Latest Podcast Episodes

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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Episode 329: Getting 19x Return via Facebook & Google Ads

In this episode, Ralph Burns walks listeners through a real-life case study at Tier 11 where they crossed the streams with two big platforms—Facebook and Google—using customer acquisition amplification. The result: 19x monthly revenue increase for an up-and-coming digital product company in 12 months.

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Episode 323: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Marketing Agency

It’s no secret that co-hosts Ralph Burns and Kasim Aslam both own marketing agencies. But they give their word that this episode will be less self-promoting, more educational. Bottom line: listeners need to know this valuable information. They also get brutally honest: most agencies suck. And pretty much every business owner makes the wrong first choice. It’s like an entrepreneurial rite of passage.

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Episode 322: Offline Conversion Tracking and a Google Deepdive with Fred Vallaeys, CEO of Optmyzr

In today’s episode, co-hosts Ralph Burns and Kasim Aslam sit down with Fred, the Godfather of digital marketing who spent the past 10 years at the MotherShip. Fred invented conversion tracking on Google Ads, bought Google Analytics on behalf of Google, and has the best Twitter handle ever (@siliconvallaeys). He’s the co-founder and CEO of Optmyzr, a software application that helps you automate certain facets of Google Ads, making it more efficient and scalable.

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Episode 321: Reevaluating Your Offer to Find Your Audience with Tier 11’s Angela Ponsford

In today’s episode, co-hosts Ralph Burns and Kasim Aslam sit down with Tier 11’s Angela Ponsford to talk about the importance of first-party data and viable transitional lead magnets. They’ll share expert advice about what your competitors are doing wrong—and how you can do it right. Kasim even claims that following their suggestions will put you two years ahead of the curve.

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Episode 319: Sales Funnels: Do We Need Them Or Not?

In the marketing world, there’s a difference of opinion about whether or not sales funnels are an absolute game changer. Some people don’t even think they’re necessary at all. On today’s episode, co-hosts Ralph Burns and Kasim Aslam come at this sales funnel debate from opposite sides, but (spoiler!) end up finding common ground.

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Episode 318: Why Bots Aren’t Going Anywhere and Why That’s a Good Thing with BotBuilders founder, Matt Leitz

On today’s episode, co-hosts Ralph Burns and Kasim Aslam sit down with Matt Leitz, founder of BotBuilders. Matt is on a mission to get the skeptical hosts back on the botwagon in 2021, and he makes a compelling argument for the power of bots—but “only if you like leads and sales and automated support.” He discusses the human component of bots and how they filter out unwanted conversations, making room for more money conversations. 

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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.