Amtower Off Center

Hosted by nationally-known speaker and consultant Mark Amtower,  Amtower Off-Center highlights the good, the bad, the ugly and the just plain silly of doing business in the government market. Every week experts join Mark for a lively discussion of current issues facing the government contractor community.


Latest Podcasts / Episodes

  • This week on Amtower Off Center, Bloomberg Government’s Daniel Snyder joins host Mark Amtower to talk about STARS III, CIO-SP4, Alliant 2 and other large contracts that are emerging by the end of this fiscal…
    July 24, 2020
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, Doug Mashkuri, VP and general manager of GovLoop, joins host Mark Amtower to discuss what contractors should consider when selecting a virtual meeting platform.
    July 2, 2020
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, Erica Pyatt, manager of Advocacy & Government for LinkedIn, joins host Mark Amtower for a wide ranging discussion of LinkedIn as a publishing platform and marketing tool.
    June 5, 2020
  • Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss the impact of Covid 19 on the government contracting market.
    May 21, 2020
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, author and consultant Neal Schaffer joins host Mark Amtower to talk about influence marketing and his new book, The Age of Influence.
    May 14, 2020
  • Author and speaker David Meerman Scott returns to Amtower Off Center to discuss the continuing and expanding influence of web 2.0 tools in marketing and public relations and how these tools can be used for…
    May 8, 2020
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, Ana Hirsbrunner, president of Synectics for Management Decisions, joins host Mark Amtower to talk about her family owned small business and the role it plays in the GovCon market.
    April 30, 2020
  • Lee Frederiksen of Hinge Marketing joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss the state of marketing during the coronavirus pandemic.
    April 2, 2020
  • PropLIBRARY’s Carl Dickson makes a return appearance on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss the evolution of his approach to building winning RFPs, and the creation of his “Must Win Process” online tool.
    March 13, 2020
  • Brian Chidester of OpenText, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss current trends in GovCon marketing, including how events and digital platforms should be used as part of a company’s…
    March 9, 2020
  • Washington Technology Editor in Chief Nick Wakeman joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center, for a wide-ranging discussion of the mergers and acquisition climate, the popularity of “best in class” contracts, and…
    March 3, 2020
  • Federal Business Council CEO David Powell joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss how to develop your criteria for selecting and participating in events.
    February 26, 2020
  • Nyla Technology Solutions CEO Shana Cosgrove and Larry Letow, operating partner at Interprise Partners, join host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center, to discuss the clearance process and some of the challenges that…
    February 11, 2020
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, VMWare’s Christina Morrison and Allan Rubin of ORock Technologies joins host Mark Amtower to discuss the state of marketing in government contracting.
    February 7, 2020