Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/growing-brands-with-melia-moore The marketing podcast for founders trying to grow without the noise. Most marketing advice is built for big budgets and big teams, then repackaged until every condition that made it work gets stripped out. Growing Brands is for the founder doing real revenue, running the whole thing themselves, who's tired of tactics that assume a context they're not in. Host Melia Moore spent her late twenties in the agency world before going independent in Austin. Each week she takes one marketing idea — conversion, email, retention, paid ads, metrics — and works through what actually applies when you're small, with the evidence to back it and none of the hype. Measured, opinionated, and clear. No vanity metrics, no noise. © 2026 Melia Moore df21b8b1-7f44-556c-908e-ffbc81ee733b yes en Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:24:05 -0500 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:25:26 -0500 https://growingbrandspodcast.com https://img.transistorcdn.com/TmHaQvkaZFk-Z9cG0B49Ae7XP5R5IXD956bh_A7QK4U/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mNmQ4/ZDRlYWYwNjMwNzU3/ZDA1MzVjZGU5ODhk/OTZjNC5qcGc.jpg https://growingbrandspodcast.com episodic Melia Moore The marketing podcast for founders trying to grow without the noise. Most marketing advice is built for big budgets and big teams, then repackaged until every condition that made it work gets stripped out. Growing Brands is for the founder doing real revenue, running the whole thing themselves, who's tired of tactics that assume a context they're not in. Host Melia Moore spent her late twenties in the agency world before going independent in Austin. Each week she takes one marketing idea — conversion, email, retention, paid ads, metrics — and works through what actually applies when you're small, with the evidence to back it and none of the hype. Measured, opinionated, and clear. No vanity metrics, no noise. The marketing podcast for founders trying to grow without the noise. marketing, ecommerce, small business, founders, DTC, conversion, email marketing, growth, retention, paid ads Melia Moore melia@growingbrandspodcast.com No No 3 3 Email Is Not Dead (You're Just Doing It Wrong) full 12906b07-ff3e-49dd-9a50-2752c07d4161 https://share.transistor.fm/s/7e4b3b19 Email has been declared dead a dozen times in the last ten years, and every time it keeps quietly outperforming almost everything else you spend on. Melia's take: you didn't run email and watch it fail — you ran a broken version of email and watched the broken version fail. Those aren't the same experiment, and the difference is most of the money you've left on the table. This episode is about why founders neglect their most profitable channel (it's psychological before it's tactical — email is invisible by design, and nobody claps when it makes the sale), the three ways small brands do it badly, and the three automations every brand should have running before it sends a single campaign: welcome, abandoned checkout, and post-purchase. Email rewards being reliable far more than being brilliant — which is good news, because reliable is something you can actually build. Full episode notes and transcript: https://growingbrandspodcast.com/episodes/email-is-not-dead-youre-just-doing-it-wrong/

]]> Email has been declared dead a dozen times in the last ten years, and every time it keeps quietly outperforming almost everything else you spend on. Melia's take: you didn't run email and watch it fail — you ran a broken version of email and watched the broken version fail. Those aren't the same experiment, and the difference is most of the money you've left on the table. This episode is about why founders neglect their most profitable channel (it's psychological before it's tactical — email is invisible by design, and nobody claps when it makes the sale), the three ways small brands do it badly, and the three automations every brand should have running before it sends a single campaign: welcome, abandoned checkout, and post-purchase. Email rewards being reliable far more than being brilliant — which is good news, because reliable is something you can actually build. Full episode notes and transcript: https://growingbrandspodcast.com/episodes/email-is-not-dead-youre-just-doing-it-wrong/

]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0500 Melia Moore Melia Moore 949 Email has been declared dead a dozen times in the last ten years, and every time it keeps quietly outperforming almost everything else you spend on. Melia's take: you didn't run email and watch it fail — you ran a broken version of email and watched the broken version fail. Those aren't the same experiment, and the difference is most of the money you've left on the table. Email has been declared dead a dozen times in the last ten years, and every time it keeps quietly outperforming almost everything else you spend on. Melia's take: you didn't run email and watch it fail — you ran a broken version of email and watched the b marketing, ecommerce, small business, founders, DTC, conversion, email marketing, growth, retention, paid ads No 2 2 Why Your Conversion Rate Is More Valuable Than Your Traffic full 47cec52f-3dde-414d-a552-d2b9e840d527 https://share.transistor.fm/s/32f0c489 You don't have a traffic problem. You have a conversion problem — and you've been spending money on the wrong one. When something isn't working, the instinct is always "get more people here," because traffic is visible and goes up when you spend. But traffic is something you rent: the day you stop paying, it leaves, and it costs more the harder you push. Melia walks through the math that makes conversion the better bet almost every time — a lift you build once versus a cost you pay forever — and where to actually find the leaks: the product page that describes the product instead of answering the customer's real question, the checkout you've never gone through on your phone, and the gap between what your ad promised and what your landing page delivers. None of it costs money to fix. It costs attention, which is the one budget founders guard hardest and spend worst. Full episode notes and transcript: https://growingbrandspodcast.com/episodes/why-your-conversion-rate-is-more-valuable-than-your-traffic/

