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Hey everyone, in today’s episode I share the mic with Matt Munson, founder and CEO of Twenty20, a company that provides a photography marketplace for some of the best-looking authentic stock photos and royalty-free images anywhere. Listen as Matt shares how Twenty20 burned through $10M by trying to scale too quickly and the lessons he learned (including talking about his "failures"), how they built a massive photo catalog of 50M+ images from 300K photographers that Google, Apple & Pinterest use (without advertising for a single photographer!), and how Twenty20 got 1,000 subscribers, 170K in MRR and 10x growth in 1 year. 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

Welcome to Growth Everywhere. Today we’re interviewing Intertech CEO Tom Salonek. Tom has been named as one of Minnesota’s top business leaders under 40 and has twice been named to Inc. 500 fastest growing companies. As a technology and consulting firm, Intertech teaches companies how to make software and also makes software for clients like the government. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey everyone, in today's episode I share the mic with Bettina Hein, founder and CEO of Pixability, a video advertising platform. Tune in to hear Bettina share how they've grown Pixability over 100% a year for the last five years in a row, what they use for successful customer acquisition, and how she started her first software company (text-to-speech software, which lives on in all Android phones and a lot of car navigation systems) right out of graduate school and sold it for $125 million. 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 @EricSiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're talking with Scott Ruthfield of Rooster Park, a Seattle based recruiting and custom software development consultancy. Scott founded Rooster Park in 2009 to satisfy his obsession with building software at a reasonable cost. Soon companies were asking for help recruiting entire engineering teams. Scott realized an untapped market and answered the call. Today his team carefully recruits developers, testers, designers and more for companies like Amazon, Google, Expedia and others. Before launching Rooster Park, Scott was the VP of Engineering & Technology for WhitePages.com, an over $70 million, 150-person company focused on people search at massive scale. 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 @ericos

Hey everyone, today I share the mic with Daisy Jing, CEO of Banish, the natural solution for skin problems. Tune in to hear Daisy discuss how she accidentally became an entrepreneur and created her own line of skin care products, how she grew her business to $3 million in revenue, how she maximizes YouTube as a marketing tool (and grew her channel to 60M views & 200K subscribers), and the importance of building a community. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you want to get your start in the marketing industry? Tune in to hear Eric Siu give you some tips on how you can get your foot inside the door of any industry as well as share some personal stories on how he got to where he is today. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Google has been been putting more and more emphasis into rank zero snippets, voice search has been gaining more and more popularity - but what does all this do to site traffic? Tune in to hear Eric Siu talk about what's changing in SEO for 2019 and how to maximize your SEO efforts to get the most out of your featured snippet listings and SERPs efforts. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey everyone, in today’s episode I share the mic with Jon Carder, co-founder and CEO of Empyr, a B2B platform that helps websites and apps generate revenue from online to offline commerce. Listen as Jon shares inside info on how he got a deal with Yelp, the Holy Grail of enterprise-level customers, how he dealt with the “dark period” where the company struggled to move forward, how he got 50% of Empyr’s deals from "old school" conferences and 15% from cold calls, and the abundance mentality took Jon from zero to 8 figures of revenue within a year. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're joined by Tempo AI Founder and CEO Raj Singh. Coming from an engineering background, Raj fell into the mobile space by luck in 1998 and has dabbled in gaming, music, video, lifestyle, utility, and productivity. But it wasn't until he started thinking about how he always seemed to be late for everything that he got the idea for Tempo AI, a calendar app with assistant capabilities that can take a "psychographic profile" of your activity to help cater to your needs. A successful pre-launch with a curated list of influencers lead to thousands trying to sign-up during the official release and crashing the system. 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 Learn more about your ad

Are you trying to build a bigger audience? Tune in to hear Eric Siu share the mic with James Monosmith, Sales and Marketing Manager at Xbox and Halo Consumer Products at Microsoft.  Learn they're using live events in order to appeal to their current audience while attracting a new one. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you looking for the latest and greatest in SEO strategies? Tune in to hear Eric Siu share his 6 favorite simple SEO strategies that will help you rank in Google faster plus learn how to increase your site traffic and optimize your content. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apple has confirmed that there are more than 500,000 active podcasts as of early June 2019... How in the world can you not be buried in that kind of saturation?! Tune in to hear Eric Siu reveal 3 of the biggest podcasting trends that he sees making an impact for the remainder of this year. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you ready to start a career in digital marketing but not sure how to get hired? Tune in to hear Eric Siu share his #1 hack to get a job at any company -- working for free. If you are able to make a little sacrifice at the beginning and do the work that no one else wants to, you can separate yourself from the herd and be successful in finding a marketing job. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 @EricSiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Eric shares the mic with Ryan Blair, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, serial entrepreneur, multi-millionaire, and CEO of ViSalus. Listen as Ryan takes us on a journey through his days at rock bottom—poverty, an abusive father, and gang life—to his days as a rockstar living on his own terms. Learn how he started a venture fund called HashtagOne that invests in technologies that they want to learn about, how he bought ViSalus for $75,000 in 2005 and sold it in 2008 for $32 million, and why he says that being a better student than a teacher led to his success. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

  Hey everyone! In today’s episode, I share the mic with Guillaume Decugis, Co-Founder and CEO of ScoopIt, which is a B2B software that allows businesses and individuals to curate and publish the best possible content. Tune in to hear Guillaume shed some light on his 15 years as an entrepreneur, how he attempted to build a mobile widget platform, and how he grew Scoopit to 200 B2B customers and 4 million freemium users!  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 @EricSiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you realized that we only have 6 months to make our mark on 2019! Do you know the latest and greatest in marketing hacks that will have you dominating the rest of the year? Tune in to hear Eric Siu share his favorite 6 new marketing hacks that are changing the game.  Get your update and jump ahead of the curve now before 2019 is over.  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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The average person gets ~147 emails a day — we delete 71 emails in an average time of under 3.2 seconds each. Is it any wonder that most salespeople struggle to get a response rate of 10%? Most cold email templates out there are going to feel spammy and overused; you can smell those emails from a mile away. So, when you're writing cold emails, how do you come off as somebody the other person wants to do business with?  Tune in to hear Eric Siu share his secret to winning with cold emails. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, everyone! Today I share the mic with Ross Andrew Paquette, CEO of Maropost, which provides powerful, easy-to-use, enterprise-grade software solutions to scale your sales and marketing. Tune in to hear how Maropost went from doing $300,000 in revenue to millions in revenue, how they achieved this without raising any capital, and how they compete with more established email marketing companies. 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 @EricSiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey everyone! In today’s interview, I share the mic with Michael Monteiro, CEO and Co-Founder of Buildium, a property management software.    Tune in to hear Michael explain how Buildium serves as a solution for so many property management companies, how it took them 2 whole years to get their first 50 customers and how they now have 14,000 customers in over 40 countries!  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 @EricSiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices