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Nerd Marketing — 84 episodes

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PostPilot Fall Editions 2025

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Direct Mail Goes Multichannel

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The Cost Per Impression Era Is Over featuring Prof. Jonathan Zhang

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How Chubbies Avoided Bankruptcy and Built a Nine-Figure Brand with Preston Rutherford

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NM Live: Back to School Campaigns and How to Leverage Them for Black Friday

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NM Live: Leadership Lessons from the Navy and What We've Learned Along the Way

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NM Live: Turn Retention into Your Most Profitable Channel with Zak Cassady-Dorion, CEO of ECD Digital Strategy

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NM Live: Touchland's Big Exit, Meta's Future, and What Brands Can Learn from Aviator Nation

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NM Live: How We Run a Remote Company Without Losing Alignment

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NM Live: Navigating Uncertainty — What Tariffs & Consumer Trends Mean for DTC

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NM Live: Balancing Brand and Performance Marketing With John Hutchison, CEO of Bonobos

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Tariff Insanity: How DTC Brands Can Make It Through

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NM Live: Shoptalk Recap (Suite Party, AI, Unified Commerce) + Unloading Pura Vida

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NM Live: Maximizing Your Shopify Store's Valuation with Drew Fallon, CEO of Iris

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NM Live: Series A Success, Cozy Earth's Direct Mail Wins & Email + Direct Mail Synergy

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NM Live: Shopify's Enterprise Gap, Loyalty Myths & Smarter eCommerce Playbooks

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NM Live: Klaviyo's Big CRM Launch & Why Direct Mail is a Retail Growth Hack

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NM LIVE: DTC Super Bowl, CFO-CMO Synergy & Scaling Apparel Brands

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NM Live: Surviving Tariffs, Meta Madness & Hexclad's Super Bowl Play

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NM Live: The CMO Playbook – Smarter Customer Acquisition, First-Party Data, Marketing Efficiency

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NM Live: 2025 Predictions, Abercrombie & True Religion's Successes, Trends & Turnarounds

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Synergies Between Direct Mail and Digital Marketing: 1 + 1 = 3

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Meta Who? Building a Direct Mail Marketing-First Business like Baudville Brands

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50 Years of Direct Mail Experience, 1 Podcast

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The Nerd Fundraising Guide: Tips, Advice, and lessons from PostPilot's Series A

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Retention Marketing Masterclass with Chris Orzechowski

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Unlocking 10% Growth with Direct Mail

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Turnaround Secrets Pt. 2

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Turnaround Secrets, Pt. 1

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Masterclass in eCom-Economics + Finance with Bill D'Alessandro of Natural Dog

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How to Get Customers to Buy Without Discounting

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Building a Big Brand with a Small Team with Matt Mullenax of Huron

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Thinking Outside the Black Friday Box with Luke McAlpine of Taylor Stitch

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Making Your Brand Ubiquitous with Katie Hanna of Ka'Chava

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Lessons from 45 Black Fridays in Ecommerce

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What Successful Ecom Brands Know with Anthony Choe, Founder of Provenance

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Marketing a $100M Brand with Julia Perez, CMO of OWYN

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How to Grow a Brand Profitably with Brandon Park of 100 Thieves

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How to Change an Industry with Morgen Newman, CEO of Cora

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Secrets of Successful Ads with Jacques Spitzer, CEO of Raindrop

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The Pura Vida story: How a surfing trip turned into a 9-figure lifestyle brand with co-founder Griffin Thall

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Bootstrapped to big exit with Garret Akerson of DTC maternity brand Kindred Bravely.

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Crushing conferences and collabs with Joe Rogan: The Carnivore Snax story

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How $2.5 BILLION CPG haircare brand Olaplex manages marketing with Alisa Pospekhova, head of brand marketing.

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Executing a successful DTC roll-up with Taylor Stitch's Mike Maher

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Discounting strategies and coupon alternatives with Oren Charnoff

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How Mr. Beast's Feastables Skyrocketed Brand Revenue

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The Mattress Titan: How Resident Conquers the Sales Game

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From TinyPrints to Big Success: How Ed Han and Laura Ching Sold a $333 Million Business

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The Future of Direct Mail and Marketing | DTC Podcast Interview with Drew Sanocki

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CPG Investing Strategies: A Conversation with Julianne Hummelberg

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Building a CPG Brand: Insights from a $225 Million Exit

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Wharton Professor Peter Fader on Managing Your Business Around Your Customers

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Jedi Strategies for Meetings That Will Grow Your Brand

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Mastering Catalog Marketing: Success Strategies for Maximum Impact With Rick Binger

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Leveraging Online Success to Expand into Traditional Retail with Erin Chambers

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Boosting Your Business With Customer Segmentation, Part 2

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80-20 Your Business: How to Maximize Revenue and Profitability, Part 1

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Relaunched the Nerd Marketing Podcast: What to Expect

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Podcast 41: eCommerce Fuel interview - Post Card Marketing for eCommerce

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Episode 40: Podcast 40: My Private Equity Rolodex

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Episode 39: Six Steps to Maximizing Valuations

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Episode 38: The Private Equity Process Breakdown

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Episode 37: Intro to Private Equity

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#35: Podcast 35: Top Nerd Travel Tools

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We Just Bought a Company

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#34 Productivity Insights After Six Months on the Road

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#33: The Podcast is Back and Three Updates for 2018

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Ep 16 Do you know what customer segments are driving your business? Find out using Google Analytics.

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Ep 15 How Emmanuel Eleyae Grew SatinLinedCaps.com to 7-Figures Off Influencers Marketing and Email

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Ep 14 How Michael Jackness Grew ColorIt.com to 7-Figures Off Niche Selection, Contesting and Facebook Marketing

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Ep 13 The Single Channel Josh Manley Used to Grow IronFenceShop.com to $1 Million In His First Year

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Ep 12 How Sam Gastro Grew MyGiftCardSupply to 7-Figures Off Retention Marketing

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Ep 11 Gunning for $1m? Learn to love these three simple marketing equations

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Ep 10 The Six Steps to Building a Million Dollar Ecommerce Business, Part 2

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Ep 9: The Six Steps to Building a Million Dollar Ecommerce Business, Part 1

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Ep 8 Million Dollar Mindset: I attribute my success to these three mental factors

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Ep 7 Actual Tripwires I Use at a 8-Figure Retailer to Increase revenue 15%

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Ep 6 How to build an awesome retention program in seven simple steps

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Ep 5 Are you ignoring valuable customer signals that you need to know?

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Ep 4 Why I Don't Care About Sex (And Why You Shouldn't Either) - an intro to Behavioral Segmentation

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Ep 3 Discount Ladder Case Studies: Copy These Winners Today

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Ep 2 How to get started with Discount Ladders

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Ep 1 You are spending too much money on dumb-ass promotions