

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 26, 2019 • 50min
GE Ep 172 [2016]: How Bestselling Author Ramit Sethi Generated $5M in 6 Days
Hey everyone, in this episode, I share the mic with Ramit Sethi—personal finance genius, and creator of I Will Teach You to Be Rich and Growth Lab. Listen as we discuss the process behind his $5-million week, why if you want to become great at marketing you need to get off the Internet, how he grew his blog audience to 1M readers per month and turned it into a revenue-generating business, and why good information is nothing if you don’t deliver it to people in a way they want to receive it. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave Some Feedback: What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? 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 25, 2019 • 50min
GE Ep 62 [2014]: VideoFruit’s CEO Spills the Juicy Details on How to Get a 20% Email Opt-in Rate
Hi everyone, in today's interview, we're talking to Bryan Harris, founder of VideoFruit. His company helps create explainer videos, along with providing other info products. We'll learn how he built a blog that has 20,000 visits per month and 10,00 email subscribers. He's a very focused person, so we'll hear some of his productivity hacks along with email list-building strategies to dramatically increase your email opt-in rate. Click here for show notes and transcript. 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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Jul 24, 2019 • 30min
GE Ep 99 [2015]: How Perch Doubled Their Customers In One Month (and How They Maintained 0% Churn For 4+ Months)
Hi everyone, today we're talking to Danny Robinson, the CEO of Perch. Perch is a great tool that helps you connect offices and remote workers to bring everyone in your company closer as a team. Danny's got some interesting insights into customer service, creating a great product, and talks about how they've been able to keep churn at 0% for at least four months. 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 23, 2019 • 29min
GE Ep 144 [2016]: Drew Sanocki On Why Expanding a Business Too Fast Can Actually Lead to Bankruptcy
Today our guest is Drew Sanocki, founder of Nerd Marketing. Drew writes about e-commerce and bootstrapped his own retailer in 2003, grew it into a national brand, and sold it in 2012. He now spends his time advising e-commerce executives on how to achieve growth. In today’s interview we’ll be talking about how expanding too quickly can lead to bankruptcy, how he grew a drop ship retailer from zero to a million in revenue in the first year and a half, and why he pays comedy writers to write his product descriptions. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? 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, 2019 • 37min
GE Ep 44 [2014]: The #1 Reason Startups Fail & The Book To Help You Solve This Problem
Join me while I talk with Gabriel Weinberg, Founder of search engine DuckDuck Go. Gabriel got into the startup world right after college and his company The Names Database was acquired by United Online in 2006 for a reported $10 million. After selling, Gabriel spent some time tweaking new business ideas before merging them to create DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn't track its users. He currently blogs at GabrielWeinberg.com and his book, "Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers" was released in August, 2014. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave some feedback: Who should I interview 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

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Jul 20, 2019 • 40min
Syed Balkhi's How To Design Your Thinking For Unstoppable Growth
Syed Balkhi, CEO of Awesome Motive, discusses topics such as creating and dominating YouTube, content team structure and consistency, making time for acquisition and strategic partnerships, brainstorming and generating ideas, good UI and free AWS credits, and tools, books, and online presence.

Jul 19, 2019 • 36min
Larry Kim's Top 5 Favorite Facebook Marketing Hacks for 2020 and Beyond
A couple weeks ago, Eric Siu and Neil Patel hosted their first live event for their Marketing School podcast. There, they welcome guest keynote speakers that are marketing leaders to talk about the latest and greatest in marketing trends. Today's featured keynote speaker is Larry Kim, CEO of MobileMonkey. Tune in to hear Larry talk about Facebook Ad hacks for 2020 and beyond! Click here to watch the full YouTube video Leave Some Feedback: What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? 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 Instagram @Ericosiu

Jul 18, 2019 • 30min
GE Ep 37 [2014]: KISSmetrics' Founder Hiten Shah On How He Built 3 Successful Companies With The Same Partner
Today I'm excited to share my talk with Hiten Shah of KISSmetrics, Crazy Egg and Hello Bar. Hiten and his Co-founder (who is also his brother-in-law) Neil Patel teamed up just as Neil was graduating high school. Together they built nearly a dozen products that failed, but "got lucky" with Crazy Egg in 2005. The product creates a heatmap to show where people are clicking so companies can get more insights about their website and improve it. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave some feedback: Who should I interview 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 17, 2019 • 28min
GE Ep 186 [2017]: How Klout Founder Joe Fernandez Sold His Business for $200M and Started Joymode
Joe Fernandez, serial entrepreneur who founded Klout and later JoyMode. He recounts selling Klout for nearly $200M and launching JoyMode to rent curated experience kits. The conversation covers JoyMode’s product-first model, viral growth driven by word-of-mouth, creative pop-up tactics, fundraising contrasts, and lessons from scaling consumer experiences.

Jul 15, 2019 • 29min
GE Ep 18 [2014]: AppSumo Founder Noah Kagan On Killing Your Inner Wantrepreneur & Actually Building A Legit Business
Today we're talking to AppSumo founder (aka Chief Sumo) Noah Kagan. Noah was employee #30 at Facebook and headed up marketing at Mint.com before it was sold for $170 million to Intuit less than 2 years later. His popular course Monthly1K.com helps budding entrepreneurs take action, validate their idea and launch businesses. Noah keeps a personal blog at Okdork.com focused on startups, marketing, self-exploration and his very public love of tacos. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: Who should I interview 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


