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Joe can use this ranking in outreach as proof of rapid growth and market leadership in digital visibility for law firms.

Major team and capability expansion for Gilad and Lior—signals significant M&A activity and market consolidation.

Book launch is a credibility milestone and natural rapport hook for outreach—Brian can congratulate and reference in conversations.

Inc. Magazine feature is tier-1 press recognition—positions Shoshana as a credible voice on social media and digital strategy topics.

Clutch 100 is a meaningful industry recognition for digital agencies—validates 9Sail's growth trajectory and market position.

Moburst is expanding through acquisition and entering/strengthening Amazon advertising services—significant team and capability expansion for Brian to track.

Recognition of Shoshana's leadership and Converge's executive talent — relevant for credibility and team morale.

Significant team and service expansion for Gilad Bechar's company — directly impacts Moburst's market position and growth strategy.

Recognition of Shoshana's leadership and contributions to her company's culture and growth.

Gilad's agency is expanding service offerings through acquisition, strengthening their position in performance marketing for e-commerce brands.

Major acquisition for Moburst signals continued aggressive growth strategy post-funding.

Gilad's agency is actively growing through acquisition strategy, signaling confidence in market consolidation and expansion into new verticals.

Significant industry visibility at top global marketing conference; positioning as thought leader on AI and women in tech.

Significant expansion of Moburst's service offerings and team size; signals continued M&A strategy following recent funding.

Strategic expansion into Amazon marketing services indicates Moburst is diversifying revenue streams and capturing market share in specialized e-commerce solutions.

Team and capability expansion for Moburst — relevant to understanding their growth trajectory and market positioning.

Both Gilad and Lior's company is growing through acquisition — relevant for understanding their business trajectory and scale.

Significant growth move for Moburst — Gilad and Lior's company is consolidating capabilities and following up investment with M&A activity.

High-profile podcast feature on a commerce-focused show validates Michael's expertise and could drive consulting opportunities.

Book launch is a natural congrats hook and milestone. The personal resilience story (ongoing treatment + thriving business) is authentic rapport material, but wait until October publication to lead with congrats on the book itself.

Named client partnership win with performance marketing focus—shows market activity and business momentum for Shoshana's company.

Significant C-suite hire indicates Gilad is expanding the leadership team and doubling down on branding strategy—relevant to understanding team trajectory and strategic direction.

New book project is a natural rapport hook and signals thought leadership expansion. Good window for a congratulations outreach.

Leadership hire signals Moburst's strategic focus on AI-powered offerings—relevant context for positioning any services or partnerships around growth and AI automation.

You can transform your entire business by just listening to the customer. I made every single person in the company spend a few days a year sitting in customer service just to learn what was really going on.

People think that they have marketing problems but they probably have operational problems. Imagine you can squeeze an extra quarter million dollars a year in profit out of your business.

In 30 days I doubled their subscription conversion rate. And that was the same client that I cut their churn in half.

Executive-level hire strengthens Moburst's creative leadership and signals investment in AI-driven creative services—relevant to understanding Gilad's team scaling.

New program launch shows Waking Up is diversifying beyond meditation into recovery/wellness. Strategic product expansion worth discussing.

Major funding milestone — Gilad is expanding capacity and strategic initiatives. Worth acknowledging and understanding his current priorities.

Not an outreach trigger — the milestone itself is historical context. Useful for understanding The Marketeer Group's scale trajectory but the event is not current.

Andy's book is near publication — strong milestone worth congratulating. Named endorsement from a recognized thought leader signals credibility and is a natural rapport hook.

Named statewide recognition in a curated leadership list. Natural rapport hook — 'congratulations on INNOVATE100' — and signals Adam is a recognized figure in NJ's professional ecosystem. Relevant to future partnership or advisory conversations.

This is a significant Series A or growth round for the digital marketing agency, indicating investor confidence in their AI and growth capabilities. Gilad Bechar and Lior Eldan are now leaders of a well-capitalized firm.

