Digital Marketing for Humans

In this episode, we interview Brandon Leibowitz. He is the owner and CEO of SEO Optimizers. They are a digital marketing agency helping businesses get more visibility and more exposure online, resulting in more sales and leads.

Brandon shares how the idea of SEO Optimizers came about, what happens behind the scenes, and some useful tips on getting Google’s trust and ranking up on search engine sites.

In this episode, we discussed:

1. How SEO Optimizers help businesses
2. The difference between SEO and Local SEO
3. Gaining Google’s trust and showing up on their first page
4. The right time to improve your SEO efforts
5. The role social media play in SEO
6. Brandon’s short- and long-term goals for SEO Optimizers
7. Reputation management and its process

Brandon shared the fact that Google changes algorithms daily, making it a challenge to stay up-to-date with these changes, especially because they won’t tell you what these changes are. In our marketing brainstorm, we come up with the following:

1. Actively A-B testing and looking at the impacts these actions make to come up with educated decisions to move forward.
2. Looking at what the competitors are doing, what is working for them, and incorporating them on your website.

Connect and learn more about Brandon Leibowitz and SEO Optimizers here:

Website: https://seooptimizers.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonleibowitz/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/brandonleibowitz

WHAT IS DIGITAL MARKETING FOR HUMANS?

Digital Marketing for Humans is an interview-style podcast aimed squarely at business owners. It's hosted by a business owner. Around 90% of the guests are business owners. It's a platform that shares the stories of business owners, which other business owners might find useful.

Each episode is unique because everyone's story is unique. We cover the journey of each guest, starting with why they chose to go the entrepreneur route, where they are today, and what they've learned in the process.

We cover what it takes to build a sustainable business. The good, the bad, and the ugly; it's all in there. I really think there's something for everyone so take a listen and learn something new.

Thank you for listening to the podcast. Kindly leave us a review at https://ratethispodcast.com/pascivite. Your feedback is important to us.

In this episode, we interviewed Wade Lamberth, a meteorologist and the CEO of WeatherEye. Having a background in the Navy, Wade is heavily oriented in operational risk management to do military planning. For this reason, doing risk analyses for the weather is a transition and also a continuation of what he does.

Wade shares how WeatherEye helps people be prepared for severe weather conditions that can affect their daily activities. He also talks about targeting the right people, having the right messaging, and making genuine connections in business.

In this episode, we discussed:

1. Using OpenAI to make work more efficient
2. Making genuine connections and consistency
3. Targeting the right people and having the right messaging
4. WeatherEye and how they help people
5. The importance of having a good network
6. Finding a niche that pays well
7. Milestones they want to achieve for WeatherEye by the end of the year

One of the issues Wade is dealing with is awareness. It’s not much about brand awareness but awareness of having a solution to the problems that come with different weather conditions. In our marketing brainstorm, we come up with the following:

1. Educating people on operational risk management by making educational content.
2. Using Reddit as a platform to find relevant questions to reply to and building a profile that solely answers these kinds of questions.

Connect and learn more about Wade Lamberth and WeatherEye here:

Website: https://weathereye.en.softonic.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wade-lamberth/

WHAT IS DIGITAL MARKETING FOR HUMANS?

Digital Marketing for Humans is an interview-style podcast aimed squarely at business owners. It's hosted by a business owner. Around 90% of the guests are business owners. It's a platform that shares the stories of business owners, which other business owners might find useful.

Each episode is unique because everyone's story is unique. We cover the journey of each guest, starting with why they chose to go the entrepreneur route, where they are today, and what they've learned in the process.

We cover what it takes to build a sustainable business. The good, the bad, and the ugly; it's all in there. I really think there's something for everyone so take a listen and learn something new.

Thank you for listening to the podcast. Kindly leave us a review at https://ratethispodcast.com/pascivite. Your feedback is important to us.

In this episode, we interviewed Melissa Moody, the CMO of Gated. Gated is a technology solution that helps professionals get only the most relevant e-mails in their inboxes. It started with the founder’s problem with being bombarded by irrelevant sales e-mails. He later thought the solution he found can also be terribly valuable for everyone.

