StartingFromZero - Self-Funded Founder Interviews

033: $0-$750k In 1 Year - Scaling White Hat Link Building with Ryan Stewart of Webris.org

Do you run (or want to run) a Digital Marketing Agency? Then this episode is for you. Ryan Stewart launched Webris.org in March of 2016, and in under a year has already bootstrapped it to the $750k revenue mark. Full Show notes at: http://startingfromzero.co/ryan-stewart/

032: From High-school Dropout to Productized Email-Marketing Service

This episode’s a bit different. We start off talking about business, John’s story and email marketing, but wax philosophical on “success”, what it seems to be in the internet business world… and if it makes sense for everyone. Skip to minute 33 for that part of the conversation. For in-depth email marketing advice, check out the show-notes and links at: startingfromzero.co/john-mcintyre

031: Cracking the SEO Code with Brian Dean

Brian Dean is the founder of Backlinko.com, one of the web's premier resources for understanding SEO (Search Engine Optimization) - the art and science of getting your website to show up on google when people search for what you are selling. SEO is cool. If you master the art of getting FREE organic traffic funneling into your website, you have the foundations of a real business. And backlinko has definitely mastered this science, with a Domain Authority of 77 at the time of this writing. That's higher than Tinder's landing page (75) or Angel.co (76). Crazy. But the business that Brian has built around his expertise is just as cool, if not downright beautiful in its simplicity. 1. Share awesome content for free - SEO tips and strategies previously only available to industry insiders. 2. Sell an online course (at the not-too-shabby price-tag of $2900) that repackages that knowledge into an easily digestible and implementable format. Listen to hear how Brian built this business.

030: Sales Funnels and Online Marketing Tools with Stephen Esketzis

According to Stephen Esketzis every business is at its core a Sales Funnel. In this episode we explore how Stephen built a 6-figure business from a 200 person email list, by focusing on his sales funnels.. Listen to Learn How Stephen got his entrepreneurial start in elementary school His first real venture right out of high-school – a guest-list app How that venture pivoted to a content, then a SaaS platform How he self-taught himself online marketing His guiding question in life “Where do you wanna be when you’re 60 years old?” How he reaches out to people above his level How he used affiliate networks as a research tool for building his first sales funnel Stephen’s Marketing Stack Some insights on building funnels for membership products

029: How ThriveThemes built a 7-figure subscription software company in 1 year with Shane Melaugh

Shane Melaugh is Owner/Founder of ThriveThemes, a 35 employee, 7-figure turnover international software company. But the story isn't quite that simple.. To other self-funded founders, the success that Thrive has been having over the past 2 years may seem like an overnight success fairy-tale. But the story starts many years earlier. Shane wasn't good in school, dropped out of university and found himself working significantly "less-than-desireable" jobs for a few years. After a few years he began to find his feet creating and marketing information products, but as a non-technical founder, he was always frustrated with the complexity of building converting pages on Wordpress. The idea for the ThriveTheme suite was born from this frustration, and the rest is history.