Major funding milestone for both Gilad and Lior — Brian should congratulate them and explore how this positions Moburst for growth or new market opportunities.

Kevin has strong industry recognition and is positioned as a thought leader in AI-driven SEO—valuable for partnerships or referrals.

Shoshana's firm is expanding into AI insurance verticals—shows strategic pivot toward enterprise/AI-driven solutions.

Adrian is building international operations—useful context if Brian is discussing growth strategy or market expansion with him.

Entrepreneur Magazine is a Tier-1 publication; this feature positions Tom as a marketing strategy authority and is a strong credential for Stratabeat.

Product launch by Gilad Bechar's network—significant AI product release that demonstrates innovation leadership in the adtech space.

Book launch is a milestone worth acknowledging and represents new content/IP for the Beekman 1802 brand.

Original research report positions Alessandro's agency as a thought leader and provides valuable market data for his network.

New strategic partnership shows Converge expanding its service offerings and market reach in the insurance AI space.

Major milestone—a published book by the founders is a significant business and personal achievement worth acknowledging.

We scaled from 100K to 350K in monthly revenue in about four or five months. And with that came a lot of hiring challenges, in that short space of time. We were first-time founders with a lot of really high-quality clients that we wanted to perform well on. Even though it sounded pretty sexy on paper, was extremely challenging, but we learned a lot in terms of the types of clients we want to serve, the results that we can deliver, how to hire and who to hire, as well as the systems to build so that they don't break when you scale that fast.

I allow people to work with me however they want to. So I have people that work with me freelance basis. I have people that are full time, part time. I have people that are, you know, in the summer my kids are home. I only want to work 20 hours in the winter. You know, I could work full time. You know, I try to be flexible as long as it fits within what we could do for our clients.

I go to advice for other people that have done it. You know, sometimes I'm like, okay, you know, what should I be doing? And some of the things that I don't want to let go of are the things that take up the most time... something like that, that's so simple, you know, that you think, no, like it's a waste of money actually drives productivity by so much.

I think as entrepreneurs and when we're building businesses, we think that we need to know everything and sometimes, you know, we have so much pride that we don't want to ask for help. We try to reinvent the wheel. Like we try to do everything all on our own and we have a vision of what things should look like and how we want things to go. And what I've really learned in my career is to like really embrace the pivot.

I create custom proposals and sales decks with Claude Code Design for every single prospect and I couldn't do that before. You can imagine how much it improves your ability to convey value and convert the deal. If you just show them, this is what we heard in the last conversation based on the transcripts that we have. And this is what we're going to do for you. And this is the commercial structure. It visualizes things way better, allows us to communicate in a way that our clients can understand easily.

You'd be surprised how much business you can generate if you crack one channel. We originally scaled our business, that 100K to 350k that was all scaled with viral X threads, That was literally one channel, one piece of content with a CTA at the end to look at meeting with us.

Converge Marketing announced a strategic partnership with mea, an execution-focused platform designed to help C-suite leaders lift customer profit and strengthen margins in insurance operations. The partnership accelerates adoption of AI-driven insurance operations.

Major credibility win—Inc. recognition is top-tier validation of growth and performance. Worth acknowledging in outreach.

Positions Alessandro as a recognized authority in influencer marketing trends—relevant for Brian to reference his thought leadership in outreach.

Significant service expansion that positions Nowspeed as an AI-era B2B visibility leader—worth discussing how this new offering might complement Brian's portfolio or represent a competitive shift.

Major credibility milestone for Joe Giovannoli's company; signals strong growth and market validation worth congratulating.

Inc. recognition is a credibility signal. Joe Giovannoli's company is seeing strong growth momentum.

Forbes coverage is top-tier recognition. Signals Moburst's thought leadership in AI-driven marketing.

