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You’ve worked hard to build your product idea. Your product is out in the world. But no one is paying to use your SaaS. The MRR is… recurring at 0. Sound familiar?

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When he launched my company, he toiled and ground it out for years on a direct sales-only model and it was grueling. But bit by bit Marc put into place the fundamentals of the early stage growth playbook which resulted in organic signups going up by 1330% and revenue from low or no-touch sales by 17%

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Communities are everywhere nowadays. For some people, communities are a place to learn and explore specific topics or interests. For others, it’s where they discuss personal issues and find comfort among those with similar experiences. For businesses, building a community can help with customer support, product development, and marketing. In episode 154, you’ll learn from Krystal Wu, Community Manager at Shopify: 1. The advantages of building a community for a B2B brand 2. How Krystal taps into a community to amplify content reach 3. How to measure the health of an online community

Once your startup has product-market fit, the next stage is to throw more fuel to the fire and accelerate growth. Trevor Longino, Founder of CrowdTamers, has taken a dozen startups from $0 to $2MM+ in ARR, mentored more than 200 startups, and taught thousands. In this episode, he shares his battle-tested process to test and validate channels to scale customer acquisition. In episode 146, you’ll learn how to: 1. Validate the messaging and audience 2. Build and normalize revenue channels 3., Scale performance

Imagine having the superpower to read your customers' minds so you know how they talk, what triggers that caused them to purchase or leave your product, and how they describe your product and your competitors. That would be a marketer's ultimate superpower! You won't necessarily be cast in the next Marvel movie with this superpower. What I'm talking about is using Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) framework to supercharge your marketing. In this episode, Claire Suellentrop, Co-Founder at Forget The Funnel, and former Head of Marketing at Calendly, shares exactly how she helped Autobooks use the JTBD framework to create more compelling and effective marketing campaigns.

During her tenure as Head of Marketing, Juliana Casale helped Crazy Egg hit its highest monthly revenue in two years. In this episode of the Growth Today podcast, Juliana opens up about the content, email and acquisition strategies she implemented to achieve Crazy Egg’s highest monthly revenue and increase their trial-to-paid conversion by 75%. Juliana is currently the Head of Marketing at Clearbanc, a fintech startup that offers online brands affordable growth capital so they can scale their marketing campaigns and inventory.

Ryan has grown Fomo, a SaaS social proof tool, from $15K to $100K MRR in just 3 years, all the while traveling over 45 countries and launching several side projects including books, courses and YouTube videos. In episode 53 of Growth Marketing Today, learn how Ryan grew Fomo from $15K to $100K, from pricing strategy, competitive strategy and more. Get the growth cheat sheet from this episode at https://growthtoday.fm/53. Why take notes when you can steal my notes from this episode? Support me on Patreon for as little as $2 per episode at https://patreon.com/growthtoday

SEO is content and content is SEO. Sounds like another marketing buzzword to throw around. But, Alina Benny, Growth Marketing Manager at Nextiva, focus on optimizing content for search intent and user experience resulted in 107% increase in organic traffic in 6 months. In episode 52, you'll learn from Alina, the exact strategy Alina implemented to increase Nextiva's organic traffic by 107% from October 2018, whether landing page or blog post is best to rank for keywords in Google and Alina's playbook for optimizing content for SEO.

Every business owner faces the same problem: Increasing conversions and reducing churn. With a client list of companies such as AWeber, Buffer, Stripe, AppCues, InVision, AppCues and more, Val Geisler, nicknamed "The Email Marketing Queen", has cracked the code to the email marketing strategy that actually increases trial conversions and reduces churn. The last onboarding emails she re-wrote saw a 209% increase in conversions. In episode 51, Val shares two of her BIGGEST pet peeves when it comes to onboarding emails you should avoid, Val's "Dinner Party Strategy" for high-converting onboarding emails and three retention strategies that helps grow MRR.

