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20 Jan 2022 | Episode 11: Thought Leadership | 00:57:33 | |
For our return to Growth Decoded, we investigate the topic of, "Thought Leadership" — from Content Marketing World in Cleveland, Ohio! The Grow Team attended Content Marketing World and had the incredible opportunity to sit down with some of the best and brightest minds in the content marketing universe. Our guests for this episode include: We sat down with each guest to discuss the topic of thought leadership and get answers to the questions: • What is thought leadership? To sign up for updates on future episodes and get exclusive content, visit: Connect with ActiveCampaign on social! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/activecampaign-inc- | |||
09 Jul 2021 | Episode 5: Landing Pages | 00:56:00 | |
In this episode we investigate "Landing Pages" — specifically, what is a landing page? What do you use them for? We then turn our focus to answer the question, "How do landing pages work?" and investigated from 2 angles: 1. What do you need to build a landing page? We take a look at the mechanics of a landing page, the different elements they have or don't have, and how you actually set them up to get new leads in exchange for your offer. Tim and Molly answer a question from the ActiveCampaign community and break down gated content delivery and landing page form best practices. Ernie then sits down with renowned conversion rate optimization (CRO) and conversion copywriting expert, Joel Klettke. Joel is the founder of Business Casual Copywriting and Case Study Buddy, and has helped businesses like HubSpot, WP Engine, Safelite, and more. Joel provides expert advice for improving the conversion rate of your landing pages, how to write copy that converts, tips on using Voice of Customer and determining your audience's level of awareness, design tips for landing pages, and the importance of knowing your customer. To connect with Joel or learn more about his work: To sign up for updates on future episodes and get exclusive content, visit: Connect with ActiveCampaign on social! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acti... | |||
09 Jul 2021 | Episode 3: Marketing Automation | 00:35:57 | |
In this episode, we investigate the topic of “Marketing Automation.” We learn what marketing automation is, why it's important, and how to think about it. Most importantly, we identify and address several common misconceptions about marketing automation.
We discuss the concept in regards to email automation, marketing funnels, the customer lifecycle, email contact list size, defining your marketing processes, and how you know when you're ready for a marketing automation tool.
This episode features questions from the ActiveCampaign community, and shows you how to send personalized automated messages to your contacts on significant dates like anniversaries, birthdays, and more!
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09 Jul 2021 | Episode 4: Sales CRM | 00:56:29 | |
On this episode, we investigate the topic of "Sales CRM" — specifically, how can a CRM help you stay on top of your leads? What is a CRM and how do you choose one? How can your CRM go from something that you have to update all the time, to being a revenue engine for your business? How do you incorporate sales automation to accomplish even more? And... how do you choose what to automate? Ernie is joined by Tabitha from the ActiveCampaign Education Team — as they seek to find answers to these questions. In this episode we sit down with renowned sales coach and founder of Smart Gets Paid, Leah Neaderthal. Smart Gets Paid helps women learn to consistently and comfortably land new clients in their B2B consulting and coaching businesses. Through tools, programs, and coaching, women land the clients they want, get more yes’s, and get paid dramatically more for every client engagement. | |||
28 Apr 2022 | Episode 22: How to find your target audience | 00:32:25 | |
Ramon Ray is an expert on personal branding as a tool for small business success. He's an author of 5 books, successful entrepreneur, the founder of Smart Hustle Media, and a keynote speaker and event host who brings events to the next level. Ramon is passionate about helping businesses to start and build their personal brands, and using that to market and sell BETTER. In this conversation, Ramon stopped by to talk through his approach to finding the right audience. You'll learn: Subscribe to Growth Decoded to watch new episodes LIVE — and to get more tips, information, and marketing best practices! Connect with ActiveCampaign on social! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/activecampaign-inc- | |||
22 Feb 2022 | Episode 15: Email Automation | 00:43:28 | |
This episode investigates, "Email Automation" and seeks to answer some big questions: • How do you get started with email automation? You'll hear from co-founder of Boundless Labs and email marketing expert, Chase Dimond! Chase has sent over 1 billion emails resulting in $75+ million in email attributable revenue. In this episode you'll learn: → Strategies for finding opportunities to build email automations | |||
15 Feb 2022 | Episode 14: Lead Generation | 00:37:32 | |
This episode investigates, "Lead Generation" and breaks the topic into 2 areas: 1. What is lead generation and how should you think about it? You'll hear from internationally-acclaimed speaker, business and marketing consultant, college educator, prolific blogger and best-selling author: Mark W. Schaefer! In this episode you'll learn: • What is lead generation? What is a "lead" ? | |||
