Episodes
My first question to Richard Dennys, CEO of Game Lounge, was are you a naturally gifted leader or someone that constantly works at it?
He alluded to a lot of hard work and making his mistakes less costly over time. I personally think he's got a natural gift for it plus he's mindful to not rest on his skills and improve.
Richard is barely 1 year into his role as CEO of Game Lounge which is one of the biggest iGaming affiliates in the industry. He was previously CEO of Webgains where he...
Published 11/19/24
Meet Stefan Muehlbauer who works with Master In Cash affiliate program and is the founder of Affpal.net doing consulting for affiliate managers.
He knows affiliate management well and understands what affiliate managers need today to be successful.
Published 11/12/24
Meet Marco Braun who's the founder of MyTopSlot and an aspiring entrepreneur. This episode is not your ordinary one as it is an affiliate coaching episode. I give Marco my best tips as an affiliate coach on how he can cut through the noise and build a slots site in a competitive space. One of my recommendations is to consider a slots podcast as a means of generating faster income and building a trusted audience and dominating another channel that he can own.
Published 11/05/24
Meet Julia Draghici, the co-founder of CPV Lab and CPV One that helps affiliates, media buyers and marketing agencies to track, manage, and optimize their marketing campaigns in one place with a very powerful ad-tracking platform.
I'm excited to share this recording of Julia because we have similar apps that technically are competitors but we operate in different industries. We are both SaaS companies working in affiliate marketing where she acknowledges that SaaS industry shares and...
Published 10/29/24
Meet Bob Burg who's the co-author of The Go Giver book and is a sought out speaker. Bob exhibits a lot of qualities that my other guests have, which is they openly share information without asking for as much in return. All of those podcast guests all seem to share similar stories especially the SEO pros which is the more they share, the more their business and demand grows.
On reflecting on the discussion I had with Bob, there are 2 other people I think about and I want to share how the 3...
Published 10/22/24
Meet Lou Viveros whom I was introduced through Matt Diggity. Matt posted that Lou was there in some of his M&A transactions and that is when I learned about Lou's work in both M&A as well as being an advisor to startups, SEOs and affiliate companies. As a startup, I've learned quite a few things from Lou in getting to know him over the past year and I've gained a bigger appreciation for advisors like him.
Lou Viveros is now launching the SBOCoach.com program to help small business...
Published 10/15/24
Meet Rowan Ellis who runs XVARO and you could call him your fractional CFO for hire.
Rowan doesn't just help companies get their books in order but he helps them with financial strategy. This can often lead to discussion around mergers & acquisitions (M&A) and in the affiliate space, those topics are somewhat normalized as everyone seems to think about exit strategies in affiliation.
Published 10/10/24
Meet Dragan Berak who's the Head of SEO at Gentoo Media and was the Head of SEO Global at AskGamblers before it got acquired by GiG and now is part of Gentoo.
Dragan got to see first hand how to improve a giant iGaming affiliate site in AskGamblers. I've had the pleasure to chat with Dragan at conferences before so I know he is very passionate about SEO. We both follow the likes of Lily Ray, Glen Allsopp and Eli Schwartz that have unique takes on the SEO landscape.
If your affiliate site...
Published 10/03/24
Meet Neil Walker who's the specialist behind Live Casino Comparer and his niche approach has lead to success. In fact, Neil is considered one of the leading experts when it comes to knowledge of the live dealer games space.
While Neil doesn't profess to be an expert in SEO, he does know that his attention to detail in his content is part of the reason for his SEO success.
Published 09/26/24
Meet Gali Hartuv who's the creator of Gali's Guide which is a newsletter that explores the world of VIP in iGaming. Talking about VIP in iGaming whether it is casinos or sportsbooks, is usually a forbidden topic.
That is exactly what Gali set out to do which is change the status quo and start talking about an important business topic within iGaming that nobody was writing about.
All the questions today centre around the operator side and how affiliates either can help influence VIP players...
Published 09/19/24
Meet James Oliver who's one of the co-founders of ParasiteSEO.com which is a unique SEO tool that ... helps you with parasite SEO.
In this podcast, James explains what is parasite SEO and what are the best strategies and tips when it comes to leveraging this SEO tactic for your affiliate sites.