Google the term "sales funnel stages" right now. The first organic result is written by Marijana Kay, SaaS content writer, for Pipedrive. Do you think that's a fluke? Google the term, "how to build a mobile app." Yup, you guessed it – the first organic result is Marijana's article for buildfire.com. Marijana knows a thing or two about writing content that rank #1 on Google. In episode 50, she reveals her step-by-step process to do so. We also discuss whether long-form or short-form content is better for ranking on Google and how she got her first client as a freelancer (and how you can too). Download the growth cheat sheet with actionable growth tips to ranking #1 on Google at https://growthtoday.fm/50

Alexandre Ferrari, founder at Brazillian growth agency Tracao.online, has implemented and ran the growth process at YC-backed companies as well as multi-national brands like Unilever. In this episode, find out the exact growth process Ale uses and how to create a culture of growth in a bigger company. Get the show notes, tweetable quotes, key actionable takeaways and more from this episode at https://growthtoday.fm/49

HubSpot, Hotjar and AWeber – these are some of the companies that Josh Garofalo, SaaS copywriter and founder of Swaycopy, has worked with to double or triple their conversions. In this episode, learn Josh's exact step-by-step copywriting process that he uses for A-list SaaS companies, why Josh actually doesn't "love" copywriting even though he's so good at it and one tip that can turn your copy from good to amazing. Get the growth cheat sheet with all the actionable tips from this episode at https://growthtoday.fm/48

The first year of a startup is usually the toughest, especially if you're competing against large enterprise companies with deep pockets. That's exactly what Daryna Kulya faced when she started OpenPhone with Mahyar Raissi. In this episode, learn exactly what Daryna did to acquire OpenPhone's first 1,000 paying customers without spending a single dollar on ads and the best advice Paul Graham gave to Daryna her the OpenPhone team during their time at YCombinator. Get the one-page cheat sheet of actionable growth tips, tweetable quotes and key takeaways from this episode at https://growthtoday.fm/047

What does it take to grow a SaaS or subscription business in 2019? With access to the metrics of thousands of SaaS companies, Corey Haines, Head of Growth at Baremetrics, should know. In this episode, learn how Corey used personalized value-packed videos to double Baremetrics trial-to-paid conversions, why ARPU is one of the most important growth levers for SaaS and Corey's bottom-up approach to growth. Download a one-page cheat sheet packed with actionable growth tips from this episode at https://growthtoday.fm/046. Only available for the next 5 days.

Speaking on podcast shows and at conferences is one of the best ways to build your brand, demonstrate expertise, and gain credibility. In addition to building brand awareness, it helps build trust with your target audience that can drive valuable business opportunities. Perhaps most important, speaking engagements can drive qualified leads directly into your sales funnel. But, how do you get started with speaking on podcast shows and conferences? In episode 145, you’ll learn from Stefanie Grieser, Co-Creator of Shine Bootcamp: 1. How can speaking on a podcast or at a conference become a marketing channel 2. How to create and deliver a remarkable presentation that will wow your target audience 3. Common mistakes to avoid when giving a conference presentation

LinkedIn is the place to be if you're in the B2B space. The problem is that LinkedIn is often a cesspool of spammy sales posts or congratulatory posts for a job well done. How do you utilize LinkedIn to grow your company's brand so it stays top-of-mind to your potential buyers? Gaetano DiNardi, Director of Demand Generation at Nextiva, has figured out a way to build a following and get hundreds and thousands of impressions on his posts. In this episode, Gaetano discusses the 5 types of content that have a higher chance of going viral on Linkedin, the best way to structure your LinkedIn post and how to turn the viral content into inbound leads. To get the free show notes, three key actionable takeaways, tweetable quotes and more from this episode go to https://growthmarketing.today/045

SaaS companies that invest in customer research grew 2-3x faster than companies that don't. The problem is that 65% of marketers rarely do customer research. That's where Katelyn Bourgoin comes in. Her mission is to make customer research sexy again and help frustrated product and marketing teams use customer insight to guide innovation and identify untapped growth opportunities. In this episode, Katelyn reveals her step-by-step process in helping companies identify their best customers and trigger them to buy more. For the show notes, key takeaways, tweetable quotes from Katelyn and other valuable resources, go to https://growthmarketing.today/044

Is it worth investing in SEO in 2019 when it's getting harder to rank for keywords? According to Kevin Indig, VP of SEO at G2, you need to forget about blogs and drive organic traffic with his secret SEO strategy, he dubbed "microsite 2.0". Kevin has worked for companies such as eBay, Pinterest, Atlassian, and G2 acquire more than +100M users using SEO. In this episode, we talk about something Kevin dubs as "microsite 2.0" strategy that doubled the organic traffic from 4M to 8M at Atlassian. We also talk about a link building strategy that Kevin called "account-based link building." Finally, we talk about big shifts in SEO in 2020 and beyond. For the show notes, key takeaways, tweetable quotes and other valuable resources, go to https://growthtoday.fm/043

