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EP • 91h 44min

Marketing That Actually Works

with Trevor Longino • Founder & CEO, CrowdTamers

In this episode of The Ranking Heroes Podcast, host Nebojsa talks with Trevor Longino, Founder and CEO of CrowdTamers, about test-based marketing, startup go-to-market strategy, and why most founders fail at talking to their own buyers.

Trevor Longino — Marketing That Actually Works, episode 9

25 Years of Marketing Lessons, Compressed Into One Conversation

No theory. Trevor has the receipts — $117M in marketing engines built, 6,000+ founders mentored, and a framework that still works 25 years later.

  • Minimum Viable Sprints
  • Test-Based Marketing
  • Funnel Metrics & Benchmarks
  • Positioning & Messaging
  • Growth Hacking vs. Strategy
  • Content Marketing Engines
  • Startup Founder Mistakes
  • Scaling with AI
  • Minimum viable sprints as a framework for testing market positioning at $100 per experiment in 48 hours.
  • Why founders almost always use the wrong language to describe their own product to buyers.
  • The specific funnel benchmarks (1% CTR, 5% signup, 20% activation, 30%+ close rate) that make a marketing engine profitable.
  • How a Facebook algorithm change wiped out 80% of CrowdTamers' revenue in one year and what Trevor rebuilt afterward.
  • Why onboarding should mirror the ad message that brought the customer in, not dump them into a generic flow.
  • The rise of disposable, AI-built software and what it means for marketing agencies in the next few years.
  • Trevor's goal to help 1,000 founders reach a million dollars a year and how he is distributing that knowledge at scale.

Best Moments From This Episode

Whether you're an early-stage founder looking for your first customers or a seasoned marketer refining your playbook, this episode is packed with strategies you can apply right away. Hit play below and dive in!

Trevor Longino: Solve the problem, don't just talk about what you do
Trevor Longino: You won't know what works until you try
Trevor Longino: Solve your client's problem and build trust

Nebojsa: Hello guys, welcome to the ranking heroes. I podcast where we discuss different strategies right with the experts behind them. So today we have a very special guest, travel Longino. He's a founder of crowd tamers and they build million dollar marketing engines and they start bringing businesses leads in less than 45 days with their framework. So first I'd like to

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