Alan Silvestri

Legendary composer Alan Silvestri joins Anthony and Joe Russo at Pizza Film School to break down the unforgettable music behind Avengers: Infinity War, Endgame, Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, and more. Alan Silvestri opens up about his earliest days composing with a pencil and paper, why empathy is essential for film music, and how his themes became emotional landmarks in the MCU. This one's a masterclass in cinematic scoring. WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/xPeBl6p83V4 FOLLOW ON SOCIAL: Instagram: @TheRussoBrothers @AGBOfilms #PizzaFilmSchool #agbofilms ABOUT THE SHOW: Created and hosted by Anthony and Joe Russo, "Pizza Film School" is a video podcast that demystifies the filmmaking world with each episode delving into creative processes, favorite films, and personal anecdotes from working in the industry, while enjoying a couple of slices from local pizzerias. An AGBO Production. 00:00 - Intro: Welcome to Pizza Film School 01:06 - Meet Alan Silvestri 01:45 - Alan Silvestri on Winemaking and Red Ranger Syrah 03:00 - Alan's Musical Origin Story 05:25 - Composing Process: From Guitar to Orchestra 06:34 - Scoring Like a Sculptor 08:00 - Finding the Emotion in Film 09:38 - Creating the Avengers Theme 11:30 - Learning Storytelling Through Music 13:00 - Composing Through Empathy 14:39 - Advice for Young Composers 16:00 - How the Russos Met Alan Silvestri 17:00 - Breaking Down the Portal Scene in Endgame 21:00 - Using Music to Build an Emotional Arc 24:33 - Cap's Return in Infinity War 27:00 - Leading the Audience with Music 29:00 - Thanos' Emotional Victory and the Retirement Cue 33:00 - Final Notes and Thanos' Ending Explained 36:00 - Audience Reactions and Scoring for Opera 38:00 - From Temp Music to Final Score 40:45 - Silvestri on Collaboration and Creative Direction 42:54 - Alan's Career Advice: Know Your Role 47:00 - Gratitude, Legacy, and the Magic of Music 50:00 - Final Cheers and Farewell

Sound link building skills are an important part of an SEO strategy. Backlinks let search engines know that your page or site is important and relevant, and you should be pushed up the rankings. Which is a straightforward concept, but the skill lies in recognizing a good backlink, building bridges between this content and increasing the reach of your content. In this episode of the Content 10x Podcast, host Amy Woods speaks to link-building expert, Alan Silvestri who is the CEO and founder of Growth Gorilla. He let’s us into his world of strategic ‘bridge building’ and how he pitches links and ultimately get’s his clients’ content in front of the right people… Find out: What is a good vs bad link Why quality beats quantity How to start a pitch for a backlink Important links & mentions: Alan on Twitter https://twitter.com/AlanGGorilla Growth Gorilla https://www.growthgorilla.co.uk/ Alan on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alangrowthgorilla/ My book: https://www.content10x.com/book (Content 10x: More Content, Less Time, Maximum Results) Amy Woods is the CEO and founder of Content 10x, the world’s first and longest-running specialist content repurposing agency that partners exclusively with B2B tech and professional services businesses. Amy is a best-selling author, hosts two content marketing podcasts (The Content 10x Podcast and B2B Content Strategist), and speaks on stages all over the world about the power of content repurposing. Join hundreds of business owners, content creators and marketers and get content repurposing tips and advice delivered straight to your inbox every week https://www.content10x.com/newsletter

If you want to maximise the impact of your content promotion efforts, you should consider link building. In this episode, Alan Silvestri delves into the intricacies of backlinks- how they work and how can you take the most out of them to grow your business. You can check out Alan Silvestri on LinkedIn. Looking for a content marketing agency for your company? Are you in the fintech, financial services or wealth management industry? Hedge can help. You can find out more about us here .

EPISODE SUMMARY SEO has been one of the cornerstones of content marketing in SaaS. You hear this term a lot among businesspeople and corporations. Many brands use this strategy, often stating that their blog adheres to SEO principles. And yet only a few actually generate traffic, much less close a deal from any of their web content. In this episode of Scale Your SaaS, Growth Gorilla Founder, and CEO Alan Silvestri reveals his framework for setting your SEO game up for a victory with host and B2B SaaS sales coach Matt Wolach. He also shares other techniques and common mistakes when scaling through content. Tap the power of backlinking to make your content truly count! PODCAST-AT-A-GLANCE Podcast: Scale Your SaaS with Matt Wolach Episode: Episode No. 263, “Why Your SEO Strategy Isn’t Working – with Alan Silvestri” Host: Matt Wolach , a B2B SaaS sales coach, Entrepreneur, and Investor Guest: Alan Silvestri, Founder & CEO at Growth Gorilla TOP TIPS FROM THIS EPISODE Know What Page to Promote Select the Right Backlink Type and Quantity Incorporate Internal Linking Add Statistics and Quotes Use Custom Graphics and Elements EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS 91% of Content Has No Traffic Pricing Lower at the Start is Fine Either be Better or be Different TOP QUOTES Alan Silvestri [17:47] “So what happens is they get discouraged and they simply quit. And they stop doing promotion which– this leads to what I call the content graveyard.” [18:38] “So you know your audience, you know the pain points of the audience. Then create content that’s targeting those pain points because those are typically low hanging fruit keywords with less competition.” Matt Wolach [3:44] “A podcast keeps you busy. I know that. But it’s a lot of fun and definitely a great learning experience.” [7:39] “When you get started, it’s totally okay to charge something less than you actually will in the future.” [8:26] “Make sure that you’re over-delivering for your early clients, and you’re able to get some awesome results.” LEARN MORE To learn more about Growth Gorilla, visit: https://mygrowthgorilla.com/ You can also find Alan Silvestri on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alangrowthgorilla/ For more about how host Matt Wolach helps software companies achieve maximum growth, visit https://mattwolach.com/ Get even more tips by following Matt elsewhere: Sales Tips LinkedIn Twitter Instagram