Hiring marketers can be a hit or miss. Building a high-performing marketing team from 1 to 35 employees that scales a SaaS company's annual recurring revenue from $1M to $15.6M in 5 years with no major funding is even harder! That's what Georginia (aka as Gia) Laudi, the former VP of Marketing at Unbounce (2012-2017), did exactly. As an early employee, she built a team which surpassed targets and more than doubled acquisition in its 2nd year. For the show notes, key takeaways, tweetable quotes and other valuable resources, go to https://growthtoday.fm/042

The #1 killer of growth for SaaS company is churn. For a SaaS business of almost any scale, the valuation impact of better retention is in the tens of millions over time. The problem is that only 44% of companies focus more closely on acquisition, while only 18% cited retention as a higher concern (source). In this episode, we have Kristen DeCosta, Growth Lead at ChurnBuster.io. Kristen shares some proven and simple strategies to reduce SaaS churn that kill growth.

How did YC-backed startup BxBlue, which is based out of Brazil, get their first customer using SEO within a month? In this episode, I chat with Roberto Braga, CMO of BxBlue, on an in-depth look of their SEO strategy, his experience and biggest learnings with being part of Y-Combinator and the challenges of growing a startup in Brazil. For show notes from this episodes, my key takeaways and other goodies, go to https://growthmarketing.today/040

April Dunford, market positioning expert and author of the just released book Obviously Awesome, shares why for most lead gen, customer acquisition or sales problem, it's really a market positioning problem. They don’t really know the value their product is giving to the right target audience. April goes through her methodology in helping companies from startups to 40 billion dollar company just do that. For the show notes, tweetable quotes from April (there are so many!) and other goodies, go to https://growthmarketing.today/039

From professional poker player to SEO and Paid Acquisition Manager at Drift, Bill King shares how the skills he learned in data, strategy and game theory as a poker player helped him become the marketer he is today. Prior to Drift, he was the Senior Growth Marketing Manager at AvidXchange, Senior Inbound Marketing Professional at Hubspot. For the show notes, tweetable quotes from Bill and other goodies, go to https://growthmarketing.today/038

For freemium and free trial SaaS marketers and owners, one of the biggest struggles is converting more free or free trial users into paying users. Wes Bush, a product-led growth consultant and upcoming author of the book Product-Led Growth, shares his secrets to doing just that. Learn why product-qualified leads are so much more “qualified” than marketing-qualified leads, how to increase your freemium or free trial conversion and why are some big mistakes marketers make when implementing product-led growth. For this episode's show notes, tweetable quotes and goodies, go to https://growthmarketing.today/037

Joel Klettke, B2B SaaS copywriter extraordinaire and CRO consultant, shares with use his process for creating copy that multiplies conversion rates and sells. He’s done some amazing work, including doubling the conversion rate of Hubspot. As a sign of how funny and great Joel’s copy is, check out his twitter bio - Pray for your competitors: after you hire me, they’ll need it. For the show notes, tweetable quotes from Joel and more, go to https://growthmarketing.today/036.

You’ve created content that people are searching for, that answers their questions, and that search engines can understand, but those qualities alone don’t mean it’ll rank. To outrank the rest of the sites with those qualities, you have to establish authority. That can be accomplished by earning links from authoritative websites, building your brand, and nurturing an audience who will help amplify your content. In episode 144, you’ll learn from Alan Silvestri, founder and CEO of Growth Gorilla: 1. Five link building strategies that work for SaaS 2. How to create linkable assets 3. How to build links to your homepage

Talia Wolf, a conversion optimization expert, who pioneered the emotional targeting methodology, shares with us how she's able to increase her client's conversion rates by 10X or even 20X over and over again. It’s a methodology that taps into your customer’s most inner emotional needs and cater to them in your design. For the show notes, tweetable quotes from Talia and more, go to https://growthmarketing.today/035.