Tom Shapiro's firm is making a major strategic pivot toward AI-native products in a high-value vertical (life sciences). This signals significant growth ambitions and new revenue streams.

If you do an exceptional job for your clients, they also potentially leave because they get acquired and they switch over.

We've implemented an unlimited cap bonus. It's based on how much revenue are you actually managing for the business? If you figure out ways to where you can be more efficient, you can grow the businesses that you're on 10X and you can take on maybe a couple of extra because you're using AI to streamline XYZ, your bonus is just able to be that much more because you've figured out a way to do that.

You cannot double your business with only 50 % more inventory. If we double your ad spend, you're just simply going to end up paying too much to acquire those customers.

We would not spend a dollar until we had made a dollar fifty. So we were always just very budget conscious. And we were also very resistant to taking outside capital.

Josh and I, never made ourselves CEO of the company. We were founders of the company and when we got the Target deal, we said, we probably need to hire a CEO, someone with more experience, who maybe has a financial background. And we are now on our third CEO, not because that there has been tumultuous things happening in the company, we need a different type of CEO at different stages of the company.

We launched in Target, had amazing product, and had failed to realize how much marketing spend we had to put behind just keeping the products relevant. And it became a complete disaster.

Major brand partnership signals growth and mainstream market validation for Beekman 1802.

Our system scans every prospect's activity each morning and pings us the moment one does something notable. A single congrats text on one specific detail turned into a conversation — and a closed deal — from the airport security line.

TalentHQ went from an 8-person team last February to two people plus a few freelancers, while placing 145 hires and standing up 175 automated tasks that run the business around the clock. We went from working IN the business to ON it.

Major-venue speaking engagement at a top-tier industry conference. Signal of thought leadership and IMF's prominence in creator economy space.

Product feature launch with high social engagement. Signals meaningful product iteration and market interest in AI visibility tooling.

Repeat ranking signals sustained growth. Strong congratulations moment and indicator of market momentum.

Major platform keynote; positions Alessandro and The Influencer Marketing Factory as thought leaders in creator economy. High-visibility event with media/entertainment industry decision-makers.

Validates growth trajectory and team quality; good outreach hook. Sustained second-year ranking = credible scaling story.

Major convening event; positions Samuel/thruuu as thought leader in banking AI visibility. Strong network signal with marquee financial services brands.

Thruuu now has a differentiated 6-engine analyzer with progressive depth. Direct competitive moat vs. single-engine SEO tools; strong value prop for AEO-focused clients.

Major product innovation for thruuu; signals automation/AI depth. Strong differentiation story if promoted to prospects.

Significant conference speaking. High-profile platform. Good time to check in on IMF momentum post-event.

Product feature release. Core product development signal for thruuu's AI-visibility positioning.

Sustained growth validation. Second-year ranking = momentum. Natural outreach moment for Brian.

Thought leadership positioning + service model articulation. Good context for understanding Moburst's 2026 direction.

Significant scale milestone. Relevant for conversation about operational challenges, team structure, and strategic positioning at scale.

Major industry conference speaking slot signals thought leadership. NAB is top-tier media/entertainment event. Strong credibility boost for the agency.

Major feature expansion signals product momentum. Differentiates Thruuu in the competitive AEO/SEO tool space.

First named product launch. Clear SaaS/tooling expansion from agency work. Marks shift from pure services to productized offerings.

Second consecutive recognition signals sustained growth trajectory. Strong window for a check-in on team expansion or new market opportunities.

Inc. Magazine coverage is a top-tier credibility win. Kevin's proprietary 'Schema Mountain' methodology is now publicly validated through a major outlet.

Multiple third-party award wins validate Kevin's positioning in the AI SEO space and are strong credibility anchors for outreach.

I have campaign quarterbacks that are more capable... they're the ones physically building and distributing from there. So we're saving time with the request, we're saving time with the clarifications and the communications around it.

Very important for an agency to have that specialization, that niche. So that was my aha.

