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Seamless Slides and Stellar Delivery. Unlocking AI's Potential in Presentations In Japan Something I had never heard of before called “Steampunk” popped up in my TikTok feed. Now I write a daily blog published on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook and X, called “Fare Bella Figura: Make a Good Impression, Be A Sharp Dressed Man” on the subject of classic men's wear for business. Obviously, I am interested in how we men choose to master and control our first impressions in public.  Everyone is judging us based on how we appoint ourselves and that is before we have any chance to utter even one word.  If that is the case, and it is, why not make an effort to control that first vital impression?  Anyway, that is another podcast subject, so back to today's theme.  These Steampunk videos were AI created and featured seriously “killer handsome” men wearing very, very cool Victorian era clothing. The imagery was amazing, fantastical, and addictive.  Sadly, probably no one looked anything near that good in foggy Victorian London and few guys today could even come close to these AI images.  It is all fake, and this is an important point to keep in mind when we are dealing with AI. This got me thinking about AI and fakery in the field of business presentations. Where is the line to discriminate between fakery and authenticity? Let's look at some of the AI tools and see where they are leading us. Canva, Beautiful.ai, Visme etc., use AI to arrange our basic slides into very sophisticated output.  If we are not sure what style of visual presentation will best suit the content, then we can access help from Microsoft Designer and Google Slides AI.  If we have numbers to represent on screen, then Infogram and Datawrapper can help. The AI will suggest the best chart type based on the data. I don't know that we need that much help though: for data over time use line graphs, for short-term comparisons use bar charts, and use pie charts for gauging proportional differences.  If we are thinking about how to put the talk together, then ChatGPT, Claude and Jasper AI can craft a script as a base for us to work with.  If we want a formal tone, we can command it or go for a conversational tone, and the AI will respond accordingly.  If like me, you are not that red hot on grammar and punctuation, then Grammerly or ProWritingAid can make suggestions.  They don't always get it right, so we have to maintain a certain amount of knowledge to intervene when needed. It is handy though to be reminded that you have started the last three sentences with the same word, so that we can introduce more variety into our prose. I haven't tried them myself yet, but I am told that Orai and Speeko will analyse my delivery in real time.  I can get feedback on pacing, tone, filler words, modulation and pronunciation.  I had to give a major keynote recently to an elite audience and if I had been more organised, I could have tried them out. I will use them the next time during my rehearsals.  I wonder if they give us Good/Better feedback, rather than confidence sapping critique?  By the way, a word to the wise, if you ever ask anyone to listen to your practice sessions, instruct them to give you only Good/Better feedback.  Otherwise, their first inclination will usually be to criticise what you are doing and demotivate you. I have seen some speakers using Mentimeter and Slido, which are AI driven to facilitate real time audience interaction.  We can run instant polls, pose questions, and get feedback during our presentation.  We can do the same things analog too, but it looks cool to use these tools. I have seen simple bats with “Yes” on one side and “No” on the other used to gauge audience agreement with whatever the speaker is proposing and it works well. We can simply ask people to raise their hands in response to their agreement with the question or not and no tech involved. Personally I go for simplicity when presenting. I do recommend keeping a hawk-eyed accounting of the faces of the people in the audience. If you think that is too old school, you can try Beyond Verbal and Emotional AI.  These tools will interpret audience facial reactions and voice tones to help you understand the engagement levels of the audience. All great stuff but I find watching their faces carefully does the same thing, and it is real time. There is no doubt AI is here to stay and capacity will only broaden and improve.  We have to keep in mind, though, that these are just tools and not a substitute for our role as the speaker.  I actually don't want my AI enhanced slide deck to be so spectacular that the audience stops watching me and becomes totally engrossed with what is on screen.  We, the speaker, have to be the center of attention and the tools are at our command, rather than commanding us. That is why I don't like using videos.  If they are to be used keep let's them super short. Like those handsome dudes in the Steampunk videos, the presentation is superb, but the AI is fake and we can never match what is being presented.  We can dress ourselves in the same Victorian way, using fine fabrics, but we will never be that handsome and cool looking. We need to keep AI in perspective too, not get carried away with the tool set and forgetting about the human dimension aspect of the delivery. We, the presenters, must always be the main game, the core talent and the real focus for our audience. The tech has to be used in moderation and the speaker must be soley placed in the spotlight. Don't let the AI become the star like in those Steampunk videos I mentioned.  We reserve that position for ourselves, always, everywhere and we allow no AI substitutes for us.  

In this episode of the Grow Your B2B SaaS podcast, host Joran sits down with Farzad Rashidi, the co-founder and driving force behind Respona. Farzad reveals how Respona, a startup born within VisMe, a massive platform with 20 million users navigated the exciting journey of growing from an in-house tool to a thriving business. Farzad shares the ups and downs of building a startup inside a big company, the critical role of SEO in their growth, and the valuable lessons learned from engaging directly with customers. Plus, he offers insider tips on how Respona uses AI to stay ahead and why focusing on the right audience is key to success. Tune in for actionable tips and real-world advice from someone who's turned a startup dream into a profitable reality. Key Time Codes (00:00) - Onboarding Customers and Changing Affiliates (01:00) - Introduction to Farzad and Respona (01:52) - How Respona Was Born (04:56) - Respona's Growth and Team (05:47) - Respona's SaaS Features (07:09) - Farzad's Career and Entrepreneurial Spirit (08:01) - Future Goals for Respona (08:47) - Motivations and Beta Challenges (10:51) - Startup Life Under VisMe (13:55) - Lessons from Tough Times (22:51) - Effective Growth Strategies (28:04) - AI and Affiliate Tips (32:36) - Farzad's Tips for SaaS Success (39:34) - How to Connect with Farzad

In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Farzad Rashidi about the human capital challenges of launching two bootstrapped SaaS companies. Farzad Rashidi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/farzadrashidi/) is the lead innovator at Respona, the link-building outreach platform that helps businesses increase their organic traffic from Google. He previously ran the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 20 million active users and pass 3.5M monthly organic traffic. Check out all of the podcasts in the HCI Podcast Network! Check out the ⁠HCI Academy⁠: Courses, Micro-Credentials, and Certificates to Upskill and Reskill for the Future of Work! Check out the LinkedIn ⁠Alchemizing Human Capital⁠ Newsletter. Check out Dr. Westover's book, ⁠The Future Leader⁠. Check out Dr. Westover's book, ⁠'Bluer than Indigo' Leadership⁠. Check out Dr. Westover's book, ⁠The Alchemy of Truly Remarkable Leadership⁠. Check out the latest issue of the ⁠Human Capital Leadership magazine⁠. Each HCI Podcast episode (Program, ID No. 655967) has been approved for 0.50 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®). Each HCI Podcast episode (Program ID: 24-DP529) has been approved for 0.50 HR (General) SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCPHR recertification through SHRM, as part of the knowledge and competency programs related to the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge™ (the SHRM BASK™). Human Capital Innovations has been pre-approved by the ATD Certification Institute to offer educational programs that can be used towards initial eligibility and recertification of the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credentials. Each HCI Podcast episode qualifies for a maximum of 0.50 points.

