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Apr 29, 2022 • 42min
Ep 197: AKNF - How to hit targets on day 1 of the drop with Maddle and Pilothouse
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Today's All Killer No Filler Podcast features Founder and CEO Julian Methot as well as Head of Ecommerce, Georges Thébault-Dagher, for Maddle Paddle Boards.
Armed with incredible product design that drills in on the ideal paddle board lifestyle, Maddle has had an incredibly successful launch that combined a contest, with a VIP product launch that worked so well, Maddle hit it's April targets on April first.
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Apr 25, 2022 • 30min
Ep 196: Ecommerce SEO in Three Simple Steps with Kevin Miller from Gr0.com
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Hello and welcome to the DTC Podcast I’m Eric Dyck. Today we’re growing organically with Kevin Miller, co-founder and CEO of Gr0, a fast growing SEO company focused on help DTC Brands succeed with SEO.
https://gr0.com
We talked about:
Not quitting SEO too early, and how to create a plan and a goal you can stick with
How to approach high competition keywords, and the insane Only Fans angle
Kevin’s simple three pronged approach press generated backlinks
Why we don’t need to worry as much about Google organic Algo changing these days
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Apr 23, 2022 • 33min
Ep 195: AKNF - Cut your CaC in Half with THIS UGC Strategy ft. Courney Toll from Nori and Angela from Pilothouse
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Welcome to All Killer, No Filler!
Nori is the innovative iron and steamer that's taken the fashion world by storm in just the past 11 months. Nori is iron spelled backward, but Courtney is a forward thinker when it comes to performance brand growth.
https://nori.co
That's why she partnered up with Angela and Pilothouse to produce a high volume of creator-focused UGC ads that Nori is using to halve their customer acquisition cost and scale to new heights on paid social.
This podcast is filled with great insights on:
How to disrupt a century-old product
Why Nori changed to think of itself as a marketing company vs a product company
How Nori uses and re-uses press in their funnel
What angles are working best for fashion-focused UGC
and LOTS more.
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Apr 18, 2022 • 36min
Ep 194: Building a 7-Figure Business in Sub-Two Years with Peachy Shapewear's Corey Nicholson
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Hello and welcome to the DTC Podcast, I’m Eric Dyck. Today’s podcast is with 20-year-old marketing phenom and Co-founder of Peachy Shapewear, Corey Nicholson.
We'll cover:
How Corey built a 7-figure business in less than two years
Simple funding options for startups
No-nonsense email marketing tactics
Web3 predictions, and much more.
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Apr 17, 2022 • 22min
Ep 193: AKNF - 8X Your Ad Spend With A Stacked Offer for Mothers' Day
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Welcome to All Killer, No Filler. Today we're talking with Pilothouse Senior Facebook Media Buyers Nate and Taylor about what's working best in the world of meta Advertising.
▪ Why you need to make a killer offer today (for Mothers)
▪ What Facebook is giving six-figure ad credits to test (FB/IG Shops and Catalogs)
▪ What grinds our gears about Meta Ad buying experience
Craft your killer offer, and work with Pilothouse to scale it ➝ https://pilothouse.co
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Apr 11, 2022 • 45min
Ep 192: Dreamday and The Quality Edit’s Lauren Kleinman Pioneers A New Model for Performance PR and Publishing
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Hello and welcome to the DTC Podcast, I’m Eric Dyck. Today’s podcast is with PR/Content Marketing visionary Lauren Kleinman, of Dreamday PR and The Quality Edit.
With Dreamday, Lauren’s pioneered the concept of performance PR, connecting the best brands, with the best publishers on a fully performance, affiliate only basis.
From one content marketer to another, I have to say I how impressed I am with what Lauren’s put together, and with the value she gives in this cast.
We’ll cover
The Buzzfeed Breakthrough, How using Editorial PR in ads can help you convert better
Which affiliate technology platforms Lauren prefers to work with
Why affiliate marketing works better than pay to play, for PR
How to sell Condé Nast and Vogue on partnering with you
How Lauren Co-founded The Quality Edit with the former Head of Growth from Ritual, and scaled to 350K monthly uniques without paying a penny on adspend
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Apr 8, 2022 • 29min
Ep 191: AKNF - Generate 100,000 Emails in One Week with Jordan and Grayson from Pilothouse
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Today we're tackling Lead Gen for Ecom Brands, why it's so important, best practices for building "an email farm", and how to generate 100,000 leads in a week.
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You'll learn the biggest mistakes that brands make with Lead Generation, why you shouldn't be obsessed with CPL (cost per lead) and how to make 2022 your best lead gen year ever.
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Apr 4, 2022 • 42min
Ep 190: 100 Million TikTok Views Slapping the Marshmallow with TheMarshmallow.co's Joel Twyman
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Hello and welcome to the DTC Podcast, I’m Eric Dyck. Today we’re getting all soft and gooey with Joel Twyman, co-founder of TheMarshmallow.co
Having experienced moderate growth in Australia throughout 2020 and 2021, Joel started dabbling with TikTok organic posts in late 2021. It took him three videos to go viral for the first time and have to date gathered over 100million video views on their content, and grown over 2000% in sales.
https://themarshmallow.co
CPG brands take note, this is your clarion call to start making content, showing how the sausage is made
Listen to this podcast to hear the whole sticky story including:
The exact TikTok formats driving millions of views and thousands of sales
How to get over 100K viewers on your lives
How to turn trolls into gold
Why every CPG brand should experiment with slapping the marshmallow
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Apr 1, 2022 • 24min
Ep 189: AKNF - Are you still using Facebook's On Platform Metrics? (and when to SLAM SPEND)
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Hello and welcome to All Killer No Filler. Today's episode topic came from Pilothouse senior media buyer Grayson's observation that many advertisers in the space are still using Facebook Ads on platform metrics as their primary source of truth.
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This podcast covers:
Why so many advertisers lean heavily on FB's on platform metrics
What to use instead
Why it still takes a human, and at least 5 tabs to have a clean sense of what's happing
How to Geo-Test your on-platform results
What third party tracking software tools we've tested and what the results are.
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Mar 28, 2022 • 1h 2min
Ep 188: If You Shelve It, Will They Come? With fractional CMO Bryan Holladay
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Hello and welcome to DTC Podcast, I’m Eric Dyck. Today’s podcast is with Bryan Holladay, who is a fractional CMO for three different home goods and apparel companies. Bryan is a long time performance marketer with a skill set on paid social that makes him dangerous, and a strategic mind for the broader picture that really sets him apart.
Today we dive in on:
What the day to day of a fractional CMO looks like and exactly how he integrates with the brands he works with
The biggest impacts he’s had with each of his brands
The biggest sea changes Bryan’s seen in the DTC Space since 2019 and what he’s done to keep his brands’ head above water.
The risks of retail and marketplaces, and why the adage, if you shelve it, they will come couldn’t be further from the truth.
Why Facebook and Instagram are still your best bet in paid social media marketing
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