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FM OSAKA ????? ?????

by Databox

Ground Up is the honest portrayal of the hard stuff, breakthroughs, and lessons learned from starting or growing a business.

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Episodes

  1. 46: Ground Table / Are website forms dying? Are chatbots a better experience?

    On the very first Ground Table, Databox’s John Bonini is joined by Andrea Lechner-Becker (CMO at LeadMD), John McTigue (former EVP and cofounder at Kuno Creative) and Pete Caputa (CEO at Databox) to discuss how the website conversion has evolved. Are website forms dying? Are chatbots and/or live...

  2. 44: Jimmy Daly / Lessons from One of the Best Content Marketers in the World

    On this episode of Ground Up, we chat with Jimmy Daly on lessons learned growing a content agency, the library vs. publication method, the connection between sales and content, and more.

  3. 45: Doug Davidoff / HubSpot Sales Enterprise: The Great, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

    Sales software savant, Doug Davidoff, joined us on Ground Up to discuss the 37 (yes, 37!) features of HubSpot Sales Enterprise.

  4. 43: Pete Caputa & Brian Moseley / 2 Years of Sales Lessons at Databox

    On today's podcast, Caputa and Moseley walk through all of the sales lessons they've learned in the last 22 months of working together. Things like: - What it is like to sell to companies who are already using a free product. - How our product team helped streamline his sales process. - How our...

  5. 42: Chris Savage / Wistia's Moment of Clarity

    On this episode of Ground Up, Wistia's co-founder and CEO, Chris Savage, shares the details of what led to the decision to raise debt and buy out investors and why they decided to spend $111,000 to film a documentary.

  6. 41: Agency Spotlight / How James Robert Lay Went From Near Divorce to a More Balanced Life

    James Robert Lay almost destroyed his marriage because he was working too much and stressing out everyone around him. His marketing agency was like everyone else’s: doing anything for anyone. Fast forward to today, he’s happily married, has four kids, has fewer employees, tight relationships with...

  7. 40: Jay Acunzo / Break(ing) the Wheel of "Best Practices"

    Jay Acunzo, author of Break the Wheel, joins us to share his experiences in the tech industry, the moment(s) that sparked his passion against mindlessly following best practices, and how you can hone your intuition and do your best work.

  8. 39: Scott Belsky / The Messy Middle

    Scott Belsky discusses the ideas from his new book, The Messy Middle, about finding your way through the hardest and most crucial part of any bold venture.

  9. 37: Emma Brudner / How the HubSpot Blog Drives 5 Million Visits Every Month

    In this episode of Ground Up, Emma Brudner, the Director of the HubSpot Blog, joins Pete Caputa to chat about all things blog related, including: - The data behind the performance of the HubSpot Blog - What HubSpot's organic strategy looks like - The pillar/cluster model - How the blog team is...

  10. 38: Mike Volpe / Marketing to the SMB, The State of Inbound, & Building Movements

    Fresh of his announcement of joining Lola.com as CEO, Mike Volpe shares his insights on building a movement, marketing to the SMB, and the current state of inbound marketing.

  11. 36: Ryan Carson / How Treehouse Helped 850,000 People Learn to Code

    Ryan Carson, founder and CEO at Treehouse, shares the story behind their mission and how they plan to continue changing the system.

  12. 35: John & Pete / Forms vs. Website Chat

    Leads forms or website chat–which converts better? John and Pete share the findings of a recent Databox report and debate the differences in approach, pros and cons, and more. See the full report here: https://databox.com/forms-vs-chat

  13. 34: Recruiting, Hiring, & Onboarding Talent

    John sits down with Tettra’s Kristen Craft to talk about a new report on the challenges of recruiting, hiring, and onboarding talent. Special guest: Remington Begg, CEO at Impulse Creative. Check out the full report referenced in this episode here: https://databox.com/agency-recruiting-and-hiring

  14. 33: Joe Jerome & Kathy Heil / How to Partner with Other Firms to Extend Your Capabilities

    Pete Caputa shares the story of two agencies with a shared vision that leveraged each other's strengths in order to expand their capabilities and grow.

