Get an inside look into how companies/individuals run early-stage marketing. Hosted by Madhav Bhandari, an experienced technology marketer who led several SaaS companies grow from $100k to $10M ARR. Follow our journey: https://earlystagemarketing.com/
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Paul Sullivan is the founder of Digital BIAS, an award-winning product marketing agency and Strategy Supercharged, an online community for business changemakers who believe knowledge sharing advances us all and that what they can share is more powerful than who they are or what logo they work for. This podcast focuses on marketing, business development, technology and personal development for those that are involved in starting, running or developing a business. If you would like me to cover ...
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Navigating the Highs and Lows of Your Go-To-Market Strategy: Key Insights From Typeform's Journey
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Embarking on a Go-To-Market (GTM) journey can often feel like a rollercoaster. Dan Sandler, the Head of Commercial Partnerships at Typeform, sheds light on their experiences, offering valuable lessons for sales, marketing, RevOps leaders, and founders alike. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strategysupercharged/m…
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How to Drive Early Stage SaaS Startup Growth with Madhav Bhandari
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In case you were in doubt, one strategy stands tall and unshaken in the realms of fintech and SaaS: CONTENT is your greatest ally. Listen and learn more about how you can use content to fuel growth from Storylane's Madhav Bhandari. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strategysupercharged/message…
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How to drive customer growth and retention through customer success with Daphne Costa Lopes
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HubSpot's Director of Customer Success, Daphne Costa Lopes, joins Strategy Supercharged to share her Eureka moments around customer success and why it's so powerful for businesses of all sizes. You can learn more about her work and thoughts by checking out her This is Growth podcast. Want more? Connect with your fellow executive and emerging leader…
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EPISODE 50: How to become a mentor? (feat. Andrew Capland from Delivering Value)
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I had a wonderful chat with Andrew Capland (former Director @ Wistia) on his journey of becoming a full-time mentor. How it all started, his mentoring process, and why mentoring has been an incredible learning experience for him. You can reach Andrew on DeliveringValue.co 944 days. That's how long it took us to get to special episode number 50! It'…
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How to build a Product-Led Growth Strategy with Sandy Mangat
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Sandy Mangat is the Head of Marketing at Pocus https://www.pocus.com/, a platform dedicated to enhancing product-led sales by identifying top opportunities and surface insights that help sales reps convert self-serve users to paid customers. Sandy is a senior marketing and product marketing leader with 5+ years of experience in growth-oriented B2B …
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My first podcast interview on Hubstaff's revenue growth
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This is a clip from a podcast episode I did in 2016 - when Hubstaff had crossed $2M ARR. Today, Hubstaff is a leading time tracking software that's at $15M+ ARR. This episode highlights some of my key learnings during the early stages of a startup's life.
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Danny Villarreal, Head of Customer Success from Jungle Scout (https://www.junglescout.com/) will be sharing his experiences of moving from a sales-led organisation to a product-led organisation. He will reveal the real issues, traps, workarounds and challenges that you will face and discuss how they overcame them whilst changing the culture of the …
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Product Led Growth: How to Apply it Properly
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Digital BIAS bring Ramli John Managing Director and co-founder of Product Led to a LinkedIn live discussion on how you should apply a Product Led strategy to your SaaS product or service. He will discuss the approach you take, what you should look out for and also how you can upskill your team before you pivot to a product-led model. Product Led is…
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How to stay level-headed in a leadership role?
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To be a great leader, focus on your mindset. In this episode, I talked about reframing your current thoughts by identifying common cognitive distortions.
