31+ Ways To Grow Your Business

• Find, win and engage influencers

• Process for funneling visitors into customers

• Turn disappointed guests into raving fans

• How to get anyone to open your emails

Major Takeaways:

Who am I?

Enthusiastic founder of hatch Host of business tv showRecognized influencer ofStartup community

Why are you here?

• Starting a business

• Take existing business/content/fans and turn into a monster

• Frustrated with results

• Don’t know what to do

BONUS!

Free Content

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1 What are they learning from you?

Free Content can be an intro-duction from someone, a blog piece you wrote, a webinar, an email, social media post, etc.

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Free Content

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1Mutual Data Point

To initiate a 1:to:1 conversation.

Connect with them in some way.

Facebook friend request, LinkedIn connection, business card swap, etc.

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Supplemental Info

An additional relevant educational piece.

Info on topic of discussion or a search result.

Provide the person with some sort of value.

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Supplemental Info

Dig Deep

Get data on a true pain point.

Still have not pitched a sale to this point.

Analyze date, figure out how you can help.

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Supplemental Info

Dig Deep

Hard Sell

Recap all the info you’ve pro-vided them with

+ more useful info

+ testimonials/case studies that shows what you’ve done that has turned into a specific metric.

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Supplemental Info

Dig Deep

Hard Sell

24 Hr. Follow-up

If the person responds before 24 hours, skip this step.

If not, follow-up with them and ask if they have any ad-ditional questions or feed-back for you about what you’re offering.

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Dig Deep

Hard Sell

24 Hr. Follow-up

Follow-up with them to make sure they’re happy with the transaction.

Make sure everything hap-pened the way they hoped.

A happy customer is extremely valuable.

7 Ongoing support

Press—

• Create relationships with reporters → Find the person on your beat → Follow and engage with them on social → Then reach out to them via email (usually pretty easy to find) → Help them out with a story idea or a lead

• Nothing to do with your business, yet.

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Press—

• Create a relationship with them

• Not a match.com kind of relationship

• Engage with them on social, but as you would with a friend, not pushing your business or your own agenda

• Let it happen organically

• Reporters are nosey, they’ll broach the subject

• Create a relationship with them

• Not a match.com kind of relationship

• Engage with them on social, but as you would with a friend, not pushing your business or your own agenda

• Let it happen organically

• Reporters are nosey, they’ll broach the subject

Press Release—

• Don’t go in blind

• Start local and branch out from there

• Nuts & bolts of a press release

Press Release—

• Its not about sending a press release, its about the elements

• What

• Who

• When

• Where

• Why should anyone care

Add “As seen in” section—

Email your lists—

Schedule social posts—

PRESS


Add to your email signature—

Zack MillerFounderHatchDid you see us in Entrepreneur mag?

Make it your cover photo—

• Connects reporters with people in specialized fields to be featured in mutually beneficial way.

• They need content and leads, You need exposure.

• helpareporter.com

HARO—

2 ExistingWork

Existing Work—

• Create a portfolio page that includes all of the work you’ve done

• Include → What the company does → What you did for them → How it helped → Use numbers whenever possible


PRESS EXISTINGWORK

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Free publicity—

The License Plate Method—

3 Testimonials

Testimonials—

• Not just the big ones

• Get testimonials from companies of all different styles & sizes

• You want to appeal to everyone


PRESS EXISTINGWORK

EXISTINGWORK

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TESTIMONIALS

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Testimonials—

• Create a simple graphic to share

• In the posts: → Tag the person or company → Promotes engagement → They’ll share on their channels and grant you more exposure

Free publicity—

Hey client,

It's been a blast working with you and seeing your product/service grow. We'd love to feature you on our site and throughout our channels. Can you provide a sen-tence or two about the experience you had with us?

That's it, we will do the rest of the work.

Thanks, Name

Testimonials—

Testimonials—

• One challenge to this is the amount of time it can take

• So, during phone calls or email exchanges, keep your eyes and ears open for anything they say that could qualify as a testimonial, and write it down when they say it.

• Then, you can go back “You said this, can I use it as a testimonial”

• Much easier for them to just say yes

4 SocialReviews

Social Reviews—

• No matter what kind of review they leave, always follow up and ask why.

