Growth Experts: Dennis Brown Chats About Growth And Marketing Strategies With Top Ceos, Entrepreneurs And Marketers

Andy Seth is the CEO of Flow Marketing and has 4 successful 7 figure exits as an entrepreneur. Flow Marketing is recognized as being in the top 10% of B-Corps worldwide and they are the first agency in the nation to be accredited with federally registered apprenticeships. He also helped more than a thousand low-income students go to college on scholarships. During this interview we discuss: 1:46 - How Andy helped send a thousand plus students to college on scholarships. 5:42 - Why did Andy started Flow Marketing and what's Flow Marketing exactly? 9:47 - Andy implemented policies to help his leadership team get into "Flow State" and then this happened as a result! 12:22 - What is the definition of "Flow State?" 13:18 - Andy shared exactly how we can put ourselves into Flow State. 14:37 - The 4 components to the energy cycle of flow. 17:24 - Can I tap into Flow State everyday? 19:05 - How can we start achieving or tapping into Flow State? 21:44 - Can I make it into a routine? 25:52 - Andy shares his favorite gr

Ac Evans is a pioneer in conversational marketing and the CEO and Co-Founder of Drips.com. Drips is the first conversational texting company of it's kind. They founded a new category and are leading the way for some of the world's biggest brands in the world to use automated humanized conversations at scale. During this interview we discuss: 1:59 - AC shares what exactly is Drips.com and how how they humanized the automated conversations.  4:03 - The experience of their clients and how they leveraged this to enhance their target market. 7:19 - He shares their growth numbers and stats. 9:25 - Are they planning on raising capital? 10:16 - How they managed grow rapidly even while bootstrapping finances.  13:16 - AC shared exactly how they leverage partnership marketing to see huge growth.  17:01 - What's the difference between channel marketing and partnership marketing 20:24 - How focusing on companies that you have the most symbiotic relationship can bring about huge success to both you and your partner compan

Brian Larsen is the CEO and founder of RestoraPet, a line of pet products that has seen rapid expansion with over 500% growth in 2018 and then again in 2019.  During this interview we discuss: 1:54 - Brian gave us a quick backstory and behind the scenes of how and why he created RestoraPet. 6:52 - Are they planning to for additional funds as they are early in the game? 7:38 - He shared a bit of an insight as to the size, scale, or progress of their business. 10:14 - Brian unpacks for us the very first step in this framework and what's their priority. 10:59 - How creating a "voice" that represented their exact target market was one of the keys to success. 12:27 - Understanding who their most valuable customers? 14:17 - How do they iterate and optimize their creatives? 18:59 - He shared how they split tested their website messaging and design and how it impacted their overall results.  22:00 - A great piece of advice if you are gonna start a business or grow their business. 22:32 - Brian shares his favorite gro

Jesse Krieger is the Publisher For The Passionate and is the Founder of Lifestyle Entrepreneur Press. He believes it's possible to change the world with your words. He's also the author of a best selling book called "Lifestyle Entrepreneur" During this interview we discuss: 2:09 - Jesse shares his backstory on how he stumbled upon this Lifestyle Entrepreneur. 4:17 - How exactly does Jesse help Authors with their books? 5:25 - He shares the #1 business superpower he wished he had. 6:59 - Why should you write a book and why it is important? 10:05 - Samples of putting "Offer Pages" in your book depending on your business or service. 12:25 - Jesse shared with us his experience of exactly how he made $100K in profit by launching a book. 15:10 - He shares example of how some of his clients have used books to get more clients. 18:49 - Why a book is one of the best ways to get free PR and media recognition. 19:51 - Jesse answers the questions, "If you could give one piece of advice to somebody who's debating in writi

Anand Kishore is the CEO and Co-Founder of AspireIQ. AspireIQ plays an instrumental role in helping enterprise brands transform their business through the power of brand communities. During this interview we discuss: 01:45 - Why and how Anand launched AspireIQ. 4:12 - What exactly does AspireIQ do? 5:17 - He shares their revenue and growth #'s 6:36 - Anand picks one business superpower he wished he had. 8:26 - How and why is it important to build a relationship and investing it in community. 9:31 - He shares 2 examples of top performers when it comes to investing in a community for B2C and B2B. 12:07 - We talk about why community is the future of marketing, customer engagement and brand? 13:24 - How and why you need to identify your high value relationships and how to make them a part of your community. 14:40 - Why its important to take a more holistic approach to community vs just focusing on leads/clients. 15:25 - Anand shares an example of how community can be used to lead a prospect through the buying pro