Published 09/12/24
Meet Adam Rowley who's the MD of RavenTrack which is an iGaming affiliate program platform.
Adam has experience as an affiliate, an affiliate manager, operator and now sits in a unique position of helping affiliate programs manage their affiliates and get better with their data.
The key conversation here is all about customer retention and player value.
Why are people not having enough of these convos? We'll we are bringing this one to you and the insights are ones you won't want to miss.
Published 09/05/24
Meet Lily Ray who's the Vice President, SEO Strategy & Research at Amsive.
I asked Lily what she thought that affiliate sites should be doing today to avoid the wrath of these Google core updates and to stay one step ahead.
She is very active on X (Twitter) and LinkedIn and she's got a pulse on the world of search as well as studying the winners and losers in the affiliate marketing space.
Published 08/29/24
Meet Ben Austen who's the the Director-level leader specialising in RevOps with Find.co, a fast growing media company in affiliate marketing, iGaming, EdTech, CSR SaaS and crypto.
Ben believes that RevOps is an important job that can bridge the gap between sales and marketing. It is the intersection of Business Intelligence with finance connecting all aspects of a company whether affiliate marketing, SaaS, sales or media.
I think what Ben does is a really insightful look at the world of...
Published 08/19/24
Meet Cristian Ionescu who's the co-founder of Witanalytica and one of the analytics experts at his company.
Cristian thinks that affiliate marketing as an industry can be doubled over and that we've not even scratched the surface in terms of what we are capable of achieving given that Business Intelligence in affiliate marketing is fairly new.
Published 08/15/24
Meet Jabez Reuben who's an SEO that has his own SEO tool such as linkvalidator.io and he also runs The Blue Prints agency and Vistavo.co.
In this episode, Jabez shared with me a lot of link building tips that I think are clever and in some cases easy to action. Yet I know a lot of affiliates don't take the time to do any of them.
If you are a new affiliate or new to SEO, definitely follow all Jabez's tips on link building. They are definitely worth implementing on your sites.
Published 08/09/24
Meet Steve Toth, founder of SEO Notebook and event planner for SEO IRL in Toronto, Canada.
Steve has been sending out 1 actionable note every week for 5 years straight. His SEO newsletter is one of the most popular ones in the whole SEO community.
Published 08/01/24
Meet Marcin Kumięga who's the Business Development Director at Voluum.
Cool name for a company? I would say they are one of the most advanced adtech companies I've seen in affiliate marketing.
Published 07/24/24
We have 10 different SEO experts that we've taking some of their best tips and insights.
Published 07/17/24
Meet Sean Bianco, co-founder of GainChanger SEO agency and a true student of SEO and marketing.
We cover a lot of topics in iGaming in this episode.
Published 07/11/24
Meet Zach Measures who's Commercial Director EMEA for Everflow.io which is an impressive tech solution for affiliate programs, affiliate networks and agencies.
When Zach asked what the purpose of the podcast was, I think this episode itself explains that. That is when we have these interesting conversations about affiliate marketing in relation to Business Intelligence. I said these convos are not taking place as much as they should but when they happen, nobody is documenting them. That is...
Published 07/04/24
Fery Kaszoni is the founder of Search Intelligence and this is his 2nd time being on the podcast.
Link building is already changing after many spam and helpful content updates.
In 2024, Fery is doubling down on digital PR as the crucial form of link building that has to be done for brands to stay relevant today.
Published 06/21/24
Meet Umar Faizan whom is the founder of Growth Winner. Umar came highly recommended from Mads Singers to have him as a guest and I'm glad it happened.
In this episode, he shares how not enough SEOs and affiliates sites focus on their audience. They produce written content, video content and social media content that is either for them or their self-serving needs.
It isn't until you learn more about your audience that you get to understand how Google wants to share results with users.
Published 06/21/24
Meet Kira Khoroshilova who does international SEO which personally I cannot think of any SEO experts that would be my go-to for this skillset. Think about things beyond local SEO but rather localization, cultural nuances and the dreaded hreflang for your sites.
Kira has her brand called Diary of an SEO and she speaks at many SEO conferences around the world.
Published 06/13/24