In this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky speaks to Payman Taei, Founder and CEO of Visme, who talks about why onboarding for new hires needs to be personalized.You can learn about Visme at https://www.visme.co/

+ The SEO playbook Payman used to scale Visme to 25 million users + How to convert SEO traffic to SaaS users + Why he's launching Visme Forms + How to hire great marketers

Episode 385 features Farzad Rashidi, the co-founder of Respona, the link-building outreach platform that helps businesses increase their organic traffic from Google. He previously ran the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 20 million active users and pass 3.5M monthly organic traffic.Find Farzad Online:Website: https://respona.comConnect with the host, Brian OndrakoWebsite: https://brianondrako.com/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@brianondrakoTwitter: https://twitter.com/brianondrakoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianondrako/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianondrako/Newsletter/Blog: https://brianondrako.com/subscribeThis episode is brought to you by LMNT, the delicious, sugar-free electrolyte drink mix. As someone who is active with CrossFit and other activities, I take LMNT 1–2 times per day. LMNT is formulated to help anyone with their electrolyte needs as electrolytes are vital to helping relieve hunger, cramps, headaches, tiredness, and dizziness.For a limited time, listeners of the Just Get Started Podcast can get a free LMNT Sample Pack with any purchase. This special offer is available here: DrinkLMNT.com/justgetstarted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to another episode of "Accelerate Your Business Growth" with your host Diane Helbig. In this episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with Farzad Rashidi, the lead innovator at Respona. Farzad shares his wealth of knowledge on SEO and content marketing, drawing from his experience at Visme, where he played a pivotal role in achieving remarkable milestones in organic traffic and user acquisition. Our conversation delves into the intricacies of SEO, from identifying the right acquisition strategy for your business to addressing the challenges and opportunities presented by AI in SEO. Join us as we explore the foundational steps for effective SEO, the importance of reputable mentions for backlinking, and the significance of authoritative content in the ever-evolving landscape of search engine algorithms. We'll also discover Farzad's insights on building topical authority, creating diverse and impactful content, and the necessity of establishing meaningful relationships for successful client acquisition. So, whether you're an entrepreneur looking to scale your business or a marketer aiming to optimize your digital strategy, this episode promises to equip you with valuable insights to accelerate your business growth. If you are a small business owner or salesperson who struggles with getting the sales results you are looking for, get your copy of Succeed Without Selling today. Learn the importance of Always Be Curious. Accelerate Your Business Growth is proud to be included on the list of the 45 Best Business Growth Podcasts. Each episode of this podcast provides insights and education around topics that are important to you as a business owner or leader. The content comes from people who are experts in their fields and who are interested in helping you be more successful. Whether it's sales challenges, leadership issues, hiring and talent struggles, marketing, seo, branding, time management, customer service, communication, podcasting, social media, cashflow, or publishing, the best and the brightest join the host, Diane Helbig, for a casual conversation. Discover programs, webinars, services, books, and other podcasts you can tap into for fresh ideas. Be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode and visit Helbig Enterprises to explore the many ways Diane can help you improve your business outcomes and results. SEO Strategy for Business Owners: "If you make one of these channels work, just double down on the stuff that's working." — Farzad Rashidi 00:13:59 Niche Market Strategy Quote: "I would niche down and start building my authority around this exact topic." — Farzad Rashidi 00:34:36 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

V dan smo se zbudili z novico o uspešnem začetku olimpijskih kvalifikacij za naše odbojkarje. Po tem so bili športni navdušenci v pričakovanju prvega srečanja najboljših slovenskih kolesarjev, ki že nekaj let vladata tudi svetovni lestvici, po več kot enem letu. A začetek dirke po Emiliji je bolj kot dvoboj med Tadejem Pogačarjem in Primožem Rogličem zaznamovala njegova potrditev, da s koncem sezone zapušča ekipo. Nekateri drugi poudarki oddaje: - Prevozniki, ki z logističnimi družbami poskrbijo za šestino BDP-ja, opozorili na izzive panoge - Število prebivalcev Gorskega Karabaha, ki so se zatekli v Armenijo, preseglo 100 tisoč - Več milijonov Kitajcev potuje, v turističnih letoviščih pričakujejo rekordni obisk

“Turns out it's a lot more difficult to get other people to talk about you, compared to you just pulling up a Google Doc and creating a piece of content…” Farzad Rashidi is the lead innovator at Respona (https://respona.com/), the link-building outreach platform that helps businesses increase their organic traffic from Google. He previously ran the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 18 million active users and pass 3.5M monthly organic traffic. Questions and topics we covered include: The common  challenges that the 1st marketing hire of a startup has Why is it difficult to build organic traffic? How can SEO marketers justify budget allocation for their work? What is Respona? How Farzad describes link building to someone who doesn't work in SEO or content marketing Is link building still useful? What's an ideal link building strategy and what does a healthy backlink profile look like? Does domain authority still matter? Does guest posting still work? How to maintain and sustain relationships with publishers? What does the future of link building look like? And more! Say hi to Farzad on Twitter -  https://twitter.com/The_Farzad Say hi to Farzad on LinkedIn -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/farzadrashidi/ Check out Farzad's GREAT newsletter - https://www.farzadrashidi.com Connect with me on LinkedIn too - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennysoto/ Our Podcast Partner - MarketerHire If you're looking to hire expert freelance talent this year to scale your business (and impress your boss), check out MarketerHire. MarketerHire vets freelance talent so when you hire an SEO expert, Email Marketer, or even a Fractional CMO—you're not wasting your money or your time. You can hire your first freelancer and get a $500 credit by visiting: www.kennysoto.com/hire 

Farzad Rashidi, Lead Innovator at Respona, a link-building tool, discusses the origin of the business as an internal tool within the content creation platform Visme. He shares top tips for getting good quality backlinks and creating backlink campaigns that benefit both the requesting business and the providing business. He also shares how to capitalise on current trends and discusses a successful campaign involving Game of Thrones that dramatically increased Respona's page rankings.

In this episode, Sean sits down with Farzad Rashidi, lead innovator at Respona, the link-building outreach platform that helps businesses increase their organic traffic from Google. They dive into why Farzad started Respona from his work at Visma. They go deeper into his process to build an in house software. Farzad gives some great insights on how to develop great customer experiences from understanding your buyer's journey. His constant approach to test and reiterate helped Respona figure out effective product led motions and adoptions. His tone gives off a helpful, fun tone on creating great customer experiences. Farzad gets deep on why he does digital detoxes and hikes to help bring better creativity. More About Farzad. https://www.linkedin.com/in/farzadrashidi/

In this episode of The UnNoticed Entrepreneur, host Jim James interviews Farzad Rashidi, co-founder of Respona, a company specialising in link building and backlinks. Farzad shares his expertise on how Respona helps entrepreneurs get noticed. The conversation begins with a brief history of Respona and how the company emerged from Visme, a graphics and design platform. Farzad explains that as a bootstrap firm with limited funds, they needed a low-cost channel to scale and found success with content marketing and SEO. He emphasizes the importance of building credibility and authority in Google's eyes by getting other relevant websites to link back and mention your business.Farzad goes on to share tips and tricks on how entrepreneurs can use Respona to get noticed. He discusses the strategy of creating mutually beneficial collaborations with authoritative websites, such as appearing as a guest on relevant podcasts. By providing value and expertise to the audience, entrepreneurs can gain exposure and build trust. Respona streamlines the process of finding podcasts and relevant websites for outreach, making it easier to connect with potential collaborators. Farzad also emphasszes the importance of inbound marketing and content creation in building brand awareness and attracting organic traffic.Graphic design toolbox - VismeCreate visual brand experiences for your business whether you are a pro designer or a total novice.Vidyard - Use Video In Your EmailsVidyard is the easiest way to record and send videos that build personal connections.AI Writer - Content writing made easierGenerate Accurate, Relevant & Quality Content in 2 MinutesPeppertype - Virtual Content AssistantGenerate better content copies in seconds with the pow Support the showAm I adding value to you?If so - I'd like to ask you to support the show.In return, I will continue to bring massive value with two weekly shows, up to 3 hours per month of brilliant conversations and insights.Monthly subscriptions start at $3 per month. At $1 per hour, that's much less than the minimum wage, but we'll take what we can at this stage of the business.Of course, this is still free, but as an entrepreneur, the actual test of anything is if people are willing to pay for it.If I'm adding value to you, please support me by clicking the link now. Go ahead, make my day :)Support the show here.