12 May 2022 | Episode 23: Don't Fear the Analytics | 00:35:31 | |
Do you feel like you could be getting more out of your analytics? When it comes time to dive into the data, do you feel confident in your ability and process to get what you need, or what you want? Join us for a brand new episode of Growth Decoded, featuring Brie Anderson! Brie is a marketing strategist and consultant, and the owner of Beast Analytics. She has developed a simple framework for analytics that helps inform your approach, strategy, analysis, and data collection. You’ll learn: → Brie’s BEAST cycle for approaching analytics → How to determine which metrics to measure (and which to ignore!) → The metrics that tell the story best → Why you should only implement 1 thing at a time → The 3 S’s of analytics strategy | |||
08 Mar 2022 | Episode 17: Workflow & Process Automation | 00:36:50 | |
You'll sit down with Colleen Bowe, Email Marketing Manager at ActiveCampaign. Colleen has automated countless workflows and processes for the internal teams at ActiveCampaign, as well as all of the operational workflows that route ActiveCampaign contacts, leads, and customers through the customer journey. | |||
24 Nov 2021 | Episode 7: Abandoned Cart | 00:53:28 | |
This is Growth Decoded — a show that helps you grow your business by figuring out the customer experience, one piece at a time. In this episode, we investigate the topic of “Abandoned Cart” and how ecommerce businesses and digital storefronts can use simple reminder emails to reclaim a significant percentage of lost revenue. We'll hear from Jonathan Young, the Ecommerce Manager at J!NX and Dawn Manske, Founder & CEO at Made for Freedom about how they use abandoned cart automations.
Connect with ActiveCampaign on social! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/activecampaign-inc- #AbandonedCart #Ecommerce #EmailAutomation | |||
15 Dec 2022 | Episode 36: B2B Writing | 00:32:18 | |
04 Aug 2022 | Episode 29: Building Community | 00:32:27 | |
Do your customers know each other and hang out together? In other words, is there a community around your business? When your customers are growing and learning from each other, and you’re the connection between them all…everyone wins.
Join us for another brand new episode of Growth Decoded featuring Andrew and Pete from ATOMIC. Andrew and Pete run a community of small (but mighty) business owners and entrepreneurs looking to earn more, and do more of what they love. You’ll discover:
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08 Sep 2022 | Episode 31: The Future of Businesses with Web 3.0 and NFTs | 00:41:13 | |
Are we headed to a future surrounded by cryptocurrency, NFTs, the metaverse, and Web 3.0? We’ve all heard of these trends, but what are their practical applications? How will everyday businesses take part in it? We get to the bottom of this and more in this episode of Growth Decoded. Tune into a new episode of Growth Decoded, where we chat with Michael Stelzner, founder of Social Media Examiner, and Brian Fanzo, digital futurist and host of NFT365. You’ll learn:
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03 Jan 2022 | Episode 9: Email Analytics | 01:12:11 | |
This is Growth Decoded — a show that helps you grow your business by figuring out the customer experience, one piece at a time. In this episode, we investigate the topic of “Email Analytics” and explore how you can use them to segment your audience, learn who your engaged contacts are, keep your contact list clean, and improve your email deliverability. You'll learn how to move past open and click-through-rates, strategies to increase email engagement, and hear new perspectives on the Apple iOS 15 update. You'll hear from Dr. Ada Barlatt — founder and data scientist at Operations Ally. You'll hear from Elan Zusman, — founder of Zigi Media, and you'll hear from Mike Donnelly — Co-Founder and CEO at TheSeventhSense. To learn more about our guests you can check out their websites below: https://operations-ally.com/ To sign up for updates on future episodes and get exclusive content, visit: https://www.activecampaign.com/resources/growth-decoded Connect with ActiveCampaign on social! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/activecampaign-inc- | |||
13 Oct 2022 | Episode 33: Community-Led Growth (and Robots) | 00:46:12 | |
Can community building and chatbots lead your company to faster growth? You’ve probably seen those chat buttons at the bottom of many websites, but is it the right move for your website? Will a community around your product or service help you create a better customer experience? Find out in this new episode of Growth Decoded, where we chat with Sara Pion, an expert in chatbots and community-led growth. She’s also the co-host of a podcast called Self-Control and Cheese. You’ll learn:
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09 Jul 2021 | Episode 2: Customer Experience Automation | 00:49:26 | |
In this episode, we investigate the topic of “Customer Experience Automation.” We discuss what it means to find the right person and send the right message to them, at the right time, with the right medium. This episode features questions from the ActiveCampaign community, an interview with Koia (an ActiveCampaign customer that puts Customer Experience Automation to work!), a breakdown of the information you need to use CXA, and a in-depth look at Lead Scoring and Event Trcking!
