Net Positive follows the inner thoughts and trajectory of work-in-progress, 20-something Blake Emal. On this show, you'll get a mix of documentation and interviews. Look, I have big dreams just like the next gal or guy. The only difference? I'm not going to pretend that I'm a millionaire with all the answers (because I'm not and I don't). I want to document the EXPERIENCE of growing in my career and skillset, rather than acting like something I'm not. This podcast goes out to all the solopre ...
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This is Morning Pages, a podcast hosted by me, Blake Emal. Here, I discuss life through a lens of positive thinking, stoicism, and vulnerability. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/morning-pages/support
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Join this community of achievers, bootstrappers, and originals on our realistic and documented quest to improve our lives and careers. The bulk of advice we get out there is something along the lines of: - "Chase your dreams" - "Follow your passion" - "Quit your job and go all in" - And a lot more advice that simply doesn't apply to most people This is a podcast for those of us looking to find more joy in our daily lives, work for a better company, learn new skills, or get tactical informati ...
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Whether you’re a marketer, founder, or consultant, gain a competitive edge by learning the battle-tested marketing strategies in-detail from today's smartest marketers such as Rand Fishkin, April Dunford, Hiten Shah, and Val Geisler. Each week I uncover the proven step-by-step marketing processes and systems from each guest so you can apply the lessons to accelerate the growth of your company. Download the FREE growth cheat sheet with actionable tips, notes, and takeaways from the latest pod ...
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The Early-Stage Growth Playbook with Marc Thomas (GMT155)
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36:56You’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? Marc Thomas, Head of Growth at Powered By Search, has been there too. When he launched my company, he toiled and ground it out for years on a direct sales-only model and it was grueling.…
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How To Build a Community Around A Brand with Krystal Wu, Community Manager at Shopify (GMT154)
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28:57Communities 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 episod…
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Growth Hacking and Product-Led Growth—Friends or Foes? with Sean Ellis, Ethan Garr, and Wes Bush [Bonus Episode]
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47:33★ Support this podcast ★By Ramli John
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The 3-Step Influencer Marketing Blueprint with Taylor Lagace (GMT153)
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38:56Too many growing DTC and eCommerce brands leave influencer marketing out of their marketing strategy. And you can’t really fault them for doing so. With many “wanna-be” influencers with fake followers, influencers have gotten a bad rep and it’s easy to see why. But some brands have cracked the code of influencer marketing and are using it to skyroc…
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How to Grow Your Twitter Followers from 700 to 45k in 9 Months with Blake Emal (GMT152)
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55:30No matter how many thought leaders complain that it’s a vanity metric, we all care about increasing our Twitter followers. And for good reason. A respectable follower ratio is fundamental to your brand’s credibility and authority—not to mention organic reach on Twitter’s timeline. Plus, if you build an engaged audience, you can validate product ide…
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What Video Games Can Teach You About User Onboarding with Emily Lonetto (GMT151)
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38:04User onboarding is one of the most important processes in any new experience. When getting hired by a new company, buying a new product, or trying a new product, we expect to have a clear understanding of how it works before fully committing. In episode 151, you’ll learn from Emily Lonetto, Head of Growth at Voiceflow: 1. What video games can teach…
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How to Build Influential Networks From Scratch with Adam Marx (GMT150)
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48:30Quality relationships are hard to build and take a lot of time. And because they are hard to build, it’s difficult to build many of them at once. Yet, it’s one of the most important things for marketers to do. Master this skill, and it can lead to lifelong customers and lucrative marketing partnerships. That’s where Adam Marx, founder of The Zero T…
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Writing Tips for Marketers with Roxine Kee (GMT149)
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41:16You can’t be a good marketer if you’re not a good writer. Content marketing, social media, and SEO are just some aspects of marketing that rely heavily on quality writing. Writing well also enables you to communicate an idea, message, or benefit of the product. In episode 149, you’ll learn from Roxine Kee, a content writer specialist: Why templates…
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How to Build an 8-Figure Bootstrapped SaaS From Scratch with Sujan Patel (GMT148)
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45:16Being bootstrapped doesn’t mean you have to stay small. Sujan Patel, Co-Founder of Mailshake, can tell you all about it. He’s built an 8-figure SaaS company without taking on any funding! In episode 148, you’ll learn how Sujan: 1. Successfully rebranded ContentMarketer.io to Mailshake 2. Drove 100k+ organic visitors with content marketing 3. Genera…
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3 Steps To Create a Winning Startup Marketing Plan with Anna Furmanov (GMT147)
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40:49Marketing at a startup is a challenge because of the limited resources, whether it’s time, money, or talent. You have to be sure every effort, no matter how small, is well-planned and flawlessly executed. And to make it even more difficult, the traditional marketing strategies don’t always work. In episode 147, you’ll learn: 1. How to prioritize ma…