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How to build a Substack business by monetising your content? (feat. Kevan Lee from Buffer, Oyster)
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What I absolutely love about Kevan is not just his illustrious career as a marketing lead, but the fact that he's constantly shared his learnings along the journey. A small part of that is his Substack newsletter which he's converted into a revenue-generating side hustle. In this episode, we dive deep into his Substack business.…
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Who is behind Remote Marketing Podcast? 👋
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Hi, I'm Madhav Bhandari. I started the Remote Marketing Podcast 2 years ago. In this episode, I shared my story and background. You can connect with me on LinkedIn You can join my bi-annual newsletter here If you're interested to consult with me, please email me on madhav [at] remotemarketing [dot] org You can read my blogs at remotemarketing.org a…
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Why it's so important to "get people on the phone"
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I had an insightful conversation with my CEO a couple of months ago and my notes from that call became this episode. Are you struggling with moving forward with a marketing initiative? Are you out of ideas for a new channel? Are you unclear about the way forward for a strategy? Happens to everybody. This episode is a reminder on why getting on the …
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How Corey built a tech business without writing a single line of code
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There are so many marketers that dream of becoming entrepreneurs someday but fall into the "I don't have a tech co-founder" or "struggle with monetisation" trap. A year after leaving his job at Baremetrics, Corey's built a tech business that makes $3k MRR without writing a single line of code. In this episode, Corey shares his learnings from his 1 …
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Scaling affiliate recruitment: Some ideas to get you started
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Affiliate recruitment is one of the two key pieces to make your program successful (the other one being optimizing the performance of existing affiliates). I've been tackling this piece for the last couple of months and spoke to a bunch of affiliate experts about this. In this episode, I'll share some ideas that you can implement TODAY to scale aff…
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Managing a large affiliate program: 10 learnings (feat. Saralyn Scherer)
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We had an insightful chat with LiquidWeb's Director of Affiliate Marketing about the ins and outs of managing a large affiliate program. Saralyn's been an affiliate marketer for almost a decade and she's worked with best of the best. We talked about building an affiliate marketing team, recruiting top 1% affiliates at scale and improving the perfor…
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How to recruit micro-influencers at scale to your affiliate program? (feat. Dustin Howes)
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We spoke with Dustin Howes (former affiliate lead @ WP Engine) on acquiring affiliates at scale. It's a well known fact that top 20% affiliates bring in 80% of customers. In this episode, we chat through Dustin's learnings on acquiring these top 20% affiliates at scale.
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How to reflect on 2020? (personally & professionally)
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I've been doing Year-in-Reviews for over 4 years now and they've proven much more effective to me than New Year Resolutions. This episode will give you a template to do your own Year-in-Review, irrespective of if you're an individual or a business. This is an encore episode first released in 2019. Also, here's my 2020 in review: https://madhavb.com…
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Scaling an affiliate program: Key learnings from Flexjobs ex-Director of Marketing
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I spoke with Michael Gutman who's an affiliate marketing consultant and former Director of Marketing at Flexjobs. In this episode, Michael reflected on his top learnings from growing Flexjobs popular affiliate program.
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How to write a remote job description that attracts high volume of candidates?
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In this episode, I shared how I write a remote job description, my method to find the right salary range for a role and shared our actual application process. This episode is great for anyone who's planning to hire for a new role or expanding their team.
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Why you need to start obsessing more over internal linking vs external linking (feat. Alex Birch)
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I started looking for a Head of SEO at Bonsai earlier this year and Alex Birch (today's guest) ended up being that person. We chatted about internal linking - why it's important, best practices, how to scale it, internal linking examples from famous companies (like Canva) that achieved hockey-stick growth doing it well. Tip - I was a big Wordpress …
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How to properly structure a performance-linked bonus?
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Bonuses are a great tool to create high performance teams. Bonuses also happen to be one of the most desired job perks for most remote workers. In this episode, I shared my top learnings from designing bonuses for my remote teammates.
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How Andrew Michael grew his podcast Churn.fm
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I chatted with Andrew about his journey with Churn.fm - how he started the podcast, operations behind every episode and how he manages to publish an episode every Wednesday without fail (despite having a full time job + family life + new startup). Insightful episode if you're thinking of building a podcast. Notes - https://remotemarketing.org/podca…
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How to find, hire and manage A+ writers? (feat. ChartMogul's blog editor)
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If you're a business that's investing deeply in SEO, managing a content team is a big part of it. I invited Ilia Markov to talk about building a team of writers and managing them based on his decade long experience as a blog editor.
