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Mind Your Business: Startle - Episode 3

Mind Your Business: Startle - Episode 3

Written by
Adam Castleton
Published

November 10, 2023

Category
Media

The third episode of our three part podcast series for business leaders doing things very much their own way.

Mind Your Business is the sponsored spin-off of marketing agency ...Gasp!'s world-leading podcast, Call to Action®. It gives inspiring, unusual or simply very likeable businesses a chance to share their story. In ...Gasp!'s own words, "It’s like reading a business book with the word ‘guru’ in the title, with the single but vital exception that it won’t make you do a little sick in your mouth".

This is the third and final episode of our three part Mind Your Business series.

For the encore, we’ve got the band back together with Adam, our CEO, James, Creative Director, and Magnus, Music Consultant, belting out their favourite behavioural science hits, like expectancy theory and the peak end rule, before facing a ton of tough posers from people in the industry.   

The team chat about:

📣 Expectancy theory and the peak end rule 

📣 Managing first impressions at scale 

📣 Brands doing it well 

📣 Whether there’s one playlist that does it best 

📣 How the weight of cutlery impacts how you perceive your meal 

📣 And some tough industry questions from Sean at Thirty Seconds Out

One of the traps that a lot of retailers fall into is that they look for inspiration inside their own industry and end up sounding very similar. One of the things we try to do is intentionally look for inspiration outside of an industry.
Time stamps:

(01:12) - An introduction to Startle, Adam, Magnus, and James

(02:50) - If you listened to Episode 1 and 3, jump here to skip the recap and get straight into Episode 3.    

(03:20) - A quick lesson in expectancy theory  

(06:54) - How to manage first impressions at scale 

(08:25) - Brands doing it well and the power of a balloon 

(10:57) - Peak end rule and playing musical scrabble  

(15:25) - Questions from people in the industry  

(15:40) - Is there one playlist that does it best? 

(23:00) - Should you let employees play their favourites? 

(27:28) - How the weight of cutlery impacts how you perceive your meal 

(30:28) - Wrap up

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Mind Your Business: Startle - Episode 3

Adam Castleton

With 15 years of experience working in technology, Adam is our strategic and savvy CEO. It’s his job to lead Startle, ensuring that we have a positive impact on both our customers and our team, by delivering innovation and growth in a positive culture. When he’s not at work, he tries hard to switch off by spending time outside with his wife and kids - his self proclaimed ‘happy place’ is having a wander in the forest on a sunny day.

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