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Oct 18, 2021 • 48min
Ep 145: Spotlight Oral Care Goes Viral with Co-founder Lisa Creaven and VP Marketing Siobhan Nolan
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Today we drilled down with Spotlight Oral Care Co-founder Dr. Lisa Creaven and VP Marketing Siobhan Nolan.
Spotlight Oral Care is made by dentists to create the best oral health products, educate and promote mouth health, and empower people to engage with true customized preventative oral care.
We discuss:
The benefits of having a medical professional as both a front and a founder,
How organic, educational content has become the fuel for both paid and organic growth across Instagram and TikTok
How gathering First-party data has massively improved their email and SMS marketing
You’ll also hear all my dental assumptions corrected.
4 out of 5 dentists agree, you should listen to this one! 🌟
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Oct 16, 2021 • 35min
Ep 144: AKNF - Omnichannel Q4 Checklist - Part 1
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Welcome to part 1 of the Omnichannel Q4 Checklist series. Join us as we welcome our friends from Pilothouse to get the top tips and tricks on preparing and planning for Q4. 🚀
We're joined by: 👇
Amazon
Creative
Email
Comment Moderation
Google
Amazon
UGC
This mashup is truly the definition of All Killer No Filler!
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Oct 12, 2021 • 45min
Ep 143: Cornering the $4.2 Billion Quilting Market with David Mifsud from Missouri Star Quilt Co
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Hello and welcome to the DTC Podcast, Today we’re chatting with David Mifsud, co-founder, and board member from Missouri Star Quilt Co, one of the most interesting brands we’ve ever spoken to.
David is passionate about quilts, but more importantly what they represent, which is people’s innate desire to create and connect.
Missouri Star has been an incredible DTC story, scaling to tens of millions of dollars in sales since the beginning as a fallback plan during the financial crisis of 2008.
Why you should never call a quilt a blanket
The origin story of a quilting empire
Buying a $40K quilting machine on credit
The mechanics of Missouri Star’s Daily Deal
Managing 10s of thousands of skews with ERP
The marketing benefits of owning a town and how building Quilt town USA, revitalized small-town America, and lead to INCREDIBLE PR.
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Oct 8, 2021 • 37min
DTC Archive: $3K to $150K Email Marketing in 3 Months with CROSSNET's Chris Meade
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We’re back again with another throwback to one of our favourite episodes filled to the brim with wisdom. Join us as we reminisce and look back on on CROSSNET's journey and chat about: 👇
🥾How they BOOTSTRAPPED the company from flipping 10 orders to making orders of 22,000 units a pop.
🛒How they used Linked In and classic content marketing to reach the influential retail merchandisers at Target, Dicks, and Walmart.
📩How an education focused email marketing strategy and correct use of Wheelio went from driving $3K a month to $150K in just a few months.
🏋🏻♀️Seeing someone working out on a balcony for the first time ever on the Hot Seat!
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Oct 5, 2021 • 40min
Ep 142: Why YouTube is the Secret Behind This DTC Bidet Brand's Success with Omigo's Thomas Lotrecchiano
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Hello and welcome to the DTC podcast: today we’re in the tank with Thomas Lottrechiano, co-founder of Omigo “the toilet from the future.”
Thomas is the younger half of a father-son duo who is building an empire around bidets and the notion that you should wash, not wipe.
Thomas heads up growth for the fast-growing Omigo, so in this interview, I picked his brain on:
The most effective way to educate your audience on new concepts
The value of landing pages for customer experience (and conversion %)
How Omigo tests their website with tools as well as real users
Switching to all video assets and why their founder video is still number one across all sources
Justifying Facebook’s budgets with 7-day attribution windows
Why podcasts work, and why it looked like they didn’t at first.
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Oct 1, 2021 • 19min
Ep 141: AKNF - Biggest Amazon Scaling Mistakes
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Today we're back with Pilothouse's Amazon team for Part 2 of our MISTAKES series, all about SCALING. Part 1 a few weeks back was about mistakes people make when they're just starting out. Today we chat about what can go wrong at scale, why, and what to do about it.
Come for the witty banter, but stay for a TOP secret product bundling strategy to crush the gifting opportunity this holiday season.
Why you should never sell a boring old garlic press
Why going after the wrong keywords first can set you back
TOP SECRET Product Bundling strategy for the gifting season
Why we don't advise using giveaways, and what can go wrong when they end
How to maximize inventory on Amazon for peak sales season
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Sep 29, 2021 • 29min
Bonus: Podcast Advertising with Podcorn's Todd Gallet
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This week's Bonus DTC Podcast dives into the world of podcast advertising with Podcorn's Head of Partnerships Todd Gallet.
In the early days of podcast monetization, networks scrambled to sign the world's biggest podcast hosts, reaching millions of people per episode. Podcorn took the opposite approach and has instead aggregated hundreds of thousands of smaller niched-down podcasts, allowing advertisers to test at any scale, and scale to any height once you find content, offers, and podcasts that profit.
This podcasts covers:
What everyone gets wrong about Podcast Advertising
How to do performance marketing on podcasts?
What's the attribution window for podcasts?
Why you need to treat podcast hosts like influencers
Why it's better to send product and give creative controls to hosts
The most successful podcast campaigns of all time
If you're ready to get started on a Podcast advertising test, make sure to reach out to Podcorn.com and tell them DTC sent ya.
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Sep 27, 2021 • 42min
Ep 140: The Power of Retention with Troy Petrunoff from Every Man Jack
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Today’s talk with Every Man Jack’s retention manager Troy Petrunoff is a masterclass on customer retention for consumable products. Troy is a veteran email marketer who joined Everyman Jack this past march and set his sights on email automation domination.
Everyman Jack was the first mover into the natural grooming industry, starting in 2007 and flourishing in retail channels before setting their sites on DTC Growth
We cover:
- The most critical factors for customer retention
- How QR codes are making a comeback and how to use them
- How bundling has come to define DTC success for EveryMan Jack
- And why SEO is the investment every brand needs to make like yesterday.
- Partnering with Marvel to finally find out what Iron Man smells like
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Sep 25, 2021 • 1h 29min
DTC Archive: Conversion Rate Optimization with Snow At-Home Teeth Whitening & Smoothie Box
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This week we’re throwing it back to one of the first episodes of the DTC podcast with one of the biggest DTC brands, Snow Teeth Whitening and Smoothie delivery service Smoothie Box. We dive deep into how both brands are killing it on conversion rate.
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Sep 20, 2021 • 42min
Ep 139: Omsom’s Emily Chan shares the secret behind 90% of their growth and it’s NOT paid ads
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Welcome to the DTC Podcast. Today we deep dive into GPG brand Omsom’s growth journey with Marketing Director Emily Chan.
Omsom is on a mission to provide bright, authentic, and downright rowdy Asian flavors to grocery stores and kitchens across America.
Emily has been working on multiple fronts to help Omsom grow steadily, mostly through organic means.
Stick around for:
Chasing Sriracha and what it means to be a cultural brand
The two most impactful content marketing strategies
How Omsom got 250k views on their brand story video on TikTok
How bundling all their products skyrocketed AOV
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