Is the number of Social Media Followers really important? Hendrik And Ben discuss the type of followers they want, if you should create content or get followers first and what they would do if they only had 1 week to create a social media strategy. This Episode also starts the "10K LinkedIn Challenge" where they try to grow their LinkedIn to over 10.000 followers.

Write us a Message at [email protected] to join the Challenge!

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Do you need a business plan or just a plan for your business? Many founders and entrepreneurs think they HAVE to do one but is this true? Ben and Hendrik share their opinion on when and why a business plan might be useful or if it is a complete waste of your time.

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Shownotes:

Venture Hacks Pitch Deck

Guy Kawasaki Pitch Deck

Business Model Canvas

NUK Business Plan Competition

Rheinland Pitch

What are your Goals for 2019? Should doubling your Revenue be one of them? In this Episode Ben and Henrik talk about the why, what and how of doubling your revenue every year. They touch on topics like team building, scalable business models and share their tactics on how they are planning to double their revenue next year.

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A/B testing is a Buzzword that is thrown around a lot in the Marketing Space. What makes sense to test and what does not? And what Split tests do Hendrik and Ben do regularly? In this Episode Ben and Hendrick talk about their favourite A/B testing Tools and share what they learned on their journey.

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Shownotes:

Instapage

Wordpress

Unbounce

Google Optimize

Google Tag Manager

Podcasts are a great opportunity to spread your message. They are getting more and more popular but how do you actually grow a podcast and what are the challenges you might face? In this Episode Ben and Hendrik talk about their strategies to growth hack the podcast and how they started.

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Shownotes:

growtheurope.com

pirateskills.com

Steuern steuern by Johann C. Köber

Profit first by Mike Michalowicz

Offline Events are easily overlooked by the Online Marketing community because they are not very easy to scale. In this Episode Hendrik and Ben talk about the fact that this is a good thing and how you can use events to get raving fans. You will learn why events are so valuable and learn strategies to get people to attend your event.

Enjoy the Show!

Let us know if you have your own offline event.

Shownotes:

Do Things that don`t Scale: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

Mental Blocks.. something every Entrepreneur battles on a regular basis. How can you start executing on the thing you are putting of for months? In this Episode Ben and Hendrik share their battles with resistance and how it is holding them back personally and share their best strategies to overcome it and do the work. 

Enjoy the Show and let’s fight resistance together!

Shownotes:

The War of Art - by Steven Pressfield

Do the Work - by Steven Pressfield

Getting Things Done - by David Allen

“#15: There seems to be a never ending War between Marketing and Sales. In this Episode, Ben and Hendrik talk about what causes this War and some ideas on how to end it. Should the Marketing and Sales Department be separate? What can Salespeople learn from Marketers and what can Marketers learn from Salespeople? Enjoy the Show and let’s end the War!

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“#14: Personal Finance for entrepreneurs” Ben and Hendrik talk about money. This is for sure not our favorite topic to talk about…But it is really important. What do you earn? What about savings? What about your life-standard? What about investing in the coming? Taxes? Automation and tools? How much should be your salary as an entrepreneur.

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Shownotes:

Fastbill

N26

K

“#13: Startup Tech F*ck Ups” Ben and Hendrik talk about Tech. The importance of technology is rising. Most of th people are not able to code. But at least we all have to understand what is possible with technology and what now. We have to understand the language of developers to discuss with them how to solve our technical challenges. What does a MVP cost? How and when to build a MVP? What about this CTO thing? Legacy code – Pfuiiii!

Links:

https://selfhtml.org/

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