In this episode of The UnNoticed Entrepreneur, host Jim James interviews Farzad Rashidi, co-founder of Respona, a company specialising in link building and backlinks. Farzad shares his expertise on how Respona helps entrepreneurs get noticed. The conversation begins with a brief history of Respona and how the company emerged from Visme, a graphics and design platform. Farzad explains that as a bootstrap firm with limited funds, they needed a low-cost channel to scale and found success with content marketing and SEO. He emphasizes the importance of building credibility and authority in Google's eyes by getting other relevant websites to link back and mention your business.Farzad goes on to share tips and tricks on how entrepreneurs can use Respona to get noticed. He discusses the strategy of creating mutually beneficial collaborations with authoritative websites, such as appearing as a guest on relevant podcasts. By providing value and expertise to the audience, entrepreneurs can gain exposure and build trust. Respona streamlines the process of finding podcasts and relevant websites for outreach, making it easier to connect with potential collaborators. Farzad also emphasszes the importance of inbound marketing and content creation in building brand awareness and attracting organic traffic.Graphic design toolbox - VismeCreate visual brand experiences for your business whether you are a pro designer or a total novice.Vidyard - Use Video In Your EmailsVidyard is the easiest way to record and send videos that build personal connections.AI Writer - Content writing made easierGenerate Accurate, Relevant & Quality Content in 2 MinutesPeppertype - Virtual Content AssistantGenerate better content copies in seconds with the power of Artificial Intelligence Support the showAm I adding value to you?If so - I'd like to ask you to support the show.In return, I will continue to bring massive value with two weekly shows, up to 3 hours per month of brilliant conversations and insights.Monthly subscriptions start at $3 per month. At $1 per hour, that's much less than the minimum wage, but we'll take what we can at this stage of the business.Of course, this is still free, but as an entrepreneur, the actual test of anything is if people are willing to pay for it.If I'm adding value to you, please support me by clicking the link now. Go ahead, make my day :)Support the show here.

In this podcast episode, Payman Taei, founder of VisMe, discusses his journey as an entrepreneur and the development of VisMe, a platform for creating engaging presentations, infographics, and other visually appealing content. Payman talks about his previous experience with three other SaaS companies and his challenges in the agency world. He emphasizes the importance of focusing on product development before seeking funding and creating a lasting income. Payman also discusses the challenges of hiring high-performing employees, creating a safe and open environment for team members, and much more!TimestampsPayman's Journey [00:00:26] Payman's journey as a self-taught designer and his experience with flash websites and interactive animated sites.VisMe's Mission [00:03:40] VisMe's mission to bridge the gap between simple and powerful presentation design tools, empowering non-design professionals to create engaging content.Hindsight and VisMe [00:05:46] Payman's decision to focus on VisMe and how Hindsight served as an incubator for VisMe, leading to the creation of another product to solve marketing challenges.VisMe and Responder [00:07:24] Payman Taei talks about VisMe and Responder, two products that save time and costs for businesses by bringing multiple tools under one umbrella.Growth Strategies [00:08:59] Payman Taei discusses the growth of VisMe, from zero to over eight million users, and how organic search and word of mouth played a significant role in their success.Revenue Model and Funding [00:11:15] Payman Taei explains why VisMe is still bootstrapped, their revenue model, and why they have not looked at raising funding.Creating a Startup [00:14:09] Payman Taei shares his thoughts on creating a startup and the challenges of becoming a unicorn.Product Differentiation [00:15:45] Taei discusses the biggest challenge for VisMe, which is product differentiation, and how they are different from other design tools.High Performance in Business [00:20:18] Taei defines high performance in business as being a self-starter, thinking outside the box, being humble and open to constructive feedback.Teamwork and Hiring [00:21:00] Payman discusses the importance of teamwork and hiring grounded individuals who are open to feedback and constructive criticism.Quality vs Speed [00:25:01] Payman talks about the balance between quality and speed in product development, and how they prioritize both at VisMe.Product Prioritization [00:26:18] Payman explains how VisMe prioritizes product development based on demand, intuition, and the needs of their ideal customers.Delegation Challenges [00:28:08] Discussion on effective delegation and challenges faced by Payman Taei in delegating product-related tasks.Internal Team Debates [00:29:48] How VisMe manages internal debates between sales, product, and customer success teams.Early Access Mistake [00:32:59] Payman Taei's regret of opening VisMe to the masses too early and not focusing on a smaller group of people for exclusive feedback.Finding Payman Taei [00:35:09] Payman Taei shares how to connect with him on LinkedIn and how to access VisMe, a free platform for creating visually appealing content.VisMe discount code [00:35:09] Payman Taei offers an exclusive discount code for the podcast audience to get 15% off any of VisMe's premium plans.

Will and Josh detail the Community of Inquiry and its impact on online and traditional education. The relationship between Cognitive, Teaching, and Social Presences helps us identify where we can build inquisitive community in our classrooms. Then we review Visme - the digital media studio. Create stunning media and access tons of excellent stock footage with their platform. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here. Head over to our website at hitechpod.us for all of our episode pages, our Twitter, our YouTube, our connection to Education Podcast Network, and to see our faces (maybe skip the last one). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hitechpod/message

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to create anything and make it stand out. My guest is Payman Taei, Founder and CEO of Visme Payman is an avid technologist. He loves new trends and tries to keep up with the ever-evolving internet. His background in Biology has led him to truly believe in the art of evolution. Everything changes in time. You either follow or create new trends or will be left behind.  He started HindSite Interactive with a mere $170 to pay his way through College and over the last 16 years that followed he and his team worked with over 300 companies large and small from all walks of life.  Frustrated with the lack of easy-to-use tools for non-designers to create compelling visual content, he went on to create Visme. Their belief: everyone should be able to create beautiful content with no design experience and minimal effort.  Their mission: To empower the world to speak loudly by speaking visually. And this inspired me, and hence I invited Payman to my podcast. We explore what's broken in the way we can communicate value and ideas. Payman shares the big lessons learned in taking his business from scratch to profitability within 18 months. He also digs into some of the internal beliefs they had to eliminate that harmed even faster growth of the business. We discuss how they selected their sweetspot in the market and what it took to create predictable traction.  Here's one of his quotes The bar has been raised today on what is expected of people and businesses. So when we say Speak Loudly, it means you can stand over the crowd. And by Speak Visually, you have the capacity to communicate visually and improve information retention As humans we are used to seeing things visually, when you see a chart, you can remember and absorb that information much more than if you just saw it, as a set of numbers and stats that are nested on top of each other.  We believe that every individual is a great storyteller, even if you think you're not. And so our platform has the means to allow them to be able to take their information and data and ideas and be able to bring them to the forefront in a more meaningful manner. During this interview, you will learn four things: How to rapidly grow market share and create defensible differentiation in a market that's always been dominated by very large vendors   What to do differently to grow purely by word-of-mouth how to structure your product strategy for impact when everyone can technically use your solution and all have feedback Why Payman decided not to raise external funding to grow the business - and why he'd start any new business bootstrapped again. For more information about the guest from this week: Payman Taei Website Visme Subscribe to the Daily SaaS Reflection Get my free, 1 min daily reflection on shaping a B2B SaaS business no one can ignore. Subscribe here Yes, it's actually daily. And yes, people actually stay subscribed (Just see what peer B2B SaaS CEOs say) My promise: It's short. To the point. Inspiring. And valuable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Payman Taei is the founder and CEO of Visme, an all-in-one visual communication platform for non-design professionals. Show Notes: https://saasclub.io/343 Join Email List: Get weekly SaaS learnings, new podcast episodes, and actionable insights right in your inbox: https://saasclub.io/email/ Join Community: SaaS Club is the community for early-stage SaaS founders and entrepreneurs: https://saasclub.co/join

