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on Nov 17, 2011 - 11:13 AM PST
You’ll see in Ryan Carson’s face how shocked he was to reveal his revenue, but I promise this interview is about more than numbers. You’ll get a DETAILED break-down of how an entrepreneur creates a company that changes lives and grows revenue.
Did you see last week’s launch of Treehouse, the innovative educational site that teaches programming? Basically, …
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on Nov 16, 2011 - 3:15 PM PST
How are marketers using video to get high-quality traffic?
Turns out YouTube is the second biggest search engine, after Google. And just as, years ago, marketers built businesses on the back of Google’s massive growth, today many are growing with YouTube. I invited the founder of Video Traffic Academy here to teach us how he does it.
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on Nov 15, 2011 - 2:37 PM PST
How does an entrepreneur with little money use clever hacks to build traction?
Chuck Gordon is about to get very open with you and show you the tactics he used, including, calling up customers to sell things he didn’t even have yet, publishing a site that didn’t really work, and forgoing paying rent on a standalone office by parking himself in his advisor’s office. (That last tactic came with a nice bonus, as you’ll hear soon.)
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on Nov 14, 2011 - 11:10 AM PST
How do you build a Zappos-like culture in your company?
Joseph Michelli is the author of The Zappos Experience – 5 Principles to Inspire, Engage and WOW. He’s here to teach us how to build a culture, not just a business. Why? To make more money, retain your customers, and decrease your advertising costs.
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on Nov 13, 2011 - 11:02 AM PST
Send this to your favorite bootstrapper
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on Nov 11, 2011 - 10:30 AM PST
How do you increase your productivity so you could get more free time? That’s what this interview is about.
As the founder of SET Consulting, Jared Goralnick helped hundreds of companies make real productivity gains. After selling that business, he went on to launch AwayFind.com, which lets you stop checking your inbox every 5 minutes but still allows urgent emails to find you quickly by pushing them right to you with alerts.
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on Nov 10, 2011 - 8:40 AM PST
How much revenue would you expect a founder to generate if he sold jellyfish online?
Alex Andon, founder of Jellyfish Art, is here to say that his company did $250,000 in its first year by selling aquariums with jellyfish.
I invited him to tell you how he did it, including…
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on Nov 9, 2011 - 9:00 AM PST
How does someone with no programming experience bootstrap a $30k / month app startup?
Rishi Modha & Anirudh Sharma are the co-founders of FIPLAB, an application development studio that specializes in creating viral, high quality mobile applications. I invited them here to talk honestly about how they did it.
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on Nov 8, 2011 - 2:00 PM PST
Even if you’re clueless about marketing, this course will show you how to blueprint your customer acquisition so you can get more customers.
It’s led by Juan Martitegui, who starts the course by showing you his own financials to illustrate what these tactics have done for his company, Mind Valley Hispano. Then he walks you through the process of using his system in your own business.
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on Nov 7, 2011 - 9:45 AM PST
How does an employee turn himself into a hit-making entrepreneur and investor?
After spending years in sales and engineering at UUNET and other companies, Jonathon Perrelli founded Plesk, The Shadow Group, eTantrum, SecureSoftware, & SecureForce.
As an investor, he backed Plaxo, FormSpring, FormStack, and other companies. Then he launched Fortify.vc, where founders fund founders.
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on Nov 5, 2011 - 9:00 AM PST
Send this to anyone who needs copywriting help.
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on Nov 3, 2011 - 1:37 PM PST
You’re probably going to dismiss this interview the first time you see it. You’ll think that “creating fame” is not for serious business people who have too much real work to do.
Then, in a few days, you’ll start to…
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