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From text to image to video, social media marketing is an ever-evolving arena. I’m here to discuss this topic with the founder of Social Media Examiner, Michael Stelzner. In this episode, we talk about the Facebook apocalypse, the unreality of reality shows, and the ever-changing algorithms of social media platforms. We cover the growth of video consumption and the transformation over the past five years in marketing from text to images to video. Tune in! The show notes, including the transcript and checklist to this episode, are at marketingspeak.com/230.

This Marketing Speak episode is all about investing in domains as a profitable business. My guest, Jaryd Krause, used to be a plumber working 60+ hours per week and hated it. Fast forward to today, he now owns multiple online businesses and many of his clients earn tens of thousands of dollars per month from the business they bought working with him. Tune in as we take a deep-dive into this type of venture and teach you how you can start your very own business too. The show notes, including the transcript and checklist to this episode, are at marketingspeak.com/229.

Technology is progressing so rapidly it seems like several innovations can be challenging to keep up with. However, it’s our duty as business professionals to ensure the livelihoods of our society aren't usurped by automation. My guest, Gabriel Rene, Executive Director of VERSES, explains the challenges and opportunities presented by Web 3.0 in this episode of Marketing Speak. VERSES is a non-profit foundation that is leading the development of open standards for AR, VR, mixed reality, AI, IoT, blockchain and more for the Spatial Web. Tune in for a really fascinating conversation! The show notes, including the transcript and checklist to this episode, are at marketingspeak.com/228.

Welcome to episode #227. The show notes, including the transcript and checklist to this episode, are at marketingspeak.com/227. While there are many business and marketing books, you’d agree not every book’s advice is effective once implemented. My guest, Allan Dib and I can definitely attest to that. He’s a serial entrepreneur who’s had his fair share of ups and downs. He has read so many books and attended so many seminars, he can confidently say he knows what works and what doesn’t. And then he wrote the book, The 1-Page Marketing Plan. Many entrepreneurs and marketers recommend this book and I can totally see why. Tune in to this Marketing Speak episode to find out more.

When we think of celebrities, we think of fame and fortune, and the lion's share of that celebrities fortune can come from monetizing their fame and notoriety. Jennifer Lopez, for example, made 3.5 billion dollars partnering with Kohl's. Kylie Jenner went from teenage reality star to billionaire makeup mogul. My guest for this episode number 226, Bernt Ullmann is the genius behind these sorts of celebrity mega deals.  Bernt is CEO and founder of Celebrity Lifestyle Brands. He leverages celebrity star power and turns those into branding and licensing deals. You're in store for a fascinating conversation about the world of celebrity branding. And if you personally loathe the limelight, don't worry, you don't have to be the celebrity. You just partner with one.  As Bernt says, "celebrities give you eyeballs and trust." That could be millions in intellectual property value and licensing potential for you. Bernt shares how his start at the Donna Karan fashion brand led him to partnering with Tommy Hilfiger and a

Profundity is a word grossly overused. The word profundity might not get a ton of air time, but many are quick to casually call something profound. Profundity is defined as a deep insight or great depth of knowledge or thought. It's easy in our fast moving world to keep things superficial or skim the surface. But to truly succeed, both in marketing and in life, we must find what deeply resonates. We ultimately want our business to connect with something universal. After all, that's the best way to convert new customers and clients as my guest Rich Schefren so eloquently reminds us, you have more prospects than you have customers. You don't get a reputation like "The Guru of Gurus" without having some pretty deep insight. I'm super grateful Rich shares some of his great depth of knowledge and thought with us. I first got to know of Rich many years ago from one of his YouTube videos, where he explained his unique speed reading style. In this episode, he explains how he figuratively and sometimes literally break

If you've been listening for any length of time, you know I love geeking out on SEO, especially when it's a world-class technical SEO such as today's guest, Bastian Grimm. Bastian is CEO and Co-founder of Germany based agency, Peak Ace. We are about to go to a deep dive into technical SEO and get Bastian's take on such topics such as crawl budget, international SEO, and creating SEO dashboards using Google Data Studio. We compare notes on the present state of SEO and where things are heading and share shop talk about our favorite tools and techniques. Bastian's perspective on the nitty-gritty of SEO is refreshing. This episode is not to be missed.

