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A brand new podcast presented by Temple University's Professional Sales Organization! Join us as we explore the world of sales through guest speakers, in-depth interviews, and passionate discussions. Creator: Joshua Kaye Producers: Joshua Kaye, Parker Strong, & Ronan Gleeson
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What's New with Advertising is your go-to podcast for staying ahead in the ever-evolving world of advertising. Whether you're a DTC advertiser, agency pro, founder, marketer, or media buyer, we cut through the noise to bring you what’s actually working right now—no fluff, no distractions. Advertising moves fast, and LinkedIn, Twitter, and social media are flooded with opinions. We simplify it. In just 20 minutes per episode, you'll get actionable insights on the latest trends, strategies, an ...
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Facebook Ads Creative Strategy to Scale Beyond $100K/month Ad Spend
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25:14Struggling to break past six figures with your Meta (Facebook) ads? In this episode of The Growth Marketing Stories podcast, Aazar sits down with Ovidia, founder of the eight-figure brand Perfect Jean, to reveal actionable strategies for scaling paid media, creative operations, and unlocking consistent ad winners. 💡 What You'll Learn: The exact str…
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$150M Facebook Ads Expert Media Buying Tactics
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42:51In this episode, we dive into the world of media buying with insights from industry experts. Discover how to effectively run Facebook ads in 2025 with proven strategies from seasoned agency owners. We explore creative diversification, ad account structuring, and optimization techniques tailored for ecommerce and DTC brands. Learn how to reduce ad f…
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9 Dumb Ads That Worked (And Why Should You Steal Them)
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22:36For better visual experience, we recommend check out our ad on Youtube: https://go.aazarshad.com/dumb-ads In this episode, we discussed dumb ads that really worked for us. Especially when we didn't think they'd win. Guess what? We might have thought they were dumb, but they worked. The pattern? These ads weren't actually dumb. They were: • Memorabl…
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I Finally Figured Out How to Use AI to Create Ads That Convert Like CRAZY
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10:19Attention! For better experience, we do recommend check out our Youtube video so you can see the ad examples visually too: https://go.aazarshad.com/ai-ads In this episode of we deep into actionable ways to leverage AI for ad creation, focusing on research, ideation, and scripting—without losing the human touch. You'll learn both hosts’ proven frame…
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Creative Testing Strategy Masterclass in 2025
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42:27In this episode, we discussed: 00:00 Importance of Structured Creative Testing 04:19 Ad Analysis and Strategy Development 09:06 Optimizing Product Advertising Headlines 11:49 Creative Testing Unlocks New Meta Audiences 13:01 Focus on Weekly Winning Ads 18:11 Decoding Customer Insights Systematically 20:36 Effective Client Campaign Strategy 23:17 Co…
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The 90-Day Creative Roadmap You Need To Win on Meta (Link in the show notes)
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34:16Show notes: 03:50 Tariff Ads 08:30 Tea DTC Ad Creative Working 11:23 Sexy Ad We Wish We Created 13:33 Meggings Appeal Dynamics 18:30 UX Familiarity Ad Format Working 21:29 90-Day Growth Roadmap To Win ANY Ad Account 90-Day Creative Roadmap link. Connect with Marco and I here: The Performers Newsletter: https://www.blog.theperformers.io/subscribe Th…
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The One Cinematic Broll Tool Every Advertiser Needs in 2025
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26:17This week we discussed: 00:00 AI Tools That Create Stopping Brolls 07:03 Ad Format You Should Steal 11:01 How to Fix An Ad Account Struggling Suddenly 14:03 Market Challenges: Low Repeat Purchases 17:04 DTC Brand Aazar Took Over 20:19 Fashion Strategy Diverges from Ecom Trends 24:10 Fashion Ads: Why Features Are Important 26:01 Upcoming Tests & Vid…
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5 Meta Ads Creative Formats That Convert Like Crazy in 2025
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29:27This week we discussed: 04:05 AI Tool Fixes Lip Sync Problem 08:06 Automated Audience Targeting with Proxima 12:50 Why this carousel ad worked for us 15:32 Business Fundamentals Beat Marketing Tools 20:34 Ad simple ad format worked for us 24:12 We stacked multiple psychology ticks in this ad Tools we discussed: Proxima: https://www.proxima.ai/demo?…
