Short, bite-sized conversations with indie hackers that have started small, profitable and bootstrapped businesses. You'll learn how they come up with ideas, what they do to validate, find those first customers and make a sustainable income.

Focusing on one product in a strong market (for 15 years) - Geoff Roberts, Outseta

September 06, 2022 0:16:22 15.73 MB Downloads: 0

Geoff Roberts is the co-founder of Outseta, a bootstrapped all-in-one platform to help manage and grow your recurring revenue business. Before Outseta, Geoff was Head of Marketing for Buildium, a product that went through the phases of bootstrapping, raising and exiting, that was started by current co-founder Dimitris.What we covered in this episode: Taking a big 15 year bet on your business Going into an established, durable market Why not raise for the company? Single focus vs portfolio of small bets Why Outseta focused on brand building and not SEO Marketing trade-offs Why freemium doesn’t work for everyone Building a flat, self-managed organisation Recommendations Book: Reinventing Organistations; Life Profitability Podcast: Tim Ferris Show Indie Hacker: Anthony Castrio Follow Geoff Twitter Read the Outseta Blog Follow Me Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Personal Website Buy A Wallet 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) Sponsor - FiguraOften great design makes products stand out in this day and age; stop trying to figure it out yourself. Figura offers vetted product designers for startups and fast-growing companies. Find your first designer or contractor, or land a helping hand for your product in less than 48hours. Save $199 and start your project for free, using code "INDIE199".Head to figura.digital to try it out.

Ending the VC dream and pivoting to an indie company - David Kofoed Wind, Eduflow

August 30, 2022 0:15:19 14.73 MB Downloads: 0

David Kofoed Wind is the co-founder and CEO of Eduflow an education platform started in 2015 as Peergrade, which was a peer to peer feedback tool. David is the definition of technical, having studied for a degree in applied math and computer science, then a Ph.D in machine learning. This is where the idea for Peergrade was born, as he started teach a course in data science and solved his own problem.👉 Extended version of this episode.What we covered in this episode: How Peergrade started in 2015 Scratching your own itch Selling to universities Using your "unfair advantages" Why David took a Ph.D What it's like building a product with a Ph.D Having a terrible product Going for and ending the VC dream Pivoting Peergrade to Eduflow Why David resonates with Indie Hackers Recommendations Book: Rework by Basecamp Podcast: Out of Beta Indie Hacker: Jon Yongfook Follow DavidTwitterFollow Me Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Personal Website Buy A Wallet 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) Sponsor - Ramen ClubMy favourite community has just got a significant upgrade as it rebrands to Ramen Club, the best community to help you get to Ramen Profitability.Ramen club has 4 remote coworking sessions a week, masterminds, accountability calls, live AMAs, a fractional CFO, in-house VA, discounts and so much more. But most of all, the founder Charlie has done a wonderful job at cultivating a wonderfully friendly and supportive community.To join the world's most supportive community for bootstrapped founders to reach ramen profitable and beyond, head to ramenclub.so and use code "INDIEBITES" to let Charlie know I sent you and get 50% off your first month.

How to build in public - Kevon Cheung, Public Lab

August 22, 2022 0:16:01 15.41 MB Downloads: 0

If you’re wanting to learn about building in public, Kevon Cheung is your guy. After not getting the fulfilment he desired from the VC funded startup dream, Kevon struck out on his own in 2020 to become an indie hacker. Since then he’s launched the Build in Public Mastery course, started a newsletter called Public Lab, wrote the Definitive Guide to Building in Public and then to top this all off, wrote a book called Find Joy in Chaos. What we covered in this episode: Building credibility Taking a 6 month bet Starting from scratch to learn a trend Choosing to build in public Anyone can learn any topic Is building in public just sharing MRR numbers? What is building in public? False positives of building an audience Building a creator business How to differentiate course content to blog content Info products vs SaaS Recommendations: Book: Life Is What You Make It by Peter Buffet, $100m Offers by Alex Hormozi Podcast: Socialette, The Bootstrapped Founder Indie Hacker: Monica Lent, Jay Clouse, Marie Ng Follow Kevon Twitter Personal website Follow Me Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Personal Website Buy A Wallet 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) Sponsor - Ramen ClubMy favourite community has just got a significant upgrade as it rebrands to Ramen Club, the best community to help you get to Ramen Profitability.Ramen club has 4 remote coworking sessions a week, masterminds, accountability calls, live AMAs, a fractional CFO, in-house VA, discounts and so much more. But most of all, the founder Charlie has done a wonderful job at cultivating a wonderfully friendly and supportive community.To join the world's most supportive community for bootstrapped founders to reach ramen profitable and beyond, head to ramenclub.so and use code "INDIEBITES" to let Charlie know I sent you and get 50% off your first month.

