Leveling Up with Eric Siu

Hi everyone, today's interview is with David White, CEO of import.io, a web data platform and free web scraping tool that lets you transform any website into a table of data or an API in minutes without even writing any code. I’ve used this tool a few times for my projects and it’s been super helpful!

Today we're talking about the importance of indexible data as the cornerstone to decision-making in businesses, his view of the semantic web, and how they used startup competitions as a (genius!) customer acquisition plan.

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Hey everyone! Today’s interview is with Sean Kelly, co-founder of Snack Nation (parent company is Human Healthy Vending – Helping Unite Mankind and Nutrition), an easy, hassle-free way to get delicious, healthy snacks delivered right to your office. I used to intern for Sean, so it's great to be able to chat with him again!

In this interview, Sean and I talk about B2B versus B2C business models, how content marketing has enabled them to grow at high double digits, month over month, why educating their customers with awesome 10x content gives them about 1/3 of their leads in return, and how showing vulnerability makes you a stronger leader.

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Hey everyone, today’s interview is with Scott Burns, CEO of GovDelivery, a digital communications platform exclusively for governments, serving over 1,000 public sector organizations around the world.

Today we’re talking about the need for government agencies to connect with the public and how GovDelivery manages to do that, the difference between marketing to public companies versus government agencies, and their unique approach to user acquisition.

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Today’s interview is with Rob Walling, founder of Drip, an extremely user-friendly email marketing automation tool that allows you to craft every interaction with your leads, Troux users, and customers. I personally just became a customer about a week ago and I’ve been very happy with both the team and the product itself.

In this interview, Rob and I talk about how the idea for Drip manifested as a result of the problems he was having with the email marketing tool he was using at the time, why a simple change in the software features was the key to finally growing the business, and how acquiring just one marketing skill at a time is the path to success.

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Hi everyone, today's interview is with Brad Martineau, Cofounder of SixthDivision, a company that helps businesses plan out and thrive on marketing automation via Infusionsoft. Today we're talking about the dire importance in planning before implementing any automation, and how SixthDivision has grown helping companies do just that.

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Hey everyone, today's conversation is with Tarun Nimmagadda, co-founder and CEO of Mutual Mobile, which is an emerging tech company that builds breakthrough products for a more connected world.

Today we'll talk about their unique approach to business and building products that allows them to maximize their profits while working for a minimal amount of clients at any given time.

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Today we're talking to AppSumo founder (aka Chief Sumo) Noah Kagan. Noah was employee #30 at Facebook and headed up marketing at Mint.com before it was sold for $170 million to Intuit less than 2 years later. His popular course Monthly1K.com helps budding entrepreneurs take action, validate their idea and launch businesses. Noah keeps a personal blog at Okdork.com focused on startups, marketing, self-exploration and his very public love of tacos.

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Today's interview is with Aaron Epstein, one of the co-founders of Creative Market, which is a platform for hand-crafted, mouse-made design content from independent creatives around the world. In our discussion, we dive deep into the strategy Aaron and his co-founders used to get 70,000 user signups in their nine month pre-launch period.

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Learn about how Sahil Jain dropped out of high school to work at Yahoo! at age 17 and then college to work at AOL and then eventually go on to co-found two technology startups. Here's the thing - he's only 23.

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Amy built a $2 million dollar business creating infographics for businesses. Learn about how infographics can help propel your business growth online in this fascinating discussion.

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