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29 Mar 2022 | Episode 20: Deliverability Factors & Engagement Tagging | 00:58:27 | |
You'll hear from Hanna Fray, expert and senior deliverability specialist at ActiveCampaign, as we break down email deliverability and email engagement. You'll learn:
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26 May 2022 | Episode 24: How to boost your productivity | 00:40:43 | |
What’s the recipe for productivity? For creating high-quality work on a consistent basis? If you ask Justin Welsh, it’s all about the system you implement. Join us for a brand new episode of Growth Decoded featuring Entrepreneur, Angel investor, Mentor, Coach, and Creator Justin Welsh! Justin is an expert in the world of solopreneurship. He has successfully launched multiple digital and knowledge-based products, a successful newsletter, and amassed a huge social media following.
You’ll learn: → The 3 questions that will make you measurably more productive → The first step toward building an audience online → How to refine and perfect your messaging → The 4 things that determine whether content is high-quality or not → A proven way to figure out what you should automate next And more! | |||
22 Mar 2022 | Episode 19: Blog Writing | 00:39:55 | |
No way! It's prolific bloggers, international speakers, best-selling authors, and founders — Jay Baer and Lee Odden! In this episode we're breaking down the blogging process from topic selection to publishing. Join us as we talk through the benefits of blogging, tips for writing, and processes for creating consistent, high-quality blog content that's relevant to your audience. You'll learn about: → Topic selection | |||
08 Feb 2022 | Episode 13: Site Tracking | 00:35:18 | |
Today's episode investigates, "Site Tracking" and how you can use it to improve your customer experience. Site Tracking connects the actions your contacts take across your website to your sales and marketing efforts. It is, effectually, your websites ears or digital listening system. Site Tracking gives you the ability to see what your contacts are interested in, and store that information via segmentation for future use in your targeted communications. In this episode you'll get answers to the questions: • What is site tracking? You'll hear from Founder and CEO of Sneleentaxi, Sven Braam, about how his company used site tracking to raise €500k, send emails at exactly the right time, and turn customer complaints into an opportunity to improve customer service. Connect with ActiveCampaign on social! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/activecampaign-inc- | |||
01 Dec 2022 | Episode 35: What it Actually Means to be an Affiliate | 00:17:26 | |
You’ve heard of affiliate marketing, but what really is it? The term has gotten a bit of a bad reputation over the past few years, so we wanted to learn about what it takes to be a true affiliate and set the record straight. To learn more about affiliate marketing, we chatted with Kendra Losee, a marketing coach, consultant, and ActiveCampaign affiliate, in a new episode of Growth Decoded. Here are some of the highlights:
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01 Feb 2022 | Episode 12: Holiday & End-of-Year Planning | 00:44:54 | |
In this episode, we investigate “Holiday Preparation & End-of-Year Planning” and focus on how you can create effective holiday marketing campaigns, as well as ways to finish the year strong and start the new year off right. The holiday and end-of-year period are changing and look different to businesses and consumers. More holiday shopping is moving online creating a hybrid holiday experience, split between online and in-store shopping. Consumers expect positive customer experiences, and businesses must adapt the processes and prepare to deliver the experience in both places. We’ll work to understand: Best practices for holiday preparation and campaigns that have a positive impact on your business You’ll hear from Jovana & Milena Vujnic, Brandon Kirkland, and John Jansch: Jovana & Milena manage Bumper Leads — a marketing automation agency based in Melbourne that helps businesses of all shapes and sizes simplify and automate their sales and marketing systems, to save them time and money. Brandon is the founder and chief strategist of EpicShops, a digital agency that helps businesses sell more online through web design, and improving the digital customer experience. John Jantsch is an author, speaker, and marketing consultant who specializes in assisting small businesses. He is the author of Duct Tape Marketing, The Referral Engine, and The Commitment Engine. Connect with ActiveCampaign on social! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/activecampaign-inc- | |||
07 Jul 2022 | Episode 27: Monetization and Content Alignment | 00:33:09 | |
