Growth Experts with Dennis Brown

Anne Thornly Brown is the CEO of Executive Oasis International, a Toronto-based consulting firm that specializes in business team building simulations and executive retreats to help organizations succeed even during turbulent times.

Since 1996, Anne has helped companies from 19 countries improve results with upbeat, interactive, and effective executive retreats, team building, meetings, and keynotes.

During our interview we discuss:

- Some of her favorite locations around the world for doing corporate retreats.

- Anne shares he favorite way to generate new clients for her consulting business.

- Then Anne shares 5 tips on how to better leverage team building to help grow your business.

- Anne shares the biggest challenge she has faced in growing her business.

- We talk about her favorite growth tool/software.

- Anne shares one of her favorite books.

Anne's websites:

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http://www.executiveoasis.com/blogs.html#ebook

Connect with Anne direct at www.linkedin.com/in/annethornleybrown/

It's been a while since my last solo episode here on Growth Experts so today I am going to share something that I have been testing and using with great success for several years.

Today I am going to share with you 4 easy to implement tips on how to double your email open rates w/ the goal of increasing sales.

If you implement my 4 easy steps I can almost guarantee your open rates go from 15-20% to 30-40% or more overnight.

Enjoy!

Get a free copy of my book:

The 7 Habits of Highly Successful LinkedIn Users

www.linkedacademy.com

Connect with me:

www.linkedin.com/in/askdennisbrown

Check out my blog:

www.askdennisbrown.com/blog

Carl Allen is an entrepreneur, investor, and corporate dealmaker who has worked on transactions worth over $50 billion, which includes over 250 acquisitions and sales, together with more than 100 capital fund raising projects. In a 24-year career, Carl has analysed thousands of businesses, big and small, in 17 different countries and across nearly every business sector, including technology, pharmaceuticals, transport and logistics, engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, consumer goods and services, business services, retail, professional services, finance, packaging, and corporate clothing.

During our interview we discuss:

- How he developed his 10 step system for acquiring businesses with leveraged buyouts.

- Carl starts out by sharing why people should consider buying an existing business.

- Carl shares his proprietary 10 step process for acquiring businesses using leverage buyouts.

- Carl talks about the difference between buying a business that you own 100% vs partnering with someone vs being being one of the shareholders.

- He shares his favorite growth tool/software.

- Carl recommends one of his favorite books.

Carl's websites:

www.ninjaacquisitions.com/free

Josue Pena the founder of Online CEO's and an Instagram growth hacking expert and influencer with over 5 million followers. He is also 2 comma ClickFunnels member.

During the interview we discuss:

- Two of the biggest reasons why he was able to go from $200k to $1.2 million in less than 90 days.

- He shares why and how surrounding yourself with the right people is one of the keys to growth.

- Josue talks about the importance of building a team and how that has impacted his growth.

- Then Josue shares his favorite strategy for getting new agency clients w/ no paid ads.

- We talk about the biggest lesson he learned in growing from $15k-$20k per month to over $100k per month.

- PLUS a whole lot more.

- Check out E17 where I also interviewed Josue about how he hacked Instagram to get over 4.5 million followers.

Josue's websites:

www.facebook.com/josuepena

www.igboss.com

www.instagram.com/itsjosuepena/

Brendan Kane is a digital and business strategist for Fortune 500 corporations, global brands, and celebrities. He started his career in the entertainment industry managing digital divisions for two prominent movie studios.

He then went on to build applications, platforms and campaigns for celebrity clients such as Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Katie Couric, Michael Strahan, Zoe Saldana, Jason Statham, and super model Adrianna Lima. Today, Brendan is best known for recently building a million followers in 100 countries in less then 30 days.

During our interview we discuss:

- Brendan shares the #1 strategy that he uses to get new clients.

- Then we talk about the exact strategies/tactics that Brendan used to build over 1 million social media followers in 30 days.

- Brendan talks about his strategy for generating leads and sales with LinkedIn.

- He talks about how to leverage Facebook ads to generate traffic to your LinkedIn content.

- Brendan shares his favorite growth tool/software.

- Then he shares and recommends one of his favorite books for the audience.

- PLUS many other marketing, sales and growth strategies.

Get a copy of his book at www.onemillionfollowers.com

Email him direct at [email protected]

@BrendanKane on Instragram

Erik Harbison is the Chief Marketing Officer at AWeber where he oversees AWeber's overall marketing operations. vision and strategy. This includes the Business Development, Social Media, PR, Education and Content marketing disciplines. Connect with Erik:

Erik has over twenty years of experience in the marketing and advertising space that includes starting and selling a boutique agency, growing award-winning marketing teams and launching performance-based campaigns.

During our interview we discuss:

- Erik shares the #1 strategy that Aweber is using to generate new clients for their email services.

