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#51 | Words in Progress with Natalie Marcotullio, Part 2 | Making Content Bigger Than What You Sell
In this episode, I sit down with Natalie Marcotullio to talk about the thinking behind Navattic’s Buyer First report—and why content only started working when they mad...
#50 | Words in Progress with Natalie Marcotullio, Part 1 | Building Navattic's Content Brand
In the debut episode of Words in Progress, a mini-series within Louder Than Words, John Bonini sits down with Natalie Marcotullio, Head of Growth & Product Marketing a...
#49 | Natalie Marcotullio | The Smallest Company that Everyone Knows About
In this episode, John sits down with Natalie Marcotullio, head of growth and operations at Navattic. Natalie shares her experience transitioning from a traditional SEO...
#48 | Eddie Shleyner | The Most Personal is The Most Creative
In this episode, John catches up with old friend and copywriting savant, Eddie Shleyner. Eddie is the founder of VeryGoodCopy where he has built up a massive audience ...
#47 | Ross Simmonds | The Long Game of Content Marketing
This week, John sits down with content legend Ross Simmonds. Ross is the founder and CEO of Foundational Marketing, an agency focused on distribution, as well as the (...
#46 | Emily Triplett Lentz | Behind the Content at Basecamp, Help Scout, and Calendly
This week, I sit down with a friend and and someone whose work I've long admired––Emily Triplett Lentz. Emily has one of the most prolific and legendary resumes in con...
#45 | Chris Savage | Content Is the Product
This week, John sits down with Chris Savage, co-founder and CEO at Wistia. The team at Wistia has always approached content differently than most other companies. They...
#44 | Brendan Hufford | The Importance of Creativity & Consistency in Building a Brand
In this episode, John hangs out with recovering in-house marketer, now founder of Growth Sprints, Brendan Hufford. In the past, Hufford worked in both growth and SEO f...
#43 | Rand Fishkin | Designing a Business (and content) for Meaningful Engagement
This week, John is joined by Rand Fishkin––one of the true OGs when it comes to B2B content marketing. Rand is the founder and former CEO of Moz and the current founde...
#42 | Amanda Goetz | The Messiness of Finding Your Content Niche & Going Independent
This week, John sits down with Amanda Goetz. Amanda is a 2x founder, 3x CMO, and now a full-time brand builder and creator on personal and professional growth inspiri...
#41 | Dave Gerhardt | Building & Monetizing a Personal Brand to $1M+
You know Dave Gerhardt. Maybe it's from his days running marketing at Drift. Or from his time hosting the Seeking Wisdom podcast with David Cancel. Or, maybe you've he...
#40 | Amanda Natividad | Defensible Content
We’re back! The first new episode of Louder Than Words in more than 6(!) years. Today, John welcomes marketing and creative extraordinaire Amanda Natividad to talk abo...
Lindsay Pettingill: Airbnb's 4 Principles For Marketing Experimentation
Airbnb runs about 700 experiments in a given week. Here, I chat with data scientist Linsday Pettingill on the culture and principles that allow their team to move so q...
Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown: How Successful Companies Drive Extraordinary Growth
What do companies like Facebook, Dropbox, Airbnb, Pinterest (and others!) all have in common? Not just a great product, but a methodical, measured approach to driving ...
Scott Monty: The Moves That Helped Change Ford Motor Company's Image
Scott Monty, former head of social media at Ford Motor Company, talks about his decision to join Ford in 2008 and the specifics of what went into the social and brandi...
Jason Fried: The Basecamp Founder on Bypassing Perverted Growth for Profitability
Jason Fried, Founder and CEO of Basecamp, talks about the (rare) art of making more money than you spend instead of aiming for growth at all costs.
Christian Rudder: Growing OkCupid from Underdog to Generating 30,000 First Dates Every Single Day
Christian Rudder, cofounder of OkCupid and bestselling author of “Dataclysm: Who We Are When We Think No One is Looking”, talks about OkCupid’s algorithmic approach to...
Tucker Max: How to Turn Your Ideas Into Books Without Actually Writing Them
Tucker Max, bestselling author of "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell", talks about the inspiration behind founding his new company, Book in a Box, and how they’re helping...
Jay Acunzo: Connecting People That Are Bothered By "Suck"
Jay Acunzo, former marketer at Google and HubSpot, talks about the inspiration behind his current passion project Unthinkable.fm, and how he’s helping connect marketer...
Meghan Keaney Anderson: HubSpot's VP of Marketing On Why Content is Moving Away from the Website
Meghan Keaney Anderson, HubSpot's VP of Marketing, has been with the company for five years. Here she talks about the levers that have inspired growth and why content ...
Jess Iandiorio: Drift's VP of Marketing on Building A Customer Growth Strategy
Jess Iandiorio, VP of Marketing at Drift, details prescriptive tips on how brands can start building a more effective customer growth strategy and retain more customers.
Keith Frankel: "You can be honest without being an asshole"
Keith Frankel talks in detail about the career that has taken him from the competitive board rooms at MTV to the rose-tinted offices of the tech world and the experien...
Neil Pasricha: The Bestselling Author On Discovering the Simplest Formula to A Happy Life
Neil Pasricha, best known for his blog–1000 Awesome Things–and subsequent "Book of Awesome" series talks about his new book, "The Happiness Equation", and how he disco...
Jason Zook: The Guy Who Made $1 Million Wearing T-Shirts
Jason Zook, best known for making over $1,000,000 wearing t-shirts and selling his last name (twice), talks about creativity, hustle porn, and preparing for success.
David Heinemeier Hansson: The Cofounder of Basecamp on Rejecting Money & Living Happily Ever After
David Heinemeier Hansson on why Silicon Valley culture gets it all wrong.
Nataly Kogan: The Road to “Happier" from Communist Russia
Nataly Kogan, founder of Happier, talks about escaping communist Russia at 13 and her life’s work of helping others find happiness in small, bite-sized, everyday moments.
Jeff Sheldon: The Founder of Ugmonk on Fighting Obscurity & Selling Your First 200 Shirts
Jeff Sheldon, the designer and founder of Ugmonk, talks about growing his side passion project into the well-known lifestyle brand it's become today.
The Austin Kleon Episode
Austin Kleon, the New York Times best selling author of Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work, chats on everything from the importance of being boring, how he collec...
Ann Handley: Spandex & Volkswagen – or How Anyone Can Overcome Their Writing Woes
Ann Handley, the world's first chief content officer and best selling author of Everybody Writes, talks about overcoming her own distractions to be a better writer (an...
Joe Pulizzi: How to Start Something By Selling Nothing
Joe Pulizzi, founder of Content Marketing Institute and author of Content Inc., talks about how many successful companies experience "happy accidents" in the way they ...
