The Captain Coder Podcast
Get ready to grow your online business. Join us each week for actionable strategies to improve your website, content marketing, and more to increase your leads and book out your biz.
Episodes
145 episodes
Writing Compelling Website Copy that Converts
You want your website to make you money, right? Of course you do! If you want your website to generate revenue, it needs to be set up to convert.How do you do that?You have compelling copy that leads them to some kind ...
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Season 2
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Episode 93
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15:02
The Business Case for Web Accessibility
If you’re in marketing, you’ve probably heard people talk about how your website needs to comply with ADA standards.Web accessibility isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a practice that everyone in the marketing world should follow—for their web...
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Season 2
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Episode 92
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17:09
6 Pages Your Website Needs
For a business like yours, your website is your storefront, pitch, and even the gateway to building trust with potential clients. I’ve been building websites for decades, but distilling an entire business into just a few pages is hard.<...
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Season 2
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Episode 91
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15:31
Why a Custom WordPress Website Pays Off
Imagine a website that perfectly integrates with your marketing strategy and drives more leads. Does that feel impossible?It can be hard, especially when today’s trend seems to be cookie-cutter themes and everyone’s websites look the sa...
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Season 2
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Episode 90
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17:23
AI-Powered Marketing: Human Touch Included
AI has made it easy to add some personalization to our marketing, be more efficient (which is great when you’re a one-person team), and create content far more quickly than we might have been used to.But how do we use AI and still keep ...
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Season 2
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Episode 89
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21:13
Improve Web Accessibility: 5 Steps To Follow When Creating Content
Can everyone use your website and the content you create, or are you excluding up to 27% of your audience? When you focus on creating c...
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Season 2
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Episode 88
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26:26
5 Ways to Boost Customer Retention and Drive Repeat Business
Have you heard this lately: “We need more leads.” In marketing, we often focus on getting new leads and customers into your business, but what about the leads you already have? It’s time to think about boosting your customer retenti...
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Season 2
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Episode 87
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20:15
Solidifying Your Entrepreneurial Vision with Liz Wolfe
Have you been asking yourself whether or not you’re cut out for entrepreneurship? Fun fact - everyone is cut out for it - if they want to be.I know that choosing to run your own business is not the easiest decision. Honestly, I think bei...
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Season 2
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Episode 86
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40:28
6x the Impact: Repurpose Your B2B Blog for Multi-Channel Marketing
Having a blog for your business is a great way to bring targeted traffic to your website. However, the average blog (without AI assistance) takes about 5-6 hours to write and get on your website. Want to get the most out o...
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Season 2
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Episode 85
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23:35
Harness the SEO Magic of Regular Blogging
The first result on Google gets 39.8% of the clicks, but that can feel like an impossible task in 2024. There’s so much competition.But there’s one thing you might be overlooking because it feels like “no one reads them” anymore - blogg...
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Season 2
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Episode 84
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24:19
Scale Your Business Through Delegation with Cathy Baillargeon
On a scale of one to “Why did I start a business,” how burned out are you right now?You started your business because you were GREAT at what you do. But you didn’t start it because you wanted to do all the admin work of running your busi...
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Season 2
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Episode 83
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33:36
Do I Need a Website for My Business?
Unless you have a monopoly in what you do or you never want to grow your business beyond where you are right now, you need a website.Even if you’re rocking sales with DMs and simple landing pages, you need a website that builds trust in ...
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Season 2
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Episode 82
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12:50
Create a High-Converting Sales Page
Are people buying from your website? Selling online - even when you’re selling services - requires high-converting sales pages.Unlike many of the pages on your website, a sales page attempts to convert someone from a mere visitor to actu...
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Season 2
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Episode 81
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24:10
The Roadmap to Sustainable Growth Online
How do you keep growing and achieve sustainable growth online? How do those big gurus making a million plus keep their business growing, getting in front of more and more people?You need to follow the same best practices they do.I...
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19:00
The SEO Secrets that Earn You Revenue
Have you been putting SEO on the back burner because it feels like it’s too hard to mess with?Let me tell you the secret about SEO - it’s one of the easiest things you can do for your business. It just takes a little bit of time but tha...
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Season 2
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Episode 79
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35:44
5 Powerful Tactics to Attract Your Dream Clients
Do you often find yourself working with clients that just aren’t the best fit for you but you take them because revenue is important? What if I told you that you could attract your dream clients instead?I know that might sound fanciful i...
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Season 2
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Episode 78
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19:17
How to Cut Through the Noise in 2024
I can’t tell you how much doom and gloom I’ve seen about the state of marketing in 2024. With the shifts from AI, changes to Google’s algorithm, and the continued push to privacy (which means losing some data), I see a lot of experts claim that...
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Season 2
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Episode 77
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16:54
A Transparent Look at My 2023
No one is honest about how it looks to run a business.Often, we see the shiny numbers of “Oh, I’m a 6 figure business owner", but we don’t share the reality of what running that business is.Growth doesn’t just happen overnight. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 76
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12:10
Is Your Website a Silent Salesperson?
A website should be an investment in your business, which means it absolutely should offer some kind of return.The way that many customers find us is so varied these days. They see us on social media, then maybe get an email, read a blog...
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Season 2
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Episode 75
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13:36
Web Accessibility Made Simple: 5 Easy Ways to Make Your Website Inclusive
Can everyone - and I do mean everyone - use your website? What a lot of business owners don’t understand is that there are common website trends that make it harder for some individuals to use their websites.That means you’re...
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Season 2
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Episode 74
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16:51
7 Steps to Prep Your Marketing for 2024
If you’ve been in business longer than 5 minutes, you know that there are a lot of things to pay attention to. It’s so easy for many of these things to hit the back burner throughout the year and even cause problems the longer you go without ta...
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Season 2
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Episode 73
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17:33
Turning Prospects into Customers with a Marketing Funnel
Hear a lot about marketing funnels but have no idea what that means? Online experts often talk about funnels and how they can help your business grow, but they very often break it down so you understand where to start.Here’s ...
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Season 2
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Episode 72
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13:17
How to Get Leads for Your Business
Where do you find people online that want to work with you?One of the easiest traps to fall into when you’re a service-based business is to rely on referrals only. While referrals can bring you some of the best-fit clients, you can’t con...
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Season 2
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Episode 71
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11:29
WordPress vs. Wix vs. Squarespace vs ShowIt
Know you need a website, but you have no idea where you should put it?You’ve probably heard that Wix is easy, or Squarespace gives you beautiful templates, or you found a template that you like for ShowIt, or that WordPress is the best ...
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Season 2
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Episode 70
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21:51
SEO Secrets for Service-Based Businesses
An optimized website can help you grow your service-based business online, bringing in new leads and sales on autopilot. But how do you get people to come to your website in the first place?While you can use social media, email marketing...
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Season 2
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Episode 69
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18:53