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Apr 6, 2021 • 42min
Ep 89: Building a Bold Brand with Ugly's CEO Hugh Thomas
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Today on the pod, we have Hugh Thomas the co-founder and CEO of Ugly Drinks! We've been dissecting Ugly's strategy for the past few weeks in DTC Newsletter - you can catch up on our blog ➡️. https://www.directtoconsumer.co/content
Listen to the pod for:
📦 How Ugly built its brand - and why it's fundamental to the business
📦 Why their no b.s. strategy pays off
📦 Ugly's commitment to creating an accessible product (and what that means)
📦 Why customer outreach is fundamental to their business model
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Apr 2, 2021 • 15min
Ep 88: AKNF Update - Pilothouse Sr. Media Buyer Raven Dixon Takes Over DTC+!!
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Drumroll please 🥁🥁🥁 Please welcome Pilothouse Sr. Media Buyer Raven Dixon as the new head of DTC+!
Raven has been a superstar guest on previous episodes of AKNF, and we're so excited to have her expertise and energy on our team. She's joined on today's pod by Pilothouse Sr. Media Buyer Jacob Geary.
Listen to the pod for Jacob and Raven's media buyer origin stories, Jacob's strategy for growing DTC+, and Raven's exciting plans for building the DTC+ community. 🚀
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Mar 31, 2021 • 48min
Ep 87: How Rumpl Blankets Achieves 3-4x ROAS Across Multiple Channels
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Grab a hot cup of cocoa and cozy up, cause this week's poddy features Wylie Robinson, CEO and founder of Rumpl Blankets, and his head of eCommerce, Shane Roach. Shane and Wylie sat down to talk about how Rumpl turned high-performance materials into usable works of art that have been exploding the historically stagnant blanket space.
Listen to the pod for:
📦 Why you should look to your life for product inspiration
📦 Advice for expanding one step at a time
📦 How Rumpl manages its analytics
📦 Finding balance in your SMS strategy
📦 Harnessing events as a marketing strategy
AND how Rumpl achieves 3-4x ROAS across multiple channels - enjoy! 🚀
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Mar 27, 2021 • 31min
Ep 86: 🚀 All Killer No Filler: How to Crush Email Segmentation
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This week’s All Killer No Filler features Pilothouse’s Email CEO Julien Normand and ace email coordinator Graham Battie, diving deep into the world of email segmentation.
Listen to the entire pod for:
🚀 The #1 thing DTC brands get wrong with email segmentation
🚀 The three most important types of email segmentation
🚀 What is a sunset flow, and how can you use one?
🚀 Campaign segmentation for your VIP customers
🚀 Launching new products with SMS campaigns
🚀 Utilizing predicted next purchase date
Make sure you listen for the team’s mark-down marketing epiphany! 😆
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Mar 23, 2021 • 30min
Ep 85: Creating a Sustainable Subscription Box Model with Simply Earth
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Get ready to relax and unwind, cause this week's poddy features Lee Veldkamp, Co-Founder and CEO of Simply Earth, an essential oils subscription company that aims to teach people about the benefits of essential oils so that they can live a toxin-free life.
Lee breaks down the importance of adding value to subscription boxes and the massive role education plays in the customer journey.
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Mar 20, 2021 • 39min
Ep 84: The Art and Science of Scaling YouTube Ads with Tru Earth’s Ryan McKenzie, Saul Garcia and Jacob Geary from Pilothouse
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This week on All Killer No Filler we’re talking about the art and science of YouTube Ads with Ryan McKenzie the co-founder and CMO of Tru Earth, Pilothouse Head of Google Saul Garcia and Pilothouse Lead Media Buyer Jacob Geary.
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In our TWO one-hour, all-access sessions, experts from Tru Earth and Pilothouse will cover:
How to create compelling, high-converting videos (on any budget).
How to profitably find, refine, and scale your target audience on YouTube.
How to optimize your campaigns and scale your DTC eCommerce brand on YouTube.
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Mar 16, 2021 • 58min
Ep 83: Sustainable DTC with Stojo
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Fill up your cups! This week we chatted with Jurrien Swarts and Meghan Holzhauer of Stojo, a DTC brand that aims to end disposable culture one reusable product at a time.
Stojo was one of the first to market in their field, launching their collapsible cup in 2015. They have since built a loyal customer base that launched them to $6.5 million in sales in 2019 and they’re on pace to exceed that by 100% in 2021 😱
The podcast is packed with valuable insights from a founder/CEO perspective (Jurrien) and from a brand and growth marketing perspective (Meghan).
Have a listen for:
📦Tips for honing your brand story
📦Insight into the world of utility and design patents
📦Why you should be broadening your channel horizons
📦How Stojo ranks its affiliates
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Mar 13, 2021 • 21min
Ep 82: The Future of DTC - A Q&A with Pilothouse and DTC Newsletter Co-Founders
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This week's All Killer No Filler features our social media manager Maia Sampson hosting a round of questions on the state of DTC with Eric, Pilothouse CEO Dave Steele, and Pilothouse CRO Kyle Hitchcox.
Listen for insights on the future of DTC.
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Mar 9, 2021 • 31min
Ep 81: Tuft & Needle and SheerID on Celebrating Your Customer’s Identity
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This week we chatted with two heavyweights to get their outlook on how retailers handled the pandemic, Torrie Belknap, VP Marketing of Tuft & Needle (DTC mattress vets) and Nicole Campagna, Sr. Growth Manager at SheerId.
Here are some key takeaways from their chat:
📦 Why you should make a hate list
📦 Consider the role of customer identity
📦 Lead with value
📦 Invest in stories
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Mar 6, 2021 • 45min
Ep 80: The Presell Page Blueprint [Part 2]
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For this week's All Killer No Filler, we're offering you part two of the first day of our Presell Page Course!
If you are not using presells, you are leaving money on the table - listen to the pod to find out why! Then head to dtcplus.co to start your $1 trial and access the rest of the expert-led course.
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