The Click & Convert Podcast Sean Clark

Nathan Hirsch has over 10+ years of experience building businesses as an entrepreneur. Along with his business partner Connor Gillivan, Nathan built his first eCommerce business to $25 million in total sales using virtual assistants. 
 
Then, they scaled and sold their second company, FreeeUp which featured on the show in 2019, with a 100% remote team of virtual assistants. 
 
They have been recognised on 250+ podcasts such as Entrepreneur on Fire and were on the Entrepreneur 360 List for two years in a row commending them as one of the best entrepreneurial companies in America. 
 
At their core, they are systems entrepreneurs always looking for new ways to automate and outsource to virtual assistants and talented professionals. Nathan is here today to talk about his latest project Outsource School.
 
Sean and Nathan discuss a range of topics, covering Nathan's new venture Outsource School.
 
Outsource School Links:
 
Facebook
LinkedIn
Twitter
OutsourceSchool Website
 
Email: support@outsourceschool.com and nathan@outsourceschool.com

Today’s Click and Convert podcast guest is Magda Houalla, Director of Marketing Strategy at AspireIQ. As a leader in the influencer marketing space, Magda helps brands across all industries start and expand their campaigns to meet, and exceed, their own specific goals. Magda’s client list includes the likes of Zevia, Freshly, Bed, Bath & Beyond, LL Bean and Walmart.
In this episode, Magda shares her expertise in influencer marketing, discussing a range of topics with Sean, including:
When Magda became interested in influencer marketing and how she progressed her career to get to where she is today The size of businesses that Magda works with primarily What influencer marketing is and how a campaign might differ from a product endorsement How to find the right influencer to fit your brand and how different brands could leverage influencer marketing How influencer marketing for different budgets The different timescales for influencer marketing campaigns and how this will vary between brands How influencer marketing can work with a range of different demographics How Magda and her team help brands manage their expectations with ROI on these campaigns How the evolution of social media platforms allows brands to access different audiences with influencer marketing Want to learn more about influencer marketing? You’ll find lots of resources at aspireiq.com/click-convert.

**Note: This is a special video episode hosted by our Sales Manager Charles Holland from his online MeetUp- Hack Your Sales Funnel**

You can find out more at: hackyoursalesfunnel.com

Want to know how one marketer generated over 600 high-value leads in 9 months on LinkedIn through content marketing?

We’ve got you covered!

Our guest speaker – Chris Branch of Seed To Branch (https://seedtobranch.com/) from our first Online “Hacking Your Sales” Webinar.

Chris is doing AMAZING things with Content Marketing on LinkedIn with his own brand and for his clients. Here are just a few of his accomplishments in the last 9 months:

- 0-20k LinkedIn followers (company page)
- 10-39k LinkedIn followers (personal page)
- 600+ leads generated for his own business
- The average value of a lead is £3.5k a month

If that wasn’t enough, just check out his own business stats for March of this year:

- 4.1 Million post impressions in 30 days
- 120 leads over this period (90% inbound) (10% referral) (0% outbound)

We’re going to run through exactly how he’s grown his personal and company pages, his secret hacks for explosive growth, and how to turn engagement into qualified leads.

On today’s show, Sean speaks with Chris Shipferling, Managing Partner at Global Wired Advisors, where he is the first point of contact for clients looking to sell their online business. For the past seven years, Chris has focused exclusively on high-level consulting for multi-million-dollar omnichannel, digitally native and Amazon-based private label and reseller brands. Chris and his partners use their 70+ years of combined investment banking experience to provide a superior level of service that was previously unavailable in the lower middle market.
 
But it’s not just expertise and experience to offer comprehensive financial advice. Each member of the Global Wired team has also owned, operated and sold multiple digitally native and Amazon-based businesses, meaning they are uniquely qualified to guide client companies through each step of the complex sale process.
 
Chris enjoys working closely with entrepreneurs and small business owners throughout the transaction process. Getting to know clients on an individual level means that Global Wired Advisors can better assist them in realising their goals to achieve the best possible sale outcome.
 
Sean and Christ cover a number of topics, including:
 
What Chris did before Global Wired Advisors and how he got involved in this sector The types of business that Global Wired Advisors works with How long a business would typically be trading, and which factors they should consider before selling How it can be difficult for service-based business to sell, given the heavy reliance on the founder The general process for determining the value of a business, though this will vary between businesses How building a business with the intention of selling can actually be beneficial How business owners know it might be time to consider selling The types of potential buyers for these businesses How people know they can trust an agency to help sell their business



You can find out more about what Chris and his team do by visiting the Global Wired Advisors website, where you will find white papers and blog posts that explain their services. You can also input your business data into their valuation tool to get an estimate of your business value.
 
If you’d like more customised data about how Global Wired Advisors might help you, you can also schedule a free consultation with Chris. 
 
Or contact Chris on Facebook.
Check out the Marathon des Sables Podcast, where Sean interviews MdS participants in the run-up to the big event- 250km through the Sahara Desert over six days- in April 2020.
As always if you have any questions you can get in touch via Twitter @SeanClark.
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This is a special episode of the Click and Convert podcast as Sean takes part in a roundtable discussion on the Search with Candour podcast.
 
Sean is joined by Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis of Candour as well as Michael Curtis from Further to discuss PPC and SEO. They cover recent updates and what the future holds for both paid and organic search.
Topics covered in this episode include:
Voice Search AI’s impact on search SEO & PPC Management in the future The teams predictions for 2020 & beyond

On this week’s show, Sean speaks to Traci Reuter, founder and CEO of Divine Social. Traci has a gift for looking at any business’ vision, mission and message and mapping out the right strategy for them.She’s passionate about helping businesses grow using authentic and meaningful social advertising. With 25 years of experience, it’s safe to say that Traci knows her stuff when it comes to high-level marketing strategy. She shares her expertise as co-host of Social Media Marketing Happy Hour podcast, and as a contributing author in the bestselling The Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising (3rd edition).
 
Today, Traci shares her expertise as a guest on this podcast, offering up some of her greatest secrets behind mapping out a powerful social advertising strategy. She and Sean discuss a number of topics, including:
 
How Divine Social came about They key foundations for any business when starting a new campaign and how research is the most important step of any campaign The suitability of different platforms, such as Facebook or Instagram, for different clients. Traci also gives us an insight into which she prefers Traci’s current approach to audience creation and how much she targets Divine Social’s preferred creative approach for effective ads, but how they adapt for clients How Divine Social approaches testing The most common mistakes in social advertising campaigns Tips on estimating and setting budgets How to keep up with ever-changing platforms and ensure that strategy fits with their abilities


Want to find out more?
 
Divine Social has a landing page especially for Click and Convert listeners, packed with resources to support with the topics discussed in this episode. 
 
Or contact Traci on Facebook & Twitter. 
Check out the Marathon des Sables Podcast, where Sean interviews MdS participants in the run-up to the big event- 250km through the Sahara Desert over six days- in April 2020.
As always if you have any questions you can get in touch via Twitter @SeanClark.
Subscribe to this podcast via iTunes, Stitcher and now on Spotify. If you liked it we’d be grateful if you could leave a review.