

The Edward Show
Edward Sturm
Founder and go-to-market stories from the lens of a world-class marketer.
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Dec 22, 2023 • 7min
The TwitterX Ads Glitch Lives On! How to Trigger It.
E170: Like the majestic Phoenix, the TwitterX Ads Glitch has risen from the ashes of a perceived patch. The greatest glitch in the history of ad glitches lives on, and in this episode, I share the exact settings to trigger it. #mediabuying #growthhacking #gotomarket #marketing

Dec 21, 2023 • 16min
The Most Cash Generative Marketing Software Ever Is Possible Now
E169: Generative AI is now advanced enough to fully automate bottom-of-funnel SEO. If somebody were to do this, it would be the most cash-generative marketing software ever. It could be used to make any brand huge sums of money in under a year. It would be the most unfair tool. Automating bottom-of-funnel SEO through a SaaS tool will probably be built in the next year. #seo #searchengineoptimization #startups #saas

Dec 20, 2023 • 15min
Almost 2 Million Views From This Content Marketing Hack
E168: The content marketing hack I found on E165 is working! Video one: 1.5 million views. Video two (released yesterday): 245K views and rising dramatically. + I messaged a bit with the founder of Eightify, the company with the most impressive SEO I've ever seen. #growthhacking #contentmarketing #gotomarket #growthhacks

Dec 19, 2023 • 14min
How to Do SEO With Huge Amounts of AI-Generated Content and Not Get Penalized
167: How to do SEO if your website generates huge amounts of AI content that you intend to rank on Google. How to avoid penalization and do this within Google's Terms of Service. This is also what Eightify, the company with the most impressive SEO I've seen, SHOULD BE doing to avoid penalization. In short, add directives to your robots.txt to block ChatGPT and Bard from training off of your AI content. Here's how to do this. #seo #searchengineoptimization #growthmarketing #gotomarket

Dec 18, 2023 • 20min
How a Less Than a Year Old Company Ranks for 200,000 Keywords
E166: Eightify.app didn't exist one year ago. Now, it ranks for over 200,000 keywords, many of which are in positions 1-3 on Google. I've never seen anything like this in marketing or SEO. Here's how this happened. #SEO #searchengineoptimization #startups #gotomarket

Dec 17, 2023 • 9min
I Got 90,000 Views in the Last 4 Hours With This Content Marketing Hack
E165: One of the biggest challenges with content marketing is finding engaging subject matter. Well, this could be a game-changing content marketing hack. I'm going viral because of this, and I discovered it only a few hours ago - getting 90,000 views in just the last 4 hours. Let's see if I can recreate this hack. #contentmarketing #growthhacking #buildinginpublic #startups

Dec 16, 2023 • 9min
RIP TwitterX Ads Glitch? Signs Pointing to a Patch
E164: RIP TwitterX Ads Glitch? The signs are pointing to a patch. Here's why I think a manual patch has been set and why this isn't like a month ago when the glitch just had too many advertisers. Hope I'm wrong. #mediabuyer #growthhacking #startups #performancemarketing

Dec 15, 2023 • 6min
Startup Story Time: How Snackpass Got Its First Customers
E163: The growth levers Snackpass used to get its first customers. Snackpass was founded in 2017, and its most recent valuation, in 2021, was for $400,000,000... so the growth levers worked. If you want a short but informative SaaS marketing and go-to-market story, this is for you. Article in the podcast: https://read.first1000.co/p/snackpass #gotomarket #buildinpublic #SaaS #startups

Dec 14, 2023 • 6min
The Copy Machine Study and the Power of Because: The Ellen Langer Experiment
E162: The Ellen Langer Study - also known as The Copy Machine Study, demonstrates the power of the word, "Because." In Ellen Langer's famous study, this word allowed people to get their way 93% of the time - even if the reason following "because" was nonsensical. I take a closer look at this study and then discuss how the word, "because" can be used in our marketing and sales. Articles in this podcast: - https://www.thejoyofbusiness.co.uk/how/use-magic-word/ - https://jamesclear.com/copy-machine-study #copywriting #growthhacking #indiehackers #humanbiases

Dec 13, 2023 • 9min
Hitting It From Different Angles
E161: People don't realize you can hit a subject from a million different angles to find the ones that stick. Once you find those sticky angles - they can be insanely lucrative. In this episode, I share stories about this and give an example of just how lucrative a quick shift in perspective about angles can be. #gotomarket #growthhacking #buildinpublic #marketing