Growth Vertical

Creating and growing a startup successfully can be an enjoyable and rewarding journey, albeit seen as very intense and stressful. Today we’re going to focus on how to make that journey much easier as I sit down with Trevor Blake - a successful serial entrepreneur responsible for building and selling three startups for around $300m.

Trevor is also the author of the New York bestseller: Three Simple Steps.

This fireside style chat with Trevor was pretty eye-opening as he really discusses the key behind being successful in this current digital age, and how it can be done whilst working less and enjoying the experience.

Hope you enjoy it! 👌

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My name's Neil Patel and I'm an IT guy turned growth marketer & host of the Growth Vertical podcast. This is a podcast to inspire people to reach the next vertical point in their journeys. I'll be sitting down to share my experiences in marketing and personal growth to provide the right strategies for people to grow themselves, their careers and their businesses. growthvertical.com

Getting a marketing internship with no experience can be difficult. I’ll be showing you the exact email template I used to secure a digital marketing internship when kickstarting my growth marketing career.  I go through two different types of templates so stay tuned.

You can find the internships email template here.  

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My name's Neil Patel and I'm an IT guy turned growth marketer & host of the Growth Vertical podcast. This is a podcast to inspire people to reach the next vertical point in their journeys. I'll be sitting down to share my experiences in marketing and personal growth to provide the right strategies for people to grow themselves, their careers and their businesses. growthvertical.com

Having a plan is a must when strategising, planning and executing with SEO, and growing an early-stage startup or business that has already invested some time into growing with an SEO strategy can be tricky. That’s why today we’re going to be talking about the importance of creating an SEO roadmap to guide strategic, timely & measurable ROI-driven results. I sit down with an SEO expert - David Finberg who is the founder of Peaks Digital Marketing - to discuss the key elements in creating an effective SEO roadmap.

Hope you enjoy it!👌 

My name's Neil Patel and I'm an IT guy turned growth marketer & host of the Growth Vertical podcast. This is a podcast to inspire people to reach the next vertical point in their journeys. I'll be sitting down to share my experiences in marketing and personal growth to provide the right strategies for people to grow themselves, their careers and their businesses. growthvertical.com

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You may have a list of keywords for your business or from your client you're helping grow. You may have a list of your competitors' keywords you'd like to rank number one for on search engines, but how do you go about prioritising the keywords? How do you know what keywords to go after first? With the goal of generating high-quality traffic in mind much sooner, I'll walk you through a keyword research tutorial to find the gaps in competitor keyword strategies, so you can exploit those opportunities and rank for high-impact keywords first. I'll show you how to expand on these keywords using SEMRush's Keyword Gap Tool, which in my opinion is amazing for getting this data.

My name's Neil Patel and I'm an IT guy turned growth marketer & host of the Growth Vertical podcast. This is a podcast to inspire people to reach the next vertical point in their journeys. I'll be sitting down to share my experiences in marketing and personal growth to provide the right strategies for people to grow themselves, their careers and their businesses. growthvertical.com

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A good SEO strategy for startups can make or break their growth. Understanding where your competitor gets the most links and traffic is critical.   Who can you build partnerships with to get the word out? How can you increase your ranking potential in the eyes of the biggest search engines? What are the best ways to get more traffic to your website from relevant audiences? Whether you're growing a client's business or your own, using the SEMRush Backlinks Analytics Tool, I'll show you how to gain insights on where get potential backlinks from to increase your Domain Authority and ranking potential, where to place your content to drive relevant traffic to your website and where to promote your business as a whole.

Hope you enjoy it!👌 The experience is better as a video tutorial so check out the YouTube channel using the link below!

My name's Neil Patel and I'm an IT guy turned growth marketer & host of the Growth Vertical podcast. This is a podcast to inspire people to reach the next vertical point in their journeys. I'll be sitting down to share my experiences in marketing and personal growth to provide the right strategies for people to grow themselves, their careers and their businesses. growthvertical.com

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Strengthen your SEO strategy by understanding where your competitor gets most of their traffic from. Is their traffic namely branded or non-branded? Either way, analysing your competitors' SEO strategy allows you to identify gaps in their SEO strategy so you can get ahead. This episode will help you uncover the different keywords for you to target and potential links you can explore to try and build long-term relationships with for higher-quality traffic to generate more leads and revenue. Hope you enjoy it!👌 The experience is better as a video tutorial so check out the YouTube channel using the link below!

My name's Neil Patel and I'm an IT guy turned growth marketer & host of the Growth Vertical podcast. This is a podcast to inspire people to reach the next vertical point in their journeys. I'll be sitting down to share my experiences in marketing and personal growth to provide the right strategies for people to grow themselves, their careers and their businesses. growthvertical.com

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One of the best SEO strategies you can use is to analyse competitors and understand where they get most of their traffic from. This will help you gather stronger keyword ideas and identify gaps in their current strategy which you can exploit to benefit your business. In this episode, I'll walk you through a keyword research tutorial using competitor websites to find high-priority keywords so you can compete with the broader market. Whether you're growing a client's business or your own, using the SEMRush Organic Research Tool I'll show you how to find and expand on keywords to create a long-term strategy in driving high-quality traffic to a business website - to generate more leads and revenue. Hope you enjoy it!👌

My name's Neil Patel and I'm an IT guy turned growth marketer & host of the Growth Vertical podcast. This is a podcast to inspire people to reach the next vertical point in their journeys. I'll be sitting down to share my experiences in marketing and personal growth to provide the right strategies for people to grow themselves, their careers and their businesses. growthvertical.com

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SEO is one of the first marketing channels you want to be looking at to start driving traffic to your website. You should be carrying out keyword research to 'base' optimize your site. This will also inform your longer-term content marketing strategy. In this episode, I'll be walking through a keyword research tutorial to help find the core keywords for your business. I'll show you how to expand on these keywords using free tools like Google Keyword Planner and SEMRush (can be used on a free trial), to create a long-term strategy in driving traffic to your business website. Hope you enjoy it!👌 The experience is better as a video tutorial so check out the YouTube channel using the link below!

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Lead generation alone does not matter in marketing and sales, if it did then maybe startups and other businesses may be happy - but not if they don’t convert.  In this episode we discuss why marketers must have a lead generation strategy in place to think about influencing more conversions and new business, opposed to just generating leads.  Hope you enjoy it! 👌  My name's Neil Patel and I'm an ex-Technical Consultant who's now a growth marketer & host of the Growth Vertical podcast. This is a podcast to inspire people to reach the next vertical point in their journeys. I'll be sitting down to share my experiences in marketing and personal growth to provide the right strategies for people to grow themselves, their careers and their businesses. growthvertical.com

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How do you decide what content to create first? You’re setting up a content marketing and SEO strategy, but how do you know when to create Top of the Funnel (ToFu) content, Middle of the Funnel (MoFu) or Bottom of the Funnel Content (BoFu)?  In this episode we discuss how you should be thinking about your content marketing and where to focus your efforts first.   Hope you enjoy it! 👌  My name's Neil Patel and I'm an ex-Technical Consultant who's now a growth marketer & host of the Growth Vertical podcast. This is a podcast to inspire people to reach the next vertical point in their journeys. I'll be sitting down to share my experiences in marketing and personal growth to provide the right strategies for people to grow themselves, their careers and their businesses. growthvertical.com

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