Farzad Rashidi, the former head of marketing at Visme is now the co-founder and lead innovator at Respona, The link-building outreach platform built for B2B SaaS and agencies to increase organic traffic from Google.CHAPTERS[00:00:00] Intro.[00:02:01] Stripping URL to domain with RegX.[00:03:45] Getting into marketing.[00:07:24] Using SEO to make Visme mainstream.[00:11:58] SEO strategy that generated a ton of traffic.[00:25:09] Getting first customers for Respona.[00:29:34] Reason behind Respona's four use cases campaign.[00:32:12] Farzad's Vision for Respona.[00:34:41] Wrong presumption at Respona.[00:38:49] Listening to The SaaS Club Podcast.[00:40:47] Perks of listening to podcasts.[00:42:11] Alternative route.[00:43:12] Farzad devoted little attention to this factor.[00:44:44] Farzad's fun side.Check out Vasa.Website: vastaffing.agencyBook a call now:vastaffing.agency/book-a-callConnect with Farzad.Twitter: twitter.com/The_FarzadLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/farzadrashidi/Check out Respona. Website: respona.comBlog: respona.com/blogLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/responaTwitter: twitter.com/ResponaAppCheck out Visme.Website: visme.coEbook: visme.co/marketing-strategyLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/visme Twitter: twitter.com/vismeapp Resources Mentioned in The Episode:Atomic Habit (Book) : jamesclear.com/atomic-habitsSaas Club (Podcast): saasclub.ioMy First Million (Podcast): mfmpod.comNathan Latka (Podcast): spotify.com/show/0Pzsw5FqTSwyDRGJ5TGEpV Help The Louis and Kyle Show:If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend or leave a review!Leave a review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1504333834Drop us an email: LouisandKyleShow@gmail.com Subscribe on YouTubeFollow The Show on Social Media:  Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouisKyleShow  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louiskyleshow/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/65567567/ Connect with Louis and Kyle:  Read Louis' Newsletter: https://louisshulman.substack.com/    Louis' Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouisShulman    Kyle's Twitter: https://twitter.com/_kylebishop    Louis LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisshulman/    Kyle's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-bishop-7b790050/

How's your affiliate program looking? Have you noticed how most of your affiliate traffic and referrals are from less than 20% of your channel partners? Picture your top affiliate. What would it look like if you had 5, 10, 50 more affiliates just. like. them. But friends… I've got a problem. I'm looking at our channel partner program in FirstPromoter and I have to be honest, the vast majority of my affiliates have zero referrals last quarter. That's not good! It's not good for my program, and it's not good for those partners. Now, some of those affiliates could use with some better nurturing and training, and that's on me, and something we'll touch on in a future episode. But I also have to wonder what else I could be doing to bring in more affiliates like my top earners. The ones that are driving loads of traffic and quite literally making thousands of dollars a month from Agorapulse commissions. Well, that's exactly what our guest today, Farzad Rashidi, is going to talk to us about. Farzad is the lead innovator at Respona, the link-building outreach platform that helps businesses increase their organic traffic from Google. He previously ran the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 18 million active users and pass 3.5 million in monthly organic traffic. He's partnered with me on a number of initiatives over the past few years and was gracious enough to agree to come on the show and help me out with this dilemma. Partnership Unpacked host Mike Allton talked to Farzad Rashidi about: ♉️ What makes for a really good affiliate? ♉️ How brands should structure their affiliate marketing programs ♉️ Where to find terrific affiliates and actually see ROI Subscribe to the show calendar: agorapulse.com/calendar Full Notes & Transcript: https://www.thesocialmediahat.com/blog/how-to-recruit-high-performing-affiliates-w-farzad-rashidi/ Brought to you by Agorapulse: the #1 rated social media management solution. Sign up for a free demo at https://www.agorapulse.com/contact/    Music by Jumbo, "Peripheral" (feat. Plum Soul) Produced and Hosted by Mike Allton

In this episode of Startup Hustle, Matt Watson and Payman Taei, CEO and Founder of Visme, talk about Payman's experience bootstrapping his company to become the #1 tool for online presentations. Learn about the challenges Payman encountered in building Visme and how he empowered its users to take design into their own hands.   Find Startup Hustle Everywhere: https://gigb.co/l/YEh5   This episode is sponsored by Full Scale: https://fullscale.io   Learn more about Visme: http://www.visme.co  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Initially published in August 2022, this episode is part of our “Best of Series.” We have handpicked some of our best episodes, where our guests have enlightened us with some powerful eCommerce marketing gems! Farzad Rashidi is the lead innovator at Respona, the all-in-one digital PR and link-building software that combines personalization with productivity. He also runs the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 12.5 million users and pass 2M monthly organic traffic. Since then, he's been helping other companies achieve the same success via Respona. In this episode, you will learn What are some must have content marketing and SEO strategies that all ecommerce brands should be doing What exactly is evergreen content and how is it created and promoted How does an ecommerce brand know what types of content will resonate with their customers and potential customers Examples of businesses that have launched successful evergreen content marketing strategies For show transcript and past guests, please visit https://www.ecommercemarketingpodcast.com Or on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3PgT0NOGzpdPGQtBK0XLIQ Follow Arlen: Twitter: https://twitter.com/askarlen  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arlen.robinson.7  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arlenyohance/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arlenrobinson/  Past guests on the ecommerce marketing podcast include Neil Patel, Nemo Chu, Luke Lintz, Luke Carthy, Amber Armstrong, Kris Ruby and many more. Thanks for listening. Be sure to subscribe and leave a review.

Farzad Rashidi is the lead innovator at Respona, the link-building outreach platform that helps businesses increase their organic traffic from Google. He previously ran the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 16 million active users and pass 3M monthly organic traffic.

Visme's President & Founder, Payman Taei, chews the cud on Sweat Equity about his experience starting as a web designer to a design agency to bootstrapping a profitable company to over 16 million global users - WITHOUT outside funding. Payman Taei's s https://www.visme.co/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/paymantaei/ Episode sponsored by SQUARESPACE create a customizable website or online store with an all-in-one solution from Squarespace. Choose a website template and start your free trial today. https://squarespacecircleus.pxf.io/sweatequity Sweat Equity s SweatEquityPod.com Linktr.ee/SweatEquity Hosts' Eric Readinger & Law Smith s LawSmithWorks.com Tocoba.ga Wanna help Sweat Equity without spending a dime? Sure, we're the #1 business comedy & comedy business podcast on earth, but we can always practice Kaizen, aka continuous improvement. Please? We'll be your BFF! Hook us up by      REVIEW WRITE a quick hitter sentence in the review Smash SUBSCRIBE SHARE with friends, co-workers, acquaintances, family members you love and the fam you don't like talking to #comedy #business #girthyroi #sweatequity #69b2b #entrepreneur

