Growth Marketing Episodes

In episode 121, host Eric Dickmann talks with Nick Rimsa - Owner of Tortoise Labs where he offers services as fractional Co-Founder to help ambitious entrepreneurs develop their ideas into profitable apps, products, and services. Located in Maine, Tortise Labs has a mission is to help Mainers turn their ideas into profitable, scalable startups. For more information and access to the resources mentioned in this episode, visit: https://fiveechelon.com/growing-business-fractional-co-founder-s8ep6...

In episode 118, host Eric Dickmann talks with Brett Schklar - Managing Partner of Grow Powerful, a company focused on matching fractional CMOs with venture capital-backed B2B tech companies. Brett is a proven growth strategist who uses a powerful combination of brand building, storytelling, lead generation, and marketing execution to help emerging companies find their paths to growth and uncover demand for innovative technologies and approaches. Grow Powerful brings growth strategies to its cli...

In episode 99, host Eric Dickmann interviews Terry Dry. Terry is a consumer behavior expert, future-facing marketer, entrepreneur, business coach, Founder, and CEO of Future Proof Advisors. He has over 25 years of experience in leading marketing teams, transcending growth-inhibiting barriers, and developing unique and sustainable business strategies that helps companies grow. Terry prides himself on practicing what he preaches. Not only does he advise existing companies, but he also creates his ...

In episode 98, host Eric Dickmann interviews Gabrielle Dolan. Gabrielle is a business consultant and storyteller, speaker, and Founder of Jargon Free Fridays. Since 2004, she has been teaching people around the world the power of sharing personal stories in business. Gabrielle holds a Master's Degree in Management and Leadership from Swinburne University and graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School of Executive Education in both the Art and Practice of Leadership Development and Women and Powe...

In episode 95, host Eric Dickmann interviews Rob Levinson on the podcast. Rob is the Co-Founder of Leverage Advisors, a company that helps position businesses for long-term financial, operating, and market success. Rob has over 35 years of experience in branding, positioning, and storytelling. He helps companies when they need a laser-focused brand story that aligns with their business strategy. Prior to founding Leverage Advisors, Rob was a Principal at Brand Blueprint, a brand strategy firm a...

In episode 93, host Eric Dickmann interviews Matthew Pollard. Matthew is a growth marketing expert, keynote speaker, award-winning blogger and podcaster, and best-selling author of "The Introvert’s Edge." Forbes calls him “the real deal,” but Matthew is better known as “The Rapid Growth Guy.” By the age of 30, he was responsible for five multi-million dollar business success stories. Pollard has worked with companies such as Electrolux, Oracle, and Microsoft, providing training, keynotes, and wo...

In episode 91, host Eric Dickmann interviews Saunder Schroeder. Saunder is a digital marketer and the Chief Marketing Officer of Disruptive Advertising. Throughout his career, he has been able to help grow hundreds of businesses by creating digital marketing strategies to drive traffic and generate leads. Saunder has created and executed digital marketing strategies for Fortune 500 companies, including Adobe, Citrix, Dell, ESPN, Time Warner Cable, Lynda, Blendtec, Groopdealz, Salesforce, Plurals...

In episode 87, host Eric Dickmann interviews Neel Parekh. Neel is an entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of MaidThis Franchise. He started his career working in venture capital and private equity identifying and analyzing investment opportunities and managing investment portfolios. His dream was to work for himself and to enjoy freedom from the confines of the 9-to-5 office life. Neel pursued this entrepreneurial spirit and founded MaidThis. MaidThis helps homeowners and short-term rental hosts wi...

In episode 86, host Eric Dickmann interviews Alex Oliveira. Alex is an entrepreneur, marketing innovator, and Host of Dadpreneur Podcast. Throughout his career, Alex has helped generate millions of leads for SMB's and Fortune 500 companies. With his expertise in digital marketing, he also teaches an MBA program at FAU to train Marketing Directors at global corporations. Oliveira’s passion is to help businesses and brands increase leads and sales by building a sustainable marketing strategy that ...

In episode 84, host Eric Dickmann interviews Steve Preda. Steve is an entrepreneur, speaker, certified EOS implementer, and author of "Buyable: Your Guide to Building a Self-Managing, Fast-Growing, and High-Profit Business." Since the age of ten, Steve (Istvan) Preda dreamt of becoming an entrepreneur, inspired by his great-grandfather, who had built a legendary bakery business in Budapest, Hungary. After working for top consulting firms and banks in London and Budapest, in 2002, he embarked on ...

In episode 83, host Eric Dickmann interviews Tim Wu. Tim is a growth specialist, podcast host, and Head of Growth Marketing of Hatch, a VC-backed FinTech startup based in San Francisco, California. Hatch is an information technology and services company that aims to provide accessible, transparent, and fair checking and lending products to help people start and grow their businesses. Tim also hosts the Hatch Small Business Spotlight podcast. Together with his co-host, Katie, they feature Hatch ...

In episode 77, host Eric Dickmann interviews Joe Scartz. Joe is the Chief Digital Commerce Officer of Velocity Commerce Group and TPN+. He is an experienced executive with over 20 years of quantifiable marketing, digital marketing, and ecommerce success. Scartz has worked across industry verticals like retail, travel, CPG, automotive, branded manufacturers, and government to drive innovative and impactful marketing and e-commerce solutions with proven success. Whether in an e-commerce start-up o...