Kristian Borghesan, Marketing Manager at Planswell and Co-Founder at Bruha, talks all about growing an event ticketing startup, why often the best growth marketers are entrepreneurial and 3 growth experiments that the Bruha team ran that resulted in the greatest lift. For the full show notes, tweetable quotes from Kristian and other goodies, go to https://growthmarketing.today/034

Asia Matos of Demand Maven quit her day job completely cold turkey last year and started Demand Maven, which partners with early-stage SaaS companies to help build their marketing engines and get them to their first 100 customers. For the full show notes, tweetable quotes from Asia and other goodies from this episode, go to https://growthmarketing.today/033

In this episode of Growth Marketing Today, I chat with my buddy Kamil Rextin about Spotify Programmatic Audio Ads. Is it worth it? How easy is it to launch a spotify ad? The Spotify ad platform launched in Fall 2017 in US and March 2018 in Canada and UK. Originally, you had to apply as an advertiser into the Spotify Ads Platform. But it's as easy as Facebook and Google ads. If you prefer, you can listen to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or YouTube. You can also check it out https://growthmarketing.today/032

In this episode of Growth Marketing Today, I explain where I've been in the last three and half months since the last episode – hint: I got married :). I also review my stats and explain three ways this podcast has helped me close over $43,000 worth of contract as a digital marketing educator and consultant in 7 months. Finally, I talk about lessons I've learned from this podcast.

Jaxson Khan, Director of Marketing at Nudge.ai serves as host of the #AskAI podcast, a mentor at Techstars, a judge at Venture for Canada, an advisor to Century Initiative, and a member of the World Economic Forum. In this episode, learn how you can use AI to grow your company and how important relationship strength is for your business strength. For quotes and episode outline of this episode, go to https://growthmarketing.today/030 What You'll Learn in This Episode Nudge.ai's Most Connected Lists How they gather data How to do an effective Product Hunt launch with a focus on relationships, community, and network intelligence The future of AI and how it’ll affect marketers About Jaxson Khan Jaxson is Director of Marketing at Nudge.ai, a relationship intelligence platform. In the community, Jaxson serves as host of the #AskAI podcast, a mentor at Techstars, a judge at Venture for Canada, an advisor to Century Initiative, and a member of the World Economic Forum. Previously, Jaxson founded Young Diplomats of Canada, an NGO that engages with the United Nations, World Bank, and G20. He also served on advisory boards with AstraZeneca and The Globe and Mail and was elected to the Peel District School Board. Jaxson is a published author and speaker on technology, education, and policy, including the International Economic Development Council Journal. Jaxson graduated from Western University as a 3M National Student Fellow and one of Canada's Top 20 Under 20.

I just interviewed Andrew Warner. Andrew is best known as the pushy interviewer who founded Mixergy, the place where proven entrepreneurs teach. But I turned the tables and interviewed him. Andrew came on to talk about chat bots. Specifically, why major companies are making chat bots a big part of their marketing and sales strategy. PS. You may have heard Facebook temporarily paused new chatbots on their platform. I asked Andrew about that, too. I think you’ll want to hear what he had to say. It's one of my best interviews to date. Andrew has created a bot just for this podcast. Check it out at botacademy.com/growthmarketing For quotes and episode outline of this episode, go to https://growthmarketing.today/029 3 Reasons To Check Out This Episode He explains what the heck a chat bot is. And if you already know what it is, you’ll still discover some interesting (and profitable) uses for chat bots Andrew invested in chat bot companies early on. He’ll reveal what he saw in chat bots that lots of other people missed You’ll see the incredible response rates you can get with chat bots. Andrew is a numbers guy, and he shared the cold, hard data About Andrew Warner Andrew Warner is an internet, startup entrepreneur. In his 20s, he used credit cards and ingenuity to create a $30+ mil / year (in sales) internet business with his younger brother. He then created Mixergy to help ambitious people who love business as much as he does learn from a mix of experienced mentors. Andrew does that through interviews where founders tell their stories and courses where they teach a solution to issues that can cripple founders. On Mixergy, he invites proven entrepreneurs to teach how they built their startups. The entrepreneurs who've helped me out by appearing on Mixergy include the founders of Wikipedia, Groupon, LivingSocial, LinkedIn, and over 600 others.

Rob Mann, UX Copywriter at Manulife, has worked with brands such as Uber, Twtter, Toyota, BMW and more. In this episode, learn the process to write remarkable content and copy using the UX design process and his top tips if you want to get good at writing copy. For quotes and episode outline of this episode, go to https://growthmarketing.today/028 What You'll Learn in This Episode Rob's copywriting process What UX copywriting is Why most traditional ad's copy are failing How Rob uses Reddit to do user research when writing copy His top tips to get better at writing remarkable content About Rob Mann Over the better part of the past decade, Rob Mann has gotten to work with some awesome agencies and companies, creating copy and content for everything from tech products and corporate websites to ad campaigns and social channels. He's created content for brands such as Uber, Toyota, Johnson & Johnson, Budweiser, Twitter, Toronto Tourism and Public Mobile. He is currently a UX copywriter at Manulife. Prior that, he was the former Head of Community at Crew Labs.