  15. 32: Hiten Shah / The Story Behind Successfully Bringing FYI to Market

    Hiten Shah details the successful research, development, and launch of his newest tool, FYI.

  16. 31: Nick Francis / Inside Help Scout's Mission to Optimize for the Customer Experience First

    They’ve grown to 75 employees in 50+ cities, have been profitable since year 2, and have raised $12 million as a tool to further their mission–here’s the story of everything in between.

  17. 30: John & Pete / Surpassing $1M in ARR

    Pete Caputa joins John to talk about the goals, processes, and discipline that helped Databox surpass its first million in ARR.

  18. 29: Jessica Miller & Sandie Young / How to Set Client Goals & Expectations

    Jessica Miller and Sandie Young, both long-tenured members of PR 20/20, share insights on setting goals, exceeding client expectations, and building a great marketing agency.

  19. 27: John & Pete / Accelerating Growth with Comarketing

    John & Pete talk about the comarketing strategies that have helped Databox significantly increase traffic and leads over the last 12 months, as well as detail ways more business can take advantage of its comarketing program.

  20. 26: Russ Perry / Design Pickle's Founder on Going from 'Failed Entrepreneur' to $10M ARR in 3+ Years

    Listen in as Russ Perry shares how Design Pickle made unlimited, subscription-based graphic design work.

  21. 25: John & Pete / The Story Behind Databox's Mission

    John and Pete share some background on Databox's mission, as well as some of the specific developments and activities that have helped support that mission and spur growth.

  22. 24: Jason Fried / Basecamp's Journey to 100,000 Paying Customers

    Jason Fried on Basecamp's beginnings, staying bootstrapped, and why they don't care about world dominance.

  23. 23: Chris Savage / Wistia's Long, Steady, Overnight Success Story

    Chris Savage, founder and CEO of Wistia, shares stories of starting up, how they generated initial traction, as well as thoughts on where branded video is headed.

  24. 22: Nir Eyal / How Apple, Facebook (And Others) Build Habit-Forming Products

    Nir Eyal, best-selling author of Hooked, shares how companies successfully create habits and build products people love.

  25. 21: Andy Cook & Nelson Joyce / How Tettra Achieved Profitability in 2 Years

    Tettra was running out of money. After failing to raise seed funding in the summer of 2017, its cofounders decided to chase a more ambitious goal–profitability.

  26. 19: Elyse Flynn Meyer / The Tools & Technology That Fuel Agency Growth

    Prism Global Marketing Solutions has developed a reputation for keeping its clients ahead of the technology curve. Here's how that's helped spur 40% YoY revenue growth.

  27. 20: Ken Segall / Apple's Product & Advertising in the Steve Jobs Era

    Ken Segall, former ad agency creative director for NeXT and Apple, shares the values that drove Apple’s success as well as some of the most iconic advertisements of a generation.

  28. 18: Julie Hogan / Drift's Approach for Getting Closest to the Customer

    Drift’s VP of Customer Success shares how her team thinks about scaling conversations, relationships, and one-to-one communication in a world of automation.

  29. 17: Matthew Wellschlager / How Ceros is Disrupting Content Marketing (& Why You Should Care)

    Ceros' VP of Marketing on maintaining 70% year-over-year growth by empowering brands to create more interactive and engaging content.

  30. 16: Georgiana Laudi / Forget the Funnel: How SaaS Marketers Can Think More Strategically

    The former VP of Marketing at Unbounce shares 15 years of marketing experience and her inspiration for giving it all away. Check out Laudi's free weekly workshops for SaaS marketers, Forget the Funnel, here: https://forgetthefunnel.com/for-ground-up/

  31. 15: Tim Thyne / Help Scout's Next Phase of Growth

    Tim Thyne on how Help Scout scaled its self-serve model and how a product-driven company gets comfortable with the idea of “sales.”