I have over 1.8 million investors I'm able to target with ads, with outreach. Some of them have portfolios with over 100 of these deals that they've invested in.

business owners don't have the time and they don't trust the technology or have enough knowledge to know which technology is going to fit them and which isn't. So if you can overcome the trust aspect, they're happy to pay 15%, 20%. They're happy to pay a premium to somebody locally who can help them figure it all out and navigate it.

Ancestry fired me, because at a certain point they became a advertiser partner of ours than a publishing partner. They didn't need ads on their site anymore. They were making a billion dollars a year in subscriptions and we had represented this other genealogy destination site and Ancestry came in and bought that site. So they obviously didn't want to pay us to advertise on a site that they owned.

We grew demand on the e-commerce side to the point that we ran out of product because we couldn't make it fast enough... Maybe you say is a good problem, but it's not a good problem the team was super stressed... that meant the next year we were spending on production improvements.

We really believed that in order to work well together as a team, we all needed to be in person. And the reality is we were wrong.

Within less than a year created like 14 different products, which are up and running.

Skills are important, though I feel that is becoming a commodity. The data is our secret sauce and what we bring to the table.

We created an AI champions program where we take the person which has the best inclination and we think has chance of helping us instill this revelation in their team, invest in upskilling them, invest in training them.

Companies who are cranking out a thousand ad creatives a day with AI. But it's not really capturing the essence of the brand. And while you might have some short wins and you'll see the numbers go up, it's not building the brand. It's just kind of keeping it afloat and you're waiting for the next hit to happen.

I walk in on Monday where's my team? And the three people that were there quit, so that was my panic moment, but I got to play it cool. I make it through that day. I go home I gotta figure out what to do here so I made a decision. There's no map of the business no one knows what are people doing, where the numbers coming from. So I walked in the next day and I started interviewing everybody I could. And I wasn't going VPs and heads of departments. I was talking to analysts just anybody that had their hands in the work. And it was almost like a godsend that they quit because it gave me such freedom to rebuild and reshape everything.

When you hire us, you're getting education on how to take this nonsense annoying metrics and make it in a way that you can deliver in an executive summary to your boss. You're the hero of the company.

When you wear many hats, you end up just being mediocre or you're half-assing all the different hats you're wearing. I realized, okay, if I have one person who's qualified enough to focus on this one specific area of the business, A, I can let go of it and it'll be better for me and my sanity, and B the quality and the outputs would go up significantly.

Nine times out of 10, we avoid working with founders and entrepreneurs. Some are very stubborn in their ways. Some are very know-it-alls.

I knew that I had to have people at my level in each one of the categories that I needed in order to bring things forward.

even though I am more expensive an hour, I'm actually less expensive than somebody taking five times as long to get something done.

Lack of leadership is expensive. if you don't have the people in place that can guide you and help you make the right choices early, they have a tendency to snowball. It's one thing when you're three or four people and you can put a bandaid on something. It's another thing when you need a tourniquet because you're bleeding out.

I owed my client a hundred thousand dollars. They wanted me to have an office in downtown Boston and real estate is not cheap but they wanted a place where they were not embarrassed to send their franchisees. So I had to get an office and had to hire a bunch of people... We got in the hole about a hundred thousand dollars with the client and we had some late payers and I had to go into corporate and apologize. I didn't have a hundred thousand yet. I eventually did, but it took a few months for me to be able to get it.

No one sells like the founder owner, right? So almost by definition, every founder owner is the best salesperson that there is... So what I ended up doing is hiring people and expecting them to sell like me with the same results that I was having. So I was kind of competing for a while with my salespeople And I would always find that I was better than them and I would let them go or they would leave. So I went through that cycle over and over again.

I think it's very fashionable right now, especially in tech to have very flat organizations... But what it means is that that CEO becomes the bottleneck and CEO never has time to work on important problems and solve problems. You end up really working, working for the business versus on the business.