How to build a brand for your indie product - Marie Ng, Llama Life

August 08, 2022 0:15:06 14.53 MB Downloads: 0

Marie Ng is the founder of Llama Life, a to-do-list app that helps you focus. As someone who struggles with focus myself, Marie’s app looked to be the perfect thing. Having taught herself how to code 2 years ago, after a career in branding, Marie did what everyone does when they learn to code, build a to do list app. But with her branding background and new quirky angle on a productivity app, she’s made it work. From a solo indie project to now raising a $690k pre-seed round, Marie is making her entrepreneurial dream happen.👉 Extended version of this episode.What we discussed in this episode: How Marie got into branding What is branding? Why indie hackers should consider their “brand” How to create a brand Building a product to help with ADHD Building to solve your own problem How to work with ADHD Llama Life’s brand impact Why Marie raised funding Recommendations Book: Honest Guide to Indie Making by Kyleigh Smith Podcast: The Best One Yet Indie Hacker: Carl Poppa Follow MarieTwitterFollow Me👉 Listen to my new podcast, No More Mondays. Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Personal Website Buy A Wallet 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) Sponsor - Ramen ClubMy favourite community has just got a significant upgrade as it rebrands to Ramen Club, the best community to help you get to Ramen Profitability.Ramen club has 4 remote coworking sessions a week, masterminds, accountability calls, live AMAs, a fractional CFO, in-house VA, discounts and so much more. But most of all, the founder Charlie has done a wonderful job at cultivating a wonderfully friendly and supportive community.To join the world's most supportive community for bootstrapped founders to reach ramen profitable and beyond, head to ramenclub.so and use code "INDIEBITES" to let Charlie know I sent you and get 50% off your first month.

Why you need a single focus (and ditch your portfolio of projects) - Chris Frantz, Loops

May 28, 2022 0:15:56 15.33 MB Downloads: 0

Chris Frantz is the co-founder of Loops, YC backed email tool for startups. Chris is one of those people who just knows how to run a SaaS business, having founded and sold Snazzy AI, acquired by Unbounce last year. Chris has been living rent free in my brain after a conversation we had a few weeks ago about my multiple projects. A lot of you are going to have multiple projects too, and wondering why you’re not getting anywhere with them. In this episode, Chris is going to explain why.What we cover in this episode Some of Chris previous bootstrapped projectsPH profile How Chris started and sold Snazzy.aiSelling article Tackling email with Loops.so Making the chef’s knife of email Why you should have a single focus Why having a portfolio of small bets doesn’t work Doing the hard things Having hobby projects vs a business Recommendations Book: Atomic Habits Podcast: The Vergecast Indie Hacker: Sahil Bloom Follow Chris Twitter Personal site Follow Me👉 Listen to my new podcast, No More Mondays. Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Personal Website Buy A Wallet 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) Sponsor - Ramen ClubMy favourite community has just got a significant upgrade as it rebrands to Ramen Club, the best community to help you get to Ramen Profitability.Ramen club has 4 remote coworking sessions a week, masterminds, accountability calls, live AMAs, a fractional CFO, in-house VA, discounts and so much more. But most of all, the founder Charlie has done a wonderful job at cultivating a wonderfully friendly and supportive community.To join the world's most supportive community for bootstrapped founders to reach ramen profitable and beyond, head to ramenclub.so and use code "INDIEBITES" to let Charlie know I sent you and get 50% off your first month.

