

Money Lab
Money Lab
The Money Lab Podcast with Matt Giovanisci is a lo-fi show where Matt shares his real-world experiences running a successful online education business. With over 20 years of experience building Swim University from the ground up, Matt talks through his strategies, personal insights, and tactics for online entrepreneurs looking to create profitable lifestyle businesses. Each solo episode dives deep into content creation, email marketing, product development, and productivity, backed by his own successes and failures.
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Feb 28, 2024 • 24min
How Did My Real-Time Sales Email Do? (Part 2)
I share my experience using AI tools to dictate and create sales emails for a hot tub chemical. I discuss using Descript to transcribe voice memos and ChatGPT to edit and format the emails, emphasizing the efficiency and effectiveness of this process. The outcome was positive, with successful sales results, and I plan to continue using this method. If you have any questions, email me at matt@moneylab.co.

Feb 26, 2024 • 39min
Let’s Write a Sales Email in Real Time (Part 1)
I explore creating an SEO maintenance process with Semrush, focusing on fixing broken links, disavowing toxic links, and improving internal linking. I also discuss social media strategies to boost page visibility. I'm dictating a three-part email sales series for our hot tub chemical, Weekly Cleanse. The emails will explain the product, share customer testimonials, and include a last-chance reminder for a BOGO sale. This process aims to create engaging, effective sales emails. Email me at matt@moneylab.co with any questions.

Feb 23, 2024 • 25min
Brainstorming Weekly SEO Maintenance Tasks
I'm working on creating a weekly (or possibly monthly) process for SEO maintenance. This will cover tasks like improving SEO, backlink building, and technical stuff. I use Semrush as my main SEO tool, having switched from Ahrefs because I prefer Semrush's interface and all-in-one functionality.My focus includes fixing broken links, such as affiliate links, internal links, and external links. I use Lasso for affiliate links to check if anything is out of stock. I also plan to disavow any new toxic links that come up via Semrush and whitelist good ones. Addressing audit errors flagged in the weekly Semrush audit, like HTML-to-text ratios or duplicate title tags, is another key task. I'm also exploring backlink outreach by reaching out to companies to get on their resources page, which involves creating a good template and emailing a set number of companies each week. Recovering old links by reaching out to site owners to update outdated links or recreating content for old URLs is also part of the plan. Additionally, I'll be using tools like Link Whisperer to create internal links to orphaned posts.Improving our social media strategy to drive traffic and potentially "goose" pages that need a boost is another area I'm considering. This might involve promoting specific posts via email, ads, or social media. This is the initial process, and I'll refine it over time. If you have any SEO maintenance tasks that work well for you, I'd love to hear about them. Email me at matt@moneylab.co. If you share something useful, I might include it in my process and discuss it in a future episode.

Feb 21, 2024 • 50min
My 2024 SEO Strategy (Including Backlinks)
Exploring shifts in beer and pool industry trends, from home brewing to non-alcoholic beverages and robotic pool cleaners. Discussing SEO strategies, backlink importance, and the rise of AI-generated content. Delving into strategies for quality content creation and the benefits of outsourcing guest search.

Feb 19, 2024 • 58min
The Most Important Page On Any Website for SEO
Explore the impact of optimizing About pages for SEO and user engagement. Enhance EAT for better SEO rankings by improving expertise and trust. Craft a focused mission statement with relevant keywords. Reflect on long-standing pool industry experience. Optimize About pages for SEO and press mentions. Plan a video showcasing SUNY University's mission. Dive into the significance of About pages for SEO and credibility.

Feb 16, 2024 • 45min
How to Kill a Solopreneur
The podcast explores the dangers of ego and self-centeredness in business and the importance of networking. It discusses the benefits of having a virtual assistant and treating everything in online business as an experiment. The hosts emphasize the significance of feedback and experimentation. They delve into marketing strategies and the importance of well-defined processes in business.

Feb 14, 2024 • 36min
My Failed DTC Experiment
Here's a list of everything I did wrong when starting the DTC side of my business (physical products). Let's talk about it.

Feb 12, 2024 • 37min
My 10X Business Strategy Redux
The speaker reflects on past ventures and discusses their decision to focus on swimming university. They explore strategies for increasing revenue and building a relaxed lifestyle company. The chapter also discusses the negative impact of tiered pricing on decision fatigue and proposes a simpler approach. They emphasize the importance of offering multiple products and services, creating more content, and using paid advertising for business growth. The speaker shares their journey from using black hat SEO techniques to focusing on quality content in the blogging sphere.

Feb 9, 2024 • 36min
The Passion Mashing Theory
Let's talk about how you (and I) are special. And how we can apply that to our businesses.

Feb 7, 2024 • 1h 6min
Important Tasks I Know I Should Do to Improve My Business
The podcast discusses the struggle of taking action to improve the business. They talk about shifting focus to philosophy and self-help, continuous software improvement, website optimization tools, creating specific content and lead magnets, managing expenses and cash flow, and collecting testimonials and feedback.