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Welcome to Bootstrapped Web, Episode 90. Today’s episode is our weekly update. Brian’s Update: Brian is still in North Carolina and has just launched the Content Upgrades Plugin.  It’s officially out the door and as of this podcast’s publication it will be available to the public. He’s still working on the domain for the plugin. … Continue reading [90] Staying Accountable With Teammates and Launching a Plugin Product

We’re trying something a little different today and taking a more topical approach by answering a few listener questions. Many of you are curious about how SaaS companies are enabling their outbound sales. Cold outbound sales, things like blind email blasts, can bring your numbers up, but you still might not be seeing them as … Continue reading [89] Making the Most of Outbound Sales Tools

Welcome to Bootstrapped Web, Episode 88. We’ve been talking and decided that we are going to tweak the episode format, just a little, making them shorter and tighter.  We’ll still do our personal updates, alternating every other week, with a topic or topics that you’d like to hear about. Today’s episode is our weekly update. … Continue reading [88] Staying Focused and Getting Things Prioritized

Welcome to this special episode of Bootstrapped Web. Today Brian is talking with Craig Hewitt, of PodcastMotor and co-host of the Rogue StartUps podcast – this podcast is being dualcast. Both Brian and Craig each operates a productized service business – very similar businesses, doing different things. Both run a production line type of service. From … Continue reading [87] Productized Services with Craig Hewitt of Podcast Motor

After a big business update last week Brian and Jordan are digging into a handful of things that are going on in their businesses.  Putting the typical logistical pains of running a business aside, it’s been a very productive week, and the guys are running on all cylinders. Today they cover 4 topics:  Masterminds, Content … Continue reading [86] Masterminds, Content Production, and Getting Things Done

Welcome to Bootstrapped Web, Episode 85. Brian has been busy traveling over the past  month and is now settled in Asheville, NC for a few months.  He gives an update on his participation in Brennan Dunn’s Double Your Freelancing conference last month. Also, Brian mentioned on this episode that tickets are still available for (both) … Continue reading [85] Refocusing and Getting Things Done in Less Time

Welcome to Bootstrapped Web, Episode 84.  Brian is back from MicroConf Europe and fills us in on all the great speakers he heard.  Brian also spoke at the event.  First up, we have updates on some of the things going on with our businesses. Announcement Before we dig into the details on our businesses, I … Continue reading [84] MicroConf Europe 2015 Recap Show

Today Jordan is talking with Thomas Smale the founder of FE International and today’s topic is how to sell your business. Many business owners are considering selling their business, but don’t know how to prepare a business to be sold. A question that is top of mind is how do business owners prepare their business for … Continue reading [83] Thomas Smale on Selling Your Online Business

Welcome to Bootstrapped Web, Episode 82. We have been so focused on our businesses and we are excited to give our updates. Also on this episode, we’ll answer a few questions that we’ve received from people asking for our thoughts and advice. Brian has been working hard on AudienceOps and creating systems and getting things … Continue reading [82] Growing Our Teams, New Initiatives, and Your Questions

Welcome to Bootstrapped Web, Epsidoe 81.  Today we are giving our updates as both of our businesses are growing and we’re scaling them quickly.  We also answer a listener’s question regarding content marketing and converting website visitors to customers. Brian has been focused on AudienceOps.  He talks about the current development of a WordPress plugin, … Continue reading [81] Scaling Our Businesses Through Process, Team and Procedures

Brecht and his family left their New Hampshire home and headed out in an Airstream to Austin, Texas.  The trip to Austin developed into a plan to be on the road for almost a year.  In addition to Texas, their stops included Southern California, Oregon, Idaho.  They are back in New Hampshire and planning to … Continue reading [80] Brecht Palombo on Longterm Travel as an Entrepreneur

Welcome to Bootstrapped Web, Episode 79.  Today Brian is away, but I’m excited to welcome Keith Perhac to the show.  Keith is the Founder and CTO of Summit Evergreen, an online membership software platform that makes it easy to create beautiful online courses and membership sites. Keith and Jordan discuss how it isn’t always easy … Continue reading [79] Building Awesome Online Courses with Keith Perhac of Summit Evergreen

Welcome to Episode 78 of Bootstrapped Web.  Today we are both very excited to bring some major updates in our businesses.  It’s very fortunate that we both are finally able to discuss these topics in detail, as both have to come close in the last couple of weeks. Both of these announcements break the typical … Continue reading [78] Changing the Course of Our Businesses

Jordan is on the road and in today’s episode Brian is joined by Justin McGill.  In December 2014 Justin took on a challenge to launch a business in 24 hours and from that, LeadFuze, an email prospecting and lead generation service was born.  Justin also co-hosts the Zero to Scale podcast about bootstrapping startups to … Continue reading [77] Justin McGill on the Importance of Visibility as a Founder

On this episode Tim Conley joins Brian and Jordan to talk about what to expect from an entrepreneur coach. Tim is an expert in management consulting and coaching and has helped many people push their business to the next level.  He believes that business success is 90% mental and coaching can help  an entrepreneur get … Continue reading [76]  Tim Conley on Entrepreneur Coaching