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How to Leverage Super Bowl for Paid Social Without Paying
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23:08This week, we discussed: Show notes: 00:00 Rethinking Advertising: Focus on Branding 05:51 Authentic-Looking Advertorial Strategy 06:37 Innovative Ad Pricing Strategy 12:04 Viral Success from Super Bowl Ad 13:09 Engage Audiences Without Huge Budget 17:04 Observing Social Media Trends Indirectly 20:53 Lengthy Answers Boost Engagement Connect with Ma…
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In This Episode: AI in Script Writing: The Reality Check Discover Marco's experiments with AI-only scripts versus traditional creative strategist-written content. While AI offers innovative ideas, it hasn't yet mastered the art of evoking the emotions that drive engagement. The verdict? Listen to the episode. Revolutionizing Media Buying with AI Le…
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Hi Everyone! We changed the name and switched the pod concept and format. Everything in the pod, listen to it. Show notes: 00:00 Advertising Enthusiasts Discuss Latest Trends 06:08 Scaling AI Models for Realism 08:48 Authentic LTV Showcase Strategy 10:53 Improving Ad Performance Metrics 15:53 Effective Comparison Advertising Strategy 18:07 Effectiv…
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The Power of an Irresistible Offer: How One Company Cut Cost per Acquisition in Half
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19:51This podcast is all about how a simple change could lead to 2x increase in average order value and reduced the cost in half. If you like this episode then: Connect with Toby Winch And check out my newsletter where I share tactical content to improve your paid marketing: https://www.blog.theperformers.io/…
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What's Working in Paid Social in 2022 & Beyond by Dara Denny
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33:14This is the behind-the-scenes story of my mastermind call that I am sharing with you. If you are interested in my mastermind group, DM me on Twitter for more. Timestamps: 1:42 - Dara's story about how she got into paid social marketing 6:08 - Who inspires Dara to look up to? 8:34 - What Dara has changed her mind about Facebook Ads? 13:24 - How do y…
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How an 8-Figure D2C Brand Runs Paid Social Marketing
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46:00Growth marketing stories will have more paid social marketing guests. Here's our first one: Cody Plofker. This was discussed in our mastermind group; if you want to level up your paid social marketing skills, join our group here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMAeF1jMu7oukDdCYNJfVacxUmTjv85W8IKQNMw09rQx6dqg/viewform?usp=send_form In thi…
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10 Marketing Lessons I wish I knew Sooner
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12:05You can also read these lessons here: If you want these lessons in text: https://twitter.com/Aazarshad/status/1414585344058564611 Join my newsletter where I share marketing frameworks I learn and I ask my guests to share it too: https://aazarshad.com/newsletter/ Join the paid social mastermind here: https://forms.gle/a7m2G4bQGueFdLWV6…
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How Message-Market Fit Lifted 300% Conversion Rate for Heights
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23:08In this episode, Daphne broke down her process how she increased her company's conversion rate. Below are some timestamps: 00:59 - A bit about Daphne's growth background 03:22 - The heights story of increasing 300% conversion rate 12:03 - How they drilled down 16 to 3 key value props 13:38 - How churned customers helped 15:35 - How founders were a …
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15 Cold Emails Tactics To Get What You Want
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10:4315 tactics of cold email I am sharing from my last 10 year experience. And here's a good email as an example: https://twitter.com/Aazarshad/status/1555179700087029766By Aazar Ali Shad
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14 Bootstrapped Marketing Tactics To Get You Zero to 7-Figures
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15:49Here are the show notes: The main thread: https://twitter.com/Aazarshad/status/1432689651823742978 How to launch on Product Hunt: https://www.swipefiles.com/articles/how-to-launch-on-product-hunt Quora Marketing: https://albacross.com/newsroom/organic-quora-marketing/ Slack marketing: https://awario.com/blog/slack-for-social-media-marketing-user-ac…