Melissa shares how they continuously shift the way people communicate at Gated. They believe that the way to win in today’s world, where more and more AIs are being developed to make content and play the algorithm game to reach people, is to bring value that aligns with human needs. 

In this episode, we discussed:

1. What Gated is and what it does for businesses and professionals.
2. The concept of Challenge E-mails and Allowed List.
3. Recommendations for senders to stand out and give value.
4. Future plans and long-term goals for Gated.
5. The importance of putting human needs in your content.

Michelle talks about the challenge of having a clear brand voice and nailing the messaging around what they are and what they do. We came up with the following things they can do next to solve this challenge:

1. Setting up a private Facebook group where people can give their insights and also recommend people who might also need Gated.
2. Create a program and mentor people on building in public where Gated can be the solution to better manage what they’re building.

Connect and know more about Melissa Moody and Gated here:

Website: https://www.gated.com 

Finding Focus Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/finding-focus-protecting-your-attention-in-a-noisy/id1635153064

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissammoody/

WHAT IS DIGITAL MARKETING FOR HUMANS?

Digital Marketing for Humans is an interview-style podcast aimed squarely at business owners. It's hosted by a business owner. Around 90% of the guests are business owners. It's a platform that shares the stories of business owners, which other business owners might find useful.

Each episode is unique because everyone's story is unique. We cover the journey of each guest, starting with why they chose to go the entrepreneur route, where they are today, and what they've learned in the process.

We cover what it takes to build a sustainable business. The good, the bad, and the ugly; it's all in there. I really think there's something for everyone so take a listen and learn something new.

Thank you for listening to the podcast. Kindly leave us a review at https://ratethispodcast.com/pascivite. Your feedback is important to us.

In this episode, I talk to Edan Krolewicz, founder of ExactBuyer. ExactBuyer helps you find the exact people you should be talking to and gives the information you need to reach out to those people in a reliable way.

Edan shares how he functions best, his company’s vision, and how they are different from the other tools that are already out there. He shares the importance of diving deeper into different industries and getting into where exactly you should be.

In this episode, we discussed:

1. What ExactBuyer does to successfully help businesses.
2. What excites Edan about macro-level problems.
3. The difficulties of getting good at different prospecting tools.
4. How they figure out the filters they use and the importance of going deeper into the differences and needs of customers.
5. The importance of branding and building trust.
6. Helping the people understand the business at large.

As Edan shares his goal to stand out in a marketplace that has a lot of bad players, we discuss the following things to help him achieve that goal:

1. It all comes down to branding and being someone that people can trust.
2. When you’re a young company, your brand is the relationships that you’ve made in your career so far. As you get older and as your company matures, then it’s not just your brand but it’s your brand and the people that work in your company. 
3. Doing market maps to find the right answers for your market analysis.
4. Building and growing a community helps drive the direction of the company.
5. It’s one thing to know what to do, but timing is as important.

Connect and know more about Edan here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edankrolewicz/

Website: https://www.exactbuyer.com/

Link: The Community Club https://www.community.club/

WHAT IS DIGITAL MARKETING FOR HUMANS?

Digital Marketing for Humans is an interview-style podcast aimed squarely at business owners. It's hosted by a business owner. Around 90% of the guests are business owners. It's a platform that shares the stories of business owners, which other business owners might find useful.

Each episode is unique because everyone's story is unique. We cover the journey of each guest, starting with why they chose to go the entrepreneur route, where they are today, and what they've learned in the process.

We cover what it takes to build a sustainable business. The good, the bad, and the ugly; it's all in there. I really think there's something for everyone so take a listen and learn something new.

Thank you for listening to the podcast. Kindly leave us a review at https://ratethispodcast.com/pascivite. 

In this episode, I interviewed Jonathan Tallman, the CEO, and Co-founder of Meaningly. Jonathan has been practicing product management for so many years. He has a degree in English Language and Literature and right now, he is working in the world of computer visual language.

Jonathan walks us through his experiences working with Meaningly and some of the most important lessons he learned through this journey.