]]> You don't have a traffic problem. You have a conversion problem — and you've been spending money on the wrong one. When something isn't working, the instinct is always "get more people here," because traffic is visible and goes up when you spend. But traffic is something you rent: the day you stop paying, it leaves, and it costs more the harder you push. Melia walks through the math that makes conversion the better bet almost every time — a lift you build once versus a cost you pay forever — and where to actually find the leaks: the product page that describes the product instead of answering the customer's real question, the checkout you've never gone through on your phone, and the gap between what your ad promised and what your landing page delivers. None of it costs money to fix. It costs attention, which is the one budget founders guard hardest and spend worst. Full episode notes and transcript: https://growingbrandspodcast.com/episodes/why-your-conversion-rate-is-more-valuable-than-your-traffic/

]]> Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0500 Melia Moore Melia Moore 949 You don't have a traffic problem. You have a conversion problem — and you've been spending money on the wrong one. When something isn't working, the instinct is always "get more people here," because traffic is visible and goes up when you spend. But traffic is something you rent: the day you stop paying, it leaves, and it costs more the harder you push. You don't have a traffic problem. You have a conversion problem — and you've been spending money on the wrong one. When something isn't working, the instinct is always "get more people here," because traffic is visible and goes up when you spend. But traf marketing, ecommerce, small business, founders, DTC, conversion, email marketing, growth, retention, paid ads No 1 1 Why Most Marketing Advice Doesn't Work for Small Brands full 4599fd3d-9f49-4741-a835-4ec95bde5686 https://share.transistor.fm/s/bb8bac3c Most marketing advice isn't wrong. It's just not built for you — and nobody helps you tell the difference. The tactics that go viral were designed for teams of six and five-figure ad budgets, then repackaged into threads and reels until every condition that made them work got quietly stripped out. So you try them, they fail, and you decide the problem is you. In this first episode, Melia Moore lays the foundation for the whole show: why the founder doing real revenue is almost never the person making the advice, the two hidden assumptions (budget and team) baked into most of what you're told to do, and a four-question "fit test" to run before you spend a single hour on anything. The real cost of bad-fit advice isn't the wasted spend — it's what it does to your judgment. Full episode notes and transcript: https://growingbrandspodcast.com/episodes/why-most-marketing-advice-doesnt-work-for-small-brands/

]]> Most marketing advice isn't wrong. It's just not built for you — and nobody helps you tell the difference. The tactics that go viral were designed for teams of six and five-figure ad budgets, then repackaged into threads and reels until every condition that made them work got quietly stripped out. So you try them, they fail, and you decide the problem is you. In this first episode, Melia Moore lays the foundation for the whole show: why the founder doing real revenue is almost never the person making the advice, the two hidden assumptions (budget and team) baked into most of what you're told to do, and a four-question "fit test" to run before you spend a single hour on anything. The real cost of bad-fit advice isn't the wasted spend — it's what it does to your judgment. Full episode notes and transcript: https://growingbrandspodcast.com/episodes/why-most-marketing-advice-doesnt-work-for-small-brands/

]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0500 Melia Moore Melia Moore 989 Most marketing advice isn't wrong. It's just not built for you — and nobody helps you tell the difference. The tactics that go viral were designed for teams of six and five-figure ad budgets, then repackaged into threads and reels until every condition that made them work got quietly stripped out. So you try them, they fail, and you decide the problem is you. Most marketing advice isn't wrong. It's just not built for you — and nobody helps you tell the difference. The tactics that go viral were designed for teams of six and five-figure ad budgets, then repackaged into threads and reels until every condition th marketing, ecommerce, small business, founders, DTC, conversion, email marketing, growth, retention, paid ads No