I spent two hours on Chat GPT... And I said, can you recommend solar installers and it gave me three. And what do you do if you're number four? What if you're number five? You're out of luck... And so what we want to do is help, number four, five, and six on that solar installers list become visible in the LLMs.

The number one thing I learned is that I should not be doing the hiring... As I built the management team, I delegated hiring to people who were the leaders of the different functions in the organization. And they were much better at finding better candidates with better experience than I was.

What used to take years now takes minutes. I don't have to teach them 30 years of marketing experience.

At the beginning when we were like a small business, this firm didn't really care much about us. We were a small business, right? We didn't we weren't bringing much. So we kind of were only paying for the basics. Right. And one day I we were talking and we were almost at the end. another another like very time consuming thing in our business is all the all the W9 for contractors, like every influencer has the W9 at 1099 that they have to send us. Right... they were like, that's so new. We're not going to do that. And we panicked.

Start thinking your business a sellable business. Because if you are generating revenue, you have good numbers. But if you don't a proper system in place, your finances are not good in terms of books. Things are not reconciled properly. If you don't have an idea on how to scale buyers will get in like it's a nice business, but it doesn't have the structure that can scale with us.

If you're not already using AI on your workflow, you will get left behind... it's just another tool like everything else. It's like when Photoshop came out, anyone can use Photoshop, but to be really good at it is not easy.

I asked for an account review of every single existing client... I asked them to rate the relationship on a one to five. And so it allowed me very quickly to get a read on which of the patients were bleeding on the floor versus ones that can be addressed later on.

Strategy can use a rebrand, if you ask me... there's a way to do tactics strategically... I don't know how else you determine what tactics to use if you're not measuring it up against some barometer that has to do with the ultimate goal of the business.

If you made a big decision, you couldn't fail fast. You failed slowly and painfully because there was no taking it back. Whereas today, if I decided I wanted to be an influencer tomorrow or start a product company tomorrow, I could, create a Wix site and test it... and if the core fundamentals of the business were not proving out to be what I thought they would be, I can just pull it before I've invested a whole bunch of money.

A traditional agency, is a bit of a Ponzi scheme. It's a pyramid scheme.

What used to cost $200,000 to build I could probably go build it this weekend for less than 200 bucks in AI credits.

Pessimists are often right, but optimists are often rich.

We were always anti-tech, pro AI, but anti-tech because... most SaaS products or software that we would have as a small business was never really a good investment... and now you don't really need to go out and buy that tech because you could just build it yourself.

You can teach people a sales pitch, but you can't teach hunger.

We have an ESOP employment stock option programs. Everybody owns a small part of the business. We have unlimited uncapped commissions and we have an individual commission structure and fair sales, but we also have a group one where if the business hits its growth target for the quarter, everyone in the business gets a bonus. Even if you're in sales and you miss your target, you still get bonus.

You can build a tool that an agency will give you for 50K. It can be done alone in few weeks by a marketing manager.

I kept the tool for free too long. I should have started a subscription model directly to get more and more users. I lost growth. I lost three years of growth.

I really don't believe that SaaS is dead. The entry barrier to build functionalities is lower. The user experience has changed a lot in the last few months and at a pace that we never seen before.

Around 50 % of the roles that we were probably hiring this year will probably be AI. We need AI native people. even if they are like my new head of content, for example, we didn't just test them on how advanced they are on the writing skills. Obviously, that was part of the test. But We also hired someone that built content machines before...they actually build systems. Creating the output is something that you can do pretty easily today. but also how to actually build additional tools and additional capabilities is key in our hiring criteria.

We thought that we can just automate a lot of those processes...And then when you think about automations, when you're thinking about how to create those moments and saying, hey, Instead of actually taking me 30 hours to do this type of report, I can tap on a button and now making it done within 30 minutes or within 10 minutes. And you start doing that and saying, hey, why won't I also connect this process with that process and with this thing, and now I can do so much more things than what I used to do.