As a growth marketer, data is king. But, there's so much data everywhere! How do you make sure you don't drown in data? Nick Drew, currently CEO of a boutique data agency called Fuse Insights and previously data and research roles at Yahoo Canada, Microsoft and Financial Times, gives fresh perspective on forming a data-driven growth strategy. In this episode, learn Nick's process for gathering and developing actionable insights from data, why curiosity is the most important thing when interpreting data and why more data might actually be a bad thing. For quotes and episode outline of this episode, go to https://growthmarketing.today/027 What You'll Learn in This Episode Nick's process on gathering and developing actionable insights from data Why curiosity is so important when interpreting data Why more data may not be the solution for your business or startup How AI and machine learning is changing the game for data analysis About Nick Drew Nick Drew has been a researcher for more than fifteen years and a research client for ten. After working at the Financial Times and Microsoft, he spent several years as Head of Research for Yahoo across Canada and Latin America, developing and managing a program of award-winning research from small tactical projects to large-scale thought leadership initiatives. He later set up the Research and Analytics function for FleishmanHillard Canada, helping the company to incorporate research and data into its ways of working, and supporting a wide range of clients across the public and private sectors in their research and insights needs. Nick’s interspersed his career with time working for agencies ranging from large multinationals to small boutique shops. But it’s the time he spent working as a research client that he really found a passion for the art of taking business challenges and turning them into questionnaires, and transforming data and qual transcripts into meaningful outcomes for marketers, sales folks and C-Suite leadership.

Having worked at a startup, ConversionXL and HubSpot, Alex Birkett is the right guy to shed some light in how to do growth in a startup, an agency and a billion-dollar company. In this episode of Growth Marketing Today, Alex shares the tactics he used to grow ConversionXL's monthly blog visitors from 125K to 250K. Alex also opens up his tips about doing SEO and getting the most out of conferences and meetups. For quotes and episode outline of this episode, go to https://growthmarketing.today/026 What You'll Learn in This Episode How Alex grew ConversionXL's monthly blog visitors from 125K to 250K The content promotion strategy he used at ConversionXL The growth process at HubSpot How Alex does SEO at HubSpot About Alex Birkett Alex Birkett is a Growth Marketing Manager at HubSpot where he focuses specifically on freemium acquisition strategy. In the past, he's been a startup growth guy at ConversionXL, and before that, at LawnStarter. Alex's main strengths and focuses are in growth strategy, data analysis, experimentation design, and search engine optimization. He's dabbled in most marketing channels, though. Generally, Alex is quite "T-Shaped" (to use industry jargon), which his deep focus areas being CRO, SEO, and content. He writes over at iamalexbirkett.com. Come say hi.

For large enterprise organizations, the idea of executive leaders being more active on social media can be a bit intimidating. Would it do more harm than good? But, the data has continued to show the risks of not having leadership on social media. 77% of consumers would rather purchase from a company where executives are active on social media. In episode 143, you’ll learn from Lina Duque, a social media strategist, university lecturer, and international speaker. 1. The value of having business leaders on social media 2. The three steps to building influence online 3. Common social media mistakes

Ever thought about running an influencer marketing campaign? In this episode of Growth Marketing Today, I have the Richard Wong, VP Marketing of #Paid, one of the biggest influencer marketing platforms in the industry. They've recently raised $9M in Series A funding to fuel their platform's expansion with AI. Learn why you should consider running an influencer marketing campaign, how to run a successful campaign and how to measure the success of that campaign. For quotes and episode outline of this episode, go to https://growthmarketing.today/025 What You'll Learn in This Episode How has marketing in tech changed in the last 5-10 years The history and impact of influencer marketing One winning influencer campaign they ran in an unsexy industry (hint: it's the financial/bank field) What #Paid's marketing team looks like How to run a successful influencer marketing campaign How to measure the success of influencer marketing campaigns Tips for recent marketing grads on how to get their first job About Richard Wong Richard Wong is a Toronto-based marketing leader who is currently the head of marketing at #paid having previously worked at Google, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble. His work has been featured in AdWeek, DigiDay, Media in Canada, Strategy Magazine, the American Marketing Association (AMA) blog, DX3, and other publications. He also teaches the digital marketing classes at tech schools—Brainstation, RED Academy, and Camp Tech.

