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Brian Dean

Co-Founder and CEO, Exploding Topics · 1 appearance on the record.

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Brian Dean is an entrepreneur and SEO specialist best known for founding the marketing resource Backlinko and co-founding the trend-discovery platform Exploding Topics. He is widely recognized for developing content and link-building frameworks, including the Skyscraper Technique.

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2 assertions · 1 opinion · 4 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Brian Dean: Trend data shows booming market for ADHD-specific products
“Some trends that we're seeing in that space include ADHD timers, ADHD watches, ADHD chairs, ADHD coaches, ADHD apps. And this is basically a booming market that people aren't really talking about that much.”
Brian Dean Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 18:30 4 profitable startups from the founder of exploding topics

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Opinion
Brian Dean: A content repurposing agency caps out at $10M revenue
“I would say max, like if you create a huge agency out of it, like eight figures, like ten million.”
Brian Dean Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 30:19 4 profitable startups from the founder of exploding topics
Insight
Brian Dean: Most markets sustain an underserved premium high-end tier
“The reason that I like it is that in most markets, there's an option for a higher tier, whether it's cars, software, gyms, there's usually a market for this higher end version of that thing, but I haven't seen it in this space.”
Brian Dean Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 15:05 4 profitable startups from the founder of exploding topics
Insight
Brian Dean: The biggest ADHD opportunity is an umbrella brand
“The opportunity isn't necessarily in these individual SKUs, these individual products. It's in, no one's creating the brand for ADHD. So anyone that creates that community, that brand around ADHD, Then you can, the world is your oyster when it comes to selling…”
Brian Dean Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 18:49 4 profitable startups from the founder of exploding topics
Insight
Brian Dean: Content repurposing is the greatest content marketing opportunity
“And for me, that's the greatest opportunity with content marketing right now is repurposing rather than creating original stuff from scratch because it's cheaper and it has a proven track record already.”
Brian Dean Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 27:04 4 profitable startups from the founder of exploding topics
Insight
Brian Dean: Publishing raw video transcripts as blog posts never works
“What a lot of people do is they'll say, oh, I want to get more out of my videos. So I'll get a transcript of the video and I'll publish it as a blog post. They never do well because you need someone to turn that into, you can take that content and turn it into…”
Brian Dean Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 29:46 4 profitable startups from the founder of exploding topics
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brian Dean: Exploding Topics blog gets 650,000 monthly visitors
“The Exploding Topics blog got big, you know, with, you know, we got like, 650,000 visitors a month, and I'm thinking how, and we're hiring all these people to update, and I'm just like, how can we automate this?”
Brian Dean Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 5:52 4 profitable startups from the founder of exploding topics
Assertion Supported
Brian Dean: Trend data shows booming market for ADHD-specific products
“Some trends that we're seeing in that space include ADHD timers, ADHD watches, ADHD chairs, ADHD coaches, ADHD apps. And this is basically a booming market that people aren't really talking about that much.”
Brian Dean Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 18:30 4 profitable startups from the founder of exploding topics

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
4 profitable startups from the founder of exploding topics Sep 4, 2024 17m
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