  32. 14: Rand Fishkin / On Leaving Moz... (& 17 Years of SEO)

    As he prepares to leave the company he founded to start anew, Fishkin shares details on how Moz built its product and audience, the importance of owned assets, and what he's thinking of next.

  33. 13: John & Pete / Acquiring Your First *500* Customers

    Drawing from his experience in starting his own company, scaling HubSpot, and advising other startups, Databox CEO Pete Caputa shares his experience on the things that change after your first 100 customers, and how to evolve in order to continue scaling.

  34. 12: Mike Donnelly / Disrupting Email Marketing with Artificial Intelligence

    Mike Donnelly noticed it had become increasingly difficult to reach his customers through email. After noticing patterns in how and when his customers engaged with his emails, he built Seventh Sense. This is his story.

  35. 11: Karl Sakas / How to Make Your Clients Thrilled to Work with You

    Karl Sakas has worked with hundreds of agencies across 30 countries to solve a set of common challenges with unique solutions. Hear what he’s learned and how he’s helping.

  36. 10: Tiffany Sauder / From out of Business to Inc. 5000

    Tiffany Sauder, President of Element Three, tells the story of how she brought her agency from the brink of failure to the Inc. 5000 and $10 million in annual revenue.

  37. 9: Andi Graham / Not Your Average HubSpot Agency Partner

    Big Sea is leading with goals, not inbound deliverables. Here’s how they do it and why it’s working.

  38. 8: Joanna Wiebe / The Copyhackers Founder on Launching Airstory to Help Make Writing Better

    Joanna Wiebe tells the story of how, through years of writing high-converting copy for companies like Buffer, Wistia, Invision, and Shopify, she was inspired to launch software to help everyone that writes for a living create better work.

  39. 7: Paul Roetzer / The Hard Stuff About Building an Agency, Defining Success, & Solving for Both

    It’s been 12 years since Paul Roetzer founded PR 20/20. Since then he’s learned a lot through personal growth, business success, developing and retaining talent, and so much more.

  40. 6: Building, Launching, & Growing Unbounce w/ Oli Gardner & Stefanie Grieser

    Fresh of the successful launch of Landing Page Analyzer, we talked with Unbounce cofounder Oli Gardner and employee #9, Stefanie Grieser, on the company’s growth and overall success. Landing Page Analyzer: https://unbounce.com/landing-page-analyzer/

  41. 5: LeadQuizzes founder on bootstrapping to over $1M annually in under 2 years

    LeadQuizzes founder Jeremy Ellens talks about the transition from a service-based agency to a SaaS product that's generating over $1 million a year with no funding.

  42. 4: Crayon's Evolution from Inspiration to Market Intelligence with Jonah Lopin

    After leaving HubSpot, Jonah Lopin remembers feeling a bit unsettled at the obscurity of starting your own company. No emails. No meetings. But high expectations. Hear Lopin detail Crayon's evolution from an inspiration tool to a suite of market and competitive intelligence tools.

  43. EP 3: Finding Your First 100 Customers

    Databox CEO Pete Caputa has played a key role in generating the first 100 customers (and more) for 3 different startups. In this episode, we chat about lessons from each that can be applied to any business.

  44. EP 2: Pamela Vaughan on HubSpot's Approach to Growth & Optimization

    Ever wonder how HubSpot approaches its own growth marketing? Pamela Vaughan, who has been with the company since 2008, gives us an inside look at the things that helped grow the HubSpot Blog to >4M monthly visitors, as well as their approach to testing and optimization that continues to help them...

  45. EP 1: Pete Caputa on Building HubSpot's Partner Program (& His Next Billion Dollar Business)

    Hear how Pete Caputa, now CEO at Databox, worked through internal resistance to build HubSpot’s Partner Program (on nights and weekends) into a global community that now represents ~40% of the company’s annual revenue.

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Ground Up is the honest portrayal of the hard stuff, breakthroughs, and lessons learned from starting or growing a business.

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