In today’s episode, we discuss Avoiding the “Content Graveyard.” My guest expert today is Alan Silvestri, the founder, and CEO of Growth Gorilla. They help B2B SaaS companies promote their content to get high-quality publishers to link to it, increase traffic and sign-ups, and win at the SEO game. Alan is also a Back to the Future fanatic and daily drives a Delorean. Audio Alan’s affiliate marketing building sites in the early days - He built a site debunking health myths using thoroughly researched content. He also created content on hair loss for women. He enjoys working with clients to create content in areas they are passionate about and spreading content on their products. What is The content graveyard - Alan defines content graveyard as unpromoted content sitting idle on Google pages, not adding any value to the business. To avoid this, Alan employs strategic link promotion where they promote specific pages with more potential to rank higher in the short term (90 days). Accessing content with more potential - They get conversion data from the client and use google analytics and their link-building SEO analytics to create a short list of pages with the most business potential. Alan’s link-building process: He looks at the pages linked to the client’s competition to get a feel of the type of content on topics and subtopics and uses them to find similar pages not linked to any competitor. It provides room for a unique pitch to the competitor to link back. Role of social media in the strategy against content graveyard - They use social media for brand awareness but not for SEO benefits. He recommends that a company or business should seek where people are, such as on Reddit, instead of randomly publishing on all its social media sites. Some issues SaaS Companies have with creating content - Alan observes that SaaS companies have excellent content creation but need to improve on the promotion side. As such, there is a lot of similar content across many SaaS businesses, meaning that differentiation is a major challenge. To go around this, Alan advises that a business should utilize its product within its published content to help and demonstrate to the target audience how to solve a problem with the product. Helping a SaaS company create content - They assess existing content on pages with the most links from a few competitors and establish those ranking well. After that, they develop something similar but with a better spin to resonate better with the audience. How are you using Chatgbt in your business? Alan says that they use it as an assistant for tasks like link prospecting and generating extra sentences or anchor text in articles. However, he laments that ChatGbt is only an assistant, not the real writer, because human input is still crucial in content creation. (The biggest misconception is that content creators solely rely on Chatgbt for creation while it is only part of the human brain extension) Trends in SEO in the year 2023 - Alan predicts that links will have less impact on content promotion. This explains the ongoing shift to actual distribution by seeking communities where people hang out. He believes that artificial intelligence interventions will run most of the tasks, rendering organic search a bit irrelevant (It is a good idea to go where your audience is instead of waiting for it to come to you). Time Stamps (1:25) Introduction to today’s topic and show guest (2:34) Alan’s affiliate marketing building sites in the early days (5:00) What is the content graveyard (8:15) Accessing content with more potential (10:00) Alan’s link-building process (11:30) Role of social media in the strategy against content graveyard (13:24) Some issues SaaS companies have with creating content (16:22) Helping a SaaS company create content (17:48) How are you using Chatgbt in your business (20:21) Trends in SEO in the year 2023

In this episode, our guest Alan Silvestri talks about why he focuses his work on B2B SAAS link building. We dive into how to build backlinks without paying for them, how to build backlinks to highly commercial pages of a site, and how links can be built in very niche B2B Industries. Connect with Alan Silvestri: mygrowthgorilla.com - https://twitter.com/AlanGGorilla

This is our interview with Composer Alan Silvestri and Songwriter Glen Ballard, the musical team behind Disney’s latest live-action retelling, Pinocchio. We had a lovely conversation with them about why Disney music resonates so much with audiences, and the joys and challenges of creating the music that brings the story of Pinocchio forward in new ways. Disney’s Pinocchio is streaming now on Disney+ Check out Geekcentric on YouTube | Instagram | Twitter Join Nate on Twitch at - twitch.tv/nateplaysgames Check out Geekcentric on YouTube | Instagram | Twitter | TikTok Join the Geekcentric Discord HERE Follow Eatcentric - Same geeks. New Eats

