Rising Tide Startups Rising Tide Startups Podcast

Our special guest today is also a fellow podcaster, Tim Fitzpatrick, founder of Rialto Marketing.  Tim is an entrepreneur/business owner with expertise in marketing and business growth. He has 20+ years of entrepreneurial experience with a passion for developing and growing businesses. That passion served him well in operating and managing a wholesale distribution company he co-owned for nine years.

The company grew an average of 60% a year before being acquired in 2005.  Since then, he has experienced failures and successes that have been valuable learning experiences. He started Rialto Marketing in 2013 and has been helping service businesses simplify marketing so they can grow, with less stress. Most people overcomplicate marketing. It doesn’t have to be that way.  Tim can show you how.

Click here – https://www.rialtomarketing.com/rising-tide-startups/   –  Free resources provided to our listeners, from Tim and Rialto Marketing.

Our special guest today is Dylan Ogline.  Dylan is a high school dropout from a small country town in Pennsylvania. He started his first business when he was 14 selling cell phones.

In 2016 he scrapped 10+ business projects and started focusing on one single thing, digital marketing. Tired from struggling getting no progress and working from his freezing basement, not to mention nearly a Million dollars in debt – it was an uphill climb.

Turns out, focus was the key. 4 short years later he has built Ogline Digital into a 7-figure agency generating over a million in sales three years running.

Dylan is now a leading expert in direct response advertising and business growth. He has now turned his focus to helping other people start and grow their own hyper profitable digital agency.

Dylan undoubtedly believes that anybody can start and build their own digital agency that will allow them to have more freedom and live a life with purpose and meaning. Dylan’s training programs are designed to take the guesswork out of building an agency and remove all of the unknowns that stop so many people from starting their own business.

Learn more at dylangoline.com

 

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is from our great neighbor to the North, Canada.  Darren Gallop, CISSPCo-Founder and CEO of Securicy.  Darren is a business leader and security professional with over twenty years of experience as a CEO and CISO of companies that handle sensitive data. Having founded a non-profit organization, three service companies, and two tech startups in his career, he understands how to assess and manage risk in alignment with organizational goals. Currently the CEO and co-founder of Securicy, Darren’s unique perspective enables him to lead organizations through the process of baking security into their business practices while improving productivity.

LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrengallop/

Learn more at securicy.com

 

Our special guest on the pod this week is Nick Stagge, CEO of VidArmy.  VidArmy is the first video production company making professional video affordable and easy. Before joining VidArmy, Nick has led teams at GoPro, Skullcandy, Zumiez, Wooly, and others. He’s passionate about creating a culture of mental health advocacy within the workplace.

Learn more at vidarmy.com

Our special guest this week on Rising Tide Startups is Nate Turner.  Nate is the co-founder of Ten Speed and a marketing expert with over 12 years of experience. Throughout the years he has helped companies get more results from the content they already have on their site by solving hard problems and scale revenue growth. He is passionate about what he does and would love to share all his insights with you and your audience.

Learn more at tenspeed.io

Our special guest on Rising Tide is also our very first guest from Norway… Gro Eirin Dyrnes.  Gro is the Director of “Innovation Norway.” She is also is an experienced leader with demonstrated results of working in the international trade and development industry and in the intersection between business and technology. Gro is skilled in leadership, strategy and change management, international business development, innovation management, and IT systems management and tech startups. Economics and Business Administration graduate with extended education in psychology and significant work experience in tech and innovation.

Learn more at – innovasjonnorge.no