Latest Podcast Episodes

Episode 344: Are Funnels Obsolete and Do Morning Routines Work?

In today’s episode, co-hosts Ralph Burns and Kasim Aslam tackle these two issues head on—and face to face. They’re in the same room once again and having so much fun they threaten to move to each other’s cities. Kasim walks us through his jam-packed (but life-changing) morning routine/habit stack that starts at 4:00am. Then they engage in a friendly debate over whether or not funnels have run their course as a marketing tool.

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Episode 343: Getting Inside the Mind of a Project Manager with Daniel Green and Alicia Katz of Tier 11

In today’s episode, we’re mixing things up a little bit. We thought it would be cool to show you some internal conversations we have among team members at Tier 11. Daniel Green, Marketing Creative Strategist, sits down with Alicia Katz, Director of Production/Product Manager, to see how she creates order from chaos. What goes on inside the head of the person who can really make things happen within your organization?

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Episode 342: Why Quick Follow-Up Is the Key to Better Conversion Rates

In today’s episode, co-hosts Ralph Burns and Kasim Aslam are face to face for the second time ever—this time in Austin, Texas, which is quickly becoming the entrepreneurial Mecca (according to Kasim). They’re chatting about conversion and why all the traffic in the world doesn’t do much good unless you’re following up with leads immediately. Solidify your sales process from start to finish before you worry about getting more traffic.

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Episode 341: Facebook Ads & iOS 14 Issues: Fixed or No? (Part 2)

In today’s episode, co-hosts Ralph Burns and Kasim Aslam continue their conversation with Ben Pang, Software and Attribution Product Manager at Tier 11. Kasim explains his Facebook Traffic Hack, and Ben shares his thoughts on it. The show gets technical, but even non-techy people need a fundamental understanding of the technical side this stuff if they want to stay in the digital advertising game. And, like Ralph says, “Ben dummy-proofed the narrative” so it makes sense to all of us.

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Episode 335: An Easier Way to Collect First Party Data with Travis Stephenson, CEO of Chatmatic

Travis Stephenson, CEO of Chatmatic, believes that people who hate chatbots (which is quite a few people) are overcomplicating them. In this episode, he encourages people to think about automation in Messenger or IG as a simple way to funnel people through to get the solution they’re looking for. It’s more of a replacement for a landing page—a bridge to get people where they want to go. Don’t try to cram your entire ecosystem into your chatbot, he says, just use it for lead generation and segmentation. 

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Episode 334: The Future of Marketing with Ryan Deiss

In today’s episode, co-hosts Ralph Burns and Kasim Aslam are joined by the one and only Ryan Deiss, the CEO of Scalable.Co, CEO of DigitalMarketer, and King of the reigning digital marketing community in the galaxy. No one knows marketing like Ryan Deiss. He’s been in the digital marketing game since he was 19—over half of his life—and he’s seen a lot of changes. 

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Episode 333: Training Your Brain and Scaling Your Business with John Assaraf

John Assaraf has a thick resume, several bestselling books, has built 5 multi-million dollar companies, and was featured in The Secret. And that’s only scratching the surface. In this value-packed episode, he shares his brilliant and extensive knowledge about our brains, how they work, and how we can use them to their fullest potential to ultimately become more successful.

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Episode 331: The Future of Traffic, Part 2

In this episode, co-hosts Ralph Burns and Kasim Aslam talk through some of the new advertising solutions they’re working on and testing out in this post-iOS update environment. Bottom line: you can’t use the same strategies you’ve always used, and you have to set aside your biases and be more open to new ideas today than you ever have been. At the same time, you’ve got to go back to the foundations, the proven principles, the most important things about marketing. There’s no easy button; you’ll have to put in the work.

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Episode 330: The Future of Traffic, Part 1

In this episode, hosts Ralph Burns and Kasim Aslam step back and take a 30,000-foot view of what’s really happening in the advertising environment right now. Their respective agencies are doing well, but they’ve definitely taken some punches this year. There’s a lot of traffic still out there, but it has changed fundamentally in the last 3-6 months, and Kasim says it’s never going back to what it was. 

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Meet the Host

Ralph Burns

Ralph Burns is the Founder and CEO of Tier 11, a digital marketing agency which utilizes a proprietary system called Customer Acquisition Amplification™ to unlock the online potential of purpose-driven businesses to help them scale and grow. Ralph’s 100% virtual agency, with people in over 22 countries and 6 continents manages a portfolio of social media advertising customer accounts in over 55 industries with an annual spend in excess of $100 million. His podcast, Perpetual Traffic, has been downloaded over 8 million times and has helped tens of thousands of people grow their businesses through online traffic and conversion strategies. Ralph splits his time between Boston and Cape Cod, Massachusetts with his wife and two college-aged sons. 

Ralph Burns

Ralph Burns is the Founder and CEO of Tier 11, a digital marketing agency which utilizes a proprietary system called Customer Acquisition Amplification™ to unlock the online potential of purpose-driven businesses to help them scale and grow. Ralph’s 100% virtual agency, with people in over 22 countries and 6 continents manages a portfolio of social media advertising customer accounts in over 55 industries with an annual spend in excess of $100 million. His podcast, Perpetual Traffic, has been downloaded over 8 million times and has helped tens of thousands of people grow their businesses through online traffic and conversion strategies. Ralph splits his time between Boston and Cape Cod, Massachusetts with his wife and two college-aged sons.