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Welcome to Bootstrapped Web Episode 75. First we want to thank David Lizerbran, and J-Fin for their recent reviews. Really appreciate the encouraging words and thanks for leaving us a review. This week we’re catching up on recent developments in our businesses. Jordan has been in New York working with his co-founder Ben for the … Continue reading [75] Pricing Strategy, Marketing Focus, and Launch Updates

Welcome to Episode 74 of Bootstrapped Web.  Jordan is out this week, but I’m excited to welcome my good friend Philip Morgan on to the podcast. Philip is the founder of My Content Sherpa and Drip Sherpa, both of which are productized services around content marketing and drip email sequences, respectively. Philip has also just … Continue reading [74] Effective Positioning with Philip Morgan

On this episode Taylor Pearson joins Jordan and Brian to discuss the changing world…from traditional jobs to entrepreneurship. Taylor began as an interpreter and English teacher and transitioned to an entrepreneur and marketing consultant.  He talks about his upcoming book, The End of Jobs, which he hopes will help people take the steps to become … Continue reading [73]  Taylor Pearson on The End of Jobs

This week Brian and Jordan catch up on the latest with their businesses. Brian is gaining momentum with AudienceOps and getting those initial customers with the new business.  Traction is gaining steam and the first handful of customers have signed up for Brian’s new service. Brian is using Nusii to create proposals and Stripe Checkout Pro … Continue reading [72] Updates on AudienceOps and Carthook

Brian and Jordan delve into the details of Brian’s newest startup, audienceops.com, a content marketing operation designed to help businesses grow their audience. In this episode, Brian describes the process that led him to decide to begin the business to business service and his launch plan for doing so.  Topics discussed by Brian and Jordan … Continue reading [71] The Reveal: Brian’s New Business

This week Brian and Jordan share their take-aways from MicroConf, which was held last week in Las Vegas. Both guys said the conference had magic in the way it sparked ideas and creativity.  Both also did attendee talks themselves, so be on the lookout for the video replays of those in the coming weeks. In … Continue reading [70] The MicroConf 2015 Recap Show

Today we sit down for a fantastic chat with Liam Martin, founder of Time Doctor. Liam shares his story about how he’s built Time Doctor quickly to a large company, and some of the lessons he’s learned in scaling the business. Since it’s launch in March, 2013 Time Doctor has tracked over one million hours … Continue reading [69] Liam Martin on Building a Distributed Team and Lessons Learned Scaling

This week we sit down with Mike Taber, co-host of the popular bootstrapped startup podcast Startups For the Rest of Us, the upcoming MicroConf startup conference, and AuditShark to talk about life as a founder of a bootstrapped startup. Mike recently transitioned from a mix of consulting and product work to entirely focusing on his startup work. This … Continue reading [68] Mike Taber on Life as a Single Founder

This week Brian and Jordan catch up on their latest updates in Restaurant Engine and CartHook. Also, Microconf is just a few weeks away and both are getting ready for their attendee talks. Brian will be talking on inbound sales and Jordan will be talking on outbound sales. We each share 3 of our previous … Continue reading [67] What Our Past Failures Taught Us

In this episode Brian and Jordan talk about the decision making process they go through when deciding whether to move a new business idea forward. After a couple of weeks of interviews this is a show where we catch up on the latest happenings in our businesses and talk about some plans for the future. … Continue reading [66] Decision Making to Move Your Startup Forward

In this episode of Bootstrapped Web we sit down for a chat with Rob Walling.  Rob is a founder of several self-funded startups including HitTail and Drip, co-host of the ZenFounder and Startups For The Rest of Us  podcasts,  and co-host of Microconf. Today we catch up with Rob to talk about what’s new with Drip, his main … Continue reading [65] Rob Walling on Drip, Microconf, and the Future of Bootstrapped Startups

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Here are links to resources we talked about in this episode: Actionable: Startups For The Rest of Us Mixergy Fizzle TropicalMBA Steli Efti Jason Cohen Bryan Harris Patrick Mackenzie Brennan Dunn Growthhackers on Twitter FirstRound VC blog Ecommercefuel Casual Consumption: Bootstrapped.fm Bootstrappers.io ProductPeople.club Dan Norris’ 7-day Startup  

[62] Transitioning From One Business to the Next

In this episode, Brian invited Adam Clark on the show to tell him everything we’ve done wrong with our Bootstrapped Web podcast