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The Growth Led Podcast focuses on growth, marketing and founder stories through the lens of failure - those early and sometimes dark days where you may have felt like giving up on your idea, but you kept at it. Those periods of times when things were going well, then stopped working. Or when you had to completely disrupt how you were doing things to get on the right path. We’ll get to the inspirational aspects of how founders and companies found success, but will outline key points along the journey that were challenging, and these challenges were overcome.

Growth Led Podcast Craig Zingerline

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The Growth Led Podcast focuses on growth, marketing and founder stories through the lens of failure - those early and sometimes dark days where you may have felt like giving up on your idea, but you kept at it. Those periods of times when things were going well, then stopped working. Or when you had to completely disrupt how you were doing things to get on the right path. We’ll get to the inspirational aspects of how founders and companies found success, but will outline key points along the journey that were challenging, and these challenges were overcome.

    Growth Led Podcast: Best Bits

    Growth Led Podcast: Best Bits

    This week on the Growth led Podcast we revisit some of the best bits and clips from past episodes including special guests Jeanne L. Hopkins and Christian Brown. 

    00:09 - Clip from Activation Strategies with Craig Zingerline
    05:26 - Clip from Insights on Culture and Team Building with Christian Brown
    11:52 - Clips from Experimentation with Craig Zingerline
    18:03- Clip from Sharing the Wins and Losses of Growing Businesses with Jeanne L. Hopkins
    24:18 - Clip from Retention with Craig Zingerline
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    • 30 min
    Experimentation with Craig Zingerline

    Experimentation with Craig Zingerline

    Welcome to the Growth Led Podcast. This week I am talking about Experimentation, the six steps I follow when carrying out experiments and some case studies and examples. 

    To access the materials referenced by Craig, please go to bit.ly/vgmodels.

    00:00 - Introduction
    00:33 - Episode Overview and Access to Materials
    01:06 - Examples of Experimentation
    04:27 - The Experimentation Framework
    09:39 - How do Experiments Work in Practice
    16:43 - Future Experiments and Next Steps 


    Craig Zingerline
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    • 20 min
    Insights on Culture and Team Building with Christian Brown

    Insights on Culture and Team Building with Christian Brown

    Welcome to the Growth Led Podcast. This week I am talking to Christian Brown,  Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Glewee and Forbes 30 under 30 2023. 
    Glewee the easiest and fastest all-in-one influencer marketing platform that connects brands and creators through collaboration and paid social media brand deals. 
    As a co-founder and leader of marketing, Brown worked closely with the CEO, Dylan Duke, to scale Glewee from its early days of sticky note ideas into the fully-fledged brand it is today
    Centered around community, innovation and fluidity, Glewee’s entire brand evolution and refinement have been the labor of love for Brown since the company’s founding.



    00:00 - Introduction
    08:55 - What Inspired The Creation of Glewee: Influencer Marketing Platform
    12:10 - Christian Shares Difficulties and Importance of Teamwork
    16:15 - The Role of Team in Business Growth and Reflections
    26:52 - Team Culture and its Resilience: Dealing with Employee Turnover
    29:29 - Entrepreneurial Lessons: The Value of Customer Feedback and Embracing Failure
    31:12 - Reflecting on the Past vs Looking at the Future


    Craig Zingerline
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    • 38 min
    Product Market Fit with Craig Zingerline

    Product Market Fit with Craig Zingerline

    Welcome to the Growth Led Podcast.

    This week I am talking about Product Market Fit.  

    Some key points I touch on are:
    Why understanding Product Market Fit is important How to know when you have itDeveloping, testing, Iterating and improving your product02:16 - Introduction to Product Market Fit
    03:57 - Understanding the Importance of Product Market Fit
    04:27 - Measuring Product Market Fit: Quantifying Your Success
    09:43 - Accelerating the Journey to Product Market Fit
    12:24 - The Power of Proxy Metrics
    15:00 - The Tough Reality of Product Market Fit
    16:10 - Common Causes of Failure in Achieving Product Market Fit
    19:09 - Key Indicators of Successful Product Market Fit


    Craig Zingerline
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    • 20 min
    Sharing the Wins and Losses of Growing Businesses with Jeanne L. Hopkins

    Sharing the Wins and Losses of Growing Businesses with Jeanne L. Hopkins

    Welcome to the Growth Led Podcast. This week I am talking to Jeanne L. Hopkins about times in her career where she experienced some lows and how she learned from them.

    Jeanne is the Founder of Salty Marketing Group, working as a fractional CRO and CMO, offering GTM planning for B2B tech companies.  In additional to many other roles, she served as CMO for spend management software company Lola.com, founded by Paul English and acquired by Capital One in 2021.

    00:56 - Introduction
    2:46 - AI and the Present Market
    5:41 - The Importance of Editing
    9:01 - Trusting Your Team
    10:17 - Conference Failures
    15:13 - Leveraging Team Expertise
    16:30 - Life & Career Struggles
    22:19 - Starting Fresh at a Startup
    23:21 - Campaign Failures & Lessons
    28:59 - Efficient Funnel Management
    33:12 - Why Customer Retention is Critical
    38.01 - Aligned Product & Marketing
    41:45 - Breaking Free from Perfection




    Craig Zingerline
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    • 47 min
    Activation Strategies with Craig Zingerline

    Activation Strategies with Craig Zingerline

    Welcome to the Growth Led Podcast.

    This week I am talking about Activation Strategies.  I chat about what Activation is, why it is important for businesses as well as sharing real life successful activation strategies. I also discuss some common mistakes and how to avoid them. 



    00:28 - Introduction
    00:46 - Overview of Activation
    01:42 - Where Does the Activation Occur?
    03:04 - End-Point Acquisition Goal
    06:40 - Key Factors in Activation: Intent and Leverage
    10:00 - Product Led Growth: Can it be relied upon?
    11:10 - Common Activation Pitfalls
    14:08 - Miro: A Successful Activation Example

    Craig Zingerline
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    • 23 min

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