It's very easy when you are building with AI to basically create the massive inefficiencies...if I'm sending now 300 per competitor, and you have, let's say, four or five competitors. So I'm scanning 1,500 assets...It's a massive, massive bill at the end of the month...maybe once a week is good enough...if on the previous scan, you can actually save all of those things on your own database, and you scan that asset anymore, don't send it again for another scanning because it's redundant.

We are growing 100 % year over year, which is not something that we've ever expected to be happening at this stage of the company's life. At the same time, we are finding ourselves saying, hey, you know what? we want to invest even in more futuristic type of things. Like we are launching new products. We launched 14 new products from the beginning of this quarter

We basically just reverse the whole go-to-market strategy. Instead of having our sales team target CMOs... we changed to go bottoms up approach, go find a low level marketer, pitch them on just like one quiz they could try, sell them a $12,000... deal. Let them get started.

We took them through probably a 30 minute presentation on here's everything we learned. Here's where we think we were wrong. Here's where it clearly fell apart... And all of those 30 people fully embraced the new plan, doubled down, didn't leave the business... [then] years later, we closed a $70 million investment from Vista.

I remember the convo with the eBay CMO. She was just like, I loved your vision, but my team's not using it. I can't keep spending $1.3 million a year.

The people that give a crap are the people that succeed. And the people that don't have the capability and they don't care, they just fail really fast... Some of my best employees did not start off the strongest, but they all tried really hard.

We found this job submission trick. So we started to ask questions like, you know, answer the first line in your response has to be your favorite rock band. And then we would just look and then three quarters of the people didn't even do it. So we just deleted all those emails.

We actually had a sales employee steal half of our customers, four of our employees, and then turn around and sued us... I Actually took all my retirement money out to make payroll without telling my spouse. We had a maxed out line of credit, maxed out MX bill... It's oddly probably the best thing that's ever happened to us because it really made me focus on the things that were super important in the business. Focusing on preserving our key employees and preserving our key accounts.

I'd rather take that person that's done a lot of experience and experimental stuff because of how fast things are changing right now... they really need to know and be willing to kind of try the new thing and learn from that fast versus the old way of doing it.

someone would come to us and they're like, we need help with social media. We need help with, paid, but we also do SMS texting But early on we'd be like, yeah, we can do that... we didn't truly specialize in that thing It can get you in trouble... people hired you as the expert on certain things... you really, people hired you as the expert on certain things. gotta, gotta be super honest and transparent of what you can absolutely deliver on. So I think you can get yourself in a ton of trouble if you just say yes to everything.

That newsletter grew to about 40,000 emails. The website was getting millions of views per month... we started splicing different transitional hooks for people to use that were like, Hey, if you have problems with your social, go to this website, download a transitional hook, Use that initial three seconds and then transition it into some content about yourself. Your viewership will absolutely go up. It still works.

I'm going to go take them through a process where they're going to get a piece of us at no charge, right? I'm going to show them the goods...every conversation I have with somebody, whether they're a prospect or not, I'm gonna treat them like they're a client.

Every problem is either a systems problem or a people problem. I think the problem that I see with most of the clients we work with is they automatically think every problem is a people problem...Most problems are system problems.

Most people don't embrace it because they think that they have to do with this talent exactly what they do with the talent that's on site. And it's just a different relationship, at least from our experience.

Shoshana's leadership visibility is growing—shows strong executive team and company culture.

Creative excellence award—relevant for pitching brand experience and creative capability to new clients.

Tom is strengthening his team with specialized leadership roles in AI search—signals growth and strategic focus.

Stratabeat is investing in technical leadership and data infrastructure—signals team growth and strategic capability expansion.

Clear positioning around strategic, consultative marketing—relevant if Brian is positioned similarly or looking to align with philosophically aligned partners.

