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Oct 24, 2022 • 41min
Ep 248: Bryan Alston, Greater Than - How Greater Than Became Inc’s #198th Fastest Growing Company In the US
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Hello and welcome to the DTC Podcast, I’m Eric Dyck.
Today we’re synergizing with Bryan Alston, Co-Founder and CMO of Greater Than and proud member of very first C-Suite Mastermind Cohort.
https://drinkgt.com
Greater Than was a struggling Performance Hydration brand, until they met Bryan, who helped them uncover the most passionate part of their audience, lactating mothers.
Since then they’ve scaled to $7 Million with eyes, and realistic plans on $75 Million in the next three years
After meeting, i’ll tell you one thing: Don’t bet against Bryan
In this podcast you’ll hear:
Why brand matters less than you think, when you have ultimate product market fit and organic community
Byan’s plan to train his best customers to be viral Social Media celebs
Why iOS14 was good for DTC!
Pour yourself a tall glass of whatever Bryan’s drinking and get ready to get Greater Than by the end of this podcast.
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Oct 21, 2022 • 20min
Ep 247: AKNF - Paid Social State of the Union: Performance Marketing vs Rising Costs
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Welcome to All Killer No Filler the DTC Podcast
Today we're sharing a very special presentation from our C-Suite Mastermind in September. This talk features Dave Steele, CEO of Pilothouse and Head of Socials, Nate discussing the biggest trends of the year in the world of high spend performance marketing, including
Rising costs and click through rates (and why CTR increases mean worse audience targeting)
Why Scrappy Creative is still the undisputed king of performance growth
Why brands are using third party brands to increase their scale, and why some brands are spending the majority of their ad spend through them!)
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Oct 19, 2022 • 38min
Bonus: Attribution is Dead and What To Do Instead with SegmentStream’s Constantine Yurevich
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Hello and welcome to DTC Podcast, I’m Eric Dyck. Today we’re getting controversial with Constantine Yurevich, Founder, CEO, and Chief Hot Taker of SegmentStream, a conversion modeling platform used by companies like L’oreal, OMD, and KitchenAid aims to circumvent the fractured, multi-device customer experience that makes attribution a fool’s errand, through the use of Machine learning that analyzes your website traffic, to predict the conversion value of each visitor in real-time.
https://segmentstream.com
Constantine declares that attribution is well and truly dead, so instead of trying to Frankenstein a corpse, why not use AI to short-circuit the whole process?
Get ready to shift your paradigm; on with the show!
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Oct 17, 2022 • 34min
Ep 246: Nathan Thompson & Stu Jolley, Stories and Ink: Growing with SEO and Artist Collab Content
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Today we’ve got a skin deep conversation that’s sure to leave a mark with UK tattoo after-care, brand Stories and Ink.
Did you know that 1 in 3 uk adults has a tattoo? How about 1 in 5 Americans. Tattoo after-care is a booming and always expanding industry and founder/ ceo Stu Jolley is taking full advantage.
https://storiesandink.com
Join Stu and Nathan Thompson, Ink and Stories Growth marketing lead as we examine their interesting growth strategies like:
Investing in SEO, and Nathan’s Content Process
Going deep on content and artist collabs
Investing in training creators to become TikTok Famous
And Lots more…if you check us out on YouTube, you’ll even see Stu’s most embarrassing Tattoo and my mustache…
On with the show!
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Oct 14, 2022 • 22min
Ep 245: AKNF - The Pilot Program: How Smaller Brands Get Traction at Pilothouse
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It's All Killer No Filler, I'm Eric, and today we're checking in with one of the most innovative teams at Pilothouse that we don't feature that often, and that's Jacob in the Pilot Program.
The Pilot Program is for advertisers who've got product market fit, but are torn between wearing many hats and doing everything themselves, and hiring an agency.
You'll hear all about some Pilot Program successes, Jacob's basic playbook for iterating to find traction on Meta, as well as the jack-of-all-trades style marketers that he's got on his team, and why that leads to more nimble iteration, which leads to success.
If the Pilot Program sounds like a fit, make sure to go to https://pilothouse.co and get in touch.
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Oct 10, 2022 • 34min
Ep 244: Huel - Ben Bokaie: High Performance, Nutritionally Complete Marketing to $150M
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Hello and welcome to the DTC Podcast. I’m Eric Dyck.
Today we’re fuelling up with Ben Bokaie, Head of Performance Marketing at Huel, the world’s number 1 nutritionally complete, fully sustainable, line of meal powders, shakes, bars and more, that’s soared to nine-figure revenues on the back of great product, slick branding, and hardcore performance marketing, authored in no small part by our guest today Ben Bokaie
https://huel.com
Listen and you’ll learn:
Why category creation is a cheat code for CPG brands
How Ben’s built an in-house creative hub in an all out commitment to finding winning ads
As well as a deep dive int Huel’s international expansion strategy
Better huel up for this one, on with the show!
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Oct 7, 2022 • 23min
Ep 243: AKNF - Q4 Email Content Guide
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Welcome to All Killer No Filler the DTC Podcast.
Today we're diving deep into email content with Cam and Alex.
We start by harkening back to our last podcast with JoGo from Pilothouse email, where he laid out this handy guide for the emails you need to send this BFCM.
Offer 1- VIP - Get first pick (no exclusions, engaged in last list)
Offer 1 - Product feature (whole list)
Offer 1- Product feature (engaged audience)
Offer 1 - “Perfect together” - paired products
Offer 2 - “Bestseller” (whole list)
Offer 2 - “Bestseller” (engaged list)
Offer 3 - Cyber Monday
Closing - 70% off everything
This podcast features commentary on best practices when it comes to email design, offer design, and emotive copywriting.
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Oct 5, 2022 • 24min
Bonus: Turn Your Returns Into Exchanges With Aaron Schwartz from Loop
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Hello and welcome to DTC Podcast. Today we’re closing the loop on returns with President of Loop, Aaron Schwartz.
https://loopreturns.com
In the Apparel space, returns AVERAGE 38%, which makes me think I’m keeping way too many things. Aaron joins DTC to discuss how you can help turn at least 30% of those returns into exchanges that extend and increase LTV.
Loop is the leading platform that turns returns into exchanges for some of the world’s biggest and fastest-growing DTC brands.
You’ll hear:
How the returns ecosystem is broken
The impact that seamless returns have on LTV
The steps every brand can take to transform 30% of your returns into exchanges
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Oct 3, 2022 • 48min
Ep 242: Making a 5X Return on Affiliate Sales with Rob Fraser from Outway Socks
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Welcome to DTC Podcast, I’m Eric Dyck
Today we’re spinning a yarn with Canada’s Top Sock Maker, CEO and Founder Rob Fraser from Outway Socks
https://Outway.com
Rob’s sock-strapped Outway to 8 figure sales, innovating his business model to reap maximum cashflow, investing heavily into affiliate sales, and overcoming an unwanted rebrand, and coming out on the other end stronger.
You can catch Rob at C-Suite Mastermind, but for now, I hope you enjoy is this value-packed conversation with Rob Fraser from Outway Socks.
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Sep 30, 2022 • 19min
Ep 241: AKNF - On Amazon, Relevance is Everything (Here's How to Raise it) with Pilothouse Amazon
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It's All Killer No Filler, the DTC Podcast. Today we're joined by Rob and Clifford from Pilothouse's Amazon squad to discuss the number one factor determining your Amazon success as a DTC brand - RELEVANCE.
You'll hear how to build relevance and even a little about how to hack it. You'll also learn what not to do directly from two gentlemen who've been farming the Amazon bumper crop for years.
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