ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Rejoiner , an email platform for ecommerce sites, began as a side project. An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I Justcall is a cloud phone system that sales teams can use to make calls using local numbers.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Here’s an email I got last week: Hello Jason, I am a big fan of your advice and wanted to see if you could offer any advice for marketing my start-up XYZ. He told me in a later email that he knows it wasn’t the best way to go, but “I’m a product guy.” Any advice will help. Who are your persuading?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Computer Software. Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting. Advertising. Broadcasting & Entertainment. Computer Hardware. Consumer Products. Defense & Aerospace. Financial Services & Insurance. Food & Tobacco. Hospitality. Industrial Goods & Services. Marketing & Strategy. Media Agencies. Metals & Mining. NAME Comcast.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John (00:08): Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. Sign up for a 15% discount on annual plans until Mar 31,2024. This is John Jantsch.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

4 Steps to Starting a Web Business Without Knowing Coding | The Next Web – crowdspring.co/1ep8F6R. 21 Reasons To Bootstrap Your Startup | ZoomShift – crowdspring.co/M5SXUd. Amazon is surprisingly quiet/inactive when it comes to acquisitions | Re/code – crowdspring.co/1dhwOrm. What’s up with the Series A?

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

Bootstrapping 101. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. They have a standard presentation on bootstrapping, which they present around the country. Email This BlogThis!

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. [link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO?

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): Hey, this is John, and before we get started, I have a gift for you for being such an amazing listener.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell, and frankly who doesn't check out the sales podcast, where host Will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and win big business ineffective and ethical ways. Like this show? Duct Tape Transcript.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

of businesses are actively seeking & collecting customer reviews on an ongoing basis. According to an article in Econsultancy , when a site has customer reviews, 63% of visitors are more likely to make a purchase & reviews produce an average of 18% uplift in sales. million customer reviews. image source.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Under the Affordable Care Act, which now requires you to have qualified health insurance, many people buy coverage due to mandates or subsidies, so you have an opportunity to be really helpful to consumers. If you’ve got a cell phone, an email address, and access to the internet, you are in business. There are lots of warm prospects.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

data.world and our modern catalog for data and analysis is a new category of software, much like Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics created new categories before, and the brilliant book Play Bigger helped us find it. I’ve also, of course, been spending a lot of time talking about this with our rapidly growing sales team at data.world.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

Sales are usually physiologically motivated, like computer games addiction, high loyalty toward a company (I used to buy lingots at Duolingo just because I appreciate the great work they’ve done with the app), or an impeccable value of the add-on, like Skype ’s paid option to make calls via a landline. Duolingo lingot store. Free with ads.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Email Integration. Email marketing. Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Mockingbird.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

Competitive Differentiation that Matters – [link] 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. Twitter’s Ad Sales Are Booming, Says Gawker – [link]. 20 Impressively Inspirational Email Newsletter Designs – [link]. – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Nudge, hosted by Phil Agnew. Boost sales and engage customers all from one powerful platform. Capture leads. But yeah, I'm a big reader.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

For example, Palo Alto Software focuses primarily on helping small businesses realize their dreams of starting a business. Many people reading this guide will already have an idea of what that is – perhaps a tutoring agency, or a restaurant, or a software company. A sales forecast. Week 1 – Get the ball rolling.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. Jason: Okay, so that’s a very small company in which the CEO is pulling out the credit card for meeting software because even people with a hundred people, the CEO is not the person pulling out a credit card for the meeting software. Jason: Okay.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 10, 2016

Do “likes” and “shares” turn into sales? We further leverage mailchimp (eblasts), wordpress (website), hootesuite (social media messaging), review sites such as Yelp! What software tools help power your business – besides Microsoft Excel – since everyone secretly just uses Excel. MC: Oh wow.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 10, 2016

Do “likes” and “shares” turn into sales? We further leverage mailchimp (eblasts), wordpress (website), hootesuite (social media messaging), review sites such as Yelp! What software tools help power your business – besides Microsoft Excel – since everyone secretly just uses Excel. MC: Oh wow.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

I’ve known Landon for about a dozen years and I’ve really watched the evolution of Landon and his buddy starting a company going out there trying to figure out how to sell it to now a hundred people in the campus in Santa Barbara with a piece of software that is really second to none in the marketing automation space.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 13, 2010

Our goal is to help non-venture-backed, bootstrapped startups, microISVs and Micropreneurs. That’s why we’ve made it out mission to provide practical information based on our real-life experience as software/web entrepreneurs (20+ years between the two of us), as well as the entrepreneurs we work with in the Micropreneur Academy.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. That’s the sales forecast, the spending forecast and the cash flow. They’re going to look first at the sales forecast. That’s a lean business plan.

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Spencer Fry

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

It's not enough to simply provide an email address nowadays. It doesn't take much effort to send the copy to a few friends to review it before going live. Write all email copy: Another pet peeve of mine is when the emails from a new service I've signed up for are too cryptic to understand. Great for debugging early on.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Where they don’t belong is with a bootstrapped founder trying to figure out how many customers she can expect to reach next month on her shoestring marketing budget. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. In that case, bottom-up is a better choice.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several If you can bootstrap your business, it’s not a true venture-backed business. Bootstrapping is AMAZING! At the same time, it became clear that bootstrapping further was not an option our team could pursue.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Aside from the weekly trough on Saturday there is very little fluctuation month to month (what can I say, I guess reading Software by Rob is not everyone’s favorite Saturday night activity). Long Half-life – SEO, email subscribers, RSS subscribers, Facebook fans (in some instances). The Interesting Part.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

4 email share Last August we featured a post with more than 230 online apps for running your business. Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. NetBooks – Marketing, sales, inventory and financial control in one place.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

That’s when you find one or more (future) customers that help fund your product development in exchange for input into the process and free or highly discounted use of the software. Here’s the deal: I work in the bootstrapped startup world and in this arena you don’t need $500k to build a product.

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Software By Rob

JUNE 16, 2011

This post is an attempt to review the awesomeness that happened as well as the stuff that I’m hoping we can change if we wind up holding MicroConf in 2012. We got this idea from the Business of Software conference, and would absolutely do it again. Email me if you do a write up and I’ll add it to the list.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

You are coordinating customers by email. Those are the things that we have to do, and that’s what email for. There are things you can get for sales force if you use salesforce.com. So, for example, if you’re in a company with a thousand sales people, using salesforce, I also guarantee you they are not using Gmail.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Email us: Bcast@Bplans.com. Tweet or email us with your answer. Tweet or email us your reply. Jonathan: If they wanted to email us, what would they email? If you want to email us a question, we can talk about it on the show, Bcast@Bplans.com. We do already have somebody who’s emailed us. Peter: You?

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Feel free to include your URL and email for anyone to contact you. The requirements are as follows.”

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. I worry about everything: money, sales, engineering, support, and recruiting. No customers no sales, no startup. Live your life.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

You can’t answer emails during normal business hours. But then you don’t have a phone number and emails sent to you at 10:00am don’t get answered until that night (which means they’re not viewed until the following day). This story originally appeared on his blog.) It makes sense: You don’t need loans.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? A mediocre developer is likely to lead to flaws and bugs, poor performance, missed deadlines, unreliable estimates and code that is hard to build on. But it sure does seem to help!

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Up and Running

AUGUST 5, 2015

A small business owner must be willing to dig deeper beyond the emailed resume or LinkedIn profile. MindKube’s growth and increase in client acquisitions is proof that Natasha’s diligence and patience when it came to finding the right professionals for her company has paid off. Natasha recommends a “face-to-face meeting if possible.

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