The Digital Marketing Podcast by Exposure Ninja

Imagine launching a company with a single tweet. No investment. No inventory. Then, imagine seeing it take off and go viral within a day, and making over $700K in sales in the first year. Sounds like a dream that’s too good to be true? This week on the Exposure Ninja Digital Marketing Podcast, we meet with the founder of Picture This Clothing, Jaimee Newberry,‏ who tells us how she and her team of...

As an eCommerce owner, wouldn’t it be a dream if the retailers that stock your product paid to advertise your it, rather than you having to pay to advertise them? This week on the Exposure Ninja Digital Marketing Podcast, we’re talking with Solillas founder Jonnie Matthew. A former winner of the Best New Business award at the Drapers Footwear Awards, Solillas,  a Menorcan sandal company, has...

On 25th May 2018, something called GDPR will take effect in the marketing world. This will affect us all. GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation and is a goal by the EU commission to stop all non-consensual tracking of consumers within the EU.   In this episode of the Exposure Ninja Digital Marketing Podcast, we meet Samuel Scott, a former journalist , newspaper editor, director o...

Ever thought of crowdfunding your business idea? You are not alone! Crowdfunding has skyrocketed and the competition has intensified. It’s increasingly difficult to exceed (or even meet) your crowdfunding goals. Setting up a crowdfunding campaign is easy, but do you know how to meet (or even double) your target? This week on the Exposure Ninja Digital Marketing Podcast, we discuss crowdfunding wit...

Information is king in the era we live in and customers are extremely aware of your business practices. As a result, cause marketing is becoming a trend. Now more than ever, customers do their research before buying, and their desire to make the world a better place may well be what makes them pick you over your competitor, if you so choose to address a societal issue as part of your business mode...

Online quizzes are just starting to catch on in the digital marketing world. A quiz is a very personal experience and, not so surprisingly, everyone loves taking them. But the key to making them work as a marketing tool is understanding who the quiz-taker actually is. Crafting the content to be relevant to the specific audience you are reaching out to is key and, more specifically, writing to a si...

Many marketing companies will talk about the ‘brand awareness’ of a campaign. This is often a nebulous concept and one that is difficult to quantify. We here at Exposure Ninja are not huge advocates of brand awareness as a marketing goal, and we want to talk about this. Is brand awareness ever a useful goal? Why is it so often not? In this episode of the Exposure Ninja Digital Marketing Podcast, T...

This week on the Exposure Ninja Digital Marketing Podcast, our very own Lozz Newton is back by popular demand to discuss the biggest updates to the Facebook ads platform that you need to be aware of as marketers. Beware that it’s not all sunshine and roses, but let’s start with the good news! Facebook Analytics If you’ve used Google Analytics , you’ll be familiar with the kind of information that...

Becoming a published author on big sites such as Forbes, Inc and Business Insider is a sure way to create credibility for your personal brand and make yourself into a thought leader in your industry. As this week’s guest puts it, “ the root of ‘authority’ is author and nothing will do more for your business”. If you wonder how one can go about making their way to these top publications, then this...

Studies show that 79% of consumers trust online reviews as much as a personal recommendation from a friend or family member. That’s almost 8 out of 10 people! Needless to say, online reviews are powerful persuaders working in your favour when you position yourself online. In this episode of the Exposure Ninja Digital Marketing Podcast, Head Ninja Tim meets Doren Aldana, founder of several highly a...

Email marketing is so much more than having a “sign up for the newsletter” opt-in at the bottom of your website. It is a powerful tool to optimise deliverability and subscriber engagement, as well as a serious revenue-driver. In this episode, Head Ninja Tim meets Email Marketing platform AWeber’s CMO Erik Harbison to discuss the most effective ways to use email marketing, whether it’s automation o...

Loyalty programs are an important part of managing the relationship between your marketing and your customers in several industries. They provide customers with incentives such as points or rewards, playing a huge role in customer retention and the value you can offer to consumers. In this episode, Head Ninja Tim interviews Edward Nevraumont, Chief Marketing & Revenue Officer at General Assembly....

