

Leveling Up with Eric Siu
Eric Siu
Leveling Up is a weekly interview series with entrepreneurs and marketers on the latest in business and marketing. Learn actionable strategies & tactics on how you can make your business grow and mistakes to avoid during your journey. Learn from individuals who have founded billion dollar companies to best-selling authors. Entrepreneur and host Eric Siu also shares insights and learnings along the way.
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Jul 23, 2017 • 41min
GE Ep 106 [2015]: Ilya Semin Reveals A MUCH Easier Way To Find And Close More Deals
Hi everyone, today we're talking to Ilya Semin, Founder & CEO of Datanyze, a sales intelligence platform that helps over 200 high-powered sales teams work smarter. Ilya's got interesting stories to share about his ramp up to success, finding his co-founder, and dealing with his first churn. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Jul 22, 2017 • 37min
GE Ep 105 [2015]: How Jason Treu Got His Book To Rank #1 On Amazon In Multiple Categories
Hi everyone, today we're talking to Jason Treu, author of best-selling book Social Wealth: How to Build Extraordinary Relationships By Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Lead and Network. His book has sold more than 30,000 copies, and he's been ranked #1 in both Business and Self-Help Categories on Amazon. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Jul 21, 2017 • 48min
GE Ep 104 [2015]: How Shane Melaugh Grew Thrive Leads Into A Business Focused On Generating You A LOT More Conversions
Hi everyone, today's interview is with Shane Melaugh, CEO of Thrive Themes, a company that builds conversion-focused WordPress themes and plugins. Shane's been on a nine-year entrepreneurial journey that led him up to this point, and he's got some interesting things to say about trial and error when it comes to getting good software developed. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Jul 16, 2017 • 31min
GE Ep 103 [2015]: How Adam Fleischman Built Umami Burger & 800 Degrees Pizza Into Thriving Restaurants That Generate $70M A Year
Hi everyone, today we're talking with Adam Fleischman, a self-taught food innovator and entrepreneur who's founded Umami Burger and 800 Degress Pizza, both of which I really love. (He also made Fast Company's Top 100 list for creative people in business.) Today we'll talk about the struggles Adam faced with growing his restaurant business to $70 million per year, and how he uses physics to make better business decisions. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Jul 14, 2017 • 36min
GE Ep 101 [2015]: LessAccounting Owner Allan Branch on the Bookkeeping Mistakes Most Startups Make
Hi everyone, today we're talking to Allan Branch, Owner of LessAccounting. Allan's got an interesting background in marketing and design that led to freelance designing and web consulting that eventually evolved into an accounting software that's remained strong over the years despite it's slow initial growth. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Jun 30, 2017 • 46min
GE Ep 95 [2015]: How Wet Shave Club Leveraged Instagram to Get To $350K In Revenues
Hi everyone, today we're talking to Rohan Gilkes, co-founder of the Wet Shave Club, a company purchased after a conversation on Reddit and that went from doing $400 in revenue per month to doing $350,000 in the first year. Rohan's got some great insight on using social media to drive traffic back to your site (particularly if you've got a consumer product) and how subscription box companies are (for him) some of the best e-commerce businesses out there. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed
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Jun 25, 2017 • 34min
GE Ep 94 [2015]: How AdEspresso Spends as Little as $0.03 per Click on High-ROI Facebook Advertising
Hey everyone, today we're talking to AdEspresso's CEO Max Chieruzzi about how to quickly optimize and A/B test Facebook ads. He's got some interesting insights on setting up an online inbound marketing funnel and how to evaluate the cost of a click vs. the cost of lead and customer acquisition. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Jun 24, 2017 • 33min
GE Ep 93 [2015]: How Bplans Created A Content Production Process That Helped It Eclipse 300,000 Users
Hey everyone, today we're talking to Noah Parsons, COO of Bplans and LivePlan. Noah and his team focus on teaching small and medium-sized businesses how to grow and make things right with business planning tools that make creating forecasts, budgets and goals more relevant than 40-50 page long 'business plan' documents. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Jun 2, 2017 • 29min
GE Ep 83 [2015]: How Blinkist Used One Piece of Content Marketing to Bring in 500 New Users
In this engaging conversation, Sebastian Klien, co-founder of Blinkist, shares insights from his journey in building a platform that condenses the essence of books into 15-minute summaries. He discusses the importance of monetization strategies from the outset and the challenges of launching a startup. Klien also dives into the adoption of Holacracy as a way to enhance teamwork and employee motivation, along with lessons on hiring the right talent and maintaining resilience during financial struggles. It's a thought-provoking exploration of startup dynamics!

Jan 7, 2016 • 29min
Former Salesforce Director of Sales Shares How He Helped Grow Revenues To Over $100 Million
How do we grow revenues?
It’s a question I ask myself almost every day and it’s a fun problem to try to tackle. Having an internet marketing background pushes me to utilize more inbound strategiessuch as content marketing, SEO or social.
But what about tried and true sales strategies? I wanted to learn how to build a scalable revenue stream for Single Grain so I thought who better to talk to other than Aaron Ross, the author of best-selling sales book Predictable Revenue and the former Director of Sales at Salesforce.