- Erik shares why he believes email is NOT dead.

- Then Erik shares 3 steps that small businesses can leverage to generate more revenue with email.

- We dissect how powerful segmenting your email list can be, including doubling both open and click through rates.

- Erik shares his favorite growth tool/software.

- Then Erik recommends one of his favorite books.

Erik's websites:

www.aweber.com

www.linkedin.com/in/eharbison/

Todd Palmer is a renowned thought leader/CEO, executive coach and author who is committed to Improving Lives. As a successful entrepreneur and business owner, he works with both individuals and companies to support corporate growth, foster business start-ups and guide leaders in the areas of talent management, workforce planning and organizational development.

As the CEO of a 6-time INC 5000 company, Todd knows the struggles that businesses face around the areas of people, cash, strategy & execution. Through his firm Extraordinary Advisors, Todd is able to guide leaders into programs of sustained profitability.

During our interview we discuss:

- Todd talks about how and why he niched his recruiting business and why it was so instrumental in his growth.

- Then Todd talks about why he throttled back on revenue growth and started focusing on margin growth.

- Then we discusses the #1 strategy that his team uses to generate new customers.

- Todd then dissects the 4 pillars that allowed him to hit the Inc. 5,000 six times.

- We discuss why he decided to fire his entire staff and how he changed the entire culture to turned the company around.

- Todd shares the #1 thing he would do different to get further faster, if he had to start all over today.

- Todd shares his favorite growth tool/software.

- We talk about one of Todd's favorite books and why he recommends everyone read it.

Todd's websites:

www.extraordinaryadvisors.com

www.distaffing.com

He's trained hundreds of people to become powerful speakers, growing their brand from the stage. Since 2003, Pete Vargas has promoted platforms with purpose, working with his team to book over 20,000 events that have generated more than $40 million in revenue—and reached tens of millions of people through the speakers and organizations they serve.

If you have a story that influences people towards positive change, Pete can teach you how to find the right stages that scale in both revenue and reach. And today, he's bringing insight and inspiration to us!

During our interview we discuss:

- Pete journey from startup to $5 million in revenue in in the last 3 years.

- Then Pete shares his 3 step framework for using speaking and getting on stage to grow your brand and business.

- Peter talks about his story braid framework and how to use it to ensure you inspire your audience.

- We talk about how to find stages where your niche audience is gathering both online and online.

- He talks about how one of his students is going to add 7 figures in revenue to his business in 2018.

- Pete shares his favorite growth tools/software.

- Pete recommends his favorite book.

Pete's websites:

www.advanceyourreach.com/growthexperts

Jim Huffman is the CEO of GrowthHit, a growth marketing agency, and the author of The Growth Marketer's Playbook. He is a growth mentor for the Techstars accelerator and teaches digital marketing at General Assembly. Jim led growth at two startups that went from idea to over $10M in sales and he has advised and taught marketing to brands that include OREO, Hot Wheels, FedEx, Clorox and more.

During our interview we discuss:

- How and why Jim decided to start his growth marketing agency.

- Jim shares the #1 strategy he is using to getting new clients today.

- We dissect exactly how Jim uses free workshops to get new clients including his follow sequence drip campaign.

- Jim shares a 2nd customer acquisition strategy that he is excited about as he begins to scale his agency.

- Hindsight is always 20/20 so Jim shares what he would do differently to grow faster if he could start GrowtHit all over again.

- Jim shares his favorite growth tool/software.

- Then Jim recommends one of his favorite books to my audience.

Jim's website:

www.growthhit.com

www.growthmarketersplaybook.com Promo code "growthexperts" for 30% off Jim's book.

www.twitter.com/jimwhuffman

Isaac Tolpin is one of the founders of ConveYour.com, the #1 Microlearning platform for learner engagement. He's a tech entrepreneur and futurist at heart, on a mission to enable brands to align their training with human behavior leading to breakthrough learner engagement. His success come from understanding the relationships between human behavior, business, and technology. This expertise has helped celebrity influencers and companies transform their training programs.

During our interview we discuss:

- Isaac shares why he decided to bootstrap his company versus raising venture capital.

- We discuss their grow path from $0 to over $1 million in annual recurring revenue.

- Isaac shares his #1 strategy for getting new Saas customers.

- Isaac shares how he was unable to make Facebook ads work to get new customers but how LinkedIn ads are generate leads for about $27 each.

- Then we talk about Isaac's 4 step process to help consultants, coaches and experts to create their own online course designed to help diversify their revenue stream.

- Isaac shares his favorite growth tool/software.

- Last but not least Isaac recommends one of his favorite books.

Isaac's website:

To get a free access to "5 Steps to Attract Content Licensing" online course just email [email protected]

www.conveyour.com

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