Founder of Recruiter Mill, Ugis Balmaks, the objective is to help small businesses find A-players for their team. Through many years of trial and error, Ugis has developed the skill to find the best candidate and learned what distinguishes an A-player from a C-player. In this episode, Ugis breaks down the fundamentals on what to look for in a candidate, how to research them, ways to drive applications, and details on the filtering process. Ugis is based out of Budapest, Hungary. After running an...
Jun 05, 2023•27 min
As America’s #1 expert in helping high achievers find their genius, Mike shares his knowledge on how to avoid making the million-dollar mistake and how to help audiences tap into their genius using these four pillars: finding your unique talent, key relationships, defining life moments, and values and passions. Mike wrote the book The Genius Within (launching Oct 22nd) to help unpack his own areas of genius with a goal to help others do the same and avoid making the million-dollar mistake. He’s ...
May 29, 2023•26 min
Mike is the CEO and co-founder of ManyChat, the world’s learning marketing platform that helps people connect with their customers through messaging apps. Due to the recent DM chatbox automation feature from Instagram, users are now allowed to automate messages to their followers. Mike breaks down the many advantages that come with this new feature along with common growth tools. Mike’s goal is to disrupt the 5 billion dollar email marketing industry by bringing the convenience of messenger to b...
May 22, 2023•28 min
Author of the book Ironman Mindset for Entrepreneurs, Robert Clinkenbeard, joins us today to discuss how he found, grew, and sold his 20 million dollar landscape company by incorporating his knowledge as an Ironman triathlete into the business world. Robert shares the 4-step growth model he calls The Ironman Growth Formula that gives some insight on ways to scale your own business. Fifteen years ago marked the launch of Robert’s Phoenix-based commercial landscaping company. Through the years, he...
May 15, 2023•24 min
Niching down is definitely something you have heard on this podcast before, but our guest today, Rachel Brenke, takes niching to a whole other level. She is the founder of The Law Tog, Fit Legally, and Rachel Brenke. Her expertise allows her to help businesses monetize their niche market by selling before making it and coming up with unique selling positions. Rachel is a jack of all trades; she is a serial entrepreneur and lawyer and Ironman championship competitor. She earned her degree after b...
May 08, 2023•27 min
Built To Scale is a paid performance company that helps e-commerce business scale their ads. In this episode, Direct response marketing expert and CEO Jeremy Gillespie shares his triple threat method to scaling an e-commerce brand using primarily YouTube ads. He breaks it down into three simple steps: creative aspect, account structure, and landing pages and details an in-depth process into building landing pages. Jeremy began his career in the world of start-ups in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He ...
May 01, 2023•28 min
Founder of The Setter Machine, Lloyd Yip, simplifies his approach to gaining leads and funneling sales using appointment setters. He breaks down organic outreach, organic inbound, and paid traffic to point out the flaw some strategies carry versus the strengths of others. Before living the digital nomad life, Lloyd pursued a more traditional career path of startups, specifically enterprise software. Around him, he was witnessing friends starting their own businesses and scaling them up to 7 figu...
Apr 24, 2023•31 min
Co-founder of Designhill, Rahul Aggarwal, unveils how he found an untapped market and scaled it into a massive online platform that holds design 300k professionals in over 100 countries, all by taking a different SEO and content marketing approach. We get into the best three strategies for profitable content marketing, including a bonus strategy involving customer reviews. Born in a 3rd generation entrepreneur family, Rahul knew he was destined for business. When he returned from university, he ...
Apr 17, 2023•26 min
Serial entrepreneur Jeremy Parker took one look at the promotional product industry, saw the cracks, modernized it, and built a multi-million dollar company from it. In this episode, Jeremy shows us how he swept Swag.com off its antiquated roots and into today's success using two simple marketing hacks that anyone can adopt. Jeremy graduated from college as a documentary filmmaker; coming right out of college, he worked for MD Sport, one of the largest promotional product companies. During his t...
Apr 10, 2023•26 min
CEO and founder of EnergyX, Teague Egan, takes us on a journey into the future like no other. Energy Exploration Technologies is on a mission to provide the world with clean energy and on this episode, he walks us through the unconventional path of crowdfunding his business and marketing through avenues like YouTube and podcasts. On a serendipitous trip to Bolivia, Teague found himself on the world’s largest lithium reserve. Having been a tesla owner and shareholder since ’13, it dawned on him t...