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How to Build and Test a $1 Million Paid Acquisition Channel in 9 Weeks with Trevor Longino (GMT146)
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51:37Once 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 sca…
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How to Use Speaking Opportunities to Grow Your Business with Stefanie Grieser (GMT145)
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47:25Speaking 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…
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5 Link Building Strategies That Work for SaaS with Alan Silvestri (GMT144)
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38:58You’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 bran…
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Why Social Media Is an Essential Tool for Business Executives With Lina Duque (GMT143)
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45:58For 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 …
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How to Successfully Pitch Yourself to 200+ Podcast Shows with Casey Hill (GMT142)
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35:03Podcasts 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 kn…
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Why G2 Published 90+ Guest Posts with Rebecca Reynoso (GMT141)
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3 Best Practices of a Great Community Builder with Joe Huber (GMT140)
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48:06Building a community for a brand can become a strategic moat. Not only is it a space for a brand’s most loyal fans to give new ideas about the product or service, but it’s also where they can be mobilized to advocate for the company. In this episode, Joe Huber, Customer Community Strategist at Sprout Social shares his three best practices to buildi…
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The Future of Online Communities with Andrew Guttormsen (GMT138)
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41:52There’s never been a more relevant time to learn how to build an online community. Personally, I’m part of several dozen Slack and Facebook groups. The problem is that those platforms were not designed for community building. That’s where Circle.so, the modern platform for creators, comes in. I’m also personally part of Corey Haine’s Swipe Files co…
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HubSpot's Surround Sound Content Strategy with Irina Nica (GMT137)
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37:42At HubSpot, “surround sound” is a content marketing approach that aims to make HubSpot products visible every time someone searches for a product-related keyword (e.g. “best help desk software” or “best live chat software”). The goal is for potential users to see HubSpot mentioned in all or most of the pages that rank in Google’s top results for th…
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6 Evolutionary Psychology Principles to Improve Your Conversion with Tim Ash (GMT136)
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40:51Neuromarketing can help you improve your marketing campaigns, product information and – above all – positively influence your customer’s final decision to make a purchase. To help you better understand and leverage the power of neuromarketing, Tim Ash, author of Primal Brain: Demystifying how we think and why we act, shares 6 neuromarketing princip…
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How Soapbox Increased Their Traffic 51% With One Piece of Content with Hiba Amin (GMT135)
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37:09Many folks think that you need a TON of content to generate a lift in traffic. But, Hiba Amin, Senior Marketing Manager at Soapbox, put together one piece that resulted in 51% increase in traffic and doubled their MRR. Sounds too good to be true, right? She breaks down step-by-step what she exactly created and how she distributed and promoted it. G…
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The Rise of The Product Marketing Function with Greg Leach (GMT134)
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43:04Product marketers are focused on understanding and marketing to customers and positioning their company to sell to potential customers. They drive demand and usage of products, which usually includes writing positioning and messaging, launching new products and features, and enabling marketing, sales, and customer success teams to be successful. In…
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Why Most Marketing Personas Suck (and How to Make It Better) with Adrienne Barnes (GMT133)
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43:35Personas. Maybe you love them. Maybe you hate them. Either way, you’ve probably concluded at some point in your career that your current personas are failing you. It’s because most buyer personas are built on anecdotes and made-up stories. In this episode, Adrienne Barnes, founder of Best Buyer Persona, shares how she uses the JTBD framework to cre…
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5 Email Techniques That Increased Growth Machine Newsletter's Open Rate to 30-40% with Amanda Natividad (GMT132)
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47:37According to Mailchimp, the average email open rate for all industries we analyzed is 21.33%. That means for every one hundred emails you send, only 20 people open it. Growth Machine Newsletter’s open rate is almost double that at 40%! In this episode, Amanda Natividad, Head of Marketing at Growth Machine, reveals five email techniques that contrib…
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Building and Growing a Side Hustle to $1.8k MRR with Charlie Ward (GMT131)
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39:36In this episode, Charlie Ward explains how he created the #1 Indie Hackers accountability community. He also shares his learning on how he pivoted to an online-only community from real life and what he learned by doing so. Sponsor For This Episode This episode of Growth Marketing Today is brought to you by Ahrefs Webmaster Tools. Find the top keywo…
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