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Double Your Revenue in 90 Days with Strategy Sprints CEO, Simon Severino

Imagine doubling your revenue in just 90 days—sounds too good to be true? Our guess doesn't believe so. In fact, he has done that repeatedly with his clients.

Simon Severino is CEO of Strategy Sprints, a seasoned B2B advisor who developed a simple approach to growing revenues and building businesses. 

In this episode of Growth Leap, Simon explains his agile business strategies, his focus on marketing, sales, and operations, and his tireless emphasis on simplification.

We cover: 

• Doubling Revenue in 90 Days: Uncover the secret that's driving growth for many businesses
• Discover the benefits of staying nimble and responsive in a dynamic marketplace
• Pipeline Management: Keep track of your leads and never let another opportunity slip
• Stay on top of your game by monitoring the right data and performance
• Understand the importance of choosing the right KPIs and how it affects your growth
• Learn the importance of crafting offers that are simply too good to resist
• Keep a finger on the pulse of your business with real-time updates
• Strengthen your daily and weekly routines to drive consistent progress
• Meaningful Business: See how agile methods improve not just your bottom line, but your overall quality of life

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You can download Simon's Strategic Value tool at https://www.strategysprints.com/tools

Where to find Simon:

• X: https://twitter.com/simonseverino
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonseverino/
• Website: https://www.strategysprints.com/

Where to find Michel:

• Newsletter: https://www.stunandawe.com/
• X: https://twitter.com/michelgagnon
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micheljgagnon/

In this episode, we cover:

00:27 Intro

03:22 How Simon doubles his clients' revenue in 90 days

05:48 The top mistakes Simon finds in underperforming businesses

07:14 The three key numbers Simon puts in his dashboard

11:05 Simon's strategy to simplify and have a better life

15:28 Why Simon believes niching down doesn't work

17:16 How to build an irresistible offer

22:10 Simon's take on AI and automation

25:55 What Simone borrowed from his triathlon coach

29:16 Measuring inputs to get real time data and successful projects

31:47 60% of what you do is not important

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Would you turn down a great Sales Executive job to start your own startup? That’s exactly what our guest did. 

We're launching our new podcast season with the driven and generous Frank Sondors, co-founder and CEO of Salesforge, an AI-powered app that enables salespeople send personalized cold emails at scale. 

Frank believes sales tech is in for a massive disruption, and he's keen on being in the driver's seat. 

We talk about his thought process, decision-making, and reasons behind transitioning from a sales expert to a tech entrepreneur. We delve into how he plans to disrupt the sales tech space with Salesforge.

He shares tons of tips including:

• His multi-thread approach to winning new accounts
• How he found early customers in a coffeeshop in Berlin 
• Consumption-based pricing
• And more

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Imagine a world where we could significantly reduce our carbon footprint, effectively giving our planet a much-needed breather. What if I told you that is the goal of my guest, Carla Glassel, the co-founder and CTO of Ucaneo Biotech? 

With an ambitious target to extract 1 million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere by 2030, Carla joins us today to explain the cutting-edge technology and innovative methods her startup uses to combat the climate crisis. 

In this fun and enlightning conversation, we talk about the intricate world of climate tech, exploring the challenges of bringing a hardware product to market. Carla shares a ton of advice and anecdotes about the importance of assembling a World Cup-level team, hacks to reduce experiments timelines with hardware, her plan to scale a hardware tech, and the secret to get to the finish line. And she doesn't shy away from sharing some of the mistakes she's made.

We conclude with a deep dive into the investor landcape for climate tech and the expected timeline for Ucaneo's product development. Plus, Carla shares her outlook on climate tech, why putting a value on CO2 is critical, and emphasizes the need for multiple solutions to tackle the climate crisis. 

If you're a tech entrepreneur interested in fighting climate change, building a meaningful business, or getting into a hardware tech, this is the perfect episode for you!

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Andrew Gazdecki is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Acquire.com. After going through two successful exits, he decided to build the world’s number-one startup acquisition marketplace.

If you're thinking about selling your startup or are building a venture with an exit in mind, you'll find the episode rich in actionable insights and pitfalls to avoid. 

Andrew shares all his secrets:

• The mistakes he made when selling a company for the first time
• His preferred marketing strategy, and why it's the most defensible approach
• How Andrew builds teams as a non-tech founder and the three attributes in he looks for 
• What types of businesses sell better than others
• What types of buyers are buying companies on Acquire.com
• What Andrew focuses on to run a successful marketplace
• What can you expect if you want to sell your company on Acquire.com

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Are you worried about the impact of generative AI on the job market? In this episode of "Growth Leap", I discuss the importance of becoming AI literate and adapting to the transformation. 

I cover three AI marketing tools that can help with content creation, image generation, and video editing, including Copy.ai, Midjourney, and Runway. But the most valuable lesson is the need to stay ahead in the marketing and growth game by embracing the opportunities presented by AI technology. 

Don't miss out on the chance to learn how to effectively use these tools to drive customer acquisition, create content, and generate sales by signing up for the paid AI marketing workshop mentioned in the episode.

