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The Best Way To Communicate With And Convert Your Website Visitors

Duct Tape Marketing

Key Takeaway: How can you effectively serve your customer? How can you wow them? How can you show them that you actually care? In this episode, CEO and co-founder of Olark, Ben Congleton, talks about the building of Olark and how they’ve differentiated themself in such a competitive industry. Duct Tape Transcript.

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Tough Titties: Living Life on Your Own Terms

Duct Tape Marketing

Key Takeaway: Laura mentions how initially, she intended to simply make a book sharing her personal stories, but her editor challenged her to infuse them with meaning and life lessons and so she did. She mentions different stories from her life and how the outcomes led her to where she is today. Tell me about How I met my husband. [15:47]

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Seven years later, they've trained about 5,000 students and created over 1,000 new technology jobs in Fresno. That thesis to us, doesn't feel controversial.

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