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You’ve heard of affiliate marketing, but what really is it?

The term has gotten a bit of a bad reputation over the past few years, so we wanted to learn about what it takes to be a true affiliate and set the record straight. 

To learn more about affiliate marketing, we chatted with Kendra Losee, a marketing coach, consultant, and ActiveCampaign affiliate, in a new episode of Growth Decoded. 

Here are some of the highlights:

• To be a successful affiliate, you need to take the time to test different tools, this builds a trust with your audience that earns you long term credibility. 
• True affiliates have invested a lot of time and effort in learning every tool that can help YOU make the best decision possible for your business. 
• If you truly believe in the tool you are affiliating with, that will naturally reflect in your recommendation, helping you be successful in your affiliate program. 

EMAIL NEWSLETTERS ARE DEAD.

Just kidding. They’re far from dead. But now that you’re paying attention…

Your email newsletter has the potential to be the launch pad for your entire business, the engine that drives everything forward, and the most direct line of communication with your audience.

It’s a cornerstone of your email marketing strategy.

But how do you start a newsletter and actually grow it? Is there someone who can tell us?

Yes, there is. He’s Jay Clouse, and he’s the brain behind the Creative Companion Newsletter, Community, and the Creative Elements Podcast.

How do you grow an audience on LinkedIn? You know there’s a ton of opportunity out there, but it’s tough to get started — especially if you’ve never really tried before.

What do you write about? What types of content or posts should you make? What’s the best way to get started?

On the next episode of Growth Decoded, we sat down with LinkedIn maven, and founder of LinkedIn Business Accelerator, Judi Fox — and got some answers.

You’ll learn:

• How Judi grew her LinkedIn profile into a revenue engine (and how you can, too!)
• 1 HUGE, underutilized area of opportunity for business and personal profile growth
• Ways to transfer your LinkedIn audience to other channels
• Judi’s acronym for creating LinkedIn content that gets traction
• 3 content voices that resonate on LinkedIn

What’s the recipe for productivity? For creating high-quality work on a consistent basis?

If you ask Justin Welsh, it’s all about the system you implement.

Join us for a brand new episode of Growth Decoded featuring Entrepreneur, Angel investor, Mentor, Coach, and Creator Justin Welsh!

Justin is an expert in the world of solopreneurship. He has successfully launched multiple digital and knowledge-based products, a successful newsletter, and amassed a huge social media following.

You can learn more about Justin through his website: https://justinwelsh.me
Or by following him on LInkedIn or Twitter!
— https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinwelsh/
— https://twitter.com/thejustinwelsh

You’ll learn:

→ The 3 questions that will make you measurably more productive

→ The first step toward building an audience online

→ How to refine and perfect your messaging

→ The 4 things that determine whether content is high-quality or not

→ A proven way to figure out what you should automate next

And more!

Do you feel like you could be getting more out of your analytics?

When it comes time to dive into the data, do you feel confident in your ability and process to get what you need, or what you want?

Join us for a brand new episode of Growth Decoded, featuring Brie Anderson!

Brie is a marketing strategist and consultant, and the owner of Beast Analytics. She has developed a simple framework for analytics that helps inform your approach, strategy, analysis, and data collection.

You’ll learn:

→ Brie’s BEAST cycle for approaching analytics

→ How to determine which metrics to measure (and which to ignore!)

→ The metrics that tell the story best

→ Why you should only implement 1 thing at a time

→ The 3 S’s of analytics strategy

Ramon Ray is an expert on personal branding as a tool for small business success. He's an author of 5 books, successful entrepreneur, the founder of Smart Hustle Media, and a keynote speaker and event host who brings events to the next level.

Ramon is passionate about helping businesses to start and build their personal brands, and using that to market and sell BETTER. In this conversation, Ramon stopped by to talk through his approach to finding the right audience.

You'll learn:
→ The rule that comes before, "Know your customer"
→ Why you should take a stand and "plant a flag in the ground"
→ How to find your target audience
→ How to build a community around your business

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Tim Washer spent 20 years at IBM, Cisco, and Interpublic Group while learning comedy writing from Stephen Colbert and improv from Amy Poehler. He’s a contributor to shows you may have heard of: Saturday Night Live, The Late Show, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

Tim stopped by and spoke about the importance of restoring creativity and human connection to our business communications — and the critical role that humor and comedy can play.

You'll learn:
→ A 5-step way to incorporate comedy into your messaging
→ Why you should "follow the fear"
→ Why making a human connection is so important
→ How humor contributes to creating a real relationship and a human moment

You'll hear from Hanna Fray, expert and senior deliverability specialist at ActiveCampaign, as we break down email deliverability and email engagement.

You'll learn:

• The difference between "email delivery" and "email deliverability"
• The different factors that impact email deliverability
• What the acronyms DKIM, DMARC, and SPF mean
• What is email engagement and why is it important?
• Ways to automatically track email engagement
• Why unsubscribes might actually be a good thing
• Common mistakes and best practices for improving your email engagement

No way! It's prolific bloggers, international speakers, best-selling authors, and founders — Jay Baer and Lee Odden!

In this episode we're breaking down the blogging process from topic selection to publishing. Join us as we talk through the benefits of blogging, tips for writing, and processes for creating consistent, high-quality blog content that's relevant to your audience.

You'll learn about:

→ Topic selection
→ SERP (search engine results page) analysis
→ Keyword research
→ Outlining and researching
→ Writing and editing
→ Best practices for blog format
→ Common mistakes to avoid
→ Tools you can use to help