Many businesses make the mistake of targeting their marketing efforts to a broad audience. It’s easy to see why; you want to introduce as many potential customers as you can to your brand. But, when reaching out to eager consumers, you should really aim to reach out to one single individual: your target person, or ‘avatar’. Failing to clearly identify an avatar will result in diffused information...

Whether you’re the owner of a growing e-commerce site or have recently redesigned or launched a site with a new URL, staying on top of your pages and avoiding “404’s” can be tricky. Having “404 page not found” errors on your site can have a negative impact on your SEO, so it’s important to understand how redirects work. Redirection is the process of forwarding one URL to a different URL, if for ex...

Mastermind groups are a great way to get access to some of the smartest and most switched on marketers in the World and in this episode Tim interviews Nate Lind, who runs advertising mastermind Adsum. Hear how Nate marketed and built Adsum, the impact that it’s had on his various businesses, and how it morphed into his very own ‘anti-trade show trade show’.  For show notes head to www.exposur...

If you’re an eCommerce business with a traditional online ‘store’, this episode will introduce you to a completely new way of scaling your sales. We often talk about sales funnels to generate leads on the podcast, but in this episode Tim is joined by Trey Lewellen who has built multiple businesses using sales funnels to sell physical products too. You’ll hear how to turn your audience into a tribe...

A good old-fashioned deep dive into the tools and strategies to use in online marketing is all good and well, but sometimes, the end goal goes unmentioned: improving sales and making your business successful. Perhaps it’s a little too brutally honest to be talked about that often, but it’s important to remember what you’re striving to achieve with your online marketing. That’s why when you see a b...

Once unattainable or a luxury in most industries, apps are pretty much commonplace in today’s online world. Every major brand and company you can think of will have its own app. Sooner rather than later, we’ll reach the point where if your business does not have some sort of app, you’ll be behind the curve. But, just like all other avenues of your business, an app needs to be presented and promote...

At a glance, the journey of a business towards success can seem like a pretty set-in-stone path, regardless of your industry. Build a client base, sell more and more products, increase your hires and expand the company – that’s the framework you’ll often find in a business, but that doesn’t mean it should be the one that you follow. Instead of battling against competitors using that standard proce...

From handing out flyers in a local park for proof of concept, to a consumer base of thousands of satisfied return users – all in just over 24 months. Sounds like the sort of business success story you’d want to learn more about, right? Mark Hughes is the co-founder of the Tutora and our latest guest on the Exposure Ninja Digital Marketing Podcast. Hughes has played an integral role (alongside fell...

With so many tactics, tips, tricks and tools involved in digital marketing, no-one would blame you for losing sight of what it’s all in the name of: generating more leads and making sales. Whatever path you go down on your online marketing journey, every step you take should be in the name of encouraging users to invest in your service, product, company or business. Perhaps there’s no greater exam...

We love chatting to the head honchos of similarly progressive, ambitious companies to see what tactics they’re utilising to push the business forward. Hearing from successful, modern businesses about how they use online marketing to prosper always provides us with plenty of insight and tips that we can all tweak and use in our own way. And trust us: there aren’t many more projects right now that a...

The wonderful world of content marketing may well be an online-focused industry, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t space for some face-to-face interaction.   It’s very clear that events such as these can produce leads, brand exposure and some incredible results. Hosting your own digital marketing event takes it to the next level, with people attending purely to see you and your company in act...

If you’re an expert in something, there are people out there that will pay for your expertise. No matter the topic, no matter the niche, there is a market for you to work with and use as a source of income. Perhaps your business has a range of skills and processes that you’ve acquired and refined through practice over the years. Maybe you’re just an ambitious entrepreneur, immersing yourself in kn...

The importance of copy on your website simply cannot be underestimated. Like all other aspects of making your business website easily visible and high-converting, spot-on web copy has benefits for both search engines and the web user. Whilst targeted keywords and high word counts lay the groundworks for Google to treat your website pages kindly, it’s how you then present that text that can be the...