In this episode, we discussed:

1. About Meaningly, Inc., their starting point, and their core team.

2. The lessons he learned from his previous experiences in his career.

3. The importance of letting the sales experts do their job.

4. His journey with Meaningly.

5. Meaningly's ideal customers for each of their products.

6. How they identify the ad campaigns that will perform well.

With where they are in business today, there are limits to the activities that they can generate and we came up with the following extra steps that they can do to bring them to the next level for sales:

1. As you hire an STR, bring in someone very good at what they do and can work independently. 

2. Establish a digital footprint.

a.) Try to see if you can leverage some alternative ad platforms.

b.) When you start getting customers, collect reviews from them on public platforms.

c.) Put yourself out there. (e.g. going to or starting podcasts)

WHAT IS DIGITAL MARKETING FOR HUMANS?

Digital Marketing for Humans is an interview-style podcast aimed squarely at business owners. It's hosted by a business owner. Around 90% of the guests are business owners. It's a platform that shares the stories of business owners, which other business owners might find useful.

Each episode is unique because everyone's story is unique. We cover the journey of each guest, starting with why they chose to go the entrepreneur route, where they are today, and what they've learned in the process.

We cover what it takes to build a sustainable business. The good, the bad, and the ugly; it's all in there. I really think there's something for everyone so take a listen and learn something new.

Thank you for listening to the podcast. Kindly leave us a review at https://ratethispodcast.com/pascivite. 

In this episode, Skyler Reeves, the CEO of Ardent Growth, talks me through his business and how he found his niche.

As a child, Skyler was into arts until he discovered his affinity for Math and Computer Science. He also served in the military, observing different cultures among people. His company, Ardent Growth, helps e-commerce brands understand which content they need to make and in what order to get results as fast as possible.

In this episode, we discussed:

1. The reason why order matters when putting out contents.
2. How to reduce the time it takes for content to rank.
3. The overlap between trying to solve a problem and producing something with it.
4. The importance of having content strategies and answering your customers’ questions through content.
5. Mastering one thing first, then expanding your service offering.
6. The importance of keeping your ROI compounding to keep the business going.
7. Mapping your strategy by thinking about how your customers like to consume information and how they like to buy.
8. How content can almost speak for itself.

At present, Skyler's company is trying to figure out how to re-establish themselves and build that top-of-the-funnel awareness. He discussed the things that he had tried doing, and we also came up with the following:

1. If you’re trying to increase inbound, it’s just around elevating your brand. It may be through podcasts, attending and speaking in conferences, and networking.
2. Speaking at a conference enables you to validate people's assumptions that you know what you are talking about.
3. Identify ideal influencers to partner with.
4. Think about the metrics that matter to you, as far as ROI, and how to measure that.
5. You have to ask your customers to know which channel or mechanism was the most impactful.
6. It's not always a one-size-fits-all. Each person takes a different approach. Think of the solutions that will work and what you can do based on the timing and resources you have.
7. Working with influencers, give the context, and let them come up with the content because they know their audience well.
8. Create a referral program and find some incentive to provide them.

Connect and know more about Skyler Reeves and Ardent Growth here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/skylerreeves/

https://ardentgrowth.com

WHAT IS DIGITAL MARKETING FOR HUMANS?

Digital Marketing for Humans is an interview-style podcast aimed squarely at business owners. It's hosted by a business owner. Around 90% of the guests are business owners. It's a platform that shares the stories of business owners, which other business owners might find useful.

Each episode is unique because everyone's story is unique. We cover the journey of each guest, starting with why they chose to go the entrepreneur route, where they are today, and what they've learned in the process.

We cover what it takes to build a sustainable business. The good, the bad, and the ugly; it's all in there. I really think there's something for everyone so take a listen and learn something new.

Thank you for listening to the podcast. Kindly leave us a review at https://ratethispodcast.com/pascivite. 

In this episode, I talk with Seth Erickson, the CEO of Storify Agency. He helps companies tell better stories about what they are doing, why they exist, and why they have value to other people.

Seth also talks about his book, How to Hack Humans: Storytelling for Startups. We discuss his future goals and some ideas to help him achieve them.