Over the past few years talent has been scarce. And when talent is scarce, fear leads hiring decisions. We don't want to lose (what we perceive to be) “good people”, so we shortcut the interview process.  Here's the thing, our perceptions are often wrong.  Our gut is often wrong. And it is wrong because the data we input is either assumed or circumstantial. Resulting in marginal hiring that hurts your business.  So, what if every person that you hired thrived in your company? What would be the ROI if you operated at a hiring success rate over the 90th percentile? It would be pretty f-ing amazing, right? A crucial part of why we get hiring wrong too often is that we don't invest the time to adequately vet people before we bring them in for an interview. This starts with your first call (phone screen). We miss the opportunity to gather true data as to whether a person is positioned well for the organization and their level of performance.  That's right, positioning and performance.  The most crucial data that help you understand alignment before wasting anyone's time in a formal interview process.  Evidence that is not present on a resume.  Guest Bio: Payman Taei is the Founder of Visme, an all-in-one visual communication platform, and Co-Founder of Respona the link-building for SaaS and Agencies to improve google rankings.  Payman is an avid technologist who loves new trends and tries to keep up with the ever-evolving internet. His background in Biology has led him to truly believe in the art of evolution. Everything changes in time. You either follow or create new trends or you will be left behind.  TODAY WE DISCUSS: The challenges in today's pre-vetting of talent How to properly vet people before they enter your interview process HIRING STORY: Hired a marketing person, a person who was known. Went on a whim and made the hire without involving  Assumed that because the person worked for a certain company the person must be good Knew within a 45-day window, the wrong hire Missed clues: a bit of fluff, selling themselves more. Claimed to have done a lot. Exaggerations Marketers commonly take a lot of credit for a lot of company success My post:  https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6999061564083380225/  PROBLEM: Pre-vetting people before they come in for an interview Challenge? 100's of resumes. More does not mean better Select a handful of people who are worth the time to interview Most of the roles the CEO is still involved with Create an efficient system without automation (Smaller companies) Highest quality with the least friction as possible Why is this important to the company? Made some bad hires Time is a premium  personality /cultural fit & skills We Sacrifice lower experience for a better cultural fit Rick's Nuggets: Judgement should not be made on a resume but on the phone screen/Discovery Call. Great resumes don't equal great people High performers are busy making an impact  Great interviewers have had a lot of practice.  Understand Pain, Desire & Impact How do we solve the problem?  Pick the needle from the haystack Prequalification process The application itself Manner in which the resume is submitted -spammer or researched Passionate - learn and know about the company Not job hopping Interested because of a,b & c  Large pool of referrals HR interview Personality & brief technical experience Going through the resume and understanding career history.  Gut check - authentic, a nice person, compassionate & caring, wanting to make a difference,  Technical interview (2 step) Projects, role on projects Tech stack, where are you comfortable, specific technical questions Deep dive into the technical experience with the team lead Decision Yes- move into reference check 30, 60, 90 day review cycle on kpi and goals Rick's Nuggets: Operate from a position of abundance Discovery call Positioning Does the person have a good reason to make a move Does the person truly desire what your company is offering Impact  High performers become passionate about what they have done Dig into the “HOW” and “WHY” to gather evidence Go deeper than 2 layers down to find the TRUTH  Key Takeaways that the Audience can plug into their business today! (Value): Eliminate the noise Trust your intuition- What's the gut feeling? does everything seems to check?  Group Decision: How does everyone feel about the person- team assessment Guest Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paymantaei/ Company: https://www.visme.co/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/visme/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vismeapp Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vismeapp/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vismeapp YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VismeApp Host Links:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-girard-07722/ Company: https://www.stridesearch.com/ Podcast: https://www.hirepowerradio.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeEJm9RoCfu8y7AJpaxkxqQ Authored:  "Healing Career Wounds"  https://amzn.to/3tGbtre Startup: www.intertru.ai HireOS® inquiry: rick@stridesearch.com Show Sponsor: www.stridesearch.com www.intertru.ai

Payman Taei is the Founder and President of Visme, a platform that creates engaging presentations, infographics, and almost any other type of visually engaging content. Payman started Visme in response to the need for an easy-to-use platform that allows non-designers to speak visually. Since 2013, Visme's user base has grown to over 16 million businesses, nonprofits, and individuals from over 100 countries.  In this episode… We are in a business world that can't do without producing and consuming visual content of different forms. The problem is that there aren't nearly enough affordable pro-designers for hire. So, how do small business owners compete to create visually appealing designs for their brands — even if they don't have design skills? Visme was created for that purpose. Unlike any other SaaS design solution, Visme is the bridge between simple and super-sophisticated design. From top brands like IBM and Netflix to startups, everyone can use Visme. But what's their brand story, and how did they become this big? Is Visme for you?  Listen to this Inspired Insider Podcast episode with Dr. Jeremy Weisz featuring the Founder and President of Visme, Payman Taei. They discuss Visme's journey from bootstrap to 16 million users from 100 countries (and counting), why the tool is different, how they maintain culture with over 100 remote employees, and more!

Farzad Rashidi is a Co-founder of Respona, a link-building outreach platform that helps businesses increase organic traffic from Google. He previously ran the marketing efforts at Visme as Director of Marketing, where he helped the company gain over 16 million active users and 3 million monthly organic traffic. He graduated from Truman State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration.  In this episode… Link building for SEO is not an easy task. Although tools like Respona simplify the outreach process, there's more to link-building than outreach. There's the overlooked strategy component to determine if SEO is the best acquisition channel for your business. There is also the on and off-page SEO strategies that brands should consider.  You need to get your keyword research, page speed, content, and more dialed in for on-page SEO. But that's only a few pieces of the puzzle. Unfortunately, many brands drop off when they don't get immediate results after spending resources for on-page SEO. The real difference maker is link-building. Want to find out more about link-building and how to leverage it?  Listen to this Inspired Insider Podcast episode with Dr. Jeremy Weisz, featuring the Co-founder of Respona, Farzad Rashidi. They discuss outreach tactics for your business, strategies for growing organic traffic, types of content to create, and more!

With so many forms of content creation and marketing, today's guest Farzad Rashidi will tell you how to figure out whether SEO is the right acquisition channel for your business, how to find hidden opportunities when it comes to keyword research and content creation, and his 3-step outreach strategy to consistently earn editorial backlinks to boost rankings… you know this is my jam!When you reach out to get the backlink, be sure to include an incentive, a level of personalization, and pick the right strategy to ensure the websites are relative to increasing your authority.Farzad Rashidi is the lead innovator at Respona, the all-in-one link-building outreach software that helps businesses increase their organic traffic from Google. He previously ran the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 16 million active users and pass 3M monthly organic traffic.Connect with Farzad Rashidi:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farzadrashidi/Twitter: https://twitter.com/The_Farzad Follow Respona:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/responaTwitter: https://twitter.com/ResponaAppResources mentioned in this episode:Respona.comPodcastClout.comIf you liked this episode, please subscribe to this podcast to hear more like it. Tell your colleagues, friends, and family… and don't forget to tap that subscribe button. For more, visit MediaMavenAndMore.com/podcast.

In this episode of Enterprise Sales Development podcast, we speak with Farzad Rashidi, Lead Innovator at Respona. Farzad draws from his expertise in link building outreach to discuss his approach. He discusses the differences in building an outreach for backlinks and which tactics to use. He also shares key messaging strategies and explains the middleman approach.  WHAT YOU'LL LEARN How Respona was born as a separate product of Visme How Visme went from crickets to 3 millions in monthly organic visitors What is on-page SEO How Farzad builds an ideal backlink profile using CIENCE as an example Why their main metric for outreach is relevancy How Respona determines who to contact for backlinks and how Farzad thinks about targeting The middleman approach QUOTES “When you face a lot of rejections as a salesperson, you come in and you're like ‘Oh, this is nothing,' but as a marketer, when things aren't working, it's a little more difficult to deal with.” -Farzad Rashidi [09:25] “As far as our outreach goes, what we really care about is relevancy.” -Farzad Rashidi [16:37] “I always say this and I say this to our customers and during our training sessions. I'm like, ‘Guys, SDR is not a game of shooting for the stars. You got to stay within your league.” -Farzad Rashidi [18:18] “Google is an ever-evolving algorithm, and there are ways that you can trick it. It is an algorithm, but what matters when you're building a business on top of that domain, what you want to look at is ok, what about five years from now? What about 10 years from now?” -Farzad Rashidi [25:18] “It's a common misconception that for your key terms and for your actual pages that you want to get rankings, get some business value from, you're not going to need a thousand of these and types of relationships to make it work. A handful of them goes a long way just simply because of how difficult it is to do and that's enough to make you stand out.” -Farzad Rashidi [39:16] TIMESTAMPS [00:01] Intro [00:27] This week's guest: Farzad Rashidi [01:23] His journey to Visme and Respona [04:45] Google in incognito mode [06:01] How to increase monthly visitors [10:58] Start with an ideal backlink profile [15:49] Determining the net value [20:32] More requests for backlinks [24:09] Other backlink tactics [28:16] Who to reach out to [34:13] What to say in messaging [39:47] The middleman approach [46:05] How to contact Farzad RESOURCES Visme HubSpot PageRank Link Building for SaaS: 2022 Guide Respona Outreach Strategy Hub CONNECT Farzad Rashidi on LinkedIn Respona website CIENCE website CIENCE on LinkedIn CIENCE on Facebook CIENCE on Twitter CIENCE on Instagram