• Good or bad, this info will provide useful insight into what you’re doing well, and what you could be doing better

• You can also incentivize people to write a review with some sort of value exchange

Hey [client or fans,]

We love you and we love being able to help you. We are working on increasing our exposure on Facebook/Yelp/Google and would love if you could go to this link and provide a review of our company. It would mean the word to us.

Thank you so much for your help.

Thanks, Name

Social Reviews—

EvergreenContent

5 Podcasts

Podcasts—

• If possible, download the file and host it on your own website

• If not, just take the link to where it is hosted and create a post on your site talking about your experience on the podcast, with a link out to the page.


PRESS EXISTINGWORK

EXISTINGWORK

EXISTINGWORK

TESTIMONIALS

TESTIMONIALS

TESTIMONIALS

PODCAST

PODCAST

PODCAST

PODCAST

TESTIMONIALS

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EXISTINGWORK

EXISTINGWORK

Podcasts—

• Find other talks from the same podcast and reach out to those people.

• Share their stories, maybe they’ll reciprocate.

• Use it to build new friends.

• “The fraternity of podcast guests”

Hey Gary,

I listened to your episode on That Podcast, and wanted to tell you how awesome you are! I dug into some of the other work you are doing and I love it.

I was on That Podcast too, you can find it here.

I’m glad I discovered you on That Podcast, I’ll start sharing your work.

Best, Name

Hey Gary,

I listened to your episode on That Podcast, and wanted to tell you how awesome you are! I dug into some of the other work you are doing and I love it.

I was on That Podcast too, you can find it here.

I’m glad I discovered you on That Podcast, I’ll start sharing your work.

Best, Name

6 Blog posts

“Other Popular Posts”—

Email your lists—

Hi [person who runs the site],

My name is ______, and I write the blog _______, [one line about your website and why it matters; for instance, “News To Live By, which highlights the career advice “hidden” in the headlines.”] I hope you’re doing well.

I am a big fan of [site where you want to guest post] and read your content all the time. I especially like [refer- ence two recent posts you find worthwhile and link to them; for instance, “your posts on email templates for building relationships and how to tell stories during an interview.”]

Guest Blog Posts—

[Then, one more compliment that leads into your pitch; for instance, “I like News To Live By because the advice is practical, and I have similar content I think your audi-ence would appreciate.”]

I wrote a blog post recently called [blog post headline that’s linked to the post], and in a nutshell it’s about [quick line on what the post is about; for instance, “smart tips for dealing with rude co-workers.”] I would be happy to send it over as a guest post if you’d like. Here are a couple other recent posts I’ve done:

– [blog post headline that’s linked to the post]– [blog post headline that’s linked to the post]

If you have other ideas, I am open to writing something else for [the site where you want to guest post].

Thanks, and I hope to hear from you.– You

dannyhrubin.com


PRESS EXISTINGWORK

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TESTIMONIALS

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PODCAST

PODCAST

BLOG POSTS

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PODCAST

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EXISTINGWORK

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7 Interviews

• If the interview is evergreen...

Interviews—

Email your lists—


PRESS EXISTINGWORK

EXISTINGWORK

EXISTINGWORK

TESTIMONIALS

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INTERVIEWS

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PODCAST

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TESTIMONIALS

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EXISTINGWORK

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• If the interview is NOT evergreen...

• Push as if you’re the expert in whatever the subject matter is

• Recycle as #TBT in coming months

Interviews—


PRESS EXISTINGWORK

EXISTINGWORK

EXISTINGWORK

TESTIMONIALS

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INTERVIEWS

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#TBTINTERVIEW

#TBTINTERVIEW

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EXISTINGWORK

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8 Opt-ins

• Exchange some piece of content for contact info of your users.

• Typically an email

Opt-ins—

• Be concise

• Be authoritative

• Use BIG WINS

• Use real numbers when possible

Opt-ins—

• Find, win and engage influencers

• Process for funneling visitors into customers

• Turn disappointed guests into raving fans

• How to get anyone to open your emails

Free Content

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1Mutual Data PointSupplemental Info

Dig Deep

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24 Hr. Follow-up

7 Ongoing support

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