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Visit EOFire.com for complete show notes of every Podcast episode. Mike is the founder of Growth Hacker TV and Growth Geeks, a marketplace for hiring on-demand marketers. He's an alumni of the famous Techstars accelerator program, and his work has been seen in Inc, Forbes & Entrepreneur. He specializes in cold email and paid traffic to drive sales - which in the last 10 months has resulted in over $1m in new revenue.
Still struggling with doing cold emails? Our guest today is Mike Hardenbrook, the co-founder of Growth Geeks, a marketplace vetted for freelance marketers or geeks. He is also one of the individuals behind Growth Hacker TV, an educational resource for startups to acquire monetization information and to grow the user base. Mike has a lot […] The post TSE 688: How I Grew Our Revenue to 120k MRR with Outbound/Cold Email appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.
Mike Hardenbrook is the Co-founder of Growth Geeks (a marketplace of vetted freelance-marketers or geeks) and Growth Hacker TV which is an educational resource for startups, to acquire, monetize, and grow a user base. Mike is also the Chief Strategist at Workify and a Mentor at Techstars with select founders and companies. His latest project is The Cold Email Academy. 00:30 - Mike's Journey 05:55 - Timing and Validation 06:40 - Building MVP and Audience 10:00 - Bootstrapping vs Funding 14:30 - Getting Chosen by Techstars 15:30 - The Marketing Plan: Outbound Marketing 17:30 - A Proven Process for B2B Cold Email 23:45 - The Next Steps After You Get Their Email Address 25:50 - How To Find Anyone's Email Address 28:00 - Recap Of Critical Concepts and Systems 29:10 - Just Get Started With The First Email! 29:30 - The 3 Components You Need to Nail 31:40 - Failures That Were Big Learning Moments 36:15 - The Lesson Learned With Freelancers 39:40 - Lightning Questions
Visit EOFire.com for complete show notes of every Podcast episode. Mike is the founder of Growth Hacker TV and Growth Geeks, a marketplace for hiring on-demand marketers. He's an alumni of the famous Techstars accelerator program, and his work has been seen in Inc, Forbes & Entrepreneur. He specializes in cold email and paid traffic to drive sales - which in the last 10 months has resulted in over $1m in new revenue. Sponsors DesignCrowd: Post your design project on DesignCrowd today and get a special $100 VIP offer! Visit DesignCrowd.com/fire and enter the discount code FIRE when posting your project! Square Invoices: Get paid for your services fast and easy! Visit Square.com/fire to start sending invoices free – and get free processing on up to $500 dollars in sales!
Time-Stamped Notes 01:00 – Ari and Nick are both very busy and are getting ready to launch their new book. 01:40 – The Thunderclap campaign for this podcast. 02:07 – Nick is enjoying some lamb neck. 03:00 – co 03:07 – People can collaborate to make a video tribute for someone. 03:27 – It compiles the video for you. 03:40 – Growth Geeks 03:50 – Freelance for “growth geeks” 04:00 – Design Geeks and Word Geeks 04:15 – New branches off of Growth Geeks 04:40 – See the benefits of outsourcing. 05:20 – Respondable 05:45 – Find out how likely you are to get a response from your emails in real time. 06:25 – It could help for cold emails. 06:40 – They just raised prices. 06:55 – They’ve been using Google Docs for editing and reviewing their book. 08:00 – Calendly to set up shifts with higher pay on nights and weekends. 08:50 – Having developers come in person to work with them. 09:15 – Every once and a while, it’s great to meet someone in person. 09:40 – Building team culture and breaking down barriers. 10:35 – Less Doing Coaching Program 10:55 – A yearlong program. Go to com to apply. 11:16 – The HeroX Project 11:26 – Submit any automation ideas 11:55 – That’s it for today! XXXX – Haymakers for Hope For more info on Less Doing, LessDoing, visit us at: www.lessdoing.com
