Podcasts about take some risk

Duane Brown is the CEO and Head of Strategy for Take Some Risk, an eCommerce brand that specializes in growth strategy, PPC marketing, and revenue optimization. Duane has been called an international man of mystery and digital nomad by friends. He has lived in 6 cities across 3 continents and visited 43 countries around the world. Over the years, Duane has had the opportunity to work with brands including ASOS, Birdies, Pela Case, Jack Wills, Rose & Rex and FTD/ProFlowers. On this episode, Duane and I talk about how what makes a good landing page, PPC Marketing, the value of being well-traveled, and much more.

Duane Brown is the CEO and Head of Strategy at Take Some Risk, an advertising agency that helps ecommerce, DTC, and SaaS brands create and scale profitable growth. As a global digital marketing and branding professional, he has 16 years of experience working with clients, including Walmart, WooCommerce, and WealthBar. Duane's world travels have enabled him to help advise global brands on the best approach to using PPC, CRO, and data while maintaining budgets. In this episode… Balancing growth, clients, profitability, and culture is critical to any successful ecommerce business. But some entrepreneurs struggle to prioritize their operations effectively. So how can you optimize your company to enhance value? Duane Brown says achieving business objectives requires making crucial decisions and moving forward. Remaining indecisive and stagnant may cause you to lose control of your company and compromise its worth. Duane has chosen to focus on profitability and an enjoyable company culture. Accordingly, he selects clients based on revenue, value proposition, and conduct, while ensuring his company can provide original and customized services. In today's episode of the eCommerce Profits Podcast, Joshua Chin is joined by Duane Brown, CEO and Head of Strategy at Take Some Risk, to discuss optimizing business practices and digital marketing tips for entrepreneurs. Duane also shares why he became a digital nomad, how he balances speaking engagements with entrepreneurship, and AI's impact on digital marketing and paid media.

So, you want to promote your products online. Are you ready? Google Merchant Center is the future of ecommerce when it comes to both PPC AND SEO (including local). It is the first step to launching Shopping Ad campaigns for your products. In this episode, Duane Brown joined me to talk about Merchant Center, its data, the importance of feeds, and the all-around Google Shopping experience for Google's users.   Your shopping feed is the most important thing you could work on, and it sets you apart from your competition because most people are not going to work on it. Admittedly, it's a bit tedious, but it's a tedious, boring work that gets you ahead.–Duane Brown, 20:53 Google really wants to build an Amazon type of marketplace, and we all know that Amazon is all about the lowest price at the end of the day.–Duane Brown, 40:34 I believe that Merchant Center is a hybrid of organic and shopping that may be used in the future for organic results and shopping ads. So keep an eye on that. –Loren Baker, 24:43   [00:00] - A little about Duane. [03:07] - Does Duane do ads outside of Google Shopping? [04:26] - What's exciting in the Google ad scene right now? [07:41] - Emerging ad platforms. [11:38] - Why is Merchant Center important? [13:51] - Should SEO be involved in the Merchant Center? [17:33] - Tips for feed management. [21:22] - How to be considered a Google Shopping ranking factor. [22:58] - How important is shipping-time data? [27:22] - Recommended apps for smaller ecommerce stores. [29:10] - How important are tools? [33:17] - Why are search engines going feed-based? [35:26] - Merchant Center suggestion for a motorcycle dealership. [38:38] - Additional tips & techniques for Google Merchant Center. [41:58] - Can you sell services with Google Shopping?   Resources mentioned: Google Merchant Center - https://www.google.com/retail/solutions/merchant-center/ Triple Whale - https://trytriplewhale.com/ Take Some Risk - https://www.takesomerisk.com   Suppose you're going to run shopping ads. Whether it's paid shopping ads or you want to be on the shopping tab, which is free, you definitely need a Merchant Center to have a place to store your data.–Duane Brown, 12:26 Retention is just becoming a bigger thing. Google realizes that if we want to have people with a better experience, we need to think about retention. –Duane Brown, 26:36 You build a business. It's that second purchase, that third purchase, that fourth purchase –well, you turn them from a customer to a brand loyalist. That's a goal. That's the dream. –Loren Baker, 28:52   For more content like this, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/searchenginejournal Are you looking to keep up with current and effective digital marketing today? Check out https://www.searchenginejournal.com for everything you need to know within the digital marketing space and improve your skills as an internet marketer.   Connect with Duane Brown: Duane is a global citizen with 14 years of experience working across digital marketing and branding for clients, including ASOS, Walmart, Jack Wills, WooCommerce, RockerBox, and Wea.  Duane's story is one of hard work, dedication, and success. So far, his globetrotting has taken him places like Australia, where he worked at Telstra; London, the UK, working on brands such Mopp & Grant Thornton. He left London after ten weeks to go to Asia, then back home in Canada, where he landed a job at Unbounce.  With this opportunity came more opportunities that led him down the path toward running an advertising agency that helps ecommerce, DTC, and SaaS brands scale PPC and paid-to-advertise.  When Duane is not working, he travels somewhere new, checks out a restaurant on his bicycle, or delves into a book that caught his eye.  ​​Connect with Duane on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duanebrown/ Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/duanebrown Connect with Loren Baker, Founder of Search Engine Journal: Follow him on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/lorenbaker Connect with him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenbaker

Love you all for the amazing support you've given me and all the kind words. On this raw uncut episode we talk about fear and all the challenges mentally i had to overcome to let me do what I need to do. We also highlight moments where I didn't even acknowledge to myself the steps I am taking. I hope you enjoy this episode and give yourself the motivation to keep going. Please share and give me a follow on IG @femi.daniel_ I would absolutely love to connect with each and every one of you, also check out the poll on spotify Subscribe on Apple podcast, Spotify and every other platform. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/oluwafemi-kolawole/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/oluwafemi-kolawole/support

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Once you have your Shopify store up and running, you'll have a ton of data to keep up with. But since not all data is created equal, how do you decide which metrics to track? That's why we caught up with Duane Brown, Founder & Head of Strategy at Take Some Risk, to learn about Shopify analytics and reporting. In this episode, you'll learn: What Shopify reports you should build What metrics you should pay attention to Why Duane thinks add to cart CPA is the new north star on marketing spend How to analyze your recurring orders data Links: Follow Duane on Twitter: https://twitter.com/duanebrown Take Some Risk: https://www.takesomerisk.com/ Start your 14-day free trial of Supermetrics: https://supermetrics.com/start-trial Follow Supermetrics on Twitter: https://twitter.com/supermetrics Follow Anna on Twitter: https://twitter.com/superpoweranna

Imagine an advertising tool that helped you reach your ideal customers based on what they like, their interests, and their behaviors. That’s what you get with Facebook advertising, a platform used by many eCommerce entrepreneurs and marketers. In this episode, Duane Brown, Founder and Head of Strategy of Take Some Risk, shares his strategy for helping dozens of eCommerce and DTC brands scale their business using Facebooks ads.

Snapchat Ads is becoming more popular among ecommerce brands but is it a good fit for your business? We caught up with Duane Brown, Founder and Head of Strategy at Take Some Risk, to find out. In this episode, you'll learn: If you have the right product-market fit for Snapchat How Snapchat Ads is different from other ad platforms How to set up an effective Snapchat Ads campaign What Snapchat Ads metrics you should measure Links: Follow Duane on Twitter. Take Some Risk. Start your 14-day free trial of Supermetrics. Follow Supermetrics on Twitter. Follow Anna on Twitter.

Duane Brown, owner and head marketer at Take Some Risk https://www.takesomerisk.com/ @duanebrown My guest on this week's episode of Suds & Search is Duane Brown, Founder and Head Marketer at Take Some Risk. Duane started Take Some Risk in January of 2017. In a short period of time, they have developed an impressive roster of clients including Birdies, Unbounce, and Woocommerce. Duane is a paid media expert who worked internationally for years before starting his own agency. His journey from vagabond digital marketer to agency owner...during a lockdown was definitely something I wanted to discuss with him. Duane is an in-demand conference speaker who has presented all over the world. A shortlist of the conferences he's spoken at include, Brighton, INBOUND, SMX, and SEERfest. Duane is also an accomplished writer. What I really like are his long-form guides to lesser-used advertising channels like Snap Ads and Tik Tok. I'll spend a lot of our conversation talking about his guides and how marketers can use these channels more effectively. Grab a beer and join me for a conversation with Duane Brown. We'll discuss the value of advertising on smaller channels like Tik Tok and Snap, Google's update to their Search Terms report, and why he decided to fire all his clients in August 2017. Listen to Suds & Search Podcasts: Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9teXNvdW5kd2lzZS5jb20vcnNzLzE1OTUzNTQ3MjgwNTZz Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/suds-search-interviews-todays-search-marketing-experts/id1526688363 Spotify Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5ALxRpeDgIvg63bK6eoUTe SearchLab 1801 W Belle Plaine Suite 107 Chicago, IL 60613 (312) 256-1574 Catch SearchLab on these platforms: https://www.linkedin.com/company/searchlabdigital/ https://www.facebook.com/SearchLabDigital https://twitter.com/SearchLabAgency https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3kf-yP3bwhI6YvFFeKfegA Suds and Search Video Series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqSrUsIw8Jit8A6IwPpFw7IPKuuyGF0Ii Local Search Tuesdays Video Series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqSrUsIw8JiuxY0eDWZr7Us_WgNNP-GDnSubscribe to Suds & Search | Interviews With Today's Search Marketing Experts on Soundwise