We're back with Sarah Stockdale, former Director of Global Community Growth at Tilt.com (acquired by AirBnb) and principal at Sarah Stockdale Growth Consulting. In this episode, learn the fastest way to grow your startup-up, the story behind the acquisition of Tilt.com's by AirBnb and Sarah's tips for doing growth experiments. She also shares her tips for anyone trying to get into growth marketing. For quotes and episode outline of this episode, go to https://growthmarketing.today/024 What You'll Learn in This Episode The northstar metric that the Tilt.com growth team looked at The fastest way to grow (hint: it’s not a spray and pray approach) The story behind the acquisition of Tilt.com by AirBnb An experiment that really worked well for Tilt.com Sarah’s tips for growth teams who are doing experiments Tips for anyone trying to get into growth marketing About Sarah Stockdale Sarah Stockdale is a growth veteran, with 7 years of experience growing and scaling early stage technology companies. With experience working at venture-backed companies out of both Toronto and Silicon Valley, Sarah has grown companies from scratch and led large growth teams. Past experience includes Product Marketing and Business Development at Wave and most recently, Sarah led a multi-national growth team at Tilt as the Director of Global Community Growth. Sarah mentors with Venture for Canada and 500 Startups, and has taught and spoken at Ryerson, Queen's, Brainstation, HackerYou, McMaster, George Brown and Mohawk College.

Sarah Stockdale, former Director of Global Community Growth at Tilt.com (acquired by AirBnb) and principal at Sarah Stockdale Growth Consulting, is a growth veteran who has experience growing and scaling early stage venture-backed companies out of both Toronto and Silicon Valley. In this episode, Sarah shares the growth process at Tilt (before they got acquired by AirBnb), what she looks for when hiring for a growth team and how to get users addicted to your app. For quotes and episode outline of this episode, go to https://growthmarketing.today/023 What You'll Learn in This Episode Sarah’s career progression (hint: she didn’t start in growth or marketing.. ahem MTV). The growth process at Tilt before they got acquired by AirBnb. What Sarah looks for in hiring growth marketers (hint: it’s not sexy resume!) How to hire for your #growth team How you get users addicted to your app   About Sarah Stockdale Sarah Stockdale is a growth veteran, with 7 years of experience growing and scaling early stage technology companies. With experience working at venture-backed companies out of both Toronto and Silicon Valley, Sarah has grown companies from scratch and led large growth teams. Past experience includes Product Marketing and Business Development at Wave and most recently, Sarah led a multi-national growth team at Tilt as the Director of Global Community Growth. Sarah mentors with Venture for Canada and 500 Startups, and has taught and spoken at Ryerson, Queen's, Brainstation, HackerYou, McMaster, George Brown and Mohawk College.

We're back with Kieran Flanagan, VP of Growth at HubSpot, for part 2 of 2. In this episode, learn how the HubSpot's global growth team is structured (hint: it's not by product!). You'll also learn what Kieran looks for when hiring for his growth team at HubSpot, his biggest lessons as a leader of a global growth team and where he sees marketing going in 5 to 10 years. For quotes and episode outline of this episode, go to https://growthmarketing.today/022 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE How is HubSpot’s global growth team structured (hint: it’s not by product!) How they make sure each of their growth teams are aligned in goals What Kieran looks for in marketers when hiring His biggest lessons as a leader of a global growth team Where he sees marketing going in 5 to 10 years His advice for those trying to get into growth marketing ABOUT KIERAN FLANAGAN Kieran Flanagan has a proven track record in helping SaaS businesses, from start-ups to enterprise-level companies grow their traffic, users and revenue. He is a thought leader on growth marketing and speaks at events across the globe on the topic. Kieran is currently the VP of Growth at HubSpot where he is responsible for acquisition of free users, monetization of those freemium funnels and optimization of our global web strategy. Outside of that role, Kieran advises startups on all things growth.