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How to tackle remote work loneliness? (using David Burns's exercise)
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1/5 of remote workers are actively struggling with loneliness while working remotely. It's time to find a long term solution. Notes & spreadsheet link - https://remotemarketing.org/lonely-remote-worker/
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Learnings from searching for the *best* link-building agency
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I didn't want to do link-building in-house, so I started looking for a good, affordable & reliable link builder. This episode documents ALL my research. Full list of link-building services - https://remotemarketing.org/link-building-services/
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Marketing leadership lessons with Hotjar's ex-VP of Marketing (feat. Sançar Şahin)
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VP of Marketing at Hotjar (100% remote), Typeform, GetApp... the list is endless for Sançar. We chatted about the common issues that Heads of Marketing face - from managing expectations of CEOs to managing your marketing budget like an investment portfolio. Insightful conversation! Notes - https://remotemarketing.org/marketing-leader-traits/…
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How to manage a SEO budget? (feat. Steve Toth)
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Freshbooks has tripled their organic traffic in the last 18 months. So I invited Steve Toth (their ex-SEO manager) to understand how they manage their SEO budget. If SEO is a big growth channel for you, you'll find this episode insightful. Notes - https://remotemarketing.org/seo-budget/
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In this special episode, I got Rand Fishkin (founder of Sparktoro & Moz) to share his top learnings after completing two decades in marketing. We also geeked out on marketing flywheels. Notes - https://remotemarketing.org/marketing-flywheel/
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How to write an industry report & make it go viral?
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In this episode, I shared how to write an industry report, how to promote it and pros and cons of industry reports as part of your content marketing strategy. Some industry reports I've worked on in the last 3 years: https://blog.hubstaff.com/2017-freelancing-trends/ https://www.hellobonsai.com/covid-19-study https://open.buffer.com/state-remote-wo…
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How to coach new marketing hires remotely?
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In 2015, my biggest challenge while coaching new hires was when I had to re-answer the same questions again and again (esp. if it was a process-driven role). Add to that the challenges of coaching team members spread across timezones. This episode talks about how I fixed that and how to coach new remote hires today.…
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Over the years, I've created a marketing budget template that's straight-forward, easy to implement and great for new marketing leaders/founders/CEOs who’re looking to create their first marketing budget. In this episode, I explain how to build a marketing budget using that template.
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How to network globally (while working remotely)
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A lot of professional networking opportunities have diluted in this time due to cancelled conferences/meetups etc. On the other hand, I've been networking remotely for a decade now so I decided to share my experience. Blog post - https://remotemarketing.org/remote-networking/
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Time to pause and think high-level in marketing
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In this episode, I cover high-level planning for marketing teams and why NOW is the perfect time to do it. My notes - https://madhavb.com/marketing-strategic-thinking/
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In this episode, I cover project management with remote marketing teams. If you recently transitioned to a remote team because of Covid-19, the next couple of episodes are aimed at make this transition easier. #TogetherAtHome
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How to convert marketing subscribers to customers
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If you're a business with a decent email list (>1000) and looking to get more out of your free subscribers, you need to listen to this episode. I shared my experience with "subscriber onboarding emails" and how it generates $20k/mo for one of my clients. Try my preferred email marketing tool (free) - https://remotemarketing.org/recommends/convertki…
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Spend 20% of your time on new marketing experiments
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Want to build a long term marketing strategy? Make sure you spend 20% of your time on new marketing experiments all year long. In this episode, I shared the marketing experimentation process that I use with my team.