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In our latest podcast episode, we had a blast chatting with Henning Heinrich, a seasoned product growth expert who's driven millions in incremental revenue for companies across the globe. As the Group Product Manager at Hootsuite, Henning knows a thing or two about creating disruptive and meaningful products.

Product-led growth is all about putting the product front and center of your growth strategy. This means creating a product so damn good that customers will want to shout it from the rooftops and bring their friends along for the ride. It's all about using data, feedback, and experimentation to inform product development and drive growth.

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Design a digital channel strategy to gain leads and win new customers.

We don’t talk enough about how a smart digital channel strategy can drive customer acquisition, retention, and overall satisfaction. I have probably wasted months of my life on either the wrong marketing channel or doing a poor job using one of them. And I still cry sometimes alone in my bed, thinking about it ;)

Marketing channels are how you get your message to prospects and customers. Picking the right channels and using them properly can help you find new customers, increase sales, and build your brand.

You're probably already using email marketing, social media, and maybe podcasts or video. They are many ways for you to make the same mistakes I’ve made. 

Many people often waste time trying to increase their productivity per channel. It's not necessarily wrong, but your first step should be to have a coherent digital channel strategy. You can then avoid wasting time on the wrong channels.

In this episode, I cover: 

• What are marketing channels, and how to think about them
• What are the top marketing channels
• All marketing channels have distinct cost structures, reach, and ROI.
• Typical mistakes people make with channel strategy
• An overview of our own marketing channel strategy example for 2023

Selected Links:

• Arvid Kahl's book The Embedded Entrepreneur
• Arvid on Twitter
• Luca on Twitter 
• Luca's lead generation product: https://www.hivoe.com/

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Today’s guest is Jimmy Coleman, a talented salesman and LinkedIn genius. He is the founder of LeadBaller, a US-based agency that offers done-for-you lead-generation services. His clients include TikTok, Northwestern Mutual, The Real Brad Lea, and others. 

Releasing this episode is long overdue. For a variety of reasons, we were not able to do so earlier. But the insights and advice that Jimmy offered were just too valuable not to share with all of you. 

Jimmy’s approach to generating leads on LinkedIn is totally out-of-the-box. He doesn't use the same boring, automated, spammy methods everyone else is teaching. In fact, he’s mastered three key elements that most have a hard time replicating: 

• The numbers game
• Authentic selling
• Personalization

If you want to up your B2B lead generations and sales game, that’s the episode for you. We talk about the numbers game, how his sales experience evolved into his outbound process that beats advertising, his trick to finding the right prospects, and his idea about making lead generation for good.

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After a long and well-deserved summer break we're back in full force with another season of Growth Leap and we have somebody very special to kick things off.

Our guest today is Fabian Wesemann co-founder and CFO of wefox a Germany-based digital insurance company. wefox recently closed a $650 million Series C funding round led by Target Global and reaching a post-money valuation of $3 billion.

Founded in Berlin in 2015, wefox decided to make an important strategic bet. The company has focused on tech enabling insurance advisors instead of seeking to cut the middleman. The results so far have been quite positive. The company posted 119 million in revenues last year and is on track to reach 325 million this year.

We talk about what it takes to be an entrepreneur, wefox' journey to becoming a unicorn, and the importance of employee equity compensation.

What you will learn:

1. Why Fabian decided to quit a corporate job and become an entrepreneur
2. Key challenges and skills to have to be a successful entrepreneur
3. wefox' strategic positioning and channel strategy
4. How to build and grow your team
5. Remote working, the pandemic, and preserving your company culture
6. wefox' plan for the next 12-18 months
7. The importance of employee ownership

Enjoy the show and happy listening!

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Today’s guest is Alexej Habinski, a multifaceted growth expert who has developed his growth hacking craft at Rocket Internet and later at foodora (later acquired by Delivery Hero). Alexej was Global Director of Performance Marketing & Rider Growth there and scaled annual GMV turnover from close to €0 to >€500M. 

Growth advisor and angel investor, he now develops growth systems and teams for venture backed startups, including TIER Mobility, Sharpist, Weezy.co.uk, vation.io., and Jodel.com.

In this episode, Alexej shares his personal philosophy and outlook on growth. He talks about the importance of making your product social and speaks on the fortune he has had in working with diverse business models.

What you will learn:

1. Background to his career and the businesses he is involved in
2. The biggest growth hack he has discovered and implemented
3. Common mistakes startups make and the still relevant 4Ps of marketing 
4. The value of talking to your customers
5. Simple growth tactics startups can use to approach potential customers 
6. Typical mistakes startup founders make 
7. His advice on channel strategy why he believes you need to crack marketing on TikTok

If you tend to overthink and procrastinate, Alexej has a few solutions for you that you can implement in your business. He favors focused actions, values customer feedback, and has a unique perspective on marketing and why he recommends not using paid advertising early in your startup development. 

He shares simple tactics to approaching customers that are often overlooked, common mistakes founders make such as being unfocused, and how to strategically prioritize your to-dos.

Enjoy the show and happy listening!

For detailed show notes and relevant links, visit www.stunandawe.com

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