Positioning as an AI search expert makes Kevin a valuable resource or collaboration partner for AI-related marketing initiatives.

Growing team suggests Stratabeat is scaling and likely winning larger accounts—positive indicator of business momentum.

Recognition for leadership and HR excellence reinforces Converge's talent and culture—useful context for relationship building.

Establishing thought leadership in emerging AI ad formats — useful for positioning Torro as an expert in the evolving advertising landscape.

Recognition for women in leadership at Shoshana Winter's marketing firm—good reputation boost for the agency.

Team expansion or promotion at Tom Shapiro's agency signals growth momentum.

Visibility at top-tier industry event (Cannes Lions) with thought leadership on AI and gender bias in marketing.

Kevin is building a prolific content library on emerging AI advertising platforms, positioning GreenBanana SEO as an authority.

Lori's agency is gaining industry recognition for influencer marketing excellence, validating their strategic approach.

The Marketeer Group continues active podcast programming, maintaining audience engagement and thought leadership.

Stefanie is positioning herself and her agency at the forefront of AI and diversity conversations in marketing, strengthening her thought leadership profile.

Stratabeat is scaling aggressively, likely driven by strong revenue growth in the B2B SaaS SEO and content strategy space.

Book launch is coming — good window to ask for details and offer platform support once it ships.

Healthy growth in the web3 marketing space; expanding team capacity for client work.

Steady team growth and recognition as a fastest-growing agency; capacity to expand service delivery.

Recognition of Moburst as an industry leader; Gilad positioned as thought leader on agency growth.

Positioning as an expert on business operations and sustainable growth strategy.

Recognition as a thought leader on B2B marketing strategy; content repurposed across industry publications.

Healthy company growth trajectory and investment in talent; capacity to take on more client work.

Podcast speaking engagement indicates thought leadership positioning and visibility in entrepreneurship circles.

Media presence and thought leadership positioning; confirms Moburst's status as a high-growth agency recognized by industry publications like Adweek.

Visible as an expert resource on DTC strategy and brand building — adds credibility and potential as a future connection point for relevant discussions.

Visibility as a thought leader on DTC and agency growth — useful context for understanding his industry standing.

Podcast feature positions Michael as an experienced DTC thought leader; valuable networking hook given his extensive founder and consultant background.

Podcast visibility reinforces Gilad's thought leadership in growth and marketing; could be a networking or partnership discussion point.

Michael continues to establish himself as a recognized DTC expert through high-profile podcast features.

Lior is actively positioning himself as an expert on AI and marketing strategy in the DTC space.

Gilad continues to build thought leadership through podcast appearances and media presence.

Michael is actively sharing DTC expertise publicly — relevant if Brian works with e-commerce or subscription brands.

Lior is actively building thought leadership on AI adoption — indicates growing focus area for the company.

Gilad continues to position himself as a thought leader in marketing and business growth — good rapport hook for Brian.

Authority positioning in the DTC space and visibility among e-commerce founders and operators.

Visibility boost and thought leadership positioning on AI and marketing topics.

Lior is actively positioning himself as an AI marketing expert, engaging with industry audiences on a hot topic.

Third-party podcast feature validates Gilad's thought leadership and the reputation of Moburst as a high-growth agency.

Content confirms Stefanie is actively hosting her podcast with industry leaders, good rapport-building context.

Positions Michael as an expert voice in DTC—worth noting if you're discussing e-commerce growth strategies.

Public speaking / media visibility on a marketing-focused podcast—shows thought leadership in AI adoption for marketing.

Cannes Lions is a top-tier industry event; her involvement signals influence in the creative/marketing leadership space.

Demonstrates Moburst's position as a thought leader in mobile app marketing—worth mentioning if you're discussing mobile strategy with them.

Positions Michael as a trusted mentor and authority figure in the e-commerce education space.

Recognition as a senior voice in DTC e-commerce; reinforces his positioning as a mentor and consultant to founders.