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How to increase your affiliate income? (feat. Wesley Whetten)
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I got Wesley again on the show to talk about increasing your revenue as an affiliate partner. If you run a blog with a sizeable audience, I talked to Wesley about tactics to boost earnings as an affiliate in the short and long term.
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Learnings from top B2B brands on "standing out"
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It’s a lot harder to stand out in the world today. Especially if you’re trying to market your product to a very tech savvy audience. Sometimes going in the opposite direction (where everybody is going) feels like a breath of fresh air. In this episode, I make a case for that with real life examples of B2B brands doing that.…
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Affiliate marketing basics (feat. Wesley Whetten)
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I spoke with remote affiliate marketer Wesley Whetten about the foundational structure of a good affiliate program, when does it make sense and if it can be set up with a remote marketing team. High-level notes here - https://remotemarketing.org/create-affiliate-program/
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How Ahrefs grew to $50 million+ revenue (feat. Tim Soulo)
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In this episode, I spoke with Ahrefs CMO Tim Soulo about the common challenges any early CMO faces and how to push past those. We also discussed Ahrefs's remote marketing team setup and their playbook. High level notes - https://remotemarketing.org/tim-soulo-ahrefs/
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Year-in-review > New Year Resolutions: What, Why & How
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I've been doing Year-in-Reviews for over 4 years now and they've proven much more effective to me than New Year Resolutions. This episode will give you a template to do your own Year-in-Review, irrespective of if you're an individual or a business.
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How to manage stakeholders remotely? (marketing perspective)
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Most leadership positions require you to collaborate cross-functionally across many departments. And if you’re going to work with many departments, you need to be skilled at managing your stakeholders properly so your projects get executed without much friction. In this episode, I'm going to share a practical approach of managing internal stakehold…
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How ConvertKit brings in ~$6 million through their affiliate program
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ConvertKit makes $19m annually with a 100% distributed team and a third of their revenue comes from affiliates. I uncovered some insights from Alexis who's been running their affiliate marketing program since 2016. High-level notes - https://remotemarketing.org/convertkit-affiliate/
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How to build an employee advocacy program on a $0 budget?
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Looking to leverage your employee's networks to increase product awareness? That's exactly why you need an employee advocacy strategy. This episode summarises all my research when building out an employee advocacy program on a $0 budget.
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In the last couple of years, I’ve seen rebrands of almost all products I use (Google, Uber, Slack, WeWork etc.). I've even seen rebrands happen at two of the companies I worked with (Hubstaff & Close). If you've ever wondered why companies rebrand and when should you consider your own company rebrand, this episode is for you.…
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Every one today talks about cold emails. You have 100s of “guides” released every day to answer the question – how to cold email folks the right way? The problem is that there is no right way. You've gotten access to someone’s email through whatever medium and are now emailing them without any prior history. That’s why, over the years, I’ve become …
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Todoist's marketing lead on self-growth and management (Part 2)
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In this special two-part episode, I spoke with Doist's Head of Marketing on her journey from #1 marketing hire to marketing lead. Part 1 covered how Brenna built her remote marketing team from scratch and gives an inside look into Doist's marketing journey so far. Part 2 covers how she manages her team, how she's growing herself as a leader and her…
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Todoist's marketing lead on building remote marketing teams (Part 1)
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In this special two-part episode, I spoke with Doist's Head of Marketing on her journey from #1 marketing hire to marketing lead. Part 1 covers how Brenna built her remote marketing team from scratch and gives an inside look into Doist's marketing journey so far. Part 2 covers how she manages her team, how she's growing herself as a leader and her …
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Tools our remote marketing team wouldn't survive without
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Remote marketing teams became possible because of technology catching up. With the internet and a plethora of collaboration tools available, you can work with your team as easily from your home as your office. In today's episode, I share the 6-7 tools without which we won't be able to run our remote marketing team.…
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In today's short episode, I settle the age old debate on when to hire a generalist vs a specialist. TLDR; hire a generalist if you’re early stage, hire a specialist as you become a mature and large business.
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