Communities are everywhere nowadays. For some people, communities are a place to learn and explore specific topics or interests. For others, it’s where they discuss personal issues and find comfort among those with similar experiences. For businesses, building a community can help with customer support, product development, and marketing. In episode 154, you’ll learn from Krystal Wu, Community Manager at Shopify: 1. The advantages of building a community for a B2B brand 2. How Krystal taps into a community to amplify content reach 3. How to measure the health of an online community

Too many growing DTC and eCommerce brands leave influencer marketing out of their marketing strategy. And you can’t really fault them for doing so. With many “wanna-be” influencers with fake followers, influencers have gotten a bad rep and it’s easy to see why. But some brands have cracked the code of influencer marketing and are using it to skyrocket their growth. In today’s episode, Taylor Lagace, co-founder of Kynship, discusses the nitty-gritties of influencer marketing and bust more than a few myths along the way. In episode 153, you’ll learn: 1. How brands with limited marketing spend leverage the potential of influencers 2. Common myths around influencer marketing 3. A proven 3-step influencer marketing blueprint

No matter how many thought leaders complain that it’s a vanity metric, we all care about increasing our Twitter followers. And for good reason. A respectable follower ratio is fundamental to your brand’s credibility and authority—not to mention organic reach on Twitter’s timeline. Plus, if you build an engaged audience, you can validate product ideas quicker, get your first 100 customers, and gather valuable feedback. In episode 152, you’ll learn from Blake Emal, CMO of Copy.ai and Founder of Float.so: The benefits of growing your audience on Twitter How Blake grew his Twitter followers from 700 to 45k in 9 months How he validated Float.so and created a waitlist of 5k+ people on Twitter Sponsor For This Episode Thank you for the sponsor of this episode PartnerStack. PartnerStack, G2’s top-rated partner management platform, is the only partnerships platform built for SaaS, designed to deliver predictable revenue and accelerate growth for businesses and their partners. In the past year alone, partners in the PartnerStack Network have generated over $100 million in revenue for programs on PartnerStack. If you’re ready to scale revenue through partnerships, visit get.partnerstack.com/gmt to book a demo today.

User onboarding is one of the most important processes in any new experience. When getting hired by a new company, buying a new product, or trying a new product, we expect to have a clear understanding of how it works before fully committing. In episode 151, you’ll learn from Emily Lonetto, Head of Growth at Voiceflow: 1. What video games can teach you about user onboarding 2. Common mistakes in user onboarding experiences 3. A step-by-step process to improve your product’s onboarding

Quality relationships are hard to build and take a lot of time. And because they are hard to build, it’s difficult to build many of them at once. Yet, it’s one of the most important things for marketers to do. Master this skill, and it can lead to lifelong customers and lucrative marketing partnerships. That’s where Adam Marx, founder of The Zero To One Networker, comes in. He teaches people how to build influential networks from scratch. In episode 150, you’ll learn: 1. How you can sharpen your relationship-building and branding skills 2. The value and power of mutual value creation 3. The importance of online community and strategies across different platforms

You can’t be a good marketer if you’re not a good writer. Content marketing, social media, and SEO are just some aspects of marketing that rely heavily on quality writing. Writing well also enables you to communicate an idea, message, or benefit of the product. In episode 149, you’ll learn from Roxine Kee, a content writer specialist: Why templates and best practices aren’t worth following The importance of framing marketing as a way to help people Three tips to improve your writing

Being bootstrapped doesn’t mean you have to stay small. Sujan Patel, Co-Founder of Mailshake, can tell you all about it. He’s built an 8-figure SaaS company without taking on any funding! In episode 148, you’ll learn how Sujan: 1. Successfully rebranded ContentMarketer.io to Mailshake 2. Drove 100k+ organic visitors with content marketing 3. Generated 40% of new signups for Mailshake from referrals

Marketing at a startup is a challenge because of the limited resources, whether it’s time, money, or talent. You have to be sure every effort, no matter how small, is well-planned and flawlessly executed. And to make it even more difficult, the traditional marketing strategies don’t always work. In episode 147, you’ll learn: 1. How to prioritize marketing at a startup 2. The best way to create a content engine for a very lean team and still get results 3. What customer research done right look like

Once your startup has product-market fit, the next stage is to throw more fuel to the fire and accelerate growth. Trevor Longino, Founder of CrowdTamers, has taken a dozen startups from $0 to $2MM+ in ARR, mentored more than 200 startups, and taught thousands. In this episode, he shares his battle-tested process to test and validate channels to scale customer acquisition. In episode 146, you’ll learn how to: 1. Validate the messaging and audience 2. Build and normalize revenue channels 3., Scale performance