In this episode of the Growth Show we have the pleasure to talk with Kyle Roof. He is Co-Founder of High Voltage SEO Agency, Page Optimizer Pro and Internet Marketing Gold.

Kyle shares with us amazing insights on SEO, since he has done lots of SEO experiments. We are talking about a few of his findings: Why you shouldn’t try to educate Google, why Backlinks are not forever, how an experiment he ran forced Google to change its guidelines and much more!

More about Kyle:

Kyle is responsible for the development and implementation of all SEO techniques used by High Voltage SEO Agency and PageOptimizer Pro SEO tool. Kyle is also the co-founder of Internet Marketing Gold, a global community of 3000+ SEO professionals who test and prove cutting edge SEO techniques. Kyle is also co-host of SEO Fight Club a weekly YouTube show that covers a multitude of SEO topics. Kyle’s SEO techniques and discoveries are followed by many SEO professionals and business leaders, he has been featured in many respected publications and is a regular speaker on SEO and SEO testing at conferences throughout the world. 

In this episode of the Growth Show we have the pleasure to talk with Jonathan Miller, who is a conflict transformation coach.

We are talking with Jonathan about:

• the inspiring story why he became a conflict coach 
• real life conflict examples by Jonathan and how he resolved them
• methods to solve conflicts
• how to tackle conflicts with a lot of emotional involvement
• and much more

More about Jonathan Miller:

Jonathan is a speaker, facilitator and conflict transformation coach, specializing in working with entrepreneurs to be powerful in the face of conflict. He believes in the power of honing one's communication skills to not just "deal with" conflicts, but to transform them into powerful partnerships that serve one's business and their lives. His programs draw heavily from his extensive training in several communication systems including Nonviolent Communication, the Harvard Negotiation Project, Landmark Worldwide, and more. His methodology is also heavily influenced by his Vipassana meditation practice, of which he has spent over 2,000 hours practicing.

Julian Blessin is Co-Founder of TIER Mobility - the Berlin based micro-mobility company. TIER was founded in summer 2018 and is already active in 35+ cities in 12 countries. Before founding TIER, Julian was with the Berlin team of BCG Digital Ventures as a Lead Venture Architect where he launched and scaled COUP - a BOSCH owned eScooter-Sharing Company. Prior to joining BCG DV, Julian invested in Tech Startups for an international VC fund. Julian studied Business Administration and Technology Management at LMU Munich, CDTM and UC Berkeley and holds a PhD in BA.

In this episode, we will talk with Julian about the massive growth of TIER to 5 Mio. rides per month and what led to it, the challenges of a hyper-growth startup and much more!

Jan Sapper grew up in Guatemala, did his Bachelor in engineering in Vienna, completed his Master's degree in Business Management in London and is currently working on optimizing the iPad.

In 2012 Jan started "Sapper Limited" with the intent of creating the MacDock; the most awesome docking station for the MacBook – ever. This journey brought him through all stages a startup goes through market research, building a community, filing patents, managing teams remotely, sourcing components in Europe and Asia, launching and managing a successful Kickstarter campaign and so on. All in all; Jan built an awesome product and in that process acquired competencies and gathered insights that anyone freshly out of the uni can only get by having his own startup. This adventure ended in tears, but what Jan learned in the process defined some essential foundation blocks for his later entrepreneurial path.

Jan joined Protonet's ranks in the Marketing & Sales team by the end of 2013 and ended up becoming Product manager there. As product manager at Protonet he created a product he is pretty proud of: Protonet's On-Premise-Warranty program. He also managed pricing & HW-product line and brought Protonet's private cloud servers to market. In his last months at Protonet he managed the phase-out the Indiegogo campaign for the ZOE home automation hub. The campaign hadn't run as hoped and Jan was assigned to refund 300k USD to over 1000 worldwide supporters. A side from crowdfunding he hadn't experienced before.

In 2017 Jan launched the PaperLike crowdfunding campaign with the goal of raising 2.000€, which ended up raising over 60k€. This "Hobby" back then has now grown to be Jan's main job, and he and his small team of decentralized people make PaperLike work.

In this episode, you will hear more about Jan's best practices on winning crowdfunding campaigns, how to multiply sales with YouTube marketing and much more!

Andy is a German serial entrepreneur. He is currently Founder and Managing Director of Ryte and Co-Founder & Host of the Founder Festival Bits & Pretzels and Co-Founder and Chairman of the performance marketing agency EPHNY.

Andy Bruckschlögl started his first business at the age of 12, selling backpacks on eBay. A year later he founded his first online shop. In order to promote the online store better, Andreas began to learn how to optimize websites for search engines. Four years later he started another online shop for fashion, which unfortunately failed due to the high return rate. In 2008, Andy was hired as a super trainee by online marketing expert Marcus Tandler. With the merge to Tandler.Doerje.Partner, Andreas Bruckschlögl became Head of Inbound Marketing at age 21, taking responsibility for a team of 10 employees. In July 2012 Andy co-founded Ryte (former OnPage.org) – an innovative software for website quality management and -optimization. Today, the bootstrapped company with 42 employees is generating over 3 million € in revenue and is being used by over 500.000 users worldwide. Together with Dr. Bernd Storm van’s Gravesande, he started the first Bits & Pretzels event in September 2014 as a small and cozy founders breakfast. In only two years the event has grown rapidly to a 3-day festival taking place at Munich’s famous Oktoberfest with more than 5.000 attendees from around the world. Speakers at this year's event were academy award winning actor and tech investor Sir Kevin Spacey, Founder of Virgin-Group Sir Richard Branson, Airbnb Co-Founder and CTO Nathan Blecharczyk and many more.

In this episode we will talk with Andy about growing the founder festival Bits & Pretzels from 70 to 5000 attendees as well as growing Ryte's user base to over 500.000 users worldwide and the marketing tactics, which supported this growth.