Summary: Welcome to another great episode of Startup Junkies! On this episode, hosts Jeff Amerine and Caleb Talley sit down with Farzad Rashidi, the lead innovator at Respona, an all-in-one link-building outreach platform built for B2B, SaaS, and agencies to increase organic traffic from Google. As the former director of marketing at Visme, Farzad helped the company gain over fourteen million users, and since then, he's been helping other companies achieve similar successes via Respona. Throughout the episode, Caleb, Jeff, and Farzad discuss how Respona is utilized as a promotion tactic and the concept of backlinking.   Show Notes: (1:01) Introduction to Farzad (1:21) About Respona (6:59) The Resilience of Backlinking (11:10) The Concept of Hyperlinking (14:07) Link Building (18:55) Respona's Customer Journey (21:57) Respona's Focus on SEO (23:30) Making the Choice Not to Raise Venture (28:31) What's Next for Respona (30:43) Respona's Company Culture (34:15) Advice to Younger Self (35:47) Closing Thoughts   Links: Jeff Amerine Caleb Talley Davis McEntire Farzad Rashidi Respona   Quotes: “Instead of us trying to invest cash to pour into advertising to become a household name, let's start showing up in places where people who are looking for a product or a solution like ours would naturally come and find us.” - Farzad Rashidi, (4:21)   “So now, not only do you have to create a good website with a good foundation that loads fast, you have to have content that people stay on to read and is relevant contextually. You also have to convince other websites to link back to it and talk about it.” - Farzad Rashidi, (9:05)   “We are not in the sales industry…the reason being is the way we structure our companies is entirely inbound. So, what we do is produce lots of educational pieces that are targeted for our industry. So, it touches all bases when it comes to the customer journey.” - Farzad Rashidi, (18:56)

SEO can be intimidating, but once you determine the right acquisition channel for your business, you can start utilizing SEO to grow your online business. Host Michelle Thames speaks with Farzad Rashidi about why business owners should care about SEO, how to develop an SEO strategy online, and some important dos and don'ts of SEO on social media. Farzad Rashidi is the lead innovator at Respona, the all-in-one digital PR and link-building software that combines personalization with productivity. He also runs the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 14 million active users and pass 2.5 million monthly organic traffic. Since then, he's been helping other companies achieve similar successes via Respona.——⭐️ Click HERE to subscribe and get access to new podcast episodes every week

“One of the ways that you could discover whether SEO is the right channel for the business that you're working with is basically understanding two questions. First, are the potential customers of your business actually aware of the problem your business is solving? And if so, where are they actually looking to solve that problem?”Hello hello! For episode 81 of the Flying Cat Marketing podcast, we spoke with Farzad Rashidi, Lead Innovator at Respona and former Director of Marketing at Visme. He gave us the company's exclusive SEO formula, the same one that was used at Visme to help them reach 14 million users and 3 million monthly organic traffic. Farzad broke down this keyword prioritization formula, which is calculated using CPC, traffic potential, and keyword difficulty. He also explained the three types of content they publish at Respona and Visme: content for SEO purposes, link content, and conversion content. Plus, he explained how the company distributes its marketing efforts: according to Farzad, teams should be devoting 20% of their time to content creation and 80% to content promotion. Farzad explains why this approach was crucial for helping Visme achieve its success. This is just part one of two of Farzad's interviews. In the next installment, we'll be picking his brain about off-page SEO and link building. But for now, tune in to learn how to build a solid SEO content creation and distribution strategy and determine whether SEO is the right channel for your business.In this episode: How to know if you should prioritize SEO as a marketing channelThe “Opportunity Score” formula for keyword prioritizationThe three types of SEO content the Respona team createsThe importance of off-page SEO for an overall content strategyThe balance you should strike between content creation and distributionAbout the guestFarzad Rashidi is the lead innovator at Respona, the all-in-one link-building outreach software that helps businesses increase their organic traffic from Google. He previously ran the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 14 million active users and pass 3M monthly organic traffic.Timestamps 1:15-4:24 How to know if SEO is the right marketing channel for your business4:25-6:31 Farzad's first attempts with SEO at Visme6:32-8:52 How Farzad and his team make SEO to work for Visme and Respona8:53-12:36 Farzad's formula for keyword prioritization, the Opportunity Score12:37-13:28 The importance of “staying in your league” when choosing keywords13:29-16:09 How to use the Opportunity Score to prioritize your keywords and plan your content strategy16:10-19:51 The three types of content Farzad and his team creates19:52-22:36 The journey to 14 million users and 3 million monthly organic traffic at Visme22:37-25:31 The importance of link building for an SEO strategy25:32-26:43 How to organize your content marketing efforts

In today's episode, we're talking about simple SEO strategies to scale your website traffic. One of these strategies is called backlinking and we've brought in one of the most knowledgable people on the planet for this subject. Farzad Rashidi is the lead innovator at Respona, the all-in-one digital PR and link-building software that combines personalization with productivity. He also runs the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 14 million active users and pass 3M monthly organic traffic. Since then, he's been helping other companies achieve similar successes via Respona. His expertise is getting higher rankings for your business in Google by building backlinks from authoritative, relevant websites in your space. So least to say, we've got our bases covered this episode. Let's get into it! Show Notes: ✅ Connect with Farzad: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farzadrashidi/

Farzad Rashidi is the lead innovator at Respona, the all-in-one digital PR and link-building software that combines personalization with productivity. He also runs the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 12 million active users and pass 2M monthly organic traffic. “it's going to be okay… Sometimes it's easy to get freaked out about things… Knowing that mistakes happen and things don't always go the way you want them to is part of the journey. And when you look back at it, things will always make sense and it's not always as bad as it is in your head”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-nii

Selling With Love is more than a podcast! Join the community of like-minded entrepreneurs ready to overcome their sales blockages and transform the planet at: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14070148/ ===== Did you freeze when you heard the words Search Engine Optimization? Or maybe your fingers and brain start moving researching for the best keywords, building a backlink strategy, and thinking of the best articles to gain free traffic? Whatever the case, listening to Farzad Rashidi, from Respona, can help you top up your game around SEO and organic reach online. Gaining a reputable presence online, and having good rankings can be the difference between thriving or perishing in your business. Listen out for this conversation and figure out whether SEO is the best strategy for your type of business and how you can start today implementing some of its strategies. =====

Our guest in this episode is Farzad Rashidi, the lead innovator at Respona, the all-in-one digital PR and link-building software that combines personalization with productivity. He also runs the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 12 million active users and pass 2M monthly organic traffic. In our conversation Farzad talked to me about Building backlinks through partnerships and adding value Using technology to personalize outreach and begin relationships How to earn PR mentions in publications Listen to the podcast to find out more.