Duane has been called a digital nomad by friends after living in 6 cities across 3 continents and visiting 40 countries around the world. After leaving Toronto, Canada in 2011 to gain an international view of the world, he has worked for Telstra in Australia and brands including ASOS, Mopp (bought Sept. 2014), Jack Wills and Grant Thornton while in London, UK.After London, Duane went traveling in Asia for 10 weeks and then came back to Canada and got a job with Unbounce. That job allowed him to work on more PPC landing pages than any marketer in the world. He now lives in Montreal, Canada helping ecom & SaaS brands grow through data, CRO and marketing.

Duane has been called a digital nomad by friends after living in 6 cities across 3 continents and visiting 40 countries around the world. After leaving Toronto, Canada in 2011 to gain an international view of the world, he has worked for Telstra in Australia and brands including ASOS, Mopp (bought Sept. 2014), Jack Wills and Grant Thornton while in London, UK.After London, Duane went traveling in Asia for 10 weeks and then came back to Canada and got a job with Unbounce. That job allowed him to work on more PPC landing pages than any marketer in the world. He now lives in Montreal, Canada helping ecom & SaaS brands grow through data, CRO and marketing.

Duane Brown is the founder & head of Strategy of Take Some Risk Inc., a digital marketing agency. He uses his curiosity for people and love for people watching to run better marketing campaigns for clients.  In this podcast, we talk about the eCommerce Holiday hustle, taking breaks, being patient with campaigns, how to properly work with agencies, dropshipping, and more! To learn more, visit: http://honestecommerce.co Resources: Duane’s LinkedIn Page: linkedin.com/in/duanebrown Take Some Risk website: takesomerisk.com Take Some Risk’s PPC Audit Guide: takesomerisk.com/ppc-audit-guide/

We help eCommerce, SaaS and technology brands create, manage and scale profitable PPC campaigns across North America, Europe, and Australia. Working with us is like having a Director of Marketing on your team. Need help with the training and education of your team? We do that too! https://www.takesomerisk.com https://twitter.com/duanebrown https://www.linkedin.com/in/duanebrown

Duane Brown has been called a digital nomad by friends after living in 6 cities across three continents and visiting 40 countries around the world. After leaving Toronto, Canada in 2011 to gain an international view of the world, he has worked for Telstra in Australia and brands including ASOS, Mopp (bought Sept. 2014), Jack Wills and Grant Thornton while in London, UK. After London, Duane went traveling in Asia for 10 weeks and then came back to Canada and got a job with Unbounce. That job allowed him to work on more PPC landing pages than any marketer in the world. He now lives in Montreal, Canada helping ecom & SaaS brands grow through data, CRO and marketing. Duane runs a digital marketing agency called Take Some Risk. He has helped brands including ASOS, Jack Wills, and Mopp grow through PPC (pay per click) marketing and CRO. I invited him to join me on Tech Talks Daily to share his fascinating story. We talk about how to grow any business through PPC campaigns and the digital marketing landscape. But, beyond the tech talk, we discuss Duane's traveling experience, and he visited 40-countries and working as a digital nomad.

Duane Brown runs a digital marketing agency called Take Some Risk. He’s all across PPC (Pay Per Click) and the hashtag of the PPC community #PPCChat. He’s visited 40 countries and he has just moved from Vancouver to Montreal. And along the way, he’s spent time working out the company he wants to work in while building it. We discuss: Basic digital performance marketing concepts Not charging for hours worked Quora, Pinterest, Reddit, Google Shopping, Facebook When a client outgrows you Which categories are hard to sell online Working out what you want to do and not do You can find Duane here https://twitter.com/duanebrown and his company here https://www.takesomerisk.com/ For more strategy talk: 1. Strategy newsletter: www.markpollard.net/email-newsletter 2. Strategy drawings: www.instagram.com/markpollard 3. Strategy Twitter: www.twitter.com/markpollard 4. Join 5,000+ strategists: www.sweathead.co New book "Strategy Is Your Words" out soon.

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With experience running search and paid social campaigns for SaaS companies in Europe, Australia and North America, Duane Brown of Take Some Risk chats about what he has learned about marketing SaaS, and how it differs from e-commerce marketing.