Ravi Trivedi is the Founder of Push Engage which is a browser notification platform with customers in over 150 countries, his customers include Mattel, 1-800 Flowers and the list goes on. They deliver over 5 BILLION notifications per month! and he's also the founder of CouponRani. During this interview we discuss: 2:13 - How and why he started Push Engage 4:31 - Their #1 strategy for getting customers 7:25 - He shares exactly how push notification can 10X your results compared to email marketing.  12:47 - We talked about the stats of Push Notifications vs. Emails 14:37 - He shares a client success story around lead generation when using push notifications.  16:52 - How to decrease your form abandonment percentage? 19:16 - How cart abandonment works and how you can use push notification to retarget them. 21:25 - What are other segmenting strategies work well with push notification. 23:16 - How does a drip campaign works w/ push notification. 25:18 - Two important tips when selecting a push notification vendor.

Oliver Chwojko is a Google Ads expert at Triple R Marketing. the team at Triple R has personally helped me with me optimize my Google ads and I have seen great results. I decided to have him on our show today because he's the guy behind the scenes doing all the hard work and the one that had figured out how to get me a great ROI on my Google ad spend.  During this interview we discuss: 2:40 - Oliver gave us a quick backstory on how and why he specialized in Google ads. 4:43 - We discuss what exactly is Google Remarketing ads are and why they can be so effective. 8:16 - We talked about the difference between cold campaigns vs warm campaigns ad campaigns. 10:04 - Oliver shares his step by step process for creating high converting Google remarketing ads 12:44 - Simple tips from Oliver on how to figure out exact keywords to target to get the best results. 14:47 - How does "Negative Keywords" work? 16:16 - The most important component in any ad copy. 17:00 - How many ads would Oliver suggest to start out with? and

Aleric Heck is the CEO of AdOutreach which helps clients leverage YouTube ads to get more leads and clients for their business. He's grown his own YouTube channel to over 400 thousand subscribers! He's also a member of the 2 Comma Club in Clickfunnels and is well known as one of the top YouTube advertising expert today. During this interview we discuss: 2:04 - Aleric shares why and how he chose YouTube advertising as a business. 4:13 - He share his company revenue and growth related stats. 6:44 - I ask him to share one thing he sucks at that most people would be shocked about. 11:02 - The biggest mistake that people make when they start to do video ads and how to do it the right way. 11:42 - The 3 key components to high converting YouTube Ads. 16:16 - Aleric shares his 3-D YouTube ads targeting method and how it works. 18:00 - What you need to do if you want scale your YouTube ads? 18:28 - The 3 YouTube Ads Triangle, what it is, and how it works. 23:44 - Do you really need to have a high production value on v

Aditya Nagrath is the founder and CEO of Elephant Learning which is a math learning platform that guarantees students will learn a full year of math in just three months in less 30 minutes per week. Dr Nagrath bootstrapped elephant learning four years ago and has seen huge growth numbers in terms of users, market shares, revenue. He also has a PhD in Math and Computer Science has experienced as a Software Engineer at the educational giant Pearson and a continuous passion in Mathematics. During this interview we discuss: 2:32 - Aditya shares a bit of his backstory on how and why he started his business.  05:00 - We talk about the #1 offer that led to over 14,000 paid users joining his program.  5:36 - He shares the #1 growth strategy and channel for growth.  7:17 - How to create and leveraged a "1% audience" to dramatically increase their conversions.  10:38 - We discuss the actual campaign and funnel that they used to convert Facebook users into subscribers. 12:11 - How they were able to create and test hundr

Blue Melnick runs Sage Event Management with his wife Bari Baumgardner. Sage specializes in helping speakers, authors and influencers leverage the live and virtual events to launch a 7 figure coaching business in 3 days or less. In the last 30 days, Sage has been transitioning clients from his live in-person events to virtual live events with incredible results. Over the years he's helped his clients generate over 400 million dollars in sales with live events. During this interview we discuss: 2:24 - Blue shares his story on how he got into live events and what's going on in his transitioning to virtual live amidst the pandemic. 7:48 - Blue shares a unique still that has contributed to the success of his business. 11:17 - The difference between virtual events vs. live events and how to create a better experience virtually. 11:38 - The reasons why virtual outperforms live and why. 12:47 - The 3 main reasons why people come to live events. 13:41 - We talked about why Blue uses Zoom Meetings instead of Zoom Webi