The ultimate goal when creating a startup is to join the ranks of giants like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, but there are quite a few hazards along that path. Often this can involve getting major investment capital. Now imagine you get that $20 million investment, then the real stress starts. My guest for this week's episode did just that.  Rand Fishkin is the founder and former CEO of Moz, and currently the founder and CEO of SparkToro. He's the author of Lost and Founder, which charts the rise of his eight-figure SEO technology company Moz and his rocky dealings with venture capitalists along the way. He pulls no punches sharing the realities of dealing with venture capitalists, sometimes known as vulture capitalists, and how they change the shape of his company and not in the way he wanted. Rand is also my co-author on the first two editions of The Art of SEO, which is considered to be the Bible on search engine optimization back in 2009. That book really solidified my leadership position in t

For most people, your website is the first impression they have of your brand. So you really want to have that "wow" factor that keeps them on the site and ready to take action. That "wow" factor goes beyond impressing people with high profile social proof, although that is an extremely important factor in your brand's credibility. In reality, you want your site to speak more about them and less about you in order to assure them that you can meet their needs and solve the problem that led them to your site in the first place. Every inch of your site must be imbibed with your branding from the top nav all the way down to your footer. In my opinion, there's really no one better than Greg Merrilees and his company Studio 1 Design when it comes to creating web design that converts. And that's why I'm so excited to have him on the show today. Aside from the eight websites that Greg and his team has designed for me, I constantly refer him to my clients and colleagues. Studio 1 has custom designed well over 1500 web

SEO is a deep and nuanced discipline. This is evidence in no small part by the fact that the book I co-authored, The Art of SEO, is nearly a thousand pages. And the complexity is only increasing as Artificial Intelligence plays a bigger and bigger role in Google's ranking algorithm. But don't let that deter you from working to optimize your website, because there's undoubtedly a lot of low hanging fruit there, even if you've done a lot of SEO work already.  Today, I have Dan Shure joining us. Dan is an SEO consultant who's worked with Sumo and WGBH in Boston, and he's the host of the Experts on the Wire Podcast. It's always fun to geek out with someone who's also passionate about SEO. In this episode, we'll be covering everything from understanding the psychology of searchers, to entities versus keywords, to biases, and Google's machine learning algorithms, and so much more. Stay tuned as Dan and I share some of the most valuable SEO strategies for this new decade.

Whether you’re an artist, brand, or agency, you should be creating videos. And lots of them. Mark Zuckerberg famously predicted that the Facebook news feed will be mostly video in five years. That was a while ago now, so that day is coming sooner than you might think. But today we’re not here to talk about Facebook, we’re here to talk about YouTube, the number 2 search engine, and how to get more reach and watch time on YouTube. According to Ahrefs, YouTube was 2019’s most visited website in the world, with an average of 8.6 billion monthly organic visits! A fundamental tenet in marketing is to be where your customers are. And your customers are on YouTube, that’s just a fact. So what do you do to reach them on YouTube? Fortunately, I have some answers for you, because we have YouTube expert Jeremy Vest in the house! Jeremy is the Director of Marketing at vidIQ. He’s created video marketing strategies for a number of Fortune 100 companies and famous YouTubers. He’s had clients with billions of views and mil

I love systems and I love outsourcing, two things we are going to dive deep into, in this episode #219. A business without systems and processes isn’t a real business. Or let’s put it this way: it won’t stay in business for long. With proper systems, you have location freedom and time freedom, two very precious commodities. Did you know for instance that I spent half of 2018 living in Tel Aviv? It was an amazing experience, one that wouldn’t have been possible if my business hadn’t been designed for that. The digital age has shepherded in an era of outsourcing knowledge work. Not only does it make it easier to scale, outsourcing lowers operational costs. My guest for this episode is Chris Rugh, and he just happens to be a master at outsourcing and systematizing. He’s the founder of Custom Tollfree, author of the book 1-800-Awesome: Tactics for Making $10,000 an Hour, as well as a real estate investor, and an angel investor. ‏‏‏‏The company that he sold, Custom Toll Free, has since become the nation’s leading

In digital marketing, the adage “content is king” has to be one of THE most overused phrases. But even if we keep hearing it over and over, we can’t deny the truth in it. Content plays a huge role in every step of the customer journey. And if you DO have great content but it’s locked up somewhere and you haven’t really leveraged it online, you’re wasting a lot of money. It's not enough to publish a plethora of blog posts, infographics, or videos, either. If your content isn’t supporting your larger mission, helping with conversions or at least engagement, then you’re wasting everybody’s time – yours, your team’s, and your prospect’s. Content creation should focus on ROI and the best way to make that happen is to produce content with a powerful intention. For this episode # 218, my guest is Dave Snyder. Dave is the CEO of CopyPress, a content production company that specializes in generating, promoting, and scaling content that generates meaningful results for their clients. Previously, Dave founded several ag

Speaking is the fast path to demonstrating your credibility. Speaking is also how you share your expertise - on stages, on podcasts, on videos, and even on TV. Yet, surprisingly, many subject matter experts and entrepreneurs are either uncomfortable or unskilled at presenting in front of an audience. And often the speech gets worse the larger the audience. It’s uncanny how an audience of ten thousand can cause knees to knock and voices to quiver. The good news is, great speakers are made, not born. Becoming a great speaker takes practice, yes. Yet it is a skill that can be honed over time. And no matter how good you are at it, you should hone it. I myself feel I have a ways to go, even though I've given thousands of presentations around the world. I’ve honed my craft over the last two and a half decades, but my biggest breakthrough in speaking came about this year, while attending a course called Heroic Public Speaking grad program. And the instructor? Today’s guest, Michael Port. Michael earned his MFA in ac

