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The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship

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Apr 15, 2015 • 35min

058 How A Bootstrapped Startup Made Content Marketing Work After Months Of Failure - With Josh Haynam

Today's episode is part 2 of the interview with Josh Haynam of Interact - a SaaS product that makes it easier to create shareable quizzes for your website. In this episode, we're going to get tactical and learn how they used content marketing to do that. We'll talk about the 30 or 40 posts that Josh wrote which didn't even generate ONE free user of their product. And we'll talk about the one blog post that he wrote which suddenly started generating paying customers.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Interact - @tryinteract iDoneThis - @idonethis CopyBlogger - @copyblogger Unbounce - @unbounce Buffer - @buffer Entrepreneur - @entrepreneur Josh Haynam - @JHaynam | josh [at] tryinteract [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.
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Apr 13, 2015 • 28min

057 How 3 College Friends Bootstrapped From $0 To $15k A Month In 10 Months - With Josh Haynam

Josh Haynam is the co-founder of Interact - a SaaS product that makes it easier to create shareable quizzes for your website. You can create a quiz to engage with your audience or generate new sales leads. Josh and his two co-founders bootstrapped the company since its launch just over a year ago. In 10 months, they went from $0 to $15,000 in monthly recurring revenue. And they landed clients like Disney, NBC and the American Red Cross. And they did that with zero outbound sales calls, and all through content marketing.
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Apr 8, 2015 • 47min

056 How The Co-Founders Of Optimizely Went From Idea To First Customer In 1 Day - With Pete Koomen

Pete Koomen is the co-founder and CTO of Optimizely - a leading website optimization and A/B testing platform. The company was founded in 2010 and to date has raised over $88 million in funding. Optimizely has over 8000 customers including major brands such as Salesforce, Disney and Starbucks. Prior to launching Optimizely, Pete worked at Google for 3 years.
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Apr 6, 2015 • 32min

055 How This Startup Went From Zero To $400K A Month In 2 Years - With Tim Sae Koo

Tim Sae Koo is the co-founder & CEO of Tint, a platform that enables brands to aggregate, curate and display social media feeds anywhere - including desktop, mobile, retail TV displays, event walls or jumbotrons at big events. Tint was founded in 2013 and was profitable within 3 months or launch. Today, their platform is used by over 45,000 brands around the world.
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Apr 1, 2015 • 32min

054: How A Failed Startup Helped Build A 7-Figure SaaS Business - With Tim Sae Koo

Tim Sae Koo is the co-founder & CEO of Tint, a platform that enables brands to aggregate, curate and display social media feeds anywhere - including desktop, mobile, retail TV displays, event walls or jumbotrons at big events. Tint was founded in 2013 and was profitable within 3 months or launch. Today, their platform is used by over 45,000 brands around the world.
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Mar 30, 2015 • 47min

053 How A Startup Grew Its Blog From 9K To 500K Monthly Unique Visitors - With Joshua Parkinson

Joshua Parkinson is the Founder & CEO of PostPlanner, a Facebook tool that makes it easy for people to find and post amazing content to increase their social media engagement. Joshua founded the company in 2011 and to date Post Planner has over 25,000 monthly active users.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Post Planner - @postplanner Nir and Far Jira Fate Hacker Scott Ayres - @scottayres Joshua Parkinson - @Yessayer | Facebook Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.
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Mar 25, 2015 • 37min

052 How A Philosophy Teacher Built A 7-Figure SaaS Business - With Joshua Parkinson

Joshua Parkinson is the Founder & CEO of PostPlanner, a Facebook tool that makes it easy for people to find and post amazing content to increase their social media engagement. Joshua founded the company in 2011 and to date Post Planner has over 25,000 monthly active users.
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Mar 23, 2015 • 24min

051 7 Lessons I Learned By Interviewing 45 Amazing Entrepreneurs

Today's episode is a little different. I don't have a guest. It's just me. And you! Earlier this week, I published episode 50. I can't believe there are already 50 episodes of this show. So I thought this would be a good time to look back at the last 6 months, reflect on the awesome conversations I've had with so many amazing guests and share some of my own personal insights and lessons with you.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Brian Gardner - StudioPress Adam Schoenfeld - Simply Measured Patrick McKenzie - Appointment Reminder Peldi Guilizzoni - Balsamiq Jim Belosic - Short Stack Labs Brecht Palombo - Distressed Pro Guillermo Sanchez - Publitas Sahil Lavingia - Gumroad Paras Chopra - Visual Website Optimizer Josh Pigford - Baremetrics Rob Walling - Drip Stu McLaren - Wishlist Member Rick Perreault - Unbounce Peter Coppinger - Teamwork Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.
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Mar 17, 2015 • 36min

050 How To Build A Business When Everyone Says Your Idea Is Impossible - With Chris Barton

Chris Barton is the co-founder of Shazam, a mobile music recognition service which started out as idea that Chris had in 1999. Today, Shazam has over 100 million active users each month. In 2004, Chris joined Google and currently he's working at Dropbox, where he's responsible for business development for mobile operators. He also continues to serve the Shazam Entertainment board.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Shazam - @Shazam AngelList Audible Things Chris Barton - @bartonsurfer Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.
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Mar 11, 2015 • 29min

049 How To Generate $30,000 A Month In Revenue From Content Marketing - With Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford is the founder of Baremetrics, a product that provides SaaS analytics for Stripe. Josh founded the company in Oct 2013 when he built and launched the first version of the product in just 8 days and within 8 weeks he was already doing about $2000 in monthly recurring revenue. In this episode, we get tactical and learn how Josh uses content marketing as the primary channel for acquiring new customers.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Baremetrics - @Baremetrics Stripe - @stripe Ulysses - @ulyssesapp Buffer - @buffer Josh Pigford - @Shpigford | josh [at] baremetrics [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.

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