**Key Quote** “You can create a very quick and easy tribute video with hundreds of people.” **Time-Stamped Notes** 01:00 – Ari and Nick are both very busy and are getting ready to launch their new book. 01:40 – The Thunderclap campaign for this podcast. 02:07 – Nick is enjoying some lamb neck. 03:00 – Tribute.co 03:07 – People can collaborate to make a video tribute for someone. 03:27 – It compiles the video for you. 03:40 – Growth Geeks 03:50 – Freelance for “growth geeks” 04:00 – Design Geeks and Word Geeks 04:15 – New branches off of Growth Geeks 04:40 – See the benefits of outsourcing. 05:20 – Respondable 05:45 – Find out how likely you are to get a response from your emails in real time. 06:25 – It could help for cold emails. 06:40 – They just raised prices. 06:55 – They've been using Google Docs for editing and reviewing their book. 08:00 – Calendly to set up shifts with higher pay on nights and weekends. 08:50 – Having developers come in person to work with them. 09:15 – Every once and a while, it's great to meet someone in person. 09:40 – Building team culture and breaking down barriers. 10:35 – Less Doing Coaching Program 10:55 – A yearlong program. Go to lessdoing.com to apply. 11:16 – The HeroX Project 11:26 – Submit any automation ideas 11:55 – That's it for today! XXXX – Haymakers for Hope ------- [Get the FREE Optimize, Automate, Outsource Blueprint here.](https://go.lessdoing.com/blueprint?utm_campaign=blueprint-ari&utm_medium=link&utm_source=podcast) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lessdoing/message
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Ep 133 Amy Porterfield of AmyPorterfield.com joins Nathan. YOUR $100: Remember to subscribe to the show on itunes then text the word "nathan" to 33444 to confirm that you've done it to enter to win $100 every Monday on the show. Do this now. Stop reading this and do it! Click here to join the top tribe and instantly learn how Nathan made his first $10k at 19 years old: http://nathanlatka.com/startertribelive 3 Key Points: Always take opportunities when they come Don’t put all your eggs (affiliates) in one basket Communicate with your audience Episode Notes: 01:00 – Nathan’s introduction to today’s show 01:37 – Amy Porterfield’s Podcast #64 01:55 – Amy launched her Profit Lab program 02:47 – Closing the cart 04:03 – A combination of affiliates and cold traffic 04:24 – Picking affiliates 05:48 – The urge of the leader boards 06:46 – Don’t put all your eggs (affiliates) in one basket 07:49 – Amy talks about cold traffic and ads 08:44 – Amy talks about her webinars 10:55 – Communicating with your audience about price increase 12:57 – The power of retargeting 14:43 – Amy Porterfield’s Podcast #64 and Podcast #62 16:16 — Famous Five Related: Want to learn how to go from $0-$10k/mo in revenue fast? Join Nathan live on the Starter Tribe Beta free workshop. Famous 5 Favorite Book?— Rework What CEO do you follow?— Elon Musk What is your favorite online tool?— Slack Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— I do, that’s why I’m so healthy If you could let your 20 year old self know one thing, what would it be?— Every single thing works out how it’s supposed to work out Resources Mentioned: Amy Porterfield’s Podcast #64 and Podcast #62 Rework Slack Nathan uses Growth Geeks (my friend Mike’s company) to keep this blog and podcast at the top of the charts. Nathan hires growth hackers to do anything he wants for an hourly or monthly price to avoid bringing on full time employees/fixed costs. Mike and Nathan have hooked you up with a free growth hacker: Click here and get your first job done free. Want to learn how to go from $0-$10k/mo in revenue fast? Join Nathan live on the Starter Tribe Beta free workshop. Listen to The Top if you want to hear from the worlds TOP entrepreneurs on how much they sold last month, how they are selling it, and what they are selling - 7 days a week in 20 minute interviews! Join the Top Tribe at http://NathanLatka.com/TheTop The Top is FOR YOU if you are: A STUDENT who wants to become the CEO of a $10m company in under 24 months (episode #4) STUCK in the CORPORATE grind and looking to create a $10k/mo side business so you can quit (episode #7) An influencer or BLOGGER who wants to make $27k/mo in monthly RECURRING revenue to have the life you want and full CONTROL (episode #1) The Software as a Service (SaaS) entrepreneur who wants to grow to a $100m+ valuation (episode #14). Your host, Nathan Latka is a 25 year old software entrepreneur who has driven over $4.5 million in revenue and built a 25 person team as he dropped out of school, raised $2.5million from a Forbes Billionaire, and attracted over 10,000 paying customers from 160+ different countries. Oprah gets 60 minutes or more to make her guests comfortable to then ask tough questions. Nathan does it all in less than 15 minutes in this daily podcast that's like an audio version of Pat Flynn's monthly income report. Join the Top Tribe at http://NathanLatka.com/TheTop