We're growing the team at Exit Five. Come work with us. Looking for a Content Marketer to join our team. You will own our podcast, newsletter, growing website traffic. Full-time. Remote. Equity in the company. jobs.exitfive.com/job/149719…

In the past two weeks we have: • Closed $50k in sponsorship revenue • Created an additional $50k in pipeline • Started work on our first in-person event (named it, built the speaker list, run of show, venue, budget) • Finalized new logo and branding • Developed a growth plan for the 2nd half of the year • Created a plan to re-organize and improve our community • Onboarded a new contractor • All while continuing to create content for our community, newsletter, and podcast • We have no office • We had one "team" meeting this week • We are prioritizing time with family, kids, mental health daily We're on track to grow the business 90% year over year, and we should be in a position to bring on more teammates as we start planning for 2025 and building @exitfivemedia.

I am so proud of what we're building with Exit Five. We've carved out the niche of B2B marketing and our content and community is helping people build successful careers. I can feel it every day. Got this message last night.

I'm pumped to welcome @knak as a presenting sponsor of @exitfivemedia for 2024. • Knak is a no code email and landing page creation platform that helps marketers turns what is typically hours of frustration into just a few minutes of building an email or landing page (that actually looks great). • This is a fun sponsorship for us because it isn't just about giving advertising inventory across our podcast, community, and webinars to Knak. But we actually get to use the product. • We've been using Knak to level up our emails at Exit Five and will be doing this all year; every email you see from Exit Five will be designed and built in Knak so they will look great and perform great too. All I know is that our COO @_danieljmurphy has been geeking out with this product and he keeps sending me Slack messages about cool things he's doing and learning using the product, so it must be good 😊 ▪️ If you're a marketer and want to learn more about Knak you can check them out here: knak.com/exit-five 🎧 You will also hear Knak on the Exit Five podcast right now and see them in all of our emails this year 🤝 I love it when a good fit partnership like this comes together - especially one where we get to use the product to run our business (and makes it easy to tell other marketers about it as part of this sponsorship for the year).

Some Wins and Challenges for @exitfivemedia: • MRR is up 31% since in the last 60 days. • I am feeling that feeling. DMs. Emails. Social chatter. We have product market fit and buzz - it’s very real. • Sponsors. We have partnerships and demand from some of the top B2B SaaS companies. Great fit for this audience and a great revenue channel for us. I’d like to continue to get creative here with good fit tools for our audience. • Hiring a COO has been a game changer. Why didn’t I do this 1 year ago? Challenges: • Growing community engagement is hard. How do you get people to go to the gym every day? • Shifting the mindset from Community to Membership. There’s so much value beyond the discussions in the community. I want to tell this story more and shift the thinking to “this is a membership for B2B marketers” vs “this is a discussion forum.” That’s one of the features, but not the whole product. • There’s so much we want to add to the membership - but time and budget and resources get in the way. I’m also impatient. But focus is key. One week at a time. We’re breaking goals and projects down into weekly and monthly chunks right now.

October: 56 new signups November: 93 new signups December: 180 new signups Momentum is building @exitfivemedia We have leveled up. I don't want to rush the New Year but I'm excited to start chipping away at the 2024 plan already ☺️

Growth Hack: Talk to customers. So my new teammate @_danieljmurphy has been meeting with @exitfivemedia members (aka customers) one on one. He's done like 30 calls in two weeks and then writes up notes in our Slack channel. The notes are COMPLETE GOLD for business and marketing. People are telling us what to do People are telling us what they'd pay for And all in their words It's all right there.

Why I Hired a COO for @exitfivemedia There's a trend of creator businesses bringing on operating partners to help run and scale the business, and I know many of you here are interested in that topic and have been following the Exit Five evolution. **And you've seen me on here blabbering about the joys of solopreneurship only to turn around and hire a team 🤣 We did a full episode on this with me + @_danieljmurphy (new COO) Episode 106 of the Exit Five podcast if you're looking for the the full episode

- Why I hired a COO for @exitfivemedia - What's exciting about building a B2B media company - Some stories from working together over the last 7 years Fun to have @_danieljmurphy on this week's Exit Five podcast open.spotify.com/episode/0iP…

Fun to be driving around listening to MFM and … and hear @ShaanVP + @thesamparr talking about @exitfivemedia 🙌 Had to pullover and tweet about it. Thanks guys.

Looking for a social media manager to help part time @exitfivemedia. LinkedIn, X, TikTok Create and curate content Be funny sometimes Be educational sometimes cc @_danieljmurphy