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15 Lessons I have Learned in My 10-Year Sales Career That Helped Me in Marketing & Life
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16:08You can see these lessons here: My Twitter Thread: https://twitter.com/Aazarshad/status/1434864249650630659 My Newsletter: https://aazarshad.com/newsletter/By Aazar Ali Shad
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How MyObvi Bootstrapped Its Way From Zero to $30Mn In 3 Years
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26:24Ron Shah was kind enough to share his e-commerce business lessons (not very common). Here's what we've discussed: 1:52 - The beginning of MyObvi: How three friends wanted to build their own brand 8:41 - How they used scarcity and social proof to create FOMO 10:53 - Journey till 200K 13:35 - What changed at $1mn revenue 14:50 - What changed at $10mn…
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Three New Mental Models for Conversion Rate Optimization
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33:59Jon Macdonald shared his CRO stories and mental models to improve your conversion rates. We discussed: 1:00 - Intro 1:20 - How his process is different from other CROs 5:36 - What is continual optimization? 7:54 - Why best practices are for beginners? 15:02 - Scientific method vs silver bullets 20:18 - Why should you stop marketing when someone bec…
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How Lattice Grew to a $3Bn Valuation By Building a Media Brand [And First Marketer to VP of Marketing Lessons]
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44:07Alex Kracov, the marketer I admire, came to the pod to share his lessons and stories for building a marketing team. Show notes: 1:36 - About Alex and his story of how he got in 4:15 - Keeping pace with a billion-dollar valuation company 5:44 - How do marketers in their career join a unicorn early 8:31 - How Alex was able to build a media company fo…
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My 7-Figure SEO Playbook [The Complete Audio Guide]
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38:57I'm sharing my 7-figure SEO playbook. Here are some topics I covered: Why SEO How to find the keywords that help you get high intent leads (ROI-Led Keywords) How to write content that ranks How to get backlinks (without spamming & begging for links) How to convert existing users to leads & customers from your blog How to distribute your content ele…
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How Product-Led Content Drove Sparktoro's Higher Retention
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31:04In this episode, we discussed how to launch product-led content. Discussion timestamps: 2:17: How to think about job switching as a marketer 7:10 - How Amanda drove product-led content with Sparktoro 12:11 - The challenges with product-led content 16:39 - How to think about content when you are creating a category 26:36 - Her hot take on A/B testin…
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How Growth Mentor Bootstrapped A Marketplace Without Paid Ads
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23:00In this episode, we'll find out how Growth Mentor was able to grow a marketplace, which is usually hard. We discussed: 1:38 - How did he come up with the idea? 3:39 - Why a marketplace, not a product? 3:57 - What's Growth Mentor's mission? 6:09 - Why do so many folks offer their time for free? 12:43 - How Foti found supply side 14:14 - Successful a…
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How I Grew Twitter Audience From 1000 to 12.5K So Far (And How I Would Do It Differently)
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28:40Hey there! This is my story about growing Twitter organic socials. Very tactical and mental models based. Please reach out on Twitter if you have any questions regarding this. Key Links How To Take Over The World Podcast (Give it a listen) Follow Ben (his tweets are REALLY good) Supported by - Growth Mentor What if you could tap into the experience…
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How A Podcaster Achieved 100,000+ Downloads/Episodes With Storytelling (Practical Lessons)
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33:55In this episode, we discussed how Benjamin Wilson grew How to Take Over The World podcast from 18K to 100K downloads per episode. Timestamps: 1:42 - Intro 4:38 - How did he grow the podcast initially 6:47 - The growth story 12:18 - How did he make his passion project so good? 14:40 - Storytelling mental models 19:14 - How to edit (pick the right mo…
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Ask a Growth Mentor: What is the best play for leveraging micro-influencers to driving growth for B2B SaaS companies?