Hey budding entrepreneurs, serial founders and content creators!It's Chris Cownden again with Talking With Experts Podcast. We have a great expert lined up for you who was the first marketing hire at Visme.com and has moved up the ranks as the Director of Marketing. In the last few years, Farzad Rashidi has also been building out Respona.com which will we go in to more detail about soon. He's going to be sharing how Visme and Respona create content that ranks so you can mimic their success. What's exciting about both Visme and Respona is that they are self-funded and bootstrapped meaning they have no outside investors to rely on for capital and they've built a high level of success by excelling in content creation and content promotion.Visme has a successful launch on AppSumo in 2017 too!Start with your own problem. If you are willing to pay for it, you've hit a jackpot.Farzad Rashidi covers both technical and practical advice, the history and theory behind it so you can get the full context of why to do something, how to do it and what to do when. We talk about producing quality content, gaining topical authority, link-building, site structure and at the end Farzad shares how you can get access to Visme's Full Marketing Strategy.Watch the full episode on YouTube here.Sponsored by KitcasterExecutive Produced by Phil Better Inc See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today, we have the Lead Innovator for Respona, Farzad Rashidi, to talk about innovation and how his business can help your business by bringing your website's organic traffic to new heights. He also shares the successes in his business journey and how he, together with his team, overcame the challenges.   Farzad Rashidi is the lead innovator at Respona, the all-in-one link-building outreach software that helps businesses increase their organic traffic from Google. He previously ran the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 14 million active users and passed 3M monthly organic traffic.   Connect with Farzad at: Website: https://respona.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farzadrashidi/   Download his latest ebook: https://www.visme.co/marketing-strategy/   ——— I love connecting with Work at Home RockStars! Reach out on LinkedIn, Instagram, or via email   Website

Sean: But that conservative mindset and the question is like, how powerful has your marketing guy been? Because you mentioned that you put screenshots step by step, people and competitors might just download them and copy them. Yeah. What's the trade-off and how is it been? Is it worth doing that, worth exposing how you did it, versus your competitors being able to copy what you did? Farzad: Yep, it's fine. You mentioned us, Sean, because we have lots of Visme competitors and funny enough, some Respona competitors, direct competitors using Respona for their own outreach. And to be honest with you, I feel flattered when a competing product doesn't use their own product, and comes and uses our product to do outreach. But personally, all we've seen has been growth. We've never had anything backfire. We are very liberal when it comes to the amount of information we share. I do. I love sharing just free information. If somebody emails me with any sort of question, doesn't matter who they are, I normally tend to respond as much as they can. And you know, if you look at the growth rate of our companies, obviously we have lots of competitors. We have a ton of people who are a lot smarter than us. And we love that. I mean, we welcome healthy competition because it also makes us more creative and figures out ways how we can improve our products and offer better services. And that's the beauty of capitalism, is that competition sparks innovation. So we have no problems with it. And customers that we have are with us because we have the best product. It's not because we are sneaky with our tactics to capture them. You know, you still have to consider that you're selling to human beings. They are not just lead or prospects per se or email addresses. They're humans. And humans purchase things and take action based on their instincts, based on their level of trust. And we're more than happy to share all of that stuff publicly. It's not a problem with us. - - - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/leadershipstack Join our community and ask questions here: from.sean.si/discord Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leadershipstack Leadership Stack Merch: https://leadershipstack.com/shop/

Sean: Do you lead by position, by persuasion, by your productivity, by what you've been able to do before, and how were you able to influence them to say, "Hey, this is a new idea of mine, super risky, but it's worth it and you should invest." Farzad: Yeah. So one thing, Sean, that I always prided myself in is my work ethic. And when I joined the company, Visme was the first company I had joined and still was involved in. I still I'm involved with them up to this day. So I'm a person who worked their tail off and that's something that's quite apparent. And when I tell them I'm going to do something gets done. So over the course of years of working with the team and kind of put that customer acquisition strategy in place, obviously Visme has got a very smart team. I'm just a small part. I can't take credit for their success. These guys are doing phenomenally well and I was very lucky and honored to really be part of it. But obviously when you work with someone long-term, you kind of get a sense of, okay, what these guys are playing or they actually mean what they say. So when I presented the idea to the founder of Visme - Payman, who is my co-founder around the response side, obviously there was some hesitation and I'm like, I don't know what this is going to help us, but in the end of the day, it was something that was going to help Visme move forward faster, like, "Hey, we're going to build this as a side project for ourselves." And it was sort of gradual over time, that proposition wasn't like, Hey, I have a new software idea, let's invest in it. It wasn't like that. It was more so, as I said, an internal tool that we would decide to build first. And then we were like, okay, well, you know, we already have the infrastructure. Let's put a login page on it and see if other people are going to be able to use it as well. And so that sort of gradually turned into a business where it was quite clear for us, okay, there is some sign of life there. There is a proof of concept. We already have a bunch of paying customers, so now it makes more sense to start investing more resources. Considering that Visme is still up to today is a bootstrap company. So every dollar we put in is our own money. It's not just some investors' cash. So we had to be very mindful and be pretty scrappy. - - - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/leadershipstack Join our community and ask questions here: from.sean.si/discord Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leadershipstack Leadership Stack Merch: https://leadershipstack.com/shop/

Today on the show we have Farzad Rashidi, Lead Innovator at Respona. In this episode, Farzad shares how Visme went from 0 to 3million in organic traffic, and how they took that strategy and turned it into a new product. We then discussed why organic and paid search traffic impact retention differently, and how customers that are actively searching to solve a problem have significantly higher retention.As usual, I'm excited to hear what you think of this episode, and if you have any feedback, I would love to hear from you. You can email me directly at Andrew@churn.fm. Don't forget to follow us on Twitter.

Farzad Rashidi covers both technical and practical advice, the history and theory behind it so you can get the full context of why to do something, how to do it and what to do when.

Farzad Rashidi covers both technical and practical advice, the history and theory behind it so you can get the full context of why to do something, how to do it and what to do when.

How does a website get more than 3 million visits per month with zero dollars spent on paid advertising? For Visme, it was all about an on- and off-page SEO strategy focused on creating great content for relevant keywords and then investing time in promoting the content and building up quality backlinks. The strategy worked so well that they developed a SaaS tool to manage it, and now that tool - Respona - is available for anyone to use. Farzad Rashidi is the marketer behind the strategy, and in this episode he makes the case for why marketers should be spending more time on content promotion than they are on content creation. He also breaks down the exact process that both Visme and Respona use to get backlinks, and shares what other marketers can do to replicate his results.

It's time to get serious about your website traffic and your digital marketing.  Farzad Rashidi is the lead innovator at Respona, the all-in-one digital PR and link-building software that combines personalization with productivity. He also runs the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 14 million active users and pass 3M monthly organic traffic.More About Respona:  https://respona.com/Connect with Farzad on LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farzadrashidi/Follow Farzad on Twitter: @The_Farzad Support This Podcast! Make a quick and easy donation here:https://www.patreon.com/dogoodbetterSpecial THANK YOU to our sponsors:Donor Dock - The best CRM system for your small to medium sized nonprofit, hands down! Visit www.DonorDock.com and use the Promo Code DOGOODBETTER for a FREE month!Brady Martz - The Nonprofit Audit Specialists! Visit www.BradyMartz.com to connect with folks to make your fiscal life a heckuvalot easier!About The Official Do Good Better Podcast:Each episode features (fundraising expert, speaker, event creator and author) Patrick Kirby interviewing leaders and champions of small & medium nonprofits to share their successes, their impact, and what makes them a unicorn in a field of horses. Patrick answers fundraising questions and (most importantly) showcases how you can support these small nonprofits doing great big things!iTunes: https://apple.co/3a3XenfSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2PlqRXsYouTube: https://bit.ly/3kaWYanTunein: http://tun.in/pjIVtStitcher: https://bit.ly/3i8jfDRFollow On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoodBetterPodcast/Follow On Twitter: @consulting_do #fundraising #fundraiser #charity #nonprofit #donate#dogood #dogoodBETTER #fargo #fundraisingdadAbout Host Patrick Kirby:Email: Patrick@dogoodbetterconsulting.comLinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fundraisingdad/Want more great advice? Buy Patrick's book! Now also available as an e-book!Fundraise Awesomer! A Practical Guide to Staying Sane While Doing GoodAvailable through Amazon Here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1072070359

Season 2 is kicking off in style on the day I arrive in Montreal to kick off my podcasting tour of Canada and the US. Our objective is to answer these 2 fundamental questions. What expertise is required to build a world-class business? And what are other Startups and SaaS Companies each doing differently to stand out in this ever-changing world?