In this episode, we discussed:

1.  How he realized that authenticity saves a lot of energy trying to be someone else.
2.  The goal of Storify of helping startups communicate their value to investors and the marketplace at large.
3.  How customers would need to know why they should care about what you offer and how it would solve their problems.
4.  Presenting your brands the right way through education.
5.  How important it is for the customers to be the center of the stories you tell about your brand.
6.  Brain simulations created by the stories being told to customers.

People usually associate Seth’s storytelling skills with extroverted people. On the contrary, Seth is in fact, an introvert. Although human interaction may be dreadful for introverts like him, it is his goal to reach out and help more people through what he does. We came up with the following to help him get to his goals:

1.  Find what feels comfortable and build up from there.
2.  Create posts on a business page first instead of a personal page.
3.  Reach out to friends for referrals.
4.  Listen, choose, and pick feedback that would further improve the business.
5.  Continue sharing on podcast interviews until comfortable enough to talk on a stage in front of an actual audience.

Connect and know more about Seth Erickson and Storify Agency here:

Website: https://www.storifyagency.com

Download the first chapter of his book for free:

https://www.storifyagency.com/humans

WHAT IS DIGITAL MARKETING FOR HUMANS?

Digital Marketing for Humans is an interview-style podcast aimed squarely at business owners. It's hosted by a business owner. Around 90% of the guests are business owners. It's a platform that shares the stories of business owners, which other business owners might find useful.

Each episode is unique because everyone's story is unique. We cover the journey of each guest, starting with why they chose to go the entrepreneur route, where they are today, and what they've learned in the process.

We cover what it takes to build a sustainable business. The good, the bad, and the ugly; it's all in there. I really think there's something for everyone so take a listen and learn something new.

Thank you for listening to the podcast. Kindly leave us a review at https://ratethispodcast.com/pascivite. 

In this episode, I interviewed Carmel Finnan of Story Dialogue. She shares about her long journey of finding out what she wanted to do, the longer journey of discovering how she can do it, and the fulfillment of finally doing it.

Carmel talks about the real deal about dialogue and how, when properly executed, it will maximize the effectiveness to deliver its purpose. We discussed her concern of standing out against the increasing noise in the marketplace, especially in social media, and we’ve come up with some really great ways to address it.

Listen up and learn!

In this episode, we talked about:

1. Carmel’s journey from working in the academe in Ireland to leaving it, becoming self-employed, and establishing her own business.
2. How she waited for so long, not doing anything because she didn’t know what to do.
3. How what happened to her friend scared her and became the turning point in her life.
4. Meeting a businessman in her course that led her to find the need for storytelling in business and found her place in it.
5. The power of dialogue and how, when executed properly, will give the utmost result needed in any area it is used.

Carmel raised her concern about the increasing noise in social media and how her message can be heard above it. We arrived with the following ways to do this:

1. Build a community.
2. Get insights from each other.
3. Make the community run by itself, with you observing on the sideline and participating as another part of the community.
4. Choose the right tools.
5. Implement a game plan.

Connect and know more about Carmel Finnan of Story Dialogue here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmelfinnan/

Website: https://storydialogue.com/blog/author/carmel/

WHAT IS DIGITAL MARKETING FOR HUMANS?

Digital Marketing for Humans is an interview-style podcast aimed squarely at business owners. It's hosted by a business owner. Around 90% of the guests are business owners. It's a platform that shares the stories of business owners, which other business owners might find useful.

Each episode is unique because everyone's story is unique. We cover the journey of each guest, starting with why they chose to go the entrepreneur route, where they are today, and what they've learned in the process.

We cover what it takes to build a sustainable business. The good, the bad, and the ugly; it's all in there. I really think there's something for everyone so take a listen and learn something new.

Thank you for listening to the podcast. Kindly leave us a review at https://ratethispodcast.com/pascivite. 

In this episode, I chat with Emily McGuire of Flourish and Grit. We talk about her journey in her business, including how she thought of the name and how it represents the business's principles. Emily teaches us how working hand in hand with these principles affects their clients’ businesses.

