

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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Apr 11, 2019 • 22min
The 27 Most Important Lessons We've Learned About SEO
SEO is always changing and as we've been studying it through the years, we've learned some important lessons. Tune into hear the top 27 hacks and lessons about SEO to get you off to the races. These are the best tips on SEO you'll find from across our channel. 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 @EricSiu Instagram @Ericosiu

Apr 9, 2019 • 7min
5 Overlooked Productivity Hacks that You Can Implement Today
Are you letting your day get the most of you? Are you constantly tired and overwhelmed? Tune in to hear Eric Siu share some of his favorite productivity tips to help you be more productive. Everything from sleep optimization to productive morning routines, these hack will help you get more done in less time and stop procrastinating. 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 @EricSiu Instagram @Ericosiu

Apr 7, 2019 • 47min
GE Ep 135 [2016]: Mamoon Hamid of VC Firm Social Capital Shares the Secret to Why Sh*t Gets Funded
Hey everyone! Today's interview is with Mamoon Hamid, co-founder and general partner of Social Capital, which is a venture capital firm that funds up-and-coming healthcare, education, financial services, mobile, and enterprise software companies. In today's interview, we discuss Social Capital's mission to transform society with technology, the quick ratio he came up with to measure a company's financial health, the biggest mistakes people make when raising funds, and of course why sh*t gets funded by them! Click here for show notes. 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

Apr 6, 2019 • 36min
GE Ep 130 [2015]: The Genius Acquisition Plan import.io Used to Acquire 10,000 Customers
Hi everyone, today's interview is with David White, CEO of import.io, a web data platform and free web scraping tool that lets you transform any website into a table of data or an API in minutes without even writing any code. I’ve used this tool a few times for my projects and it’s been super helpful! Today we're talking about the importance of indexible data as the cornerstone to decision-making in businesses, his view of the semantic web, and how they used startup competitions as a (genius!) customer acquisition plan. Click here for show notes. 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

Apr 5, 2019 • 7min
How to Go from Consulting to Agency (2019 Guide to Consulting)
Transitioning from a freelancer or a consultant to an agency can be a daunting operation if you are used to doing all the work yourself. If you're looking to go down this route, this episode is for you. In today's episode, I share the mic with Sujan Patel to talk about how to build the management skills required to grow your agency, find talented people to build your team and go over the fundamentals to find clients and increase the agency revenue. 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 @EricSiu Instagram @Ericosiu

Apr 4, 2019 • 5min
3 Surefire Ways to Get More Press for Your Company with Adrian Salamunovic
Do you have a great product or company but don't know how to get journalists to write about it? Tune in to hear Eric share the mic with author of Free PR, entrepreneur and advisor Adrian Salamunovic and learn how to get free press for your business in this promotion tutorial. 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 @EricSiu Instagram @Ericosiu

Apr 3, 2019 • 3min
How to Build a World Class Marketing Team (2019 Growth Strategies)
Is your marketing not working? Are you struggling to find great talent, and produce consistent results? Hiring on a new employee can either help or hurt your business. Tune in to hear Eric Siu share the mic with CMO and Co-Founder of Nextiva Yaniv Masjedi to help you know what you should look for when making your next hire. 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 @EricSiu Instagram @Ericosiu

Apr 2, 2019 • 3min
The 5 Rules for Ads that Convert (in 2019)
Has this ever happened to you? You launch that game-changing ad and… crickets. Is it the headline? The copy? The creative? The offer? Tune in to hear Eric Siu share his top 5 advertising strategies and the secret to effective advertising. 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 @EricSiu Instagram @Ericosiu

Mar 31, 2019 • 22min
GE Ep 209 [2017]: How Jilliene Helman Raised $45M of Venture Capital and Built a Real Estate Crowdfunding Business
Hey everyone, today I share the mic with Jilliene Helman, CEO of Realty Mogul who was included in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in 2015. Tune in to hear Jilliene share how the JOBS Act inspired her to take the leap from her bank job to starting her own online investing company, her struggles of being a CEO, how she got their first 1,000 customers through Angel pitch competitions, and why she does a micronutrient test once every quarter. 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

Mar 30, 2019 • 39min
GE Ep 31 [2014]: How vWorker CEO Ian Ippolito Saved His Business After Losing 4 Million Visitors Overnight
Hear how Ian Ippolito, former founder of V-Worker (today known as Freelancer.com, and previously known as Rent-a-Coder) stumbled into Internet marketing success not once, but twice. Ian holds a degree in computer science and started out his career company-hopping and consulting before growing frustrated with the roadblocks to innovation and change in being an employee. He decided to launch Planet Source Code for coders and attracted upwards of 4 million new visitors a month before the dot com crash imploded his business. Faced with mounting bills and a flatlining business, he restructured his idea to connect workers with employers who needed coders. That idea became known as vWorker. 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