In episode 70, host Eric Dickmann interviews Deirdre Tshien. Deirdre is the founder of Growth Boss, a leading mentorship program for e-commerce business owners wanting to scale to multiple- 6 and 7 figures using the power of tribe-building, funnels, and human connection. She is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and led 5 businesses across 3 industries in the last 7 years, and has navigated the entire spectrum of experiences and emotions (the good, the bad, and the ugly) that come with starti...

In episode 67, host Eric Dickmann interviews Jason Sherman. Jason is a successful entrepreneur, award-winning filmmaker, published author, tech startup expert, and journalist. He has been featured by several media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Verge, and ABC News. Jason is fluent in Spanish, is a classically trained violinist, and was a featured speaker on FOX’s Futurist TV Show: Xploration Earth 2050. Jason runs a web and mobile dev shop and film studio from Philade...

This week, Eric Dickmann interviews Jim Britt. Jim is the author of numerous best-selling books and programs. Some of his many titles include Rings of Truth, Do This. Get Rich-For Entrepreneurs, Do This. Get Rich! for Network Marketers, Unleashing Your Authentic Power, The Power of Letting Go, and Cracking the Rich Code. He is an internationally recognized business leader who is highly sought after as a keynote speaker for all audiences. Jim was recently named as one of the world’s top 20 succe...

In this episode, host Eric Dickmann interviews Oren Greenberg. Oren is a growth marketer, On-Demand CMO, and Founder / Chief Growth Officer of the Kurve Consultancy in London. He helps startups and corporate innovation projects scale using digital channels. He has written for leading marketing blogs and has been featured in the international press. In this episode, Oren shares his thoughts on content marketing, growth strategies, and the changing landscape for marketing automation technologies....

In this episode, host Eric Dickmann interviews Jennifer Thornton. Jennifer has developed her expertise in Talent Strategy & Leadership Professional Development over her exciting 20+ year career as an HR Professional. The rapid growth of her consulting firm, 304 Coaching, has been largely due to Jennifer’s unconventional approach to building innovative workforce development solutions for companies who are facing breakthrough growth and accelerated hiring patterns. She is a sought-after business...

In this episode, host Eric Dickmann interviews Dr. Mark Wade. From a brick-and-mortar business to an online multi-millionaire, Dr. Mark is an inspiring and entertaining speaker. Coming from the healthcare industry with two Doctorates, he created the American Posture Institute, which became an industry empire built on the strategy he created called the “One-Day Summit Formula.” After his first successful venture, Dr. Mark created the Virtual Summits Software – which is the only software in the w...

In this episode, host Eric Dickmann interviews Andrea Fryrear. Andrea is the co-founder of AgileSherpas and a leading authority on optimizing customer acquisition and retention processes. She’s the author of two books on organizational agility, and an international speaker and trainer. Her newest book is entitled "Mastering Marketing Agility." In addition to working in the trenches with dozens of the world’s most innovative companies, Andrea has spent years achieving numerous certifications in ...

In this episode, host Eric Dickmann interviews Matt Clark. Matt is the founder of The Virtual Edge and co-creator of The Rainmaker System - an online marketing system that helps entrepreneurs get 2-5 high-value leads per day from LinkedIn without paying for ads. With their flagship program, Matt has helped thousands of businesses in 26 countries grow exponentially. They helped their clients by guiding them to make their profile attractive and give them a process that will adapt to their profile...

This week host Eric Dickmann interviews Randy Rohde. Randy started working in retail operations right out of grad school – running large box retail stores. He moved on to start several more companies and during that time, discovered the power of digital marketing and the impact it can have on scaling growth and revenue. Randy turned that passion into another new company and now runs a digital marketing agency focused on the growth of other small businesses called 38 Digital Market. In addition,...

This week, host Eric Dickmann interviews JC Hite. JC is the CEO and founder of Hite Digital, a white label digital marketing agency. He has started several successful business ventures including a language learning app. Now, he’s scaled his agency from 1 to 50 employees in just 2 years and counting. As CEO of Hite Digital, JC believes his job is to focus on people and culture. His first priority in life is family; both at home and at work. He tries to foster a culture of support, growth, and ca...

This week, host Eric Dickmann interviews Sasha Schriber. Sasha is the CEO of Nanos AI, a machine learning company based in Switzerland. Nanos is a do-it-yourself, pay-as-you-go online marketing platform for non-expert users. With Nanos, anyone without marketing or design knowledge can place paid advertisements (images, videos, and texts) on Google, Facebook, and Instagram, starting from as little as $5, in less than 10 minutes. In this episode, learn how Sasha started the company, managed her o...

In this bonus episode, host Eric Dickmann interviews Creighton Wong. Creighton is the Founder of Exponential Clients, a digital marketing firm built on the belief that massively growing a business always starts with deep research and gathering the very best data. He is a curious world traveler, an adventurous foodie, and a global nomad who met his beautiful wife while working in Da Nang, Vietnam. Creighton is a former competitive Para-Triathlete who, while missing a right leg and several digit...