REACH OR MISS - Entrepreneurial Marketing Success

Tom started his first technology company at the age of 18 and gave a TEDx talk on the Future of Technology aged 23.

He’s represented the UK at four startup world finals, and currently mentors for Startup Weekend and Virgin Startup.

He’s advised the UK government on entrepreneurship, was shortlisted for Future Business Leader of the Year and was named one of 20 young entrepreneurs to watch 2017.

Erik Huberman is Founder & CEO of Hawke Media, a full-service Outsourced CMO based in Santa Monica, CA that has been valued at $30 million. As a serial entrepreneur and brand marketing expert, Erik is a sought-after thought leader. He is the recipient of numerous awards including Forbes 30under30, Inc. Magazine’s Top 25 Marketing Influencers, and a 2016 Telly Award.

Started out on 6 figure salary at age 23

Went broke & got evicted onto the streets with family

Started business from scratch. Went broke again

Outsourced his business to a competitor

Run his company out of a hotel lobby for a year

Grew it and semi-retired on passive earnings at 31

Launched podcast show which was recently rated Top 26 podcasts to listen to in 2017

Launched new company called Get Featured which gets people featured on top rated podcast show

Jeremiah Gardner helps organizations create value. He is an international keynote speaker, the author of the bestselling book, The Lean Brand, and Principal at Moves The Needle where he has advised companies like GE, ING, eBay, Intuit, and Cisco in building their Innovation Transformation practice. He has been featured in several media outlets including Forbes, The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, Lifehacker, and The Guardian. Jeremiah tweets @JeremiahGardner and blogs at http://jeremiahgardner.com.

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REACH OR MISS listeners. When we decided to launch a podcast that will be devoted to customer focus for entrepreneurs, I wasn’t sure what will come out of these interviews.

It seems like Marketing, and Messages and Customer Focus, everything connected to customer’s approach totally changed during this huge Technological Revolution we are all part of.

We are celebrating today the 12th episode of the show, and I must admit the message is very clear: When I ask for their best advice I’m getting over and over the same answer.

You must talk with your customers (and listen to them)!!

Andy Yang is the CEO of 500px and an advisor with MaRS’ Consumer & Commerce cluster. He has spent more than 15 years in technology as an investor (angel and institutional), banker, consultant and advisor. Currently, Andy is CEO of 500px, a premium photography community funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Harrison, Metal, and ffVC. Previously he was an investor at Extreme Startups and a venture capitalist at Relay Ventures.

Nevo Alva is the CEO and co-founder of Visualead, pioneer of embedded visual QR code technology that seamlessly converts part of any image into a QR code, enhancing consumer engagement. Alva drew on his considerable entrepreneurship experience and education to successfully develop and launch Visualead in less than one year.

Visualead has a very strong awareness and presence in Asia, particularly in china. The company has a strategic partnership with its main investor the Alibaba Group, the owner of China’s largest e-commerce businesses.

Joe Pulizzi is founder of Content Marketing Institute, a UBM company, the leading education and training organization for content marketing, which includes the largest in-person content marketing event in the world, Content Marketing World. Joe is the winner of the 2014 John Caldwell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Content Council. Joe’s the author of four books, including his latest Content Inc. His third book, Epic Content Marketing was named one of “Five Must Read Business Books of 2013” by Fortune Magazine. You can find Joe on Twitter @JoePulizzi. If you ever see Joe in person, he’ll be wearing orange.

Chris Brogan provides strategy and skills for the modern business. He is CEO of Owner Media Group, a sought after public speaker, and the New York Times bestselling author of nine books and working on his tenth. Forbes listed Chris as one of the Must Follow Marketing Minds of 2014, plus listed his website as one of the 100 best websites for entrepreneurs. Statsocial rated Chris the #3 power influencer online. Chris lives in northern Massachusetts. His better half is Jacqueline Carly. Between the two of them, they have three kids.

John Lee Dumas: John is the host of EOFire, an award winning podcast where he

interviews today’s most successful entrepreneurs 7-days a week. JLD has grown

EOFire into a multi-million dollar a year business with over 1500 interviews

and 1.5 million monthly listens. He’s the author of The Freedom Journal and The

Mastery Journal, two of the most funded publishing campaigns of all time on

Kickstarter. All the magic happens at EOFire.com!