Marketer of the Month

Interview with Kate Fairhurst - Cofounder of Growth Minds   Kate is passionate about assisting brands in driving engagement through digital excellence, content, public relations, and analysis. She makes digital channels more profitable for her clients as the CoFounder of GrowthMinds. She has been a content marketing champion since 2006, launching a variety of products and services to drive tr...

Interview with Erik Huberman - Founder and CEO, Hawke Media Erik is the founder and CEO of Hawke Media, a highly successful marketing agency known as Your Outsourced CMO® that has assisted in the growth of over 3,000 brands globally and is valued at more than $150 million. Erik has received numerous honours and awards, including the Forbes 30 Under 30 Award, CSQ's 40 Under 40 Award, and Inc. Magaz...

Interview with Freelancer of the Month Pierre Zarokian - Upwork Freelancer  and CEO, Submit Express   Entrepreneur Pierre Zarokian, of Armenian and American descent, serves as CEO of Submit Express, a digital marketing firm that has received recognition from Inc5000 and Fast500. Pierre also frequently speaks at trade shows for the industry and writes for Search Engine Journal and other p...

Interview with Tracy Benson - CEO & Cofounder at Obsesh   Tracy Benson is a prolific Disruptor, Digital Media Maven, and Tech Entrepreneur whose purpose-driven demeanor, ingenuity, and tenacity have earned her the reputation of a visionary leader and culture-builder. A DTC expert and an experienced CMO - Tracy has helped build leading lifestyle markets and products into scaled companies s...

Interview with Freelancer of the Month Mindy Morgan Avitia - Upwork Freelancer and Founder of Grow Wild Creative Mindy is a content strategist and writer who specializes in complex, social impact B2B companies. She collaborates with individuals and businesses to create content strategies that increase revenue, strengthen brand positioning, and foster long-term relationships. Tune in to listen to h...

Interview with Khalid El Khatib - CMO, Stack Overflow   Khalid El Khatib is the Chief Marketing Officer at Stack Overflow and is responsible for marketing, communications, and advertising initiatives. Throughout his career, he’s elevated and transformed the awareness and perception of global brands, most recently at GLG where he was Vice President of Marketing and Communications. He began his...

Interview with Alexander Nikolaev - Upwork Freelancer and Founder of Acuena Alexander Nikolaev has spent the last 15 years in the marketing and advertising industry - working as an internal marketer for various businesses. Apart from running his own advertising agency, Acuena, Alexander is also a Top Rated Upwork Freelancer, a status which he has maintained for roughly six years now. Tune in to li...

Interview with Sydney Sloan - Former CMO, Salesloft & Alfresco, Startup Investor and Advisor   Sydney is a CMO, board advisor, and thought leader who has held senior leadership positions in product marketing, operations, field marketing, partner marketing, business development, and customer experience. Sydney served as a CMO at Alfresco and then Salesloft after managing enterprise product...

Interview with Tim Soulo - CMO, Ahrefs   Tim Soulo is the Chief Marketing Officer and Product Advisor at Ahref’s (an industry leading SEO tool, powered by Big Data). Having written a number of thorough marketing guides as well as numerous data-driven SEO research studies - Tim eagerly shares his expertise by giving live talks at numerous digital marketing conferences around the world and writ...

Interview with Freelancer of the Month Aaron Marks - Freelancer and Founder of Aspire Marketing Group In the early 2000s, when digital marketing was primarily about website design and digital experts were frequently referred to as "webmasters," Aaron founded his own boutique agency and became a digital marketing expert. Since then, he has worked with numerous organizations and clients of all sizes...

Interview with Corey Haines - Founder of Swipe Files Swipe Files - founded by Corey Haines - is a membership website that offers courses, a community, and content to help you become an expert marketer. Through his newsletter, membership community, podcast, and other platforms, Corey curates marketing examples, copywriting assistance, and more. In this episode, we discuss Corey's five stages of awa...

Interview with Pierre Lipton - Co-founder & COO at 1440 Media Pierre Lipton co-founded 1440 Media in 2017 in order to produce a free, ad-supported daily email newsletter that uses fact-based reporting and primary research to provide an overview of the day's events that Americans - from all political perspectives - can agree on. With more than a million subscribers, 1440 anticipates making more...