Today's guest is Farzad Rashidi who is the lead innovator at Respona, the all-in-one digital PR and link-building software that combines personalization with productivity. He also runs the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 12.5 million users and pass 2M monthly organic traffic. Since then, he's been helping other companies achieve the same success via Respona. In this episode, you will learn  Must they have content marketing and SEO strategies that all ecommerce brands should be doing Evergreen content and how it is created and promoted How does an ecommerce brand know what types of content will resonate with their customers and potential customers Examples of businesses that have launched successful evergreen content marketing strategies  For show transcript and past guests, please visit https://www.ecommercemarketingpodcast.com  Or on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3PgT0NOGzpdPGQtBK0XLIQ  Follow Arlen:  Twitter: https://twitter.com/askarlen  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arlen.robinson.7  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arlenyohance/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arlenrobinson/  Past guests on the ecommerce marketing podcast include Neil Patel, Nemo Chu, Luke Lintz, Luke Carthy, Amber Armstrong, Kris Ruby and many more.  Thanks for listening. Be sure to subscribe and leave a review.

In this episode of the Remote CEO Show, I had the pleasure to interview, Farzad Rashidi. Farzad is the lead innovator at Respona, the all-in-one digital PR and link-building software that combines personalization with productivity. He also runs the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 12 million active users and pass 2M monthly organic traffic.

Farzad Rashidi is the lead innovator at Respona, the all-in-one digital PR and link-building software that combines personalization with productivity. He also runs the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 12 million active users and pass 2M monthly organic traffic. Since then, he's been helping other companies achieve similar successes via Respona. ***CONNECT WITH LOU DIAMOND & THRIVE LOUD***

Farzad Rashidi is the lead innovator at Respona, an all-in-one, digital PR and link building software that combines personalization with productivity. He also handles marketing at Visme, a company he helps pass over two million visits of monthly organic traffic. It's safe to say Farzad knows a thing or two about producing effective content - that's why he's here to share his process for creating informational content that will drive more traffic to your website.Farzad says generating traffic through great content is about a lot more than posting a simple blog post. In order to ensure it's truly effective, business owners should share informative content to position themselves as experts in their field, pay attention to keywords, and more.Luckily, in this episode, Farzad is sharing his whole killer content creation process. He'll explain all the ins and outs of effective content to make sure you're getting the most out of your website. No matter what field you're working in, driving traffic is a must - and great content is the key. In this episode[1:32] Farzad takes us through his career journey and explains a bit about what he does today.[5:56] Farzad says one of the most important parts of content creation is considering site structure. He takes us through this process, from parent keywords to content promotion. [13:23] Farzad shares his tips for ensuring your company is sharing quality content and shares a helpful formula for choosing high traffic keywords.[20:39] Farzad's process can sound like it takes a lot of time and energy, but in the end, it's worth it. He shares the incredible net result - and how much money it will save you compared to other methods.[28:42] Farzad gives one last summary of his winning content process and how to implement it into your own business. Support the show (https://jeffmendelson.com/onebigtip)

GotTechED the PodcastEpisode #101: Edtech that Promotes Student CreativityWelcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode #101 called “Edtech that Promotes Student Creativity”. In this episode Guise and I will share some new tools (and some old favorites) that can help to promote student creativity in your classroom. This is another episode you don't want to miss. Check it out. Segment 1: Reflection on #12daysofedtechCheck out our YouTube Channel to be able to replay the #12daysofedtech Dec 7: 5 Ways to Make Canva Images Pop  Dec 8: 5 Productivity Chrome Browser Tricks Dec 9: 4 Tips for Better Screencasting  Dec 10: 5 #Edtech Tools to Promote Teacher Creativity Dec 11: Myedtechbundle.com   Dec 12: Live Leaderboards Dec 13: Top Websites for Fonts and Icons  Dec 14: 6 Websites for Free video, audio, and images  Dec 15: 4 Project Ideas to Help Students to be Content Creators  Dec 16: 5 Blended Learning Websites Dec 17: 3 New Student Video Projects (Stop Motion Studio, Prezi Video, SnagIt) Dec 18: 5 Gamification Websites  Segment 2: Edtech Tools That Promote Student Creativityhttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/adobe-spark-video/id852555131?mt=8 (Adobe Spark Video) https://www.wevideo.com/ (WeVideo)  https://www.visme.co/ (Visme) https://www.canva.com/ (Canva) https://www.flippity.net/Randomizer.htm (Flippity Randomizer) https://edu.glogster.com/ (Glogster) https://www.zeemaps.com/ (ZeeMaps) https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/stop-motion-studio/id441651297?mt=8 (Stop Motion Studio)   Prezi Video Chrome Music Lab https://www.tiki-toki.com/ (Tiki Toki) https://go.fan.school/ (Fan School )(formerly KidBlog) Spark creativity with https://www.teampedia.net/wiki/Main_Page (TeamPedia) https://wixie.com/ (Wixie) Segment 3: Where to Find GotTechEDDo us 3 favors Subscribe to GotTechED the Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gotteched/id1358366637?mt=2 (Apple Podcasts) https://open.spotify.com/show/7zyzfCkSDNHkKdqxmh9XLB?si=YhSdMa6BQVmcLHbSrYxE9Q (Spotify) https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Indeizidhz4h37mawfylwdgco4y (Google Podcasts)   https://www.stitcher.com/search?q=gotteched (Stitcher)   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMIQwu39Tkow3kduRQAH85w?view_as=subscriber (YouTube)   https://twitter.com/WeGotTechED (Twitter)    https://www.facebook.com/WeGotTechED/ (Facebook) Write us an Apple Podcast Review! Tell your friends about http://www.gotteched.com (www.gotteched.com) Music Credits:The Degs: Shotgunhttp://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/ ( http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/) @bensoundshttps://www.bensound.com/ ( https://www.bensound.com/) Subscribe to our Podcasthttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gotteched/id1358366637?mt=2 (Apple Podcasts) https://open.spotify.com/show/7zyzfCkSDNHkKdqxmh9XLB?si=YhSdMa6BQVmcLHbSrYxE9Q (Spotify) https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Indeizidhz4h37mawfylwdgco4y (Google Podcasts)   https://www.stitcher.com/search?q=gotteched (Stitcher)   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMIQwu39Tkow3kduRQAH85w?view_as=subscriber (YouTube)   https://twitter.com/WeGotTechED (Twitter)    https://www.facebook.com/WeGotTechED/ (Facebook) Connect with us on Social MediaGuise on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/GuiseGotTechEd ( @guisegotteched) Nick on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/NickGotTechEd ( @nickgotteched) GotTechED the Podcast on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/WeGotTechEd ( @wegotteched) Join the Conversation and our PLNOur favorite part of recording a live podcast each week is participating in the great conversations that happen on our https://www.facebook.com/WeGotTechED/ (Facebook Group Page).    Need a Presenter?As experienced presenters and content creators, you can contact Nick and Guise to speak at your school, event, or conference. They can...