Apr 03, 2023•28 min
CEO of Consulting Success®, Michael Zipursky, walks us through the two major components of marketing he stands by; ideal client clarity and the magnetic message with an added three parts on developing a magnetic message for your ideal client. Michael was born in Toronto and raised in Israel for 5 years of his infancy. When he moved back to Canada, Michael did not know a word of English. Feeling ostracized, he took this energy a funneled it into sports and himself. Once entering his first year at...
Mar 27, 2023•28 min
Scaling a business in the middle of a pandemic can’t possibly be an easy feat, but Dan Morris did it. With help from his team over at Mind Racer, Dan was able to help a sass company 5x their business using what he calls the four R’s; review, refine, roll out, repeat (and replace). This is only a dent in a goal that is positively impacting 1,000 businesses by 2025. Dan is an investor, advisor, and growth expert, and being the youngest of four high-performing siblings meant consistently needing to...
Mar 20, 2023•30 min
With over 20 years of experience in executive leadership consulting, Mark Jacobs gathered his knowledge and opened his own company, Scalewerks. Scalewerks is a holding company that focuses on accelerating businesses that are in their early or mid-life. In this episode, Mark gives us a quick rundown on how the Scalewerks process works using 4 quick bucket items; 1st working hard, 2nd creating process, 3rd customer value/experience, 4th redesign of the business model. Mark comes from the quality m...
Mar 13, 2023•27 min
Sheila Brown, a two-time 7-figure business owner, walks us through having to build a business from scratch twice. March 2020, Sheila was forced to shut down, and instead of waiting around, she built a new business online where she now makes close to 400k a month. In this episode, Sheila gives a rundown on how she made it happen. At 28 years old, Sheila found herself in the worst position she could imagine; broke, jobless, and divorced. Being sick and tired of living this life, Sheila found a per...
Mar 06, 2023•28 min
23-year-old multimillionaire Jack Murphy is an entrepreneur and digital marketing expert. In this episode, Jack walks us through how he built “I Love My Freedom” into a massive brand generating 25 million in sales a year, all by learning how to leverage click funnels and using subscription newsletters to his advantage. Since the young age of 7 years old, Jack found himself building websites and selling products on eBay. By the time he got to high school, Jack had made his own motivational sports...
Feb 27, 2023•31 min
Founder of Rose Garden Consulting , Ali Mirza, is an entrepreneur and visionary and in this episode, Ali gives a detailed rundown of three strategies he uses to optimize underperforming sales teams and reveals the making of his new book “Predictable Closing,” set to be released early fall. Ali Mirza started in sales at the age of 21 when he was going door to door selling life insurance. During his short four years there, Ali became a sales manager while building a sales team of 50 reps. Ultimate...
Feb 20, 2023•22 min
As a serial entrepreneur, Sean Matson is bringing disruptive technologies to market and empowering others along the way. With 5 deployments under his belt, Sean is no stranger to a challenge. His experience on the front lines uniquely prepared him to create innovative products for both civilian and military life. Sean shares how his high-touch customer acquisition strategy has attracted customers to his most recent endeavor, Cardomax. Sean Matson served 13 years as a Navy Seal before plunging in...
Feb 13, 2023•26 min
At age 20, Xenia built a digital marketing agency serving powerhouse clients including Coca-Cola. As Xenia expanded her company she started running into problems, inspiring her to start her own business venture. Xenia is now the CEO and Co-Founder of Planable, a content review and marketing collaboration platform used by over 5,000 teams. Planable supports brands such as Hyundai, Christian Louboutin, Viber, and United Nations. Join us to hear how Xenia leverages product-led content to grow her b...
Feb 06, 2023•25 min
Reid Lappin is the Founder & CEO at Vokal, a product growth consultancy based in Chicago, IL. Vokal helps non-digital organizations measure and invest like venture capitalists, as well as design, build, & optimize like start-ups. Reid shares how Vokal helps businesses compete in the unique digital economy. Additionally, Reid provides his best tips for attracting top talent and creating a healthy business. Recently featured in Comparably’s list of Best CEOs, Reid Lapin is the founder of V...
Jan 30, 2023•28 min
Moms will do anything for their kids…and Susie Carder is no exception. A single mom of two daughters, Susie was struggling to make ends meet as a hairdresser. Determined to give them (and herself) the best life possible, she got on the “whatever it takes plan.” Little did she know this plan would soon turn into 5 multi-million-dollar companies and two 10 million+ dollar businesses. We discuss how Susie’s sales & business strategies allowed her to scale her businesses to exponential success. ...