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6:27This is a mini-cast where we'll try to answer questions of folks in my audience from Growth Mentors. Casey Hill recommends podcasting. Casey's podcast course Sample podcast pitch Listen to what he says. If people want more in-depth lessons on growth tactics they can opt into Casey's newsletter: https://growthcorner.ck.page/ Supported by - Growth Me…
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Ask A Growth Mentor: What Should You Initially Do In Your Acquisition To Increase Retention Later
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10:18This is a mini-cast where we'll try to answer the questions of folks in my audience. Aditya Gaur asked this question. Hope this helps him and some of you too. Please reach out to these mentors if you want to dive more: Mentor Soundbite # 1 Nikki Elbaz: Website: nikkielbaz.com Newsletter: nikkielbaz.com/subscribe LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nikki-elba…
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How LivingCozy Publication Grew Zero to 100,000 Visitors Per Month
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40:09Ash Read grew his side hustle from zero to 100,000 visitors. I wanted to cover this story for side hustlers but you'll learn about SEO & content marketing. Specially, how to beat the big brands with high domain authority. We discussed: 2:15 - Mental models for marketers from baseball 5:55 - Story behind LivingCozy 15:57 - How to outrank big brands …
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Growth Debate: SEO vs Thought Leadership (Stories, Why, Pros & Cons)
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54:14In this episode, we introduced "growth debates" as a new segment. Marketers have struggled to choose either of them for growth. We wanted to give the full picture. 2:37 - Intros 5:09 - Why Vanessa loves thought leadership more than SEO 9:24 - Lusha's story about brand revamping and thought leadership 14:00 - George's client SEO story on ranking for…
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How Applying Predictable Revenue Approach Led to $300Mn Loss [And How Buyer Centric Approach Fixed it]
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26:52In this episode, I chatted with Nelson Gilliat - the is the author of “The Death of the SDR: And the Birth of Buyer Centric Revenue” We discussed: 1:51 - Nelson's background in B2B Sales & Marketing 3:30 - What are Predictable Revenue and the problems with it 6:05 - What about the outbound approach to reaching out to the right customer at the right…
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Growth Conversations: Why We Buy & How To Discover It
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48:56In this episode, I asked Katelyn Bourgoin to share in-depth details regarding consumer psychology and triggers. Here's what we've discussed: 1:44: Kate's startup experience and mistakes she wants you to avoid 11:07: Should copywriting be based on Jobs-To-Be-Done or benefit-led or outcome-led? 15:05 - Which 4 questions do you need to figure out buye…
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How I Grew 3X To An 8-Figure Business With Facebook Ads [The Complete Audio Guide]
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1:07:13In this episode, I cover my story of how I grew Synthesis with Facebook Ads. Important, I would not have been able to do without Badal's help. This podcast is interesting because we cover A-Z of Facebook Ads which I feel like many people charge $2000-$3000 for it. Some questions we also covered: How do you approach a Facebook campaign at the early …
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Hey! Amazing people, Give this a listen and reach out to me at [email protected] or Twitter or LinkedInBy Aazar Ali Shad
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How One Insight Funded Million Dollars Campaign Idea
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20:30In this episode, we covered a short story about how Aggelos Mouzakitis turned one insight into a million-dollar campaign idea. Links: Connect with Aggelos Check out Growth Sandwhich agencyBy Aazar
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How A Growth Marketer Used Chess Mental Models To Grow A Multi-million Media Business & Side Hustles
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56:06In this episode, we dive into Steph Smith's growth marketing career lessons, mental models, and stories. 2:29 - How growth marketing & chess are very similar 5:58 - The whacky path to growth marketing but with the right mindset 9:33 - Key mental model learned with paid ads 17:25 - Generalist vs specialist debate 21:54 - Growth experiments with Tren…
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2 B2B Attribution Mistakes That You Should Never Do
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25:59In this episode, Steffen Hedebrandt - The CEO of DreamData.io shared his two big mistakes regarding revenue attribution you should never do. We talked about: 2:35 - How attributing the device wrongly led to a growth fiasco 6:20 - How investing in SEO "seemed" like a bad idea but it worked. 13:03 - How to think about B2B attribution 16:41 - How Gorg…
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How Truebill Grew Zero to $100Mn in ARR (But They Almost Died Early On)