Kieran Flanagan, VP of Growth at HubSpot, has a proven track record in helping SaaS businesses, from start-ups to enterprise-level companies grow their traffic, users and revenue. In this part 1 of 2, Kieran shares with Growth Marketing Today how he manages a global growth team that spans multiple time-zones. You'll also learn tactics HubSpot uses to activate free users into paid users. Find out incremental and disruptive growth experiments at HubSpot in 2018. For quotes and episode outline of this episode, go to https://growthmarketing.today/021 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE What the global growth team look like at HubSpot Tactics HubSpot uses to activate free users into paid users The difference between “safe bets” and “big swings” experiments Incremental and disruptive growth experiments at HubSpot this year (2018) ABOUT KIERAN FLANAGAN Kieran Flanagan has a proven track record in helping SaaS businesses, from start-ups to enterprise-level companies grow their traffic, users and revenue. He is a thought leader on growth marketing and speaks at events across the globe on the topic. Kieran is currently the VP of Growth at HubSpot where he is responsible for acquisition of free users, monetization of those freemium funnels and optimization of our global web strategy. Outside of that role, Kieran advises startups on all things growth.

Alyssa Atkins, VP of Marketing at CareGuide, has mastered the art of smoke testing, automating and scaling user acquisition channels, down to a science. In this episode of Growth Marketing Today, find out CareGuide's 5-step process to exploring and scaling new marketing channels. You'll also learn what Alyssa looks for when hiring for her team (hint: it's not experience or a great resume!). For quotes and episode outline of this episode, go to https://growthmarketing.today/020 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE Why she values and only hires marketers who have an entrepreneurial mindset As marketers, how to find the balance between hustling and high-impact activities CareGuide's 5-step process to smoke test, automate and scale user acquisition channels How Alyssa hires for their marketing team ABOUT ALYSSA ATKINS Alyssa Atkins is the VP of Marketing and early employee at CareGuide, which owns vertically focused marketplaces for everyday care services, such as CanadianNanny.ca, Housekeeper.com, Sitter.com, and 20 or so others. She takes a data-driven approach to discovering, automating, and scaling profitable marketing channels. Her strengths lay in hiring, scaling marketing channels, and analytics. Alyssa has basic proficiency in HTML, CSS, and SQL.

Mobile marketers are using only about 5% of the data they have available to make decisions. That’s a 95% gap in how they can make a more informed decisions. Kara Dake, VP of Growth at CleverTap, share tips on how to use data more effectively to have more personalized messaging. For quotes and episode outline of this episode, go to https://growthmarketing.today/019

Learn how Hailey Friedman started and grew the Affiliate Program at RealtyShares, a Union Square Venture, GC and Menlo backed real-estate investing marketplace. Based out of San Francisco, Hailey is also the President of Bad-Ass Marketers and Founders SF, Silicon Valley's largest community of marketers & founders (over 16,000 members). You’ll also learn from Hailey how she does product marketing and how you can stand out as a marketers. For quotes and episode outline of this episode, go to https://growthmarketing.today/018

Find out what it takes to build a holistic user journey in this episode of Growth Marketing Today. Ray Kanani, Director of User Experience Transformation at Intelex, shares why he used a comic book format to communicate the whole user journey of a company. This is something he got from the AirBnb’s UX team. Every marketer, designer and product people focused on UX growth can learn a thing or two (and even more!) from Ray. For quotes and episode outline of this episode, go to https://growthmarketing.today/017

Named as one of "12 Innovative Founders To Watch And Learn From" by Forbes Magazines, Josh Fechter is one of the people who popularized the genre of poetic LinkedIn posts. Josh manages Bad Ass Marketers and Founders (BAMF), one of the biggest and most active Facebook groups, which gave him the opportunity to meet the Zuckerberg himself! In this episode, learn how Josh started and grew the BAMF community from 0 to 15,000 members.

Podcasts are a great way to get any message out there. Whether you want to promote a product, improve your brand, or raise awareness around an important topic, they can help you reach new audiences.

But getting onto a podcast as a guest can seem like a pretty impossible thing to achieve if you don’t know where to start. So here’s all you need to know to get yourself booked for appearances behind the mic.

Bonjoro’s team has mastered this art of pitching to podcast shows. They’ve been in over 200 shows in 2020. Today, Casey Hill, Head of Growth at Bonjoro, discusses why and how they were able to achieve that.

In episode 142, you’ll learn:

1. How Bonjoro’s team strategy to successfully pitch themselves as a guest on podcast shows
2. Casey’s “piggybacking” strategy to identify the right podcast shows to appear on
3. How they measured success for all the podcast shows they appeared on

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