These days, you hear quite a lot about monetization — everyone says you should monetize your audience, your YouTube Channel, your email list, your coaching services… the list goes on. But what does it mean to monetize? How and when should you do it? On July 7, 2022 join us for a brand new episode of Growth Decoded where we sit down with business coach and content creator, Leslie Samuel. Leslie went from high school biology teach to college professor — by creating videos about science on YouTube. His channel, Interactive Biology, boasts over 200k subscribers. He’s an expert on blogging, content, and — monetization. We sat down with Leslie to learn how he approaches the topic of monetization, and how you can get started. | |||
21 Jul 2022 | Episode 28: Making Content that Matters | 00:45:21 | |
STOP TRYING TO BE THE BEST BUSINESS Instead, focus on becoming your customer’s FAVORITE. This does a few things: First — it’s a more attainable goal. Because, what does it mean to be the BEST? It’s hard to define, and it’s impossible to attain. Who’s to say that you’re actually the best? Second (and most importantly) — it shifts the focus of your messaging and marketing off of your own business, and onto your customers and audience. So how do you do this? We spoke with Jay Acunzo and talked about this exact problem on the next episode of Growth Decoded. Join us on July 21! | |||
06 Oct 2022 | Episode 32: Creating Statement Content | 00:38:25 | |
Why do some businesses attract all the right customers? And some only the wrong ones? It starts with the statement that brands are making. It’s what our guest in this new episode of Growth Decoded calls, “The Statement Piece” Listen in as Hillary Weiss, founder of Statement Piece Studio, talks about how to put a stake in the ground and create content that is unique to your passion and personality. You’ll also learn about:
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21 Apr 2022 | Episode 21: Can brands be...funny? | 00:32:33 | |
Tim Washer spent 20 years at IBM, Cisco, and Interpublic Group while learning comedy writing from Stephen Colbert and improv from Amy Poehler. He’s a contributor to shows you may have heard of: Saturday Night Live, The Late Show, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Tim stopped by and spoke about the importance of restoring creativity and human connection to our business communications — and the critical role that humor and comedy can play. You'll learn: | |||
15 Mar 2022 | Episode 18: Contact & Lead Scoring | 00:34:13 | |
What if you could know, at a glance, who your most engaged contacts are? Or who your least engaged contacts are? Better yet — what if there was an automated system that monitored the actions your contacts took, assigned them points based on those actions, tagged your contacts based on their points, and notified you any time you needed to know something? Good news — there is. And that system is lead scoring.
→ What is lead scoring and why is it important? → Key factor to consider when building your lead scoring system → How to weigh the actions your contacts take → Why subtracting points is just as important as adding points to your contact scores → Common mistakes and best practices for creating your lead scoring system | |||
18 Aug 2022 | Episode 30: Positioning your Business to Succeed | 00:45:30 | |
Before you even launch your new service with marketing, advertising, and operations, what’s the one thing you need to ensure that everyone in the company is aligned? A strong positioning statement. Join us for an incredible new episode of Growth Decoded featuring Ryan Stewart! Ryan is a marketing consultant, author, and CEO of SEO agency, Webris. As a self-proclaimed “process nerd,” he’ll take us on a deep dive into positioning and how to carve out a space in the market where your business can succeed. You’ll learn:
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23 Jun 2022 | Episode 26: How to Launch and Grow a Newsletter | 00:45:01 | |
EMAIL NEWSLETTERS ARE DEAD. Just kidding. They’re far from dead. But now that you’re paying attention… Your email newsletter has the potential to be the launch pad for your entire business, the engine that drives everything forward, and the most direct line of communication with your audience. It’s a cornerstone of your email marketing strategy. But how do you start a newsletter and actually grow it? Is there someone who can tell us? Yes, there is. He’s Jay Clouse, and he’s the brain behind the Creative Companion Newsletter, Community, and the Creative Elements Podcast. | |||
09 Jul 2021 | Episode 1: Marketing Software | 00:40:18 | |
In this episode, we investigate the topic of “Marketing Software”. We explore the marketing software landscape, hear from real businesses, and give you the information you need to simplify the process of adding tools to your marketing stack.
This episode features a helpful segment from ActiveCampaign's customer evangelist, interviews with ActiveCampaign customers on how they've found success in choosing marketing software, and a breakdown of how you can use ActiveCampaign to send automated abandoned cart reminders, and follow up with specific products that your contacts are interested in!
