Ep. 109: Starting One of the Fastest Growing Companies, Getting Acquired, and Breaking into an Industry First ft. Ali Grant

The Real Reel

Natalie Barbu

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

I interviewed Ali Grant, founder of Be Social, a digital communications group based in Los Angeles that specializes in influencer marketing. In this episode we talk about influencer marketing, starting a business at 23, and maintaining relationships. We also talk about being featured in Forbes, managing a team, and the steps of getting acquired. You don’t want to miss this one! Ali IG: https://www.instagram.com/aligrant/ Be Social IG: https://www.instagram.com/besocialgroup/ Where can you find us? Natalie's IG: @nataliebarbu IG: @therealreelpodcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/natalie-barbu4/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast nation.
0:03.0	This podcast nation.
0:04.0	Hello,
0:08.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to the real real podcast with me Natalie
0:17.0	Barboo today's episode you guys are gonna love it I'm just gonna come
0:21.0	right out the bat and say it. You are going to love today's
0:23.8	episode. I had the privilege of interviewing Ali Grant who is the founder of
0:28.3	B Social and if you don't know what B Social is let me just give you a rundown of what be social is. It has been
0:36.2	named one of Inc's fastest growing businesses spearheading digital forward
0:40.7	campaigns across influencers, events, and editorial.
0:44.6	If you're an influencer, you work in influencer marketing, you're a manager, you work in any
0:49.1	type of marketing, you've probably heard of Be Social.
0:52.3	They are one of the fastest growing companies
0:54.2	and they're one of the most known companies
0:55.9	because Ali started this business so early on
0:59.0	into influencer marketing.
1:00.4	And B Social was recently acquired by Dolphin Entertainment, which we actually talked about in today's episode.
1:05.7	I am super fascinated in the growth of B Social, how she started it, why she started it, the challenges
1:11.9	that she faced, and I loved hearing more about how why she
1:15.0	started, and I loved hearing more about how she was acquired
1:16.0	and kind of the process that that takes getting acquired.
1:19.0	I feel like we always hear about companies being acquired,
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