Jim DeCicco is the CEO and oldest brother of Super Coffee which started in a college dorm room and is now doing over $5 million per month in sales.  This is Jim's 2nd time on the podcast and the previous episodes can be found at the link below.  Episode 102 with Jim DeCicco/ Super Coffee During this interview we discuss: 1:30 - He shares his personal experience of being infected with the Covid19 and how it impacted him personally and as a business. 2:51 - Jim gives us an update on the companies growth since our last interview over a  year ago. 4:02 - He talks about the concept of working IN your business vs. ON your business and why it has been very instrumental to Jim's growth. 7:44 - How and why its important to create organizational capacity. 10:15 - How Jim overcame the challenge of finding the right talent and developing a company culture.  10:50 - He talks about his C.O.A.C.H framework for building a great culture. 13:32 - Jim talks about what Super Coffee is and how the brand has evolved since launchin

Anik Singal is the founder and CEO of Lurn.com and he's widely considered as one of today's most successful digital publishing marketers. Anik teaches people how to create their own online hash and based businesses as he guides them through his processes to maximize profit and grow revenues. He's trained over 250,000 students but more impressively, he's generated over $250 million dollars in sales virtually all of that being online and a lot of them are from webinars. He's been ranked by Inc. Magazine two times for his company as one of the Inc. 500 which is one of the fastest-growing private company in America. This is Anik's 2nd time on the podcast and the previous episode can be found at the link below. E81 – Four Stages of Growing a Successful Business with Anik Singal During this interview we discuss: 3:15 - Anik gave us a quick summary and backstory of the previous podcast episode 81. 4:22 - A quick story about how Anik founded Lurn.com and what is its vision and mission. 8:14 - Why Webinars are not dea

Jeff Walker is widely considered as one of the top internet marketing experts online today. He's also the author a New York Times best-selling book called "Launch - An internet millionaires secret formula to sell almost anything online, build the business you love, and live the life of your dream". He's also very well known for being the creator of "Product Launch Formula". During this interview we discuss: 1:54 - Jeff shares a bit of his backstory on how and why he choose internet marketing. 3:24 - How "Sequences" can be a very powerful sales mechanism. 3:50 - How and why Jeff created his "Product Launch Formula" 4:35 - Jeff's shares some of his crazy launch experience including $1 million in 53 minutes! 6:25 - The evolution of Product Launch Formula and why it still works as well today as 10 years ago. 7:52 - Why you should be a publisher if you're building a business 10:57 - Jeff shared a business superpower he wished he had 12:39 - How product launch formula works and how pre-launch content works? 18:06 -

Bart Rupert has a strong mergers and acquisition background across Fortune 500's and startups within industries like technology, software, energy, healthcare, real estate, construction and etc. He's founded nearly 30 companies, negotiated over $500 million dollars in contracts and business deals. Grew a corporate startup from inception to $10 million, grew a healthcare from $8 million to $75 million. Today he's helping companies and everyday people buy and sell companies for a living.  Many of his clients who've never bought or sold companies before are working with him to structure deals that result in multi-million dollar payouts in little as 18 months. During this interview we discuss: 2:42 - Bart shares why he decided to pursue a career focused on buying and selling companies. 8:01 - He shares an example of how he was able to buy a software as a service business that was doing $8 million per year in sales and then grow it to over $75 million per year before selling it. 11:42 - He breaks down his exact 3 p

Bill Wooditch became the top salesman at a Fortune 500 company in less than two years and a top producer for two consecutive years. He then went on to build his own multi-million dollar company. He's the author of "Always Forward" and  "Fail More" which were both top sellers on Wall Street Journal bestseller list. During this interview we discuss: 1:15 - A quick backstory on how Bill migrated from being in corporate sales to building his own successful business. 3:33 - He shares a bit of an insight into his company today and how he built it. 5:44 - Bill tells us the #1 business superpower he wished he had. 7:34 - The biggest most important questions you need to ask your client/prospect. 11:03 - Bill talks about he difference between his "Q.U.A.L.I.F.Y Method" vs. the typical salesperson questions. 12:14 - We talk about the biggest mistake salespeople make. 15:41 - Some tough love about sales quotas and the importance of managing the right activities needed to go beyond quota. 17:31 - Bill shares to us his mos

