

Leveling Up with Eric Siu
Eric Siu
Leveling Up is a weekly interview series with entrepreneurs and marketers on the latest in business and marketing. Learn actionable strategies & tactics on how you can make your business grow and mistakes to avoid during your journey. Learn from individuals who have founded billion dollar companies to best-selling authors. Entrepreneur and host Eric Siu also shares insights and learnings along the way.
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Aug 6, 2017 • 42min
GE Ep 112 [2015]: How Neville Medhora Grew AppSumo’s Customer Base to 750k With Email
Hey everyone, today we're talking to Neville Medhora, who's an entrepreneur and copywriter who's helped businesses like AppSumo exponentially. He's also established Kopywriting Kourse, a place where anyone can go to learn copywriting that actually gets results. Listen in to learn how he helped AppSumo's Noah Kagan (who used to hate sending out emails) use email marketing to grow AppSumo from zero to 750,000 customers in under 18 months. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Aug 5, 2017 • 37min
GE Ep 111 [2015]: How CB Insights Uses Content Marketing To Get 1,000+ Signups Per Month
Hey everyone, today's interview is with CEO and Co-Founder of CB Insights, Anand Sanwal. CB Insights helps you track the world's most promising private companies, their investors, and their acquirers to help you innovate faster and invest smarter. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Jul 29, 2017 • 48min
GE Ep 108 [2015]: How Y Combinator Helped Olark Move From a Side Project into a Startup With 10K Customers
Hi everyone, today we're talking to Ben Congleton, co-founder of Olark, a tool that lets over 10,000 companies chat with their website visitors online. The tool lowers the first-touch communication barrier and helps with sales, prospecting, and funnel optimization. Today Ben's got some interesting insights on setting up a strong remote work culture and what it was like to start off with just four people in a small town house. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Jul 28, 2017 • 36min
GE Ep 107 [2015]: The Simple Blueprint Gideon Shalwick Used To Grow A YouTube Channel to 36M Views & 360K Subscribers
Hi everyone, today's interview is with Gideon Shalwick, founder of Veeroll, a company that simplifies creating and targeting true view video ads on YouTube. Their software helps you not only create videos, but figure out how to get traffic to your site that's relevant and that actually converts. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Jul 23, 2017 • 41min
GE Ep 106 [2015]: Ilya Semin Reveals A MUCH Easier Way To Find And Close More Deals
Hi everyone, today we're talking to Ilya Semin, Founder & CEO of Datanyze, a sales intelligence platform that helps over 200 high-powered sales teams work smarter. Ilya's got interesting stories to share about his ramp up to success, finding his co-founder, and dealing with his first churn. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Jul 22, 2017 • 37min
GE Ep 105 [2015]: How Jason Treu Got His Book To Rank #1 On Amazon In Multiple Categories
Hi everyone, today we're talking to Jason Treu, author of best-selling book Social Wealth: How to Build Extraordinary Relationships By Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Lead and Network. His book has sold more than 30,000 copies, and he's been ranked #1 in both Business and Self-Help Categories on Amazon. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Jul 21, 2017 • 48min
GE Ep 104 [2015]: How Shane Melaugh Grew Thrive Leads Into A Business Focused On Generating You A LOT More Conversions
Hi everyone, today's interview is with Shane Melaugh, CEO of Thrive Themes, a company that builds conversion-focused WordPress themes and plugins. Shane's been on a nine-year entrepreneurial journey that led him up to this point, and he's got some interesting things to say about trial and error when it comes to getting good software developed. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Jul 16, 2017 • 31min
GE Ep 103 [2015]: How Adam Fleischman Built Umami Burger & 800 Degrees Pizza Into Thriving Restaurants That Generate $70M A Year
Hi everyone, today we're talking with Adam Fleischman, a self-taught food innovator and entrepreneur who's founded Umami Burger and 800 Degress Pizza, both of which I really love. (He also made Fast Company's Top 100 list for creative people in business.) Today we'll talk about the struggles Adam faced with growing his restaurant business to $70 million per year, and how he uses physics to make better business decisions. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Jul 14, 2017 • 36min
GE Ep 101 [2015]: LessAccounting Owner Allan Branch on the Bookkeeping Mistakes Most Startups Make
Hi everyone, today we're talking to Allan Branch, Owner of LessAccounting. Allan's got an interesting background in marketing and design that led to freelance designing and web consulting that eventually evolved into an accounting software that's remained strong over the years despite it's slow initial growth. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Jun 30, 2017 • 46min
GE Ep 95 [2015]: How Wet Shave Club Leveraged Instagram to Get To $350K In Revenues
Hi everyone, today we're talking to Rohan Gilkes, co-founder of the Wet Shave Club, a company purchased after a conversation on Reddit and that went from doing $400 in revenue per month to doing $350,000 in the first year. Rohan's got some great insight on using social media to drive traffic back to your site (particularly if you've got a consumer product) and how subscription box companies are (for him) some of the best e-commerce businesses out there. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed
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