Indie Hackers

#008 – Growing a $600,000/mo Business by Starting with Direct Sales with Nathan Barry of ConvertKit

Mar 22, 2017

01:00:23

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Nathan Barry

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Episode notes

The Benefits of Starting with Direct Sales for Content Marketing Success

01:05

Early Days of Business: The Importance of Direct Sales and Customer Conversations

01:14

Creating a Competitor: Overcoming Fear of Big Companies

00:46

Competing with Intangibles in the Early Stages of a Business

00:55

Introduction

2min

Nathan Berry of ConvertKit

3min

How I Grew ConvertKit From Nothing Into a Company That's Doing $7 Million a Year

3min

How Heaton Shut Down ConvertKit

3min

ConvertKit's Web App Challenge

3min

How the Web App Challenge Helped Me Reach My Goals

2min

How to Validate Your Idea for ConvertKit

3min

How MailChimp Helped Me Carve Out My Business

2min

ConvertKit: The Power of Infusion Soft

2min

10.

How to Find Your First Customers in the Early Days

2min

11.

How to Keep People Talking

2min

12.

How to Get People to Buy Your Presales

4min

13.

How to Reach $5,000 a Month

2min

14.

How to Build an Audience First

4min

15.

How to Build an Audience

4min

16.

How to Be Transparent in Your Business

2min

17.

How to Grow ConvertKit Into a Big Business

3min

18.

The Advantages of Targeting a Niche

3min

19.

How to Pick a Niche That's Right for You

2min

20.

How to Grow ConvertKit Rapidly

2min

21.

The Importance of Direct Sales in the Early Days

2min

22.

How to Succeed With Direct Sales

5min

Learn how Nathan Barry grew his business by teaching what he knew, taking advantage of big competitors, showing up every day for two years, and treating direct sales as the answer to everything. Brought to you by Vettery.

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