Martyn Cook co-founded a software company that built multiple 7 figure eCommerce brands and co-founded a high-level digital entrepreneur mastermind that hosts luxury meetups around the world.  He's spoken on stages around the world and still somehow found the time to self-publish 2 books. His latest project called "Noobru" a cognition drink is on a mission to fortify a billion meals by 2025 helping to tackle the 2 billion people worldwide with malnutrition problem. During this interview we discuss: 3:28 - Martyn introduces to us his company called "Noobru" 9:57 - We talk about his NEW book, "1% Secret - How to Scale Your Ecommerce Business From 6 to 7 Figures and Beyond" 10:39 - We discuss the concept and strategy behind 1% secret how to leverage it to see huge growth.  17:21 - He shares how and why his new business, Noobru was able to have early success and growth.  18:32 - We talk about his mission to help fortifying 1 billion meal w/ Noobru? 21:38 - His #1 tip on how to accelerate growth quickly. 26:04 - H

Sean Castrina is a serial entrepreneur who's started more than 20 companies and currently running 9 of them. His newest book called "The World's Greatest Business Plan" helps people by providing simple step by step plan for those who cannot afford to fail. He's contributed in some of the most recognized media outlets including Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Amazon BC as well as a guest lecture in some of America's finest colleges. During this interview we discuss: 1:30 - Sean gives us a quick backstory on how and why started his business.  3:12 - We talk about his new books, "The World's Greatest Business Plan" 6:46 - He shares the number one reason why businesses go out of business and how proper branding can make all the difference. 7:44 - The 1st reason why you better get branding right. 8:46 - The easiest way to brand your company is to do this first. 12:00 - Why branding is by far your most effective sales force. 13:36 - How branding help define your cultural standards. 15:31 - We discuss how branding can give y

Matt Sweetwood is the CEO of LUXnow which has 7 employees and is over $2 million a year ARR. Prior to Lux Now Matt spent 29 years as the CEO of Unique Photo and during that time he took them from $1 million a year to over a $100 million a year. He's also the author of "Leader of the Pack" which is the number 1 seller in the self-help category. His book tells the story of how suddenly becoming a single father made Matt a better person, leader, entrepreneur and father. During this interview we discuss: 2:20 - Matt shares exactly what Luxnow.com does and the business model.  5:33 - He shares one business superpower he wished he had. 6:37 - We discuss Matt's ongoing journey of reinvention and how it has been a major component of his success. 10:46 - How shares his reinvention framework and how other business owners can deploy it for their businesses. 14:17 - Matt talked about his journey on how and why he reinvented Unique Photo. 17:59 - How he built and reinvented the concept and experience of camera stores. 24:

David Priemer is widely recognized as a thought leader in sales and sales leadership and has been published in the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine. He's lead top-performing sales team at high growth startup and is a former VP of Salesforce and is the creator of the Sales Leader Academy program. During this interview we discuss: 1:57 - David gave us a quick backstory on his journey in sales.  6:46 - He shares the #1 business superpower he wished he had. 8:32 - We discuss the science behind why and how people buy 13:28 - How you can leverage the concept of "people buy based on their feelings" 17:30 - David shares an example of how they effectively use data to convert people in buying. 19:36 - A great example of how you can magnify data to help persuade people in sales. 22:37 - How you can leverage empathy and question when talking to clients. 26:47 - A great piece of advice for people who love sales. 27:38 - Davis shares his favorite growth tool/software. 2

John Ferris is the CEO of inVision Edge which is a management consultancy focused on helping organizations innovate and grow. John has a mission to help leaders and organizations do great things whatever their definition of greatness is. John is a believer in the 3 elements of organizational transformations; Strategy, Innovation, and Leadership. He and his company focus on pragmatic tools, training and coaching that get results fast for their clients. During this interview we discuss: 1:57 - John shares how and why he developed his strategy and growth framework.  5:02 - John picks the #1 business superpower he wished he had. 6:32 - We discuss how entrepreneurs can stop spinning your wheels and start growing your business. 8:36 - Steps on how to build your own strategic plan that can help you say NO to things that are not critical to growth. 12:34 - How identifying your strengths and weaknesses helps you formulate your strategic plan. 14:08 - John talked about the concept of the "Law of Three" and how it can h