Visibility boost in marketing circles; Lior is positioning himself as an AI-for-marketing thought leader.

Guest booking milestone; confirms Brian's podcast is active. Alan Shipnuck is a high-profile guest (bestselling author, Sports Illustrated legacy), suggesting Brian's show has credibility.

Podcast episode cadence update; Lucy is actively producing. Not a structural milestone but confirms ongoing content production.

Strong execution signal for the business. Shows consistent pipeline and credibility in executive placement market.

Ongoing content series on SEO and AI credibility; shows consistent thought leadership output.

New research asset from 9Sail—useful to mention in outreach as evidence of their thought leadership in legal digital strategy.

New platform visibility for Get Hired Now! and alignment with existing podcast focus on career transitions.

Andy's book is in active production. Natural congrats hook and insight into his publishing timeline.

unless you actually know what to do and have done it before, there's no way you're going to get it right. Your churn is going to be high. You know, you're not going to optimize around subscription.

First make sure Shopify is set up correctly. It probably isn't. Warehouse, make sure warehouse is configured in an optimal manner with Shopify. And then go through every single app that is being used and figure out what it's doing.

We made a minor change and we saved $40,000, in the first 30 days of working with that client. You can send things through priority mail and lots of other services that get there the same amount of time and are cheaper.

Podcast feature establishes credibility in ecommerce problem-solving and positions Michael as an expert resource.

Podcast visibility on AI topics reinforces Gilad's thought leadership positioning and could be a rapport hook.

Podcast appearance showcases Michael's expertise in ecommerce optimization and provides a rapport opportunity.

Shows David is actively hosting his podcast and building thought leadership through interviews with other entrepreneurs.

Podcast guest appearance shows Gilad's visibility in the AI/marketing space and can be a rapport hook.

Not an outreach trigger — the book launched a year ago. Useful context on Tom's expertise and book success, but the event itself is retrospective. No new activity to congratulate.

Podcast appearance demonstrates Gilad's positioning as a thought leader on AI-driven business growth.

Multiple podcast features showcase his thought leadership on AI-powered agency models and lean operations.

Podcast appearance is a credibility signal and founder story hook.

Podcast appearance reinforces his credibility as a digital advertising pioneer.

Podcast appearance reinforces his expertise in scalable operations consulting.

Podcast appearance showcases his AI transformation leadership at Moburst.

Podcast appearance is a credibility signal for his AI product.

Podcast appearance showcases his lean bootstrapped growth approach.

Podcast appearance reinforces his track record of scaling and rebuilding agencies.

Podcast feature positions David as a thought leader and co-leadership expert.

Podcast appearance is a credibility signal for his agency.

Podcast feature showcases his success scaling Linkby's marketplace model.

Podcast appearance is a credibility signal for her agency leadership approach.

Podcast feature reinforces his thought leadership on AI in agency operations.

Podcast feature positions Gilad as a thought leader in AI-driven business growth.

Podcast appearance is a credibility signal for Bobos AI.

Podcast feature showcases her operations expertise and agency rebuilding success.

Podcast appearance on a growth-focused show is a rapport hook.

Podcast feature on a popular growth show is a credibility signal.

Podcast appearance on a growth-focused show reinforces his credibility in agency scaling.

Podcast exposure on a growth-focused show is a credibility signal and rapport hook.

Platform visibility and thought-leadership positioning around networking philosophy. Useful context on how Adam frames his value; worth noting for rapport but not a major milestone.

Demonstrates modern AI-driven agency restructuring—highly relevant to current agency transformation trends.

Notable transformation on AI positioning—relevant to credibility and market narrative.

Adversity-to-success story in SEO—demonstrates resilience and expertise in the field.

Long history in ad tech with significant scale—valuable perspective on platform evolution.

Scalable, founder-independent business model—relevant to operational leverage discussions.

AI adoption journey relevant to current market sentiment shifts.