Ilya Spitalnik's guest appearances

Ilya Spitalnik

Can I Pick Your Brain?

HRchat Podcast

Action and Ambition

Chris Lee

Oren Barzilai

Kelsey Ramsden

Vanessa Shaw

Kevin Harrington

Akshay Nanavati

Roger Whitney

Jon Vroman

Tony Robbins

Robert Kiyosaki

Chris Bailey

Nir Eyal

Laura Roeder

Willie Nelson

Kevin Jordan

OwlTail

In this episode, we look at cool tech to help engage and educate employees and stakeholders. Bill's guest this time is Ilya Spitalnik, CEO and founder of Powtoon. Ilya is a serial entrepreneur and thought leader on “the age of acceleration”. He started his career in banking, culminating in a senior position at Deutsche Bank, where he was directly responsible for launching Deutsche Bank’s first online Foreign Exchange Trading System. Ilya is a passionate growth hacker with an unhealthy obsession for online marketing, brand building, and the “art of sales”. He's also a strong believer in the 80/20 principle.About PowtoonCommunication, as we experience it today, is damaged. Too much information, too many technologies, too much digital chaos.Powtoon’s Visual Communication Platform was built to solve this global challenge by providing teams, organizations, and academic institutions with tools to easily create, manage, distribute, and measure visual content, at scale.With Powtoon, all of your visual resources are unified into a single, interactive ecosystem where company-wide stakeholders can discover, collaborate, and experience your content like never before.Learn how a Visual Communication Platform can create positive communication experiences at your organization www.powtoon.com 

In this episode, we look at cool tech to help engage and educate employees and stakeholders. Bill's guest this time is <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilyaspitalnik/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ilya Spitalnik</a>, CEO and founder of Powtoon. Ilya is a serial entrepreneur and thought leader on “the age of acceleration”. He started his career in banking, culminating in a senior position at Deutsche Bank, where he was directly responsible for launching Deutsche Bank’s first online Foreign Exchange Trading System. Ilya is a passionate growth hacker with an unhealthy obsession for online marketing, brand building, and the “art of sales”. He's also a strong believer in the 80/20 principle. About Powtoon Communication, as we experience it today, is damaged. Too much information, too many technologies, too much digital chaos. Powtoon’s Visual Communication Platform was built to solve this global challenge by providing teams, organizations, and academic institutions with tools to easily create, manage, distribute, and measure visual content, at scale. With Powtoon, all of your visual resources are unified into a single, interactive ecosystem where company-wide stakeholders can discover, collaborate, and experience your content like never before. Learn how a Visual Communication Platform can create positive communication experiences at your organization <a href="https://www.powtoon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.powtoon.com</a>

Ways Animation Tech Can Engage Employees w/ Ilya Spitalnik, Powtoon

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Ilya Spitalnik started his career in banking, but he has a greater passion for brand building and online marketing. His ability to identify and carry out the most efficient ways of marketing products and services led him to develop and start a cloud-based video creation platform called Powtoon, with a mission to empower individuals and businesses to achieve significant results by transforming usual conversations into unique visual experiences that can connect to more people across the globe. You are going to love this episode.

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Ilya Spitalnik started his career in banking, but he has a greater passion for brand building and online marketing. His ability to identify and carry out the most efficient ways of marketing products and services led him to develop and start a cloud-based video creation platform called Powtoon, with a mission to empower individuals and businesses to achieve significant results by transforming usual conversations into unique visual experiences that can connect to more people across the globe. You are going to love this episode.

Ilya Spitalnik from Powtoon Empowers Businesses to Create Unique Visual Experiences

