The Early Days Podcast By Dulo

Learning Facebook Ads, building an agency business, firing your clients and much more with Mojca Zove from Super Spicy Media THE DULO PERFORMANCE SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com Mojca Žove is a Facebook ads expert and founder of Super Spicy Media - a digital marketing agency. In our conversation with Mojca we talked about what it was like for her to start a digital agency business, the realisation that a full-time job is never 100% a sure thing, and the biggest obstacles to starting. As an expert Facebook advertiser, we asked Mojca to share how she learned Facebook Ads, the resources and methods that helped her master the craft, and how she deployed this channel when attracting clients for her agency. We also talked about email lists, webinars, balancing content creation and client work, burnout, firing clients, and much, much more. Complete notes and links: https://weardulo.com/blogs/the-early-days-podcast/facebook-ads Topics: 01:55 - Who is Mojca and starting Super Spicy Media 03:25 - Getting fired from a

Discussing how adding value, asking questions, and listening to the customer can help grow a business, with John D Saunders. THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com John D Saunders, founder of 5four Digital is an experienced serial entrepreneur who excels at marketing. After selling several online stores, and a career as an advertising executive for the automotive industry, John decided to start his own marketing agency. The need to learn more and provide more value to others were the main principles behind his decision to take the entrepreneurial route.  In our conversation we go through a variety of topics and John mentions a lot of resources which you can start using today in your own business. Some of the things we covered - working in a remote environment, constantly learning new things and sharing those with the world, building a business on core principles such as adding value, asking questions and listening to consumers. We also dived deep into strategies for social media marketi

Discussing how to building a design agency from scratch with Matt Ellis, founder of Honcho Agency THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com Matt Ellis is the founder of Honcho, a design agency specializing in web design and development.  Matt’s built Honcho from scratch and without knowing much about the agency world. He simply learned to dive into new opportunities head first and figure out how to do things as he’s going along. It’s a piece of advice he shared a few times during our conversation. We also talked about hiring first employees, pricing strategies, finding clients, running a remote company and much more. It’s an episode rich on resources and tools that will help a lot of you to automate and facilitate processes around your own businesses. If you work at a small agency or run a remote team, this is a very useful episode to listen to. Topics we cover in this episode: 01:50 - Who is Matt Ellis and what does he do 02:34 - How Matt got into web development 05:49 - Saying "Yes" to t

When is the right time to bootstrap and when should you raise VC money? Listen to the full episode: https://anchor.fm/dulo THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com OUR SOCIALS▼ ▸Instagram: https://instagram.com/weardulo ▸Twitter: https://twitter.com/weardulo ▸Facebook: https://facebook.com/weardulo

When faced with a challenge remember there is always another way to go about it. Listen to the full episode: https://anchor.fm/dulo THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com OUR SOCIALS▼ ▸Instagram: https://instagram.com/weardulo ▸Twitter: https://twitter.com/weardulo ▸Facebook: https://facebook.com/weardulo

It's important to do your homework and have a roadmap before your launch. Listen to the full episode: https://anchor.fm/dulo THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com OUR SOCIALS▼ ▸Instagram: https://instagram.com/weardulo ▸Twitter: https://twitter.com/weardulo ▸Facebook: https://facebook.com/weardulo

Always adjust, always tweak your pricing startegy. Listen to the full episode: https://anchor.fm/dulo THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com OUR SOCIALS▼ ▸Instagram: https://instagram.com/weardulo ▸Twitter: https://twitter.com/weardulo ▸Facebook: https://facebook.com/weardulo

Sharing stories and lessons from two decades of building startups with Diane Tarshis, founder of Startup Distillery (S3E3) THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com Diane Tarshis is an experienced startup consultant who started her career in the middle of the dot-com boom and is now the founder of Startup Distillery, where she works with companies to help them navigate the muddy waters of their early days. With two decades of experience from the entrepreneurial trenches, working with founders from all walks of life and industries, we wanted to talk with Diane about the messy beginnings of small businesses. We covered important lessons around launching a startup, such as the importance of having a roadmap and doing extra homework in preparation, we discussed the pros and cons of self-funding versus raising venture capital and when is it a good time to rely on each. We also touched on the topic of marketing and messaging - a topic near and dear to us, since we are in the middle of figuring out how

Learning business from the world of hip hop. Listen to the full episode: https://anchor.fm/dulo THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com OUR SOCIALS▼ ▸Instagram: https://instagram.com/weardulo ▸Twitter: https://twitter.com/weardulo ▸Facebook: https://facebook.com/weardulo

The buck stops with you. Listen to the full episode: https://anchor.fm/dulo THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com OUR SOCIALS▼ ▸Instagram: https://instagram.com/weardulo ▸Twitter: https://twitter.com/weardulo ▸Facebook: https://facebook.com/weardulo

