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Entrepreneur’s Resilience: From zero to 112,000 YouTube subscribers (episode #94)
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Whatever it is you’re working on and struggling with, don’t pivot too soon. Make sure you give it enough time to work.
For as this episode’s guest explains – resilience pays out.
Frank Spitzer, CEO, Pelecanus, shares the story of how he grew his company’s YouTube channel from zero to 100,000 subscribes, along with many more lesson-filled stories.
Pelecanus has $250,000 in annual revenue. Spitzer manages a team of four employees, along with four freelancers and interns.
Stories (with lessons) about what he made in marketing
Here are some lessons from Spitzer that emerged in our discussion.
- Taking responsibility leads to rewards
- Resilience Pays Out: From zero to 112,000 subscribers
- Embracing honesty can lead to deeper connections, personal growth, and inner peace
- Dedication shapes an entrepreneurial journey
- To Achieve Success: Hard work trumps natural talent
- A good leader stands up for their team
Discussed in this episode
Get even more ideas from this episode by using the Analysts – Video Transcript expert assistant in MECLABS AI (https://meclabsai.com/). It’s totally FREE to use (for now). (MECLABS is the parent organization of MarketingSherpa).
Female Entrepreneurship and Marketing: Having built a big community doesn't mean you will be able to monetize it (https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/interview/entrepreneurship)
PR, Writing, and Marketing Agency Corporate Culture: Think big (podcast episode #49) (https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/interview/PR)
Marketing Leadership: Aligning the entire team around the unifying vision is an integral part of project management (https://marketingexperiments.com/leadership/aligning-team-around-unifying-vision)
Dive deeper into the minds of marketing mavens with more episodes of 'How I Made It In Marketing.' (https://marketingsherpa.com/podcast) Your next big idea awaits.
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This podcast is not about marketing – it is about the marketer. It draws its inspiration from the Flint McGlaughlin quote, “The key to transformative marketing is a transformed marketer” from the Become a Marketer-Philosopher: Create and optimize high-converting webpages (https://meclabs.com/course/) free digital marketing course.
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If you would like to apply to be a guest on How I Made It In Marketing, here is the podcast guest application – https://www.marketingsherpa.com/page/podcast-guest-application
107 episodes
Manage episode 411825656 series 3303064
Whatever it is you’re working on and struggling with, don’t pivot too soon. Make sure you give it enough time to work.
For as this episode’s guest explains – resilience pays out.
Frank Spitzer, CEO, Pelecanus, shares the story of how he grew his company’s YouTube channel from zero to 100,000 subscribes, along with many more lesson-filled stories.
Pelecanus has $250,000 in annual revenue. Spitzer manages a team of four employees, along with four freelancers and interns.
Stories (with lessons) about what he made in marketing
Here are some lessons from Spitzer that emerged in our discussion.
- Taking responsibility leads to rewards
- Resilience Pays Out: From zero to 112,000 subscribers
- Embracing honesty can lead to deeper connections, personal growth, and inner peace
- Dedication shapes an entrepreneurial journey
- To Achieve Success: Hard work trumps natural talent
- A good leader stands up for their team
Discussed in this episode
Get even more ideas from this episode by using the Analysts – Video Transcript expert assistant in MECLABS AI (https://meclabsai.com/). It’s totally FREE to use (for now). (MECLABS is the parent organization of MarketingSherpa).
Female Entrepreneurship and Marketing: Having built a big community doesn't mean you will be able to monetize it (https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/interview/entrepreneurship)
PR, Writing, and Marketing Agency Corporate Culture: Think big (podcast episode #49) (https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/interview/PR)
Marketing Leadership: Aligning the entire team around the unifying vision is an integral part of project management (https://marketingexperiments.com/leadership/aligning-team-around-unifying-vision)
Dive deeper into the minds of marketing mavens with more episodes of 'How I Made It In Marketing.' (https://marketingsherpa.com/podcast) Your next big idea awaits.
Get more episodes
This article is distributed through the MarketingSherpa email newsletter (https://www.marketingsherpa.com/newsletters). Sign up for free if you’d like to get more episodes like this one.
For more insights, check out...
This podcast is not about marketing – it is about the marketer. It draws its inspiration from the Flint McGlaughlin quote, “The key to transformative marketing is a transformed marketer” from the Become a Marketer-Philosopher: Create and optimize high-converting webpages (https://meclabs.com/course/) free digital marketing course.
Apply to be a guest
If you would like to apply to be a guest on How I Made It In Marketing, here is the podcast guest application – https://www.marketingsherpa.com/page/podcast-guest-application
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