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Welcome to Episode 7, the final episode, of the Pitch Deck for Investors Masterclass Mini-Series.

You've built your 11-slide deck and learned how to present it in the last episode. 

Now we're covering the 100 questions investors will ask you at some point in the diligence process.

About the Pitch Deck for Investors Masterclass Mini-Series
This is a seven part series where we're marketing your company with a pitch de...

This is episode 6 of the Investor Pitch Deck Masterclass Mini-Series. 

In the last episode (5/7), you completed the last two slides of your 11 slide pitch deck and you now have a complete investor presentation.

In this episode, we're covering 3 main things you need to know about using your Investor Pitch Deck:

1) how to format your investor pitch deck so it looks professional

2) how to time your pitch

3) what to do when things go o...

This is episode two (2/7) of your Pitch Deck for Investors Masterclass Mini-series. 

In this episode you create your first three pitch deck slides: your Elevator Pitch, Problem Slide and Solution Slide.

About the Pitch Deck for Investors Masterclass Mini-Series

This is a seven part series where we're marketing your company with a pitch deck so you have the very best chance to raise the money from investors to take your business t...

This is episode two (3/7) of your Pitch Deck for Investors Masterclass Mini-Series.

In this episode you create your next three pitch deck slides: your Market Slide, Go to Market Slide and Competition Slide.

About the Pitch Deck for Investors Masterclass Mini-Series
This is a seven part series where we're marketing your company with a pitch deck so you have the very best chance to raise the money from inv...

This is episode two (4/7) of your Pitch Deck for Investors Masterclass Mini-Series.

In this episode you create your next two pitch deck slides: your Financials and  Team Slides.

About the Pitch Deck for Investors Masterclass Mini-Series

This is a seven part series where we're marketing your company with a pitch deck so you have the very best chance to raise the money from investors to take your busi...

This is episode five (5/7) of your Pitch Deck for Investors Masterclass Mini-Series.

In this episode you create the last two slides in your investor pitch deck.

About the Pitch Deck for Investors Masterclass Mini-Series
This is a seven part series where we're marketing your company with a pitch deck so you have the very best chance to raise the money from investors to take your business to the next level...

Welcome to the Pitch Deck for Investors Masterclass Mini-Series where I’m walking you through how to create a pitch deck to raise money from investors for your company using the 11 slide template.

There are 7 episodes in this mini-series and this is episode 1/7

This episode is important to listen to until the end because I explain how I developed the 11 investor pitch deck slides, give you a quick overview of each of the 11 slides so...

Marketing news for the week of Jan 7th 2026. We’re  covering four stories this week that all point to the same thing: owned channels are eating rented platforms for breakfast, paid email newsletter subscriptions jumped 138% last year while everyone was freaking out about social media algorithms. Authenticity just became non-negotiable on social media and Google adds a new ad category.

Reference links if you want to dive deeper

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We break down Graza's marketing playbook and how Graza turned a boring commodity into a must-have kitchen staple with over $100 million in sales in less than five years. 

We look at the market problem Graza identified, Graza's packaging insight that broke every category rule, the guerrilla marketing tactics they used to launch with zero ad budget, the psychology behind why it worked, and the exact marketing playbook you ca...

Marketing News for the week ending Jan 2, 2026

New year. New Marketing strategies. And a lot of change ahead because 2026 isn't just another year of incremental marketing improvements, some big marketing shifts are happening.

This is the year Meta is making a big move with their ad platform. Third-party cookies finally die and what that means for marketers. The year social commerce is e-commerce. And this year, a whole...

We break down one of the most catastrophic rebranding failures in modern marketing history. We're talking Tropicana's 2009 packaging disaster.

We walk through the problem Tropicana thought they were solving, the insight that led them astray, the execution that backfired spectacularly, the neuroscience that explains why it failed, and most importantly—the takeaway you need to protect your own brand from the same fate.

Becaus...

This is your Marketing News update for the week ending December 26th, 2025.

And what a marketing week to close out the year.

We're talking about Amazon's AI shopping assistant that's about to generate ten billion dollars in incremental sales that you can leverage for your company.

Meta's AI chat targeting that went live on Dec 16th that you can use to increase your conversion rates by over 5%

Digital ad impressions ...

This is your Marketing News update for the week of December 15th, 2025.

Big week for marketers

Google just dropped their third core update of the year—right before the holidays. 

Adobe made a nearly two-billion-dollar bet on the future of search. Facebook is desperately trying to win back young users. Uber wants to sell your ride data to advertisers. 

And new research confirms what you suspected: creator content is crushing traditional...

We break down Dood Woof's marketing to show you how to dominate a niche so tight that competitors don't even see you coming.

We'll show you the exact problem Elina the Founder of Dood Woof identified and how she did it, the pivot she made before launching, the community-building tactics that got her to profitability from day one, and the marketing science that proves why going narrow beats going wide to start out.

Then...

We're breaking down how Aston Martin pulled off saving their company and created a $100m marketing strategy that is still the backbone of their marketing.

And as importantly, we give you the marketing playbook where you can use the exact same strategy—even if you're not selling six-figure sports cars.

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Today we’re talking about how to market a boring product in a crowded industry. 

We're talking Liquid Death. 

We’ll set the stage with the problem, their pivot, the marketing tactics they used, give you a marketing study to show you their tactic is backed by science, and then give you the playbook how you apply it to your business. 

Please follow the Marketing Podcast in your podcast player and tell a fellow marketing frien...

We discuss the importance of Digital Operations in the age of AI and automation and it's importance for businesses. We discuss the benefits of using tools, global talent, and automation to streamline processes, lower costs, increase profits, and increase productivity.

Links from the Episode

• 3rd Brain -  Your Business...automated.
  https://3rdBrain.co
• Michael Greenberg on X/Twitter

About Michael Greenberg...

Google Chrome is phasing out third parties cookies by the end of the year. All the other browsers are already blocking them, Safari, Firefox etc...

We talk about what online marketing looks like after 3rd party cookies are gone.

About Rich Stone
Rich is a B2B tech intent data SaaS sales VP with 16 years of experience across a number of sales and leadership functions within TechTarget.

Currently lead...

Sheila takes us through her Branding Bootcamp and gives us a bonus lesson on how to build a successful loyalty program to increase your sales.

ABOUT SHEILA BUTLER
Sheila is an accomplished Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)  with 25+ years experience in integrated marketing, global loyalty program management, loyalty strategy, loyalty marketing, partnership marketing, business development, CRM, and brand development & t...