The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

Huckabuy Founder & CEO Geoff Atkinson on how we accomplished exponential growth at Overstock and what he’s up to with Huckabuy

Episode Outline

[00:45] Geoff’s background

[02:30] How Geoff grew SEO from zero to $300 million at Overstock.com

[04:18] The series of pivots that led to the idea for Huckabuy

[06:38] How to know when you have product/market fit and are ready to expand

[07:55] Mistakes Geoff made in his career that ultimately led to valuable lessons

[11:15] When and how Geoff shifted his focus with Huckabuy to achieve product/market fit

[13:00] What Geoff is prioritizing to scale his business

[15:00] How Geoff relaxes and gets out of his own head

[16:43] Geoff’s inspirations


Geoff’s Inspirations

Patrick Byrne

Warren Buffett


Connect with Geoff

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Website

Twitter

The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

In this episode, Elias Rubel is joined by Andrew Ettinger, an entrepreneurial and truly elite level sales executive helping best of breed technology companies scale, grow and succeed in the marketplace.

Andrew is a true, born and bred modern executive sales leader who leverages an astute business mind to deliver systems to organizations such that significant business outcomes are realized by the customer. He implements and firmly believes in the modern approach of measuring the Key Moments. They are pain, conversations (not pitch!), diagnose, trade, orchestrate, impact, and grow. A 10% improvement in this simple process over these 7 moments can deliver a 2x increase in ARR and a 10x increase in realized impact for the customer.

Episode Outline

[02:39] Andrew’s background

[04:16] Flexibility in mindset and not getting stuck in your ways

[08:13] Understanding that there's no problem with making mistakes. Learn and apply the lessons learned as you go forward.

[10:22] List of regulations from California

[11:18] On developing self awareness, self reflection, and deep introspection

[12:04] Technical evangelism and doing deep workshops that benefit the organization

[14:34] Privacy as a first class citizen and why that matters

[16:35] What works to instrument the workflows into production processes

[17:04] Navigating the turbulent waters of the enterprise

Andrew's Inspirations

Scott Yara

Jo Otto

Jill Rowley

Mark Roberge


Connect with Andrew

LinkedIn

Twitter

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