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34:36In this episode, we cover an inspiring story of Truebill and its growth levers. We discussed: 3:07 - The Truebill original story 5:25 - How did he think about differentiation? 7:13 - How Truebilll was on a death bed? How did he pull it off? 12:17 - What's the framework to grow a B2C business? 19:49 - What are the growth levers from 0-$100K, $100K t…
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Wins & Losses: The Report That Went Viral
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12:53This report got us so many customers and leads. I'm sharing these reports here: The State of SaaS Onboarding 2020 The State of SaaS Onboarding 2021By Aazar Ali Shad
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Wins & Losses: How I Reduced Our Churn From 6.4% to 2%
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11:51For folks who are struggling with retention, do listen to my story of how I reduced churn. Show notes: The blog about this story Product Adoption SchoolBy Aazar Ali Shad
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Wins & Losses: Behind-the-scenes of Sales-Led to Product-Led Experiment That I Did
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11:45Hey folks! This episode is only for listeners of my podcasts. I don't promote these because it is special for you. I share my story behind moving from sales-led to product-led. Enjoy!By Aazar Ali Shad
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How Airtable Found Product Market Fit (It's Not What You Think)
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34:01In this episode, I wanted to share Airtable's Product Market & Growth story. We discussed: 3:19 - How did Zoelle figure out Airtable's use-cases? 4:21 - What was happening before finding PMF? 5:48 - How did they figure out early growth? 5:49 - What does reverse churn mean for Airtable? 11:20 - Why Airtable focused on customer success teams early on…
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How Traffit Grew 36%/Year With Net Negative Churn (Without Adding New Business Revenue)
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27:08In this episode, we discuss Traffit's story. They added 36% / year additional growth just by focusing on negative churn (excluding new business revenue). We discussed: 00:41 - Mick's background & about Traffit 02:18 - Mick's net negative churn story 06:05 - How did he ask for an upsell? 10:10 - How he incentivized the customer success team to upsel…
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How Buffer Increased the Readership of Their Blog to Over 1.5 Million Visits
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32:26In this episode, we’ll focus more on scaling content and fighting the giants. 1:22 - About Alfred Lua and his background in Marketing 3:07 - His opinion on being a fluid marketer 4:40 - How they grew from 1mn to 1.5mn organic pages views per month (the story) 11:00 - How to beat big publications like Hubspot on search? 13:44 - How do you really sta…
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In this episode, we discuss Paid Social strategy of Oribi.io: 02:28 - How Iris founded 3 different SaaS ventures and how she came up with the idea of Oribi. 5:58 - My Questions around Oribi's capabilities as a Google Analytics alternative. 12:49 - The paid social strategy story 14:27 - Why she chose paid social although it is an expensive channel 1…
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From Window Cleaning To Building An 8-Figure Ecommerce Brand
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37:16In this episode, we dived into Tanner Larsson’s ecommerce Kitchen Brand story. He grew it from zero to 8-figures. We discussed: 4:19 - Tanner’s background before e-commerce. 7:08 - His story how he faced different challenges to build a successful e-commerce store. 17:37 - What is revenue optimization in e-commerce? 24:13 - How to battle iOS14 chang…
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How to Launch Co-Marketing Initiatives That Radically Stand-Out
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31:13In this episode, Casey shares his story about Bonjoro & Design Pickle co-marketing initiative that delivered great results. We talked about: 3:59 - Casey's background 5:00 - Why SaaS marketers should be doing more of such initiatives? 7:16 - Why this initiative worked? 9:58 - The story behind co-marketing initiatives 14:33 - What should you conside…
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How To launch & Grow Agency Partnerships Without A Brand
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32:45On this show, Blake Imperl shared his frameworks and ideas to run an agency partnership. More importantly, how he started his growth initiative with agencies without any brand. We discussed: 3:34 - About Blake & his story 5:52 - Tone's story on running agency partnership 9:58 - How did Blake create an outbound plan? 13.53 - Why did he go for doing …
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Should You Create A New Category If You Are Not The Leader?
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22:45In this episode, we'll answer this question and when does it make sense to create a category. 1:47 - The story about category creation. 7:35 - When it started making sense to create a category of "Customer Lifetime Value". 9:03 - What efforts Omniconvert is making to create a category. 14:54 - Three things you should remember when creating a catego…
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