Growth Marketing Today

Once your startup has product-market fit, the next stage is to throw more fuel to the fire and accelerate growth. Trevor Longino, Founder of CrowdTamers, has taken a dozen startups from $0 to $2MM+ in ARR, mentored more than 200 startups, and taught thousands. In this episode, he shares his battle-tested process to test and validate channels to scale customer acquisition. In episode 146, you’ll learn how to: 1. Validate the messaging and audience 2. Build and normalize revenue channels 3., Scale performance

Speaking on podcast shows and at conferences is one of the best ways to build your brand, demonstrate expertise, and gain credibility. In addition to building brand awareness, it helps build trust with your target audience that can drive valuable business opportunities. Perhaps most important, speaking engagements can drive qualified leads directly into your sales funnel. But, how do you get started with speaking on podcast shows and conferences? In episode 145, you’ll learn from Stefanie Grieser, Co-Creator of Shine Bootcamp: 1. How can speaking on a podcast or at a conference become a marketing channel 2. How to create and deliver a remarkable presentation that will wow your target audience 3. Common mistakes to avoid when giving a conference presentation

You’ve created content that people are searching for, that answers their questions, and that search engines can understand, but those qualities alone don’t mean it’ll rank. To outrank the rest of the sites with those qualities, you have to establish authority. That can be accomplished by earning links from authoritative websites, building your brand, and nurturing an audience who will help amplify your content. In episode 144, you’ll learn from Alan Silvestri, founder and CEO of Growth Gorilla: 1. Five link building strategies that work for SaaS 2. How to create linkable assets 3. How to build links to your homepage

For large enterprise organizations, the idea of executive leaders being more active on social media can be a bit intimidating. Would it do more harm than good? But, the data has continued to show the risks of not having leadership on social media. 77% of consumers would rather purchase from a company where executives are active on social media. In episode 143, you’ll learn from Lina Duque, a social media strategist, university lecturer, and international speaker. 1. The value of having business leaders on social media 2. The three steps to building influence online 3. Common social media mistakes

Podcasts are a great way to get any message out there. Whether you want to promote a product, improve your brand, or raise awareness around an important topic, they can help you reach new audiences.But getting onto a podcast as a guest can seem like a pretty impossible thing to achieve if you don’t know where to start. So here’s all you need to know to get yourself booked for appearances behind the mic.Bonjoro’s team has mastered this art of pitching to podcast shows. They’ve been in over 200 shows in 2020. Today, Casey Hill, Head of Growth at Bonjoro, discusses why and how they were able to achieve that.In episode 142, you’ll learn: How Bonjoro’s team strategy to successfully pitch themselves as a guest on podcast shows Casey’s “piggybacking” strategy to identify the right podcast shows to appear on How they measured success for all the podcast shows they appeared on Sponsor For This EpisodeThis episode of Growth Marketing Today is brought to you by Ahrefs Webmaster Tools. Find the top keywords you rank for, track new organic keywords, get more in-depth backlink data, and perform a site audit. Ahrefs Webmaster Tools is a completely free product for website owners. Sign up today at growthtoday.fm/ahrefs or find that link in the description of the showGet the free growth cheat sheets with all actionable notes, takeaways, and tips from the latest episode in a one-page PDF at https://growthtoday.fm/142 ★ Support this podcast ★

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Building a community for a brand can become a strategic moat. Not only is it a space for a brand’s most loyal fans to give new ideas about the product or service, but it’s also where they can be mobilized to advocate for the company. In this episode, Joe Huber, Customer Community Strategist at Sprout Social shares his three best practices to building a thriving community of customer advocates. Get the free growth cheat sheets with all actionable notes, takeaways, and tips from the latest episode in a one-page PDF at https://growthtoday.fm/140. This episode of Growth Marketing Today is brought to you by Ahrefs Webmaster Tools. Find the top keywords you rank for, track new organic keywords, get more in-depth backlink data, and perform a site audit. Ahrefs Webmaster Tools is a completely free product for website owners. Sign up today at growthtoday.fm/ahrefs or find that link in the description of the show

There’s never been a more relevant time to learn how to build an online community. Personally, I’m part of several dozen Slack and Facebook groups. The problem is that those platforms were not designed for community building. That’s where Circle.so, the modern platform for creators, comes in. I’m also personally part of Corey Haine’s Swipe Files community that’s built on Circle. I can tell you that the difference between Circle and Slack is night and day. In this episode, I talk to Andy Guttormsen, Co-Founder of Circle, about the future of online communities. Get the free growth cheat sheets with all actionable notes, takeaways, and tips from the latest episode in a one-page PDF at https://growthtoday.fm/138 This episode of Growth Marketing Today is brought to you by Ahrefs Webmaster Tools. Find the top keywords you rank for, track new organic keywords, get more in-depth backlink data, and perform a site audit. Ahrefs Webmaster Tools is a completely free product for website owners. Sign up today at growthtoday.fm/ahrefs or find that link in the description of the show

At HubSpot, “surround sound” is a content marketing approach that aims to make HubSpot products visible every time someone searches for a product-related keyword (e.g. “best help desk software” or “best live chat software”). The goal is for potential users to see HubSpot mentioned in all or most of the pages that rank in Google’s top results for those keywords. Check out the first two articles in the series for a deeper dive into what is the “surround sound” effect and how we scaled the program at HubSpot. In this episode, Irina Nica, Senior Marketing Manager at HubSpot, explains how she implemented the Surround Sound content strategy and what the results were. Get the free growth cheat sheets with all actionable notes, takeaways, and tips from the latest episode in a one-page PDF at https://growthtoday.fm/137 Sponsor For This Episode This episode of Growth Marketing Today is brought to you by Ahrefs Webmaster Tools. Find the top keywords you rank for, track new organic keywords, get more in-depth backlink data, and perform a site audit. Ahrefs Webmaster Tools is a completely free product for website owners. Sign up today at growthtoday.fm/ahrefs or find that link in the description of the show

Neuromarketing can help you improve your marketing campaigns, product information and – above all – positively influence your customer’s final decision to make a purchase. To help you better understand and leverage the power of neuromarketing, Tim Ash, author of Primal Brain: Demystifying how we think and why we act, shares 6 neuromarketing principles to improve your conversion LinkedIn is an undiscovered golden mine for many advertisers. One thing I love about advertising on LinkedIn is how you can target by very exclusive criteria that you will not find anywhere else, such as company growth rate, job seniority, job titles, skills and more. Whether you’re looking to generate leads, drive website traffic, and build brand awareness, LinkedIn advertising can help you reach your business goals. Get a $100 advertising credit toward your first LinkedIn campaign for free at https://linkedin.com/growthtoday Get the free growth cheat sheets with all actionable notes, takeaways, and tips from the latest episode in a one-page PDF at https://growthtoday.fm/136