Every episode distilled into a practical playbook — evidence-based principles you can apply Monday morning.

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The Evergreen Playbooks

Each episode of The Evergreen Playbook ends with a set of principles the listener can apply immediately. These playbooks go deeper — step-by-step frameworks drawn directly from the conversation and the ideas behind it.

10 playbooks published

The Agency Playbook for the AI Age

Paul Krauss · TeamOne Developers

Paul Krauss works at the intersection of AI and creative strategy. His position is direct: most agencies are misusing AI — not because they lack access to the tools, but because th…

AgencyValue CreationAI
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Episode 010

The B2B Marketing Playbook for Human-Centered Strategy

Manuela Kohlhas · PTC

Manuela Kohlhas spent 15 years working in B2B and tech marketing across five successful startup exits. Over those years one pattern repeated itself. The companies that grew fastest…

B2B MarketingBrandStrategy
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Episode 008

The Growth Playbook for Small Brands

Peter Kiefer · PUNCH Marketing Consultancy

Peter Kiefer spent years leading strategy at agencies before focusing independently on marketing effectiveness for smaller brands. His starting position makes many founders uncomfo…

Brand GrowthSmall BusinessStrategy
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Episode 007

The Strategic Marketing Playbook for Business Alignment

Alexander Schulze · Vivaldi Group

Alexander Schulze has worked across agency, corporate, and consultancy roles, seeing marketing from every angle. At Vivaldi Group, he helps CMOs do something that sounds simple but…

Marketing StrategyCMOBusiness
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Episode 006

The Messaging Playbook for Simplicity-First Marketers

Billy Broas

Billy Broas did not start as a marketing expert. He wanted to leave his engineering job, start an online beer brewing business, and support himself doing something he loved. His ma…

SimplicityMessagingMarketing
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Episode 005

The Brand Science Playbook for Evidence-Based Growth

Ethan Decker · Applied Brand Science

Ethan Decker studied ecology, spent years running quantitative simulations, then moved into marketing. What he found was a discipline full of confident opinions, unverified assumpt…

Brand ScienceEvidence-BasedGrowth
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Episode 004

The Brand Management Playbook for Process-Driven Teams

Michael Reinicke

Michael Reinicke spent 13 years working across creative, media, digital, social, and brand consultancy. He always kept his eyes on the bigger problem. What he found was that most b…

Brand StrategyProcessManagement
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Episode 003

The Community Marketing Playbook for Long-Term Brand Building

Mirja Schwartz

Mirja Schwartz has spent her career at the intersection of brand strategy and community building. Her central argument is that community is one of the most misused concepts in mark…

CommunityMarketing Strategy
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Episode 002

The Customer Experience Playbook for Excited Buyers

Gordon Euchler & Maik Hoffman

Gordon Euchler has a PhD from Cambridge, a decade in advertising, and years at Deloitte. Maik Hoffman has run creative strategy for brands across Europe and spent time on both the…

BrandCreativityEmotion
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Episode 001

The Storytelling Playbook for Authentic Brands

Falk Ebert

Falk Ebert has spent his career working at the intersection of marketing innovation and new channels — from NFC and QR codes to the metaverse and AI. In every cycle, he observed th…

StorytellingStrategyCommunication
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