of Content and Brendan Schwartz, Co-Founder & CTO | Video MCP Workshop: Using AI Agents to Power Video Workflows | Online | Sign up here |
| 25 Aug | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Leamington Spa | Leamington Spa | Sign up here |
| 3 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed | TMM IRL: Bournemouth | Bournemouth | Sign up here |
| 8 Sep | 17:30 - 20:00 BST | Dan Appleby, Managing Director at Drummond Central | TMM IRL: Newcastle | Newcastle | Sign up here |
| 8 Sep | 17:30 - 19:30 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Manchester | Manchester | Sign up here |
| 9 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Buckinghamshire | Buckinghamshire | Sign up here |
| 14 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Guildford | Guildford | Sign up here |
| 14 Sep | 18:30 - 20:30 ADT | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Halifax | Halifax | Sign up here |
| 15 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Norwich | 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 | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Wrexham | 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 |
| 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 | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Ashford | Ashford | Sign up here |
| 16 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Portsmouth | 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 | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Fleet | 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 | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Lincoln | 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 | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Cluj Napoca | Cluj Napoca | Sign up here |
| 22 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Leeds | Leeds | Sign up here |
| 22 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Cambridge | Cambridge | Sign up here |
| 22 Sep | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | 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 | 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 |
| 7 Oct | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Ryan Percival, Founder at Social with Ryan | TMM IRL: LinkedIn, with a plan | Milton Keynes | 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 |
| 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 |