In 2012, four friends met in a cafe to solve a problem: How can you communicate a message without putting your audience to sleep, or driving them to check Facebook under the table during your presentation? The answer seemed simple – how about one of those great animated videos! But working with an animation studio can take weeks and cost thousands of dollars. And so our four friends decided, right then and there, to create a tool that everyone can use when they need their message to make an impact and when they can’t afford to be ignored. PowToon was born. Powtoon allows users to create powerful animated videos within just 20 minutes without spending a dime Over 37 million Powtoons have been created and shared around the world! In fact Every second of every day, a new PowToon is created Clients range from one man bands to fortune 500 companies including Walmart, Target, Apple, Google and Starbucks among the other 10 million users they have served! Today I have the honor of picking the brains behind this hugely successful company. Ilya Spitalnik is a former Banker turned serial entrepreneur and is also the author of the book ‘The Power of Cartoon Marketing’   What you will learn:  How to rapidly validate an idea The importance of building a team How to grab attention in a noisy world How to find the key partners for your business The 4 key skills required to produce a successful company How to go from a service based business to a SAAS product How to easily create powerful animated videos in less than 20 minutes … and MUCH MORE  Interesting highlights:  Illya has a shelf called ‘One day someone will create this product’ Every second of every day a PowToon video is created PowToon has reached over 10 million users  Ilya’s #1 practical advice:  Don't produce a product before validating itTweet This Wanna pick Ilya’s brain?  Join my exclusive FB group now! Resources &amp; Links:  PowToon.com    SPECIAL PROMO: Save $480 today! Get a PowToon Business plan, valued at $708, with full access to premium assets and capabilities for the price of a Pro plan!That’s 68% off!! pay only $228 for the entire year. Just enter smbsf17 in the coupon box on the checkout page when signing up for an annual Business plan Thank You for Listening! I would like to personally thank you for listening to my podcast.  If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it with others. Just click on the social buttons below. Also, if you leave a review for my podcast on iTunes, you would be joining me on my mission to help as many people as I can become really successful. And finally if you haven’t already subscribed please subscribe to my podcast on iTunes, so you can get automatic updates whenever another episode goes live!

In 2012, four friends met in a cafe to solve a problem: How can you communicate a message without putting your audience to sleep, or driving them to check Facebook under the table during your presentation? The answer seemed simple – how about one of those great animated videos! But working with an animation studio can take weeks and cost thousands of dollars. And so our four friends decided, right then and there, to create a tool that everyone can use when they need their message to make an impact and when they can’t afford to be ignored. PowToon was born. Powtoon allows users to create powerful animated videos within just 20 minutes without spending a dime Over 37 million Powtoons have been created and shared around the world! In fact Every second of every day, a new PowToon is created Clients range from one man bands to fortune 500 companies including Walmart, Target, Apple, Google and Starbucks among the other 10 million users they have served! Today I have the honor of picking the brains behind this hugely successful company. Ilya Spitalnik is a former Banker turned serial entrepreneur and is also the author of the book ‘The Power of Cartoon Marketing’ What you will learn: <ul> <li>How to rapidly validate an idea</li> <li>The importance of building a team</li> <li>How to grab attention in a noisy world</li> <li>How to find the key partners for your business</li> <li>The 4 key skills required to produce a successful company</li> <li>How to go from a service based business to a SAAS product</li> <li>How to easily create powerful animated videos in less than 20 minutes</li> <li>… and MUCH MORE</li> </ul> Interesting highlights: <ul> <li>Illya has a shelf called ‘One day someone will create this product’</li> <li>Every second of every day a PowToon video is created</li> <li>PowToon has reached over 10 million users</li> </ul> Ilya’s #1 practical advice:  <a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Don%27t+produce+a+product+before+validating+it&amp;via=ipickbrains&amp;related=ipickbrains&amp;url=https://www.danielgefen.com/66" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Don't produce a product before validating it</a><a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Don%27t+produce+a+product+before+validating+it+-+&amp;via=ipickbrains&amp;related=ipickbrains&amp;url=https://www.danielgefen.com/66" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tweet This</a> <h4>Wanna pick Ilya’s brain?  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/canipickyourbrain" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join my exclusive FB group now</a>!</h4> <h3>Resources &amp; Links:</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.powtoon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PowToon.com</a></li> </ul> SPECIAL PROMO: Save $480 today! Get a PowToon Business plan, valued at $708, with full access to premium assets and capabilities for the price of a Pro plan!That’s 68% off!! pay only $228 for the entire year. Just enter smbsf17 in the coupon box on the checkout page when signing up for an annual Business plan <h4>Thank You for Listening!</h4> I would like to personally thank you for listening to my podcast.  If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it with others. Just click on the social buttons below. Also, if you<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/can-i-pick-your-brain/id1076916148?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> leave a review for my podcast on iTunes</a>, you would be joining me on my mission to help as many people as I can become really successful. And finally if you haven’t already subscribed <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/can-i-pick-your-brain/id1076916148?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">please subscribe to my podcast on iTunes</a>, so you can get automatic updates whenever another episode goes live!

66: How PowToon Scaled to 10 Million Users with Ilya Spitalnik