How the experience differs when you go all-in on your business. Listen to the full episode: https://anchor.fm/dulo THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com OUR SOCIALS▼ ▸Instagram: https://instagram.com/weardulo ▸Twitter: https://twitter.com/weardulo ▸Facebook: https://facebook.com/weardulo

What's it like when your co-founder is also your brother? Listen to the full episode: https://anchor.fm/dulo THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com OUR SOCIALS▼ ▸Instagram: https://instagram.com/weardulo ▸Twitter: https://twitter.com/weardulo ▸Facebook: https://facebook.com/weardulo

How to create content at scale with limited resources? Discussing clever content creation models with Kareem Mostafa of Tribetactics. THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com Kareem Mostafa (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmostafa) is the co-founder of Tribetactics (https://www.tribetactics.com) - a bootstrapped content creation company which helps businesses maximise their efforts in producing compelling content across a wide range of media and platforms. Naturally, our conversation gravitated towards the importance and value of having a solid content production and distribution processes. We went behind the scenes of how Kareem and his brother, with whom he co-founded Tribetactics, work to deliver valuable and contextually-relevant content to their clients. Furthermore, we touched on how one big piece of content can turn into multiple smaller pieces that can fuel your content plan for a month. We also talked about the importance of speed over perfection, financing the business, managing client e

The supply and demand sides of a two-sided marketplace need to be in balance. Listen to the full episode: https://anchor.fm/dulo THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com OUR SOCIALS▼ ▸Instagram: https://instagram.com/weardulo ▸Twitter: https://twitter.com/weardulo ▸Facebook: https://facebook.com/weardulo

When you have so much going on, it's OK to go with your gut. Watch the full episode: https://anchor.fm/dulo THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com OUR SOCIALS▼ ▸Instagram: https://instagram.com/weardulo ▸Twitter: https://twitter.com/weardulo ▸Facebook: https://facebook.com/weardulo

Having too many tools can be intimidating. Listen to the full episode: https://anchor.fm/dulo THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com OUR SOCIALS▼ ▸Instagram: https://instagram.com/weardulo ▸Twitter: https://twitter.com/weardulo ▸Facebook: https://facebook.com/weardulo

Did you know about Julian Shapiro's Growth guide? Listen to the full episode: https://anchor.fm/dulo THE DULO NON-IRON DRESS SHIRT: ▼ https://weardulo.com OUR SOCIALS▼ ▸Instagram: https://instagram.com/weardulo ▸Twitter: https://twitter.com/weardulo ▸Facebook: https://facebook.com/weardulo

Discussing growth marketing for entrepreneurs with Foti Panagio of Growthmentor (S3E1) Foti Panagio is the co-founder of Growthmentor - a platform that connects founders and marketers with growth mentors. We were first introduced to Foti and Growthmentor thanks to Julian who is an active mentor on the site. Growthmentor is Foti’s first attempt at entrepreneurship and in our conversation, we touch on a lot of topics around the early days. We go behind the scenes of the process of idea validation, transitioning from full-time employment to part-time entrepreneurship, the biggest challenges facing the business today, tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) and much more. As we go along, Foti shares a lot of useful resources, tools, and methods he uses to steer the growth of the business (check out a list with all the links below). We also gave Foti the opportunity to ask you, our audience, to answer this question of the day: "What is your biggest pain point in growth [marketing] that you have right now?" Top

Time to wrap up Season 2 of our podcast! We took the opportunity to have our 30th episode as the last of the year and the season. On this season finale, it's just us the founders (Julian and Marin) and we had a very informal conversation about the past year, the constantly evolving DULO brand, finding our purpose and how there are slight differences for each founder, as well as our plans for the next 12 months. Thank you to everyone listening! We really appreciate your time and attention. We hope you find value in the content we put out on this platform! If you have suggestions on how to make it better or you have requests for topics you'd like to hear more of, drop us a line on social @weardulo. Until 2019!

On today's show, we talk to Pat Walls, Founder of Starter Story - a digital hub where successful entrepreneurs share their experience of how they built a business. In fact, we first connected with Pat when we were asked to share the DULO story earlier in the year. The stories on the platform are inspiring and also provide specific advice and insight that help others get started. In our conversation, we talked about how Pat started Starter Story as a side-project which he eventually built into a full-time sustainable business. We also got into the details of how he approaches collecting interviews, his thoughts about content planning, frequency and much more. Make sure you check out Starter Story at starterstory.com and read some of the interviews by fellow entrepreneurs. Say "hi" to Pat as well on Twitter (@thepatwalls) and follow his entrepreneurial journey!