Growing Dependabot to $14k MRR before selling to Github - Grey Baker, Dependabot

May 13, 2022 0:16:15 15.64 MB Downloads: 0

Grey Baker is the co-founder of Dependabot, which is a bot that makes it easy for developers to keep the third party dependencies up to date, which grew to $14k MRR before being acquired by Github in 2019. Grey’s story is a long an interesting one, so there is an extended version of this podcast available on the indie feast membership. But the best bits are here about he started out at McKinsey, before being a pivotal early employee at London FinTech GoCardless, to then cycling around the world and then coming back to accidentally launch Dependabot.👉 Extended version available on the Indie Feast membership here.What we covered in this episode Landing a gig at consulting firm, McKinsey Learning how to code in 6 months Joining VC-backed GoCardless as employee 6 Growing GoCardless to 100 employees Why Grey left after 4.5 years Cycling around the world Eating a petrol-ey snickers bar Starting Dependabot as a side project A failed launch Doing things that don't scale The growth inflection point - GitHub marketplace Advice for bootstrappers Recommendations Book: The Design of Everyday Things Podcast: N/A Indie Hacker: Pete Hamilton Follow GreyTwitterFollow Me👉 Listen to my new podcast, No More Mondays. Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Personal Website Buy A Wallet 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) Sponsor - Tiiny HostTiiny Host is the simplest way to host and share your web project online. It's loved by thousands of freelancers, agencies & developers across the world to quickly upload demos, landing pages or websites. Just drag & drop your web files or even a PDF to share it with the world in seconds. 👉 Try it here

r/SaaS moderator making $6k MRR with his own SaaS - CH Daniel, Simple.ink

May 07, 2022 0:14:42 14.15 MB Downloads: 0

Ch Daniel is the co-founder of Legit Check, an app that authenticates luxury items, that grew to $6k MRR in just a few weeks. He’s also building simple.ink, which is a simple way to make a website from Notion, it got #1 product of the day and got 1,300 users in the first month. He’s also got his finger in many SaaS pies, running the r/SaaS subreddit where he arranges AMAs and facilitates discussions with some of the biggest SaaS founders out there. As for podcasting, Daniel’s dipped in there too, with his show The Usual SaaSpects an extension of his brand. Most recently, Dan acquired Emojics.comWhat we covered in this episode: Making $200k with an authenticator business How does one fall into authenticating luxury items? How Legit Check became legit Turning a one-time purchase business to a subscription Taking over the r/SaaS community on Reddit Favourite AMA with Sabba and Tim from VEED The real reason he started his podcast, The Usual SaaSpectsJames interview on The Usual SaaSpects Does the world need another Notion web builder? Pre-launching to build a list of 5,000 Acuiring Emojics.com Should more indie hackers acquire businesses? Recommendations Book: Power of Now Podcast: Prof G Show, Succession Pod Indie Hacker: CH David Follow Daniel Twitter Personal site Follow Me👉 Listen to my new podcast, No More Mondays. Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Personal Website Buy A Wallet 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) Sponsor - Tiiny HostTiiny Host is the simplest way to host and share your web project online. It's loved by thousands of freelancers, agencies & developers across the world to quickly upload demos, landing pages or websites. Just drag & drop your web files or even a PDF to share it with the world in seconds. 👉 Try it here

Multiple successful exits to making lemonade - JR Farr, Lemon Squeezy

May 03, 2022 0:16:26 15.81 MB Downloads: 0

JR Farr is the co-founder of Make Lemonade, a product studio behind Lemon Squeezy (a platform to sell digital products), Dunked (to showcase your portfolio) and Iconic (a set of cracking looking apps). But this isn’t JR’s first foray into entrepreneurship. Back in 2008 he sold his first startup, College Connecting, before starting and selling another, MOJO marketplace back in 2012. From here he worked at the acquiring company for 5 years, before starting ANOTHER startup, called Weav, a product to help with customer retention. I could list out JR’s CV in more detail, but you can tell that this chap a seasoned entrepreneur.What we covered in this episode: JR's entrepreneurship background Building Mojo (Wordpress marketplace) Mojo getting acquired in 2012 Why JR stayed for 5 years in a big company Getting a mini MBA Spending $75k on a domain for a failed company Meeting the Make Lemonade folks Should more founders band together? Building Lemon Squeezy Taking on the digital products space Going into a crowded market Advice for entreprenuers Recommendations Book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things Podcast: My First Million Indie Hacker: Jon Yonfook Follow JR Twitter Personal site Follow Me👉 Listen to my new podcast, No More Mondays. Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Personal Website Buy A Wallet 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) Sponsor - Ramen ClubMy favourite community has just got a significant upgrade as it rebrands to Ramen Club, the best community to help you get to Ramen Profitability.Ramen club has 4 remote coworking sessions a week, masterminds, accountability calls, live AMAs, a fractional CFO, in-house VA, discounts and so much more. But most of all, the founder Charlie has done a wonderful job at cultivating a wonderfully friendly and supportive community.To join the world's most supportive community for bootstrapped founders to reach ramen profitable and beyond, head to ramenclub.so and use code "INDIEBITES" to let Charlie know I sent you and get 50% off your first month.

