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Hello, everyone, my guest today is Ali Tasekender.

He is the founder and CEO of a company called Wish Pond. If you're not

familiar with Wish Pond, they play obviously in the social media marketing space. We'll dive into the

story right now. Ali, are you ready to take us to the top? Yeah, let's do it. All right, tell us about

the company. What are you doing? How do you make money? Yeah, so basically what Wish Pond is,

is a marketing automation

platform and it's focused on helping businesses of all sizes run successful marketing campaigns.

So when we talk about marketing campaigns, we don't want to just focus on one part of it.

It takes, you know, it takes a lot of different things to make it successful. So we help them on providing them with tools for capturing leads with landing pages,

contests, pop-ups and so forth, and then giving them tools for tracking to better know

who these leads are and what they've done and, you know, who are the best ones to convert.

And then also

giving the marketing automation workflows to warm up those leads send them you know nurture drip

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