Jan 16, 2023•26 min
Today on The Growth Expert’s Podcast, we are joined by the CEO of ZTPR, Zach Teperman. Zach began his career as a radio DJ working in regions like Miami, Canada, to Europe. During his time there, Zach interviewed celebrities and, while working for the Toronto International Film Festival, was scouted by a pr agency and invited to work in Hollywood. Four years later, Zach branched out to launch ZTPR and is now a staple in the public relations realm. In this episode, Zach expounds upon strategies y...
Jan 09, 2023•27 min
Eli Harris founded two successful startups before the age of 30 and is now the President and Co-Founder of R-zero, taking on his biggest challenge yet, which is to tackle the transmission of pathogens in the covid-19 era and into the future. Eli founded R-zero in April of 2020 and in less than a year, he’s made over $11 million in sales. Listen in as Eli shares how he disrupted a 100+ year old industry and made over $11 million in sales during a global pandemic, as well as what R-zero is doing t...
Jan 02, 2023•25 min
Howard Tiersky is the author of the Wall Street Journal best-selling book, Winning Digital Customers, as well as the Founder and CEO of Innovation Loft and FROM, The Digital Transformation Agency. As a Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencer, Howard helps executives at large brands transform their customer experience to win in today’s digital world. One of the biggest mistakes a business can make is thinking they know their customers without doing much research on them. Listen in as Howard expl...
Dec 26, 2022•33 min
Ahmad Munawar is the Founder of Boutique Growth and the creator of the 90 Day Pipeline, a coaching program that helps B2B consultants and service providers fill their pipeline with 5 and 6-figure deals without begging for referrals, wasting time networking, or spending money on advertising. Listen in as Ahmad breaks down his framework for how he went from a solopreneur to a CEO making $300,000/month in 30 months. He emphasizes the importance of having a desirable offer, solving bottlenecks in yo...
Dec 19, 2022•31 min
Darrell Amy is a growth strategist, speaker, and the author of the best-selling book, Revenue Growth Engine: How to Align Sales & Marketing to Accelerate Growth. He’s also the host of the Revenue Growth Podcast and co-host of the Selling from the Heart Podcast. Darrell is here to talk to us about how to set growth goals in an uncertain market, which is a topic that’s very relevant to 2021, yet not talked about much. Setting goals while transitioning out of a pandemic will be challenging, but...
Dec 12, 2022•28 min
Elaine Pofeldt is an independent Forbes journalist and the author of The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business. Elaine is back on Growth Experts to share the updates she’s made to her book since we last spoke, featuring fascinating case studies of million-dollar, one-person businesses. She talks about how these businesses were impacted by the covid-19 pandemic, innovative pivots they’ve made, and methods they’ve used to diversify and scale their revenue. Tune in to learn how savvy businesses are c...
Dec 05, 2022•28 min
Jonathan Kazarian is the Founder and CEO of Accelevents, an all-in-one virtual and hybrid events platform that empowers event organizers and marketing professionals to create authentic human connections and memorable experiences. As many organizations are pivoting from live events to virtual or hybrid events, Jon is the expert you need to listen to if you want to make that transition as seamless as possible. Most small businesses don’t throw events… but they’re missing out on huge growth opportu...
Nov 28, 2022•23 min
Christina Nicholson is the Founder and CEO of Media Maven, a boutique public relations and content creation agency. After seeing countless bad pitches in her career as a TV anchor and reporter, she decided to create an agency to help business owners grow by earning media coverage without spending a lot on advertising. Last year, she launched Podcast Clout, which is a software that saves PR agencies time in building targeted pitch lists to land clients more podcast interviews. Christina’s here to...
Nov 21, 2022•26 min
Bill Durrant is the Founder and President of the fasting growing full-service media agency in the world and Ad Age’s Small Agency of the Year, Exverus Media. Bill and Exverus empower growth-stage, culture-creating brands through data, creativity, and insight-driven media planning. He develops creative media ideas and grows brands that he believes in. On top of that, he’s the author of a new book, Digital Stone Age. Is TV dead? Despite the rise of digital media and advertising, Bill is here to di...
Nov 14, 2022•28 min
Jacob McMillen is a freelance copywriter who helps people use writing to build their careers and businesses. He also owns the #1 spot on Google for the highly-coveted keyword, ‘copywriter’. Jacob is here to talk about how he outranks 9-figure businesses on Google Search with a small budget and how you can do the same exact thing. Tune in to learn how Jacob grew his sales to $25k/month by using simple SEO strategies, a savvy mindset, understanding your search engine, and maximizing time spent on ...
Nov 07, 2022•25 min