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07 Dec 2021 | Episode 8: Facebook Custom Audiences | 01:00:43 | |
This is Growth Decoded — a show that helps you grow your business by figuring out the customer experience, one piece at a time. In this episode, we investigate the topic of “Facebook Custom Audiences” and learn how to use them to re-target individuals who have shown an interest in your brand. You'll hear from a Facebook ads expert, and a successful business owner who successfully uses custom audiences to sell, upsell, re-target, and educate! How do they work? What do folks get wrong about them? What are the different types of them and when should you use those? Let's find out! If you're curious about integrating your ActiveCampaign account with your Facebook Custom Audiences, you can check out these resources: https://www.activecampaign.com/learn/guides/how-to-use-facebook-custom-audiences-with-activecampaign https://help.activecampaign.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001648370-Facebook-Custom-Audiences-integration Melissa is the founder of The Design Space, a business that specializes in beautiful WordPress website themes. Melissa believes that that everyone can build a beautiful website that they feel empowered to edit, grow and control. The secret is knowing what order to do things in, and having someone in your corner — which is where she comes in. You can check out The Design Space here: Amanda Robinson is a Facebook Ads Expert (and The Digital Gal) who specializes in training business owners on how to be more successful with their Facebook ad programs. If you're interested in learning more about (or from) Amanda you can check out her 4-week bootcamp "A Swift Kick in the Ads" on her website: To sign up for updates on future episodes and get exclusive content, visit: Connect with ActiveCampaign on social! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/activecampaign-inc- #FacebookAds #FacebookCustomAudience #MarketingAutomation | |||
17 Nov 2022 | Episode 34: Create Better Online Learning Experiences | 01:04:35 | |
Trying to recreate in-person experiences in a virtual setting is where most online courses fail. Instead, leverage the strengths of online experiences you can’t do in a real-life setting. To learn about what that means in practice—we chat with community builder, online education expert, and author, Alex Hillman in a new episode of Growth Decoded. Here are some of the highlights:
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09 Jun 2022 | Episode 25: Growing your business using LinkedIn | 00:32:07 | |
How do you grow an audience on LinkedIn? You know there’s a ton of opportunity out there, but it’s tough to get started — especially if you’ve never really tried before. What do you write about? What types of content or posts should you make? What’s the best way to get started? On the next episode of Growth Decoded, we sat down with LinkedIn maven, and founder of LinkedIn Business Accelerator, Judi Fox — and got some answers. You’ll learn:
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09 Jul 2021 | Episode 6: Integrations | 00:55:59 | |
In this episode we investigate "Integrations" — specifically, how can integrating tools that are the best at what they do give you the data you need to grow your business? Integrations are connections between your software tools that allow them to exchange information from one another. Integrations are critical because there is no magical, "all-in-one" software tool that can do everything for you. Different tools specialize in different things. And you want the ones that are the best at what they do for your situation and unique business case. Early in the episode you'll learn about 3 different ways to integrate your software tools: You'll hear from Sophia Sithole, partner manager at Zapier, who explains 3rd party integrations and the different benefits they can bring to your business. You can learn more about Zapier and connect with Sophia here: We then turn our attention towards how integrations help you improve the customer experience, your day-to-day functions, and ultimately how they help you grow and develop your business. Throughout the episode you'll hear from featured guests as they discuss various aspects of the importance of software integrations, and how they can help you provide a better customer experience. We sat down with Neha Varshneya, Senior Manager of platform marketing at Thinkific, to discuss the recent launch of the Thinkific App Store, integrations that help course creators and entrepreneurs, and to discuss the different tools that Thinkific uses and integrates in their own tech stack. You can connect with Neha and learn more about Thinkific here: We also sat down with Peter Coffee, VP for Strategic Research at Salesforce. Peter talks about the importance of integrations to your bottom line, tips for figuring out which things to integrate, and shares his insights on how you should think about integrating your tools in a way that contributes to long-term success and sustainability. You can connect with Peter and learn more about Salesforce here: To sign up for updates on future episodes and get exclusive content, visit: Connect with ActiveCampaign on social! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acti... | |||
11 Jan 2022 | Episode 10: Email Subject Lines | 01:08:36 | |
This is Growth Decoded — a show that helps you grow your business by figuring out the customer experience, one piece at a time. In this episode, we investigate the topic of “Email Subject Lines” and explore how important the subject line is to getting your recipients to open your email. We also investigate how to write better subject lines, best practices for creating curiosity and intrigue, and explore the benefits and mechanics of A/B testing subject lines. You'll hear from past Growth Decoded guests Melissa Love, Jonathan Young, and Joel Klettke — and see some email subject line "Hot Takes" and insights from Eddie Shleyner, Dave Gerhardt, Devin Reed, and Jacob Sappington. Our featured guest is Scott Frothingham, author of "Instant Inspiration for Copywriters" and founder of FastForward Results. To learn more about Scott you can check out his website and book below: https://fastforward.convertri.com/fastforwardresults To sign up for updates on future episodes and get exclusive content, visit: https://www.activecampaign.com/resources/growth-decoded | |||
01 Mar 2022 | Episode 16: Webinars & Digital Events | 00:39:07 | |
You'll sit down with Brianna Haag — Director of Demand Generation at Hopin, and hear from Ashley Levesque — VP of Marketing at Banzai You'll learn: |