Summary: <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are back to discuss the exciting and frustrating things going on with our businesses. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jordan has a lot on his plate including launching 15-20 new features and a few industry conferences; he will be attending the Traffic and Conversion Summit in San Diego, as well as, speaking at MicroConf Growth in Las Vegas. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brian of course also has a lot coming down the pipeline. He gives the audience an update on his new direction for the Productize course and the webinars he is producing on his site. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The theme for today’s episode is customer outreach. We both compare our styles of marketing and networking and share what has worked well in the past. We also discuss the upcoming challenges we see in our companies and talk about proactive steps we can take to make the process smoother.</span></p> <p></p><div class="TT_wrapper"> <div class="TT_text"><a class="TT_tweet_link" href="http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=I%E2%80%99m%20starting%20to%20see%20the%20daily%20benefits%20of%20having%20an%20active%20Slack%20group%20of%20members%E2%80%A6It%20pays%20off%E2%80%A6%20%E2%80%94%20Brian%20Casel%20http%3A%2F%2Fbootstrappedweb.com%2Fconference-strategy-webinar-funnels-lead-developers%2F" target="_blank">I’m starting to see the daily benefits of having an active Slack group of members…It pays off… — Brian Casel</a></div> <div class="TT_footer"> <div class="TT_byline">Powered By the <em><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/tweet-this/" target="_blank">Tweet This</a></em> Plugin</div> <div class="TT_tweet_link_wrapper"><a class="TT_tweet_link" href="http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=I%E2%80%99m%20starting%20to%20see%20the%20daily%20benefits%20of%20having%20an%20active%20Slack%20group%20of%20members%E2%80%A6It%20pays%20off%E2%80%A6%20%E2%80%94%20Brian%20Casel%20http%3A%2F%2Fbootstrappedweb.com%2Fconference-strategy-webinar-funnels-lead-developers%2F" target="_blank"><img src="http://bootstrappedweb.com/wp-content/plugins/tweetthis/assets/images/twitter-icons/bird1.png" alt="">Tweet This</a></div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> </div> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here are today’s conversation points:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jordan’s preparation for the Traffic and Conversion Summit.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Traveling for business and keeping up.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carthook’s upcoming new features and how to announce it.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tips for smart networking at conferences.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jordan’s invitation to speak at MicroConf.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brian’s laser focus on Productize.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recent feedback about Ops Calendar and how that is changing Brian’s plans.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The process Jordan and his team have developed for updating Carthook’s features.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The best examples of marketing a large scale update.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The journey to building an online community around your product.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How transparent should a business be with these communities?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brian’s yearly plan for Productize and Scale (the new name of CasJam.)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The live webinar Brian is offe</span></li> </ul>
