

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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Jul 31, 2019 • 11min
Hard Work Isn't the Key to Success
Are you working yourself to the bone to make a few dollars? Does hard work really pay off? Tune in to hear Eric Siu share the deep philosophy behind entrepreneur motivation and how to start a business without burning out. (Hint: The keys to success aren't all found in hard work, but in persistence.) Click here to watch the full YouTube video Leave Some Feedback: What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? 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 Instagram @Ericosiu

Jul 30, 2019 • 8min
Fortnite World Cup $30M Prize Pool - Does It Make Business Sense!?!?
Have you ever wondered where businesses get the money to do these 30-million-dollar giveaways? And do giveaways even work? Tune in to hear Eric Siu share his thoughts on the $30M Fortnite tournament and the incredible branding buzz the game is generating with their marketing campaign. Click here to watch the full YouTube video Leave Some Feedback: What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? 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 Instagram @Ericosiu

Jul 28, 2019 • 10min
How Digital Marketing Will Change in 2020
What is next for digital marketing? Tune in to hear Eric Siu reveal powerful growth hacks for 2020. Not surprising, voice search, podcasting and artificial intelligence in ads are still on the rise, and developing a content marketing strategy that includes these marketing tactics is sure to help you build a powerful marketing plan in 2020. Click here to watch the full YouTube video Leave Some Feedback: What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? 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 Instagram @Ericosiu

Jul 27, 2019 • 30min
GE Ep 212 [2017]: How Melody McCloskey Built a Salon-Booking Empire that Did $1.6B in Transactions Last Year
Hey everyone, today I share the mic with Melody McCloskey, CEO of StyleSeat, the largest marketplace for beauty services. Tune it to hear Melody share how she encountered a problem in the marketplace and then set out to solve it, how someone with no background in tech built a booking company for stylists that earned $1.7 billion last year, how StyleSeat acquired 10K clients with essentially no marketing, and why she chose an equity-based model for her employees. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave Some Feedback: What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? 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 26, 2019 • 50min
GE Ep 172 [2016]: How Bestselling Author Ramit Sethi Generated $5M in 6 Days
Hey everyone, in this episode, I share the mic with Ramit Sethi—personal finance genius, and creator of I Will Teach You to Be Rich and Growth Lab. Listen as we discuss the process behind his $5-million week, why if you want to become great at marketing you need to get off the Internet, how he grew his blog audience to 1M readers per month and turned it into a revenue-generating business, and why good information is nothing if you don’t deliver it to people in a way they want to receive it. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave Some Feedback: What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? 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 25, 2019 • 50min
GE Ep 62 [2014]: VideoFruit’s CEO Spills the Juicy Details on How to Get a 20% Email Opt-in Rate
Hi everyone, in today's interview, we're talking to Bryan Harris, founder of VideoFruit. His company helps create explainer videos, along with providing other info products. We'll learn how he built a blog that has 20,000 visits per month and 10,00 email subscribers. He's a very focused person, so we'll hear some of his productivity hacks along with email list-building strategies to dramatically increase your email opt-in rate. Click here for show notes and transcript. 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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Jul 24, 2019 • 30min
GE Ep 99 [2015]: How Perch Doubled Their Customers In One Month (and How They Maintained 0% Churn For 4+ Months)
Hi everyone, today we're talking to Danny Robinson, the CEO of Perch. Perch is a great tool that helps you connect offices and remote workers to bring everyone in your company closer as a team. Danny's got some interesting insights into customer service, creating a great product, and talks about how they've been able to keep churn at 0% for at least four 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

Jul 23, 2019 • 29min
GE Ep 144 [2016]: Drew Sanocki On Why Expanding a Business Too Fast Can Actually Lead to Bankruptcy
Today our guest is Drew Sanocki, founder of Nerd Marketing. Drew writes about e-commerce and bootstrapped his own retailer in 2003, grew it into a national brand, and sold it in 2012. He now spends his time advising e-commerce executives on how to achieve growth. In today’s interview we’ll be talking about how expanding too quickly can lead to bankruptcy, how he grew a drop ship retailer from zero to a million in revenue in the first year and a half, and why he pays comedy writers to write his product descriptions. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? 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, 2019 • 37min
GE Ep 44 [2014]: The #1 Reason Startups Fail & The Book To Help You Solve This Problem
Join me while I talk with Gabriel Weinberg, Founder of search engine DuckDuck Go. Gabriel got into the startup world right after college and his company The Names Database was acquired by United Online in 2006 for a reported $10 million. After selling, Gabriel spent some time tweaking new business ideas before merging them to create DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn't track its users. He currently blogs at GabrielWeinberg.com and his book, "Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers" was released in August, 2014. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave some feedback: Who should I interview 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

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Jul 20, 2019 • 40min
Syed Balkhi's How To Design Your Thinking For Unstoppable Growth
Syed Balkhi, CEO of Awesome Motive, discusses topics such as creating and dominating YouTube, content team structure and consistency, making time for acquisition and strategic partnerships, brainstorming and generating ideas, good UI and free AWS credits, and tools, books, and online presence.