Keith Perhac: Hello and welcome to Data Beats Opinion. I am Keith Perhac. And I'm here together with Alan Silvestri. He is the founder and director of strategy at Growth Gorilla. And in your own words, Growth Gorilla is a no BS content promotion and distribution agency for B2B SaaS companies. Thanks for joining us on the podcast. Alan Silvestri: Hi Keith. It's great to be here. And so yeah, the no BS part, I actually took it out of the name and I was listening to one of your older episodes where you were talking about and making fun of people that have the no BS part in the name, so it's appropriate as well. We don't have that anymore now. Keith Perhac: It's hilarious. It's so funny how quickly that whole... The view of those things changes. Eight years ago, nine years ago, that was like, okay this is something that's brand new. People are BSing us all over the place. Putting that in, it's like, "Yes, this is a straight shooter." And then as soon as something gets popular like that everyone's like, "Wait a minute. We're all no BS." And it becomes noise at that point. And then you have to find the next one to go onto. Alan Silvestri: Yes, exactly. That's the main reason we didn't want to. We had that for a while. I think we were in the batch of people that were in the first ones to do that, but then it becomes trendy and so yeah, we said just let's leave it. Keith Perhac: Yeah, before that it was, you remember when everything was named Sumo for some odd reason. Alan Silvestri: Oh yeah. Keith Perhac: And then after that it was Sherpa and it was like content Sherpa and all this stuff. And I found out later that Sherpa is a people, in English we always thought, it's a guide, but it's like saying, “Content Indians” or “Content Polish”. It's a group of people. And I was like, "Oh, that doesn't work as well anymore." Alan Silvestri: Yeah. That's one of those SaaS trends, like having the name that finishes with LY. Keith Perhac: LY yep. Yep. Alan Silvestri: Like Calendly basically. Everybody started doing the same thing, yeah. Keith Perhac: Awesome. Awesome. Yeah. Well, I want to talk today a lot about content promotion and that strategy. I mean, most of us follow the, “Build it and they will come” from Field of Dream strategy and you've worked with a number of people like Podia and UpLead and a bunch of others. And just wanted to talk about how people generally go around content promotion , how they generally think about it and then why they're all wrong - and what you would recommend in those cases. Alan Silvestri: Yeah. So I wouldn't say that everybody is wrong. The main thing that we notice with SaaS companies is that they're very good. Well, for the most part, they're very good at content strategy, content production. So they're really good at knowing the types of keywords that they need to rank for. They are good at knowing the different types of pages that they need to publish. So feature pages, the alternative two kinds of pages. But the problem is that, basically once the content is published, they don't really know what to do with it for the most part. So some of them, what they do is they just do a little bit of social media, reposting content into maybe Infographics or articles or podcasts or stuff like that, which is what I would say is the more classic “content distribution”. Alan Silvestri: So, the way that we see content promotion is a proactive way of taking the content and putting it in front of the right people. And for us, what we do is more content promotion with the main focus of ranking pages higher in Google for the target keywords. So it's content promotion/link building essentially. But yeah, the way that we see it is link building done the right way. So for the main purpose of increasing rankings for your main target pages, that can be the pages that can give you the be

Today we have another episode of Better Done Than Perfect . Listen in as we talk with Alan Silvestri, founder of Growth Gorilla and expert in link building. You'll learn how to keep up with your SEO competitors, how to estimate the quantity and types of links you will need, strategies for link building outreach, tools of the trade, and more. Please head over to the episode page for the detailed recap and key takeaways. Show notes Growth Gorilla — Alan’s company Ahrefs , Majestic SEO — tools for link analysis HARO , Help a B2B Writer — platforms that connect journalists and bloggers with industry experts (typically rewarded with a backlink) Follow Alan on Twitter Sponsor This show is brought to you by Userlist — the best way for SaaS founders to send onboarding emails, segment your users based on events, and see where your customers get stuck in the product. Start your free trial today at userlist.com . Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here. Leave a Review Reviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here’s how.

Does link building have to be haphazard, or can there be a more systemic approach? In this episode we talk to Alan Silvestri, founder of Growth Gorilla and expert in link building. You'll learn how to keep up with your SEO competitors, how to estimate the quantity and types of links you will need, strategies for link building outreach, tools of the trade, and more. Visit our website for the detailed episode recap with key learnings. Growth Gorilla — Alan’s company Ahrefs , Majestic SEO — tools for link analysis HARO , Help a B2B Writer — platforms that connect journalists and bloggers with industry experts (typically rewarded with a backlink) Follow Alan on Twitter Thanks for listening! If you found the episode useful, please spread the word about the show on Twitter mentioning @userlist , or leave us a review on iTunes. Sponsor This show is brought to you by Userlist — the best way for SaaS founders to send onboarding emails, segment your users based on events, and see where your customers get stuck in the product. Start your free trial today at userlist.com .