Duane Brown is the founder and head of strategy for Take Some Risk, Inc., a performance marketing agency working with startups and brands to discover what is not working, convert traffic they have or improve and scale what is already working. He has over 11-years of digital marketing and branding experience working with clients including ASOS and Cineplex. What you'll learn about in this episode: Why Bing.com can be a good advertising tool for niche businesses Why Duane started Take Some Risk, Inc. and what makes them unique The benefits of hiring people with senior level experience The importance of finding an audience through empathy Why getting to work early is an important daily habit Why organization is key to helping your business run smoothly The importance of working on only the things that keep your business moving forward Why managing cash flow is the most critical skill to master The importance of consistently reviewing and evaluating operating expenses The benefits of staying focused on your goal and not allow yourself to get distracted Ways to contact Duane: Website: www.takesomerisk.com Twitter: @duanebrown

Upgrading from freelancer to solo-preneur is the trajectory some of us take in our businesses, but taking that first step isn’t always easy. How do you know when you’re ready? Duane Brown, Founder of Take Some Risk - a digital marketing agency, discusses his transition from freelancing to starting his own agency. Duane shares some of the risks he took to make that first leap and why and how he's decided to build an agency. https://freelancetransformation.com/episode159

Duane Brown has been called an international man of mystery and digital nomad by friends. He has lived in 5 cities across 3 continents and visited 40 countries around the world. He uses his curiosity for people and love for people watching to run better marketing campaigns for clients. After leaving Toronto, Canada in 2011 to gain an international view of the world. He has worked for Telsta in Australia and brands including ASOS, Mopp (bought Sept. 2014), NSPCC, Jack Wills and Grant Thornton while in London, UK. He now lives in Vancouver, Canada. Favourite Place: Laos Favourite Food: Cheese Duane Brown Vroom Veer Stories Believe In Yourself I have lived in 5 cities across 3 continents and visited 40 countries around the world. Moving to Australia and UK with just a visa and money in my pocket was scary but also the best thing I did for my life and career. Sometimes you just have to jump off that cliff and hope you make the landing... when taking a calculated risks. Do What Scares You AND don't get to comfortable in life Quit my job 14 months ago to startup my own agency and those it was super scary with tons of unknown. I did it because it scared me and I need to get outside of my comfort zone if I was going to do something amazing. Stand Your Ground When I lived in London and worked for a startup. The dev team made a major change and our perform and conversions drops. They swore for weeks that there is no way the design of a website could drop performance. Despite everyone disagreeing with me I had numbers to back me up and stuck to my ground until we changed the site back and saw numbers return. I was lucky that the CS team agreed with me. Always Research and Plan My life advice when people ask me how to move abroad. Value Your Time I was taking a trip to Poland and landed at the airport. I did my research and found out that there are two buses downtown: regular and express. The former stops at every stop to the city and takes just over an hour. The latter makes 4 stops and gets you downtown in 30 minutes and only costs you a few dollar more. You can always make more money but you can not create more time. Always find out all your options when leaving an airport. Don't just follow the crowd who 98% went to the regular bus. Me and 3 other people shared the express bus. I'm lucky Luck is really just preparation meet opportunity and saying yes to everything that comes your way. Usually I'll say "yes and" to qualify people and only take on amazing work, clients and opportunities. More people should say yes to life and enjoy the opportunities that come their way when they live a positive and happy life. Duane Brown Connections www.takesomerisk.com LinkedIn Instagram

Social Media has become an important part of our everyday lives, so much so as having a nice, fresh cup of coffee first thing in the morning. But should you be investing in paid ads on places like Twitter or Facebook? What are the dos and don’ts of social media advertising, and which tools can help you determine the best possible strategy?All this, and a whole lot more in our content packed, half-hour chat with Duane Brown, founder of Take Some Risk, a digital-forward performance agency determined to make brands live up to their full potential.   Duane has provided us with precious insight about how to advertise your brand through social media, and this podcast will definitely help you get the most out of your paid ads.   Like This Episode? Leave a tip! Learn More: https://www.patreon.com/blc   --- Listen: iTunes | Podbean  Connect: IG | T | FB | Website | Sponsor Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music --- This episode is powered by Jumpstart:HR, LLC HR Outsourcing for Small Businesses and Startups: http://www.jumpstart-hr.com

On this episode Duane Brown, Founder at Take Some Risk, joins The PPC Show. A global citizen with 11+ years experience working across digital marketing and branding for clients including ASOS, Mopp, Telstra, Jack Wills, Cineplex, Grant Thornton and BBDO. This opportunity has given him the chance to work with large data sets and help advise global brands on the best approach to using paid search, paid social and display + programmatic to increase conversions while maintaining budgets. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-ppc-show-podcast/message