Brent Leary

Brent Leary is the host of the Small Business Trends One-on-One interview series, a weekly series featuring key voices in companies large and small. He is co-founder of CRM Essentials LLC, an Atlanta-based CRM advisory firm covering tools and strategies for improving business relationships. Brent is a CRM industry analyst, advisor, author, speaker and award-winning blogger. He is also the chair of CRM Evolution, CRM Magazine's annual industry event.

Consumer Tech Expert Eugene Wei – We have God-like search and distribution, and paleolithic emotions

Brent Leary is joined by Paul Greenberg for a conversation with consumer tech expert Eugene Wei.

Oct 8, 2021

Bryan Catanzaro of NVIDIA – Conversational AI in Some Ways is the Ultimate AI Challenge

Brent Leary chats with Bryan Catanzaro of NVIDIA about conversational AI.

Oct 1, 2021

Jonathan Becher of the San Jose Sharks – The number of content creators is closing in on the number of content consumers

Jonathan Becher of the San Jose Sharks hockey team discusses the state of content creation and creators with Brent Leary.

Sep 24, 2021

Jon Reed of Diginomica – Virtual or Live, Events in General Just Haven’t Been Done Well, Which Continues to be a Lost Opportunity

Jon Reed of Diginomica speaks with Brent Leary on properly hosting a business event, either live or virtual.

Sep 17, 2021

Nicole France of Contentful – Content is the Story a Company Tells About Itself

Brent Leary and Paul Greenberg talk with Nicole France and Dina Apostolou at Contentful about the power of creating content for businesses.

Sep 10, 2021

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Anand Thaker – In a Cookie-Less World Marketers Won’t be Able to Outsource the Relationship They Have With Customers

In this week's interview, Brent Leary talks about how a 1% conversion rate can be a success with Anand Thaker, a MarTech Industry Influencer.

Sep 3, 2021

Michael Wu of PROS: Even Though We Have Big Data, There’s Never Enough Data

Brent Leary talks to Michael Wu of PROS in this week's interview to discuss the state of AI, data, and how it is helping companies.

Aug 27, 2021

Preston So of Oracle: While things are better for developing voice interfaces, there’s still a way to go for those using them

Brent Leary chats with author Preston so for his latest one-on-one interview.

Aug 20, 2021

Small Business Trends

Brent Leary

Consumer Tech Expert Eugene Wei – We have God-like search and distribution, and paleolithic emotions

Bryan Catanzaro of NVIDIA – Conversational AI in Some Ways is the Ultimate AI Challenge

Jonathan Becher of the San Jose Sharks – The number of content creators is closing in on the number of content consumers

Jon Reed of Diginomica – Virtual or Live, Events in General Just Haven’t Been Done Well, Which Continues to be a Lost Opportunity

Nicole France of Contentful – Content is the Story a Company Tells About Itself

Anand Thaker – In a Cookie-Less World Marketers Won’t be Able to Outsource the Relationship They Have With Customers

Michael Wu of PROS: Even Though We Have Big Data, There’s Never Enough Data

Preston So of Oracle: While things are better for developing voice interfaces, there’s still a way to go for those using them

Colin Fleming of Salesforce: Dreamforce is our Hamilton, Salesforce+ is our Disney+

Jeb the Boxsmith: Doing Something I Love Led to 60,000 Followers on TikTok in Just Over Two Months

Daddy-O of Stetsasonic: Even After Almost 40 Years I’m as Good a Rapper Now as I’ve Ever Been

Craig Cuffie of Salesforce: A Year Later Empathy Continues to Turn Action into a Movement