Marketing lessons with live-room urgency.
I Love Marketing is a practical, rapid-fire business show built around real conversations with Joe Polish, Dean Jackson, and named business voices. Its best moments turn stories about selling, leadership, culture, and persistence into plain rules a working business owner can try.
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I Love Marketing is a long-running business show with a practical bias and a conversational engine. Joe Polish and Dean Jackson appear repeatedly as central voices, moving between live recordings, audience interaction, and interviews with named business figures. The show is fast. It likes examples, questions, numbers, old stories, and blunt little rules that can be repeated after the episode ends. Recent episodes put special weight on live sessions, partly as a reaction against generic automated content and partly because the format lets the speakers respond to the room. That gives the show a loose feel, but the looseness usually has a destination. A story becomes a lesson. A lesson becomes a method. A method becomes something a business owner can test. Topics range from the nine-word email and lead conversion to offer design, referrals, influence, leadership, customer obsession, and relationship-building. The guest episodes broaden the business lens. Daymond John talks about goals, homework, and the deeper reason behind ambition. Dr. Robert Cialdini brings the conversation back to listening, objections, and persuasion that starts with attention. Kara Goldin's appearance frames entrepreneurship through mindset, failure, and the usefulness of putting hard-won stories into the world. Patty McCord pushes culture away from vague values and toward visible behaviors. Harvey Mackay brings the conversation back to research, likability, reputation, and the work of understanding people before asking for anything. The show is not sleek. That is part of the point. It feels like experienced marketers talking in public, circling a useful idea until it becomes clear enough to use. Its best fit is the listener who wants practical sales and marketing thinking without a corporate filter.
Made for: Entrepreneurs, small business owners, and operators who want usable ideas for selling, converting leads, building relationships, and thinking more clearly about offers. It especially suits listeners who prefer stories and direct coaching over tidy classroom structure.
What sets it apart: The show mixes live audience energy with marketing talk from Joe Polish and Dean Jackson, then pulls in business figures whose stories sharpen the lesson. It stands out by treating marketing as human behavior first and tactics second.
I Love Marketing is an ever expanding world-wide community of people that love marketing and want to keep innovating and learning. This podcast is for Entrepreneurs, small business owners or even start-ups that want inspiration and ACTIONABLE marketing strategies about direct mail ideas, lead generation, lead conversion, getting referrals, email marketing and more. Joe and Dean also discuss psychology, books, people and productivity.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
I Love Marketing turns conversations about influence, leadership, and resilience into practical choices for building customer relationships and growing a business.
I Love Marketing presses business ideas until they become decisions someone can act on. Joe Polish leads probing interviews, while a live session with Dean Jackson turns a nine-word re-engagement email into an audience workshop on starting sales conversations.
A nine-word email can start a conversation; listening well might keep you in it.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
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Culture matters most when it changes behavior.
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Dr. Cialdini treats influence as something earned through listening and generosity.
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