Many of us may take it for granted, but the quality of our voice plays a huge role in our lives- both business and personal. The sound of your voice is oftentimes the basis of someone’s first impression of you. And as such, your voice plays a critical role in your sales and marketing. How you speak and how you present yourself on stage determines to a large degree how persuasive your presentation or sales pitch will be.   It only takes a split second for your prospects or audience to decide whether you’re credible, interesting, and worthy of their time. Would you believe that if you’re not happy with the voice you have now, you can change it and become a better communicator? It’s true.  My guest for this episode number 216 is Roger Love. He’s recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on voice, and his clients include Tony Robbins, John Mayer, Selena Gomez, Brendon Burchard, Simon Sinek, Reese Witherspoon, and Bradley Cooper, to name a few.   My wife, Orion, and I had the pleasure of attending one o

How many times have you logged out of a webinar early because it seemed like a waste of your time? Maybe the content just wasn’t engaging. Or maybe there were annoying technical issues. Or maybe you got tricked into thinking it was live when it was actually a replay.   It’s a common experience that highlights the fact that if you’re running a webinar, you need to be on top of your game -- throughout the entire webinar. And, you need the right tools for the job.   One person who knows this better than anyone is Casey Zeman. Casey started out as a video marketer on YouTube and moved into webinars after he realized the massive financial potential. He never looked back, eventually building his own webinar software platform which became EasyWebinar. Along the way, Casey ran hundreds of successful webinars himself, learning what worked and what didn’t the hard way. Casey is also the founder of the TribeMinded Mastermind and has consulted with companies such as HarperCollins, Estee Lauder, and Dell.   If you want to

To me, business is a spiritual game. This is something that you may have heard me say before, like in my most recent interview of Jay Abraham. With the right mindset, running marketing campaigns and growing your business can transcend the transactional and offer tremendous opportunities for personal growth. I find it extremely satisfying when I can use my business to help others and be a part of something bigger than myself. My guest for this episode # 214, Doug Bentley, also comes at his business from a spiritual perspective. Doug isn’t just a gifted web designer and entrepreneur, he’s also one of the most spiritual people I know. This is due in no small part to his 10 years as a Oneness monk in India serving under Guru Sri Bhagavan. Now he’s back in the US, running Inner Vision Studios, a conscious web design firm, and Sacred Wisdom School, which offers spiritual retreats and workshops. Doug has created a lot of value for me and for many others. He really demonstrates that businesses can reveal a lot of lig

Bulletproof Coffee has become a global phenomenon. And you’re about to hear from the man behind the phenomenon, Dave Asprey. Whether you’re a biohacker like me or not, Dave needs no introduction. He isn’t just the inventor of Bulletproof Coffee, he’s authored three New York Times bestsellers, he hosts the super-popular Bulletproof Radio podcast, and he’s famously declared that he fully intends to live to the ripe old age of 180. Well, if anyone is going to live to 180, it will be Dave! To achieve his goal, Dave has consulted with some of the leading medical and scientific minds in the world and conducted dozens of experiments on himself. If you want to hear about all the wild and amazing things Dave has tried, check out my interview of him on my Get Yourself Optimized podcast episode #38 and my wife Orion’s interview of him on her Stellar Life podcast, also episode #38, ironically. Those interviews are mind-blowing. While Dave’s groundbreaking work in biohacking is obviously fascinating, there’s another aspec

You can always find the smart marketers at Traffic and Conversion Summit every year. And as all those smart marketers know, Ryan Deiss' keynotes are one of the highlights of the event, especially if you want to be up with the emerging trends in marketing. Ryan, of course, founded Traffic and Conversion Summit and DigitalMarketer.com, and he's my guest on today's episode number 212. Ryan is the bestselling author of The Invisible Selling Machine and Digital Marketing for Dummies. To say Ryan is an innovator in the digital marketing world would be a massive understatement.  In this episode, Ryan will unpack his Customer Value Optimization methodology and how it's used by companies like McDonald's, Starbucks, Amazon, and Best Buy to achieve massive and sustainable growth. We also discuss in depth the latest digital marketing trends. Get ready for some immediately useful tips and techniques to up-level your online marketing. And now on with the show.

Whether you're negotiating with a prospect, client, or potential partner, it can sometimes feel like your life depends on it. One wrong move and it's all over in a matter of seconds. Thankfully, most sales calls are not life or death situations. However, my guest for this episode number 211, has been on countless calls that were actual life or death situations. His name is Chris Voss and for 24 years he worked as an international hostage negotiator for the FBI. Now he teaches others the high powered negotiation techniques he honed, while literally saving people's lives.  Chris is the founder of Black Swan Group and the author of the bestselling book on negotiation, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on it. He's been featured in TIME, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Inc., Fast Company, Fortune, The Washington Post, CNN and more. And I have to tell you, this is one of my absolute favorite business books. I'm not kidding.  This episode originally aired on my podcast, Get Yourself