Emily walks us through the email marketing experience as perceived on the other side of the fence, the customers, and how Flourish and Grit work backward to maximize the value of email marketing for their client's business. We discussed their common struggle, which is identifying their niche and how to work with that.

Listen up and enjoy!

In this episode, we discussed:

1. Emily’s struggle to be taken seriously because of her uncanny ways of doing business and how she eventually won over that prejudice and found her footing in the business.
2. Emily’s joy as she gets to work with her best friend, who is talented, and how their partnership helps them grow together and grow the business with it.
3. What inspired the name Flourish and Grit and how it represents both their principles of doing the business and the experience of partnering up with them.
4. How they work with email marketing holistically to capture high touchpoints that people send to your business to signal they are interested.
5. Strategies to keep people engaged and how to lead them seamlessly to the purchase process.

Emily shares her struggle of finding the ideal customer to market to and how to tailor their marketing according to that niche. We discussed the following strategies that could help her in this particular area:

1. Define the value of your services.
2. Determine how much you want to get paid according to the value you give.
3. Create a persona of the ideal customer based on that pricing.
4. Define your image based on the persona of those that can afford you.
5. Think of a company that you want to work with. Find a way to quantify why you want to work with that company and start checking other similar companies according to the metrics you deduced from that analysis.

Connect and know more about Emily McGuire and Flourish and Grit here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcguireemily/

Website: https://www.flourishgrit.com

WHAT IS DIGITAL MARKETING FOR HUMANS?

Digital Marketing for Humans is an interview-style podcast aimed squarely at business owners. It's hosted by a business owner. Around 90% of the guests are business owners. It's a platform that shares the stories of business owners, which other business owners might find useful.

Each episode is unique because everyone's story is unique. We cover the journey of each guest, starting with why they chose to go the entrepreneur route, where they are today, and what they've learned in the process.

We cover what it takes to build a sustainable business. The good, the bad, and the ugly; it's all in there. I really think there's something for everyone so take a listen and learn something new.

Thank you for listening to the podcast. Kindly leave us a review at https://ratethispodcast.com/pascivite. 

In this episode, I interviewed Angel Ribo, the CEO of The CEO Confidant. This man literally has traveled the world in his entire life, helping people start and grow their businesses. As if that’s not amazing enough, he is also fluent in a couple of languages.

Angel shares his journey of helping hundreds of CEOs internationally and what he learned from those experiences. He talks about supporting more than a thousand underprivileged kids in Latin America to become entrepreneurs using local resources through his organization called Wisdom for Kids.

In this episode, we discussed:

1. How he chose his brand when he left corporate America 5 years ago.
2. How every CEO and business is different.
3. The system of expansion and exposure that they use in growing different businesses.
4. His experience of not invoicing his past clients.
5. The elements he uses in branding answering the questions who do you want to serve and what you do for them.

Angel shares his goal of 1 million daily reach for his content, and we brainstorm on some ways to achieve it coming up with the following things to help him achieve that goal:

1. Instead of being on and off with the video content, keep it on.
2. Make reusable content. Make five bullet points, and each bullet point can be a potential video.
3. Use caption for accessibility and make it user-friendly for everyone.
4. Alternate caption and video post
5. Have a newsletter creating a funnel of people they can reach directly.

Connect and know more about Angel and Thew CEO Confidant here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelribo/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theceoconfidant

Pinterest: https://pl.pinterest.com/angeletgaruda/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Angel-Ribo-286015821824654/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/angeletgaruda

WHAT IS DIGITAL MARKETING FOR HUMANS?

Digital Marketing for Humans is an interview-style podcast aimed squarely at business owners. It's hosted by a business owner. Around 90% of the guests are business owners. It's a platform that shares the stories of business owners, which other business owners might find useful.

Each episode is unique because everyone's story is unique. We cover the journey of each guest, starting with why they chose to go the entrepreneur route, where they are today, and what they've learned in the process.

We cover what it takes to build a sustainable business. The good, the bad, and the ugly; it's all in there. I really think there's something for everyone so take a listen and learn something new.

Thank you for listening to the podcast. Kindly leave us a review at https://ratethispodcast.com/pascivite.