

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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May 24, 2018 • 30min
GE Ep 77 [2015]: How Baremetrics Quickly Scaled To $27,000 MRR With One Key Ingredient
Hello everyone, today we're talking with Josh Pigford, founder of Baremetrics. Josh had an interesting entrepreneurial journey that led him to the discovery of Baremetrics, which is a data analytics product startups love - it integrates with Stripe to track things like recurring revenue, churn, and average revenue per user. He's got some interesting insights on what's made his company successful and the pros and cons of running a fully transparent business. 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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May 22, 2018 • 47min
GE Ep 75 [2015]: Contently CCO Shane Snow Reveals One Trick To Instantly Skyrocket Your Content Marketing
Today we're talking with Shane Snow, CEO & Founder of Contently, a platform that works with big brands to reach their goals of publishing high-quality content. They're growing quickly with about 100 enterprise clients and 50,000 registered journalists. Shane reveals how he grew the company step by step, some of the struggles he faced, and some key things you can do to improve your own content marketing strategy. Stay tuned to the end because he reveals a very interesting productivity hack that I can't wait to use myself. 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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May 17, 2018 • 33min
GE Ep 74 [2015]: How Smart Hiring Made Bizo Worthy of a $175M LinkedIn Buyout
Today we're talking to Russell Glass, CEO and co-founder of Bizo, a company that reached $50 million in revenue before it sold to LinkedIn for $175 million. Russell's got some great insights on what it takes to hire the right people to build a stellar company, and what the process of selling your startup is like. 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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May 16, 2018 • 41min
GE Ep 73 [2015]: CMO Nick Robinson Reveals How Quest Nutrition Grew Over 57,000%
Today we're chatting with Nick Robinson, Chief Marketing Officer of Quest Nutrition. Nick's got a lot to share about his background in online community building, marketing, what it's like to promote amazing products, and how to keep your company 'fit' as an employee by being selfish. 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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May 15, 2018 • 41min
GE Ep 72 [2015]: How Authenticity Grew Sales Hacker from a 4-Person Meet Up to a 30-City International Community
Today I'm talking to Max Altschuler, CEO of Sales Hacker and author of the new book Hacking Sales. Max's sales career began at the early days of Udemy, where he had to figure out how to grow the company by 20% each month without spending much money or using a lot of resources. Since then, he's become a master of using technology to hack sales, and he tells us how he's used this knowledge to build a successful business based on helping sales professionals do their jobs. 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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May 10, 2018 • 33min
GE Ep 71 [2015]: How TaskUs Co-Founders Went from Living With Their Parents to $15M in Revenue
Bryce Maddock, CEO and co-founder of TaskUs, has lots of interesting stories to share from his entrepreneurial journey with his best friend over the last ten years. From selling designer belts in high school to setting up night clubs for high school students, to struggling for three years to get TaskUs up and running successfully, Bryce has definitely gotten his hands dirty as an entrepreneur and has a lot of great advice. 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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May 9, 2018 • 50min
GE Ep 70 [2015]: How Dice.com's Murray Hidary Managed One of the First Internet IPOs at Age 27
Serial entrepreneur Murray Hidary was a co-founder of one of the very first internet-based companies to go public, and has founded four other companies since then. Because he's done so many different startups, his perspective on entrepreneurship is totally unique - he shares some of his deep insights on how everything in life works together: from work to travel to photography and music. He also reveals how he keeps his passion alive to continue working so hard to achieve different things. 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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May 8, 2018 • 41min
GE Ep 69 [2015]: How Virality Took Dogecoin from a Twitter Joke to a $30M Currency
You probably wouldn't have guessed that a co-founder of Dogecoin works as a full-time marketing product manager at Adobe, but today we're talking to him. Jackson Palmer gives us all the details behind how digital currency works in an easy-to-understand way, and tells us how Dogecoin started as a Twitter joke but ballooned into a currency worth $30 million with an incredible community behind it. 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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May 3, 2018 • 33min
GE Ep 68 [2015]: Marketo’s Jon Miller Tells How Their Content Funnel Cuts Lead-to-Sale Time by 48%
Even though he started his educational journey as a physicist, Jon Miller has become one of the biggest heroes of internet marketing automation and helping businesses create and employ sophisticated marketing campaigns that match today's customer expectations. He co-founded Marketo, one of the industry leaders in marketing automation software, and there's a lot to learn from what he has to say about small businesses moving to marketing automation software and creating effective marketing funnels. 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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May 2, 2018 • 37min
GE Ep 67 [2015]: Why Neil Patel Pays $30,000 for Content & Gives it Away For Free (& MUCH More)
Today I'm talking to Neil Patel, one of my mentors who's ran many successful companies and is a rock star of the internet marketing world. We tried to avoid the typical questions he gets asked during interviews, and instead delve deeper into topics like mentoring, business partnerships, and what it was like to be in the trenches of a startup no one wanted to fund, but turned into a huge success. 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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