Interview with Freelancer of the Month Alanna Brannigan - Freelancer and Founder of Harvest Moon Marketing Alanna is the founder of Harvest Moon Marketing and is committed to providing SEO, email, and content marketing services to help ambitious businesses succeed in the digital marketing space. Check out the latest edition of Outgrow's Freelancer of the Month to learn what advice this talented pr...

Interview with Dan Pantelo - Founder of Marpipe Marpipe, founded by 26-year-old Dan Pantelo, whose parents immigrated from Soviet Ukraine, aims to optimize creative campaigns through big data analysis. Investors like Stage 2, Ripple, and Laconia Capital Group have backed the software platform, most recently in an $8 million Series A funding round in September. Tune in to know more about how this c...

Interview with Freelancer of the Month, Joe Dejene - Paid Traffic Consultant & Founder, Duckweed Media Performance Marketer - Joe Dejene is a former Engineer and Firefighter. After observing that the majority of marketing agencies do not treat their clients as true partners, he founded Duckweed Media in 2019. He has assisted numerous brands to expand and achieve profitability - most recently a...

Interview with Chantal Rapport - Chief Marketing Officer & Head of Growth at Upstart Chantal Rapport began working for Upstart in 2017 and was appointed CMO in early 2021. She now manages over 100 employees and an $87.1 million marketing budget. She oversaw marketing for the company's December 2020 IPO, transformed the acquisition strategy using Upstart's own AI and machine learning expertise,...

Interview with Trevor Sookraj, Founder of Divisional Trevor Sookraj is the Founder of  Divisional - a marketer-first agency that addresses the problem of loss of equity for early-stage startups when hiring an in-house marketer by providing them a full growth team of Divisional employees at a fraction of the conventional cost. His outsourcing approach has helped numerous Se...

Interview with Nick Thompson - Vice President of Product Marketing at Mediafly A marketing veteran - Nick Thompson is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Mediafly, where he is in charge of product marketing strategy and execution. Nick has spent most of his career in the technology industry, and he is extremely enthusiastic about storytelling, buyer, and sales enablement. With a Bachelor of...

Interview with Claire Suellentrop - Co-founder & COO of Forget The Funnel and Former Director of Marketing at Calendly With an experience of more than 10 years in marketing and 8 years in SaaS - Claire Suellentrop is on a quest to democratize access to fulfilling, high-paying careers in tech. Previously the Director of Marketing and #2 employee at Calendly — she has seen firsthand that truly e...

From working for large brands in both B2C and B2B to scaling one of the largest customer acquisition engines in B2B, Kieran Flanagan is a Senior Vice President of Marketing at Hubspot, holding a proven track record of assisting SaaS businesses of all sizes. With heavy experience in inbound marketing, he is also a growth marketing thought leader and speaks at events across the globe on th...

Featured in USA Today, HuffPost, CBC, and CTV, and having been named as an "influential entrepreneur" by Forbes, Katelyn Bourgoin has been both a founder and a top-grade marketer - striving to understand customers in the best way possible.  Tune in to hear about her success at Customer Camp and what it means to be in the game long enough. What's On The Menu: How customer camp helps product te...

After landing a successful exit with his Content Marketing Startup - Content Marketing Institute - Joe Pulizzi has been at the forefront of the content entrepreneurship era, pioneering the practice of content marketing. The author of several best-selling books, and a keynote speaker at more than 400 locations in 16 countries - he shares the story of his breakthrough and his observations on the eme...

A marketing fanatic since his teens - Phil Gamache is an incredibly talented and passionate SaaS Marketer with extensive skills in marketing technology, marketing automation and operations, conversion rate optimization, and customer data platforms. In this podcast - we learn the secret behind his rapid career growth in this ever-evolving world of marketing The right time to implement marketing aut...

From running an experiential guerilla agency to leading a cutting-edge strategy firm - in this podcast, we hear about Drew Neisser’s journey at Renegade and starting CMO huddles. Drew Neisser is the founder of Renegade, the award-winning strategic boutique for B2B innovators, and CMO Huddles, the fast-growing community of B2B CMOs. Described by Inc as one of the “sharpest minds” in marketing and b...

Jeff Baker is the Chief Marketing Officer at Brafton Inc. He is also the Co-host of the Above the Fold podcast. He also Advises and trains sales teams and leads pitch strategies. In this interview, we discuss with Jeff all things SEO. We gain insights on the scientific approach to writing content that gets you to rank for SEO. How startups should navigate content marketing and SEO by partnering up...