Behind the success of Trends.vc - Dru Riley, Trends

April 29, 2022 0:14:32 13.99 MB Downloads: 0

Dru Riley is the founder of Trends.vc which at its core helps people discover new ideas and markets through expertly researched reports. Trends is a bootstrapped company that makes money through it’s Trends Pro reports and community.In 2017, Dru took on a mini-retirement, sold a second home and set out with 3-5 years of savings to strike out on his own. After launching various newsletters, products and even book he eventually landed on Trends, which didn’t actually make any money for the first few months. But just 6 short months later, he was at over $20k MRR and growing fast.Now, Dru is working through the challenges of scaling a rapidly growing business and even hiring people to take over that juicy core. The reports. Here's a link to the Indie Hackers episode he did where he talks more about what went into that growth.What we covered in this episode: Hiring for the core competency of the business, the reports What Dru’s day-to-day looks like Challenges with context switching Starting Trends for fun The idea behind framework based research The first Trends report on cloud kitchens How does Dru decide on topics for Trends Choosing to persevere with Trends Launching a community How comfort challenges led to Trends success When to stop projects What Dru does for fun Recommendations Book: Sapiens, Caste Podcast: Founders Indie Hacker: Pat Walls Follow Dru Twitter Personal site SEO Course Follow Me👉 Listen to my new podcast, No More Mondays. Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Personal Website Buy A Wallet 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) Sponsor - AhrefsThank you to Ahrefs for sponsoring Indie Bites. Ahrefs is the most complete and valuable SEO tool on the market. Bootstrapped companies such as VEED and Transistor have used Ahrefs extensively to understand how to craft their SEO strategies, which have been such a pivotal part of their growth.If you want to get more traffic from Google on your side-project, I’d recommend first trying out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools for free. You’ll see what keywords your pages are ranking for, understand how Google sees your content and discover what changes you need to improve your search ranking. You should also check out their YouTube channel to understand both the basics of SEO and some more advanced techniques.To try out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, head to ahrefs.com/awt.

Solo founder running 3 profitable bootstrapped businesses - Monica Lent, Affilimate

April 26, 2022 0:15:17 14.7 MB Downloads: 0

Monica Lent is a founder running 3 profitable indie businesses after leaving her full time job 2 years ago. She runs Affilimate, a SaaS product which allows you to manage and track affiliate commissions, the Blogging for Devs newsletter and paid community for developers looking to grow an audience and finally, Not a Nomad, a travel blog that accounted for almost 50% of Monica’s revenue last year, as she grew her portfolio of projects from $30k to over $100k.What we covered in this episode: How Monica splits time between her projects Is it detrimental having split attention? Delegating and outsourcing as an indie hacker How content and SEO ties her projects together Benefits of a VA Starting a blog that makes thousands Having a travel blog during covid Starting a community for developers How to start your own successful blog The downsides of sharing revenue numbers Is Monica having fun? Recommendations Book: Founding Sales Podcast: Tropical MBA Indie Hacker: Josh Ho Follow Monica Twitter 2021 Retro on personal site SEO Course Follow Me👉 Listen to my new podcast, No More Mondays. Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Personal Website Buy A Wallet 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) Sponsor - AhrefsThank you to Ahrefs for sponsoring Indie Bites. Ahrefs is the most complete and valuable SEO tool on the market. Bootstrapped companies such as VEED and Transistor have used Ahrefs extensively to understand how to craft their SEO strategies, which have been such a pivotal part of their growth.If you want to get more traffic from Google on your side-project, I’d recommend first trying out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools for free. You’ll see what keywords your pages are ranking for, understand how Google sees your content and discover what changes you need to improve your search ranking. You should also check out their YouTube channel to understand both the basics of SEO and some more advanced techniques.To try out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, head to ahrefs.com/awt.

Growing ScrapingBee to $1m ARR - Pierre De Wulf, ScrapingBee

April 22, 2022 0:14:34 14.02 MB Downloads: 0

Pierre De Wulf is the co-founder of ScrapingBee a web scraping API that grew to $1M ARR in 2 years. Before starting ScrapingBee, Pierre and his co-founder Kevin had quit their jobs to follow the indie dream. 9 months later, their product PricingBot couldn’t generate the traction they were hoping for so they sold the business and pivoted to ScrapingBee.What we covered in this episode: Pierre's background; inspiration from his father Running a business within World of Warcraft Meeting his co-founder, Kevin Starting a project for his girlfriend Leaving his job to work on something for 9 months Knowing when to stop and move on Starting and selling PricingBot How to sell a failed company Using SEO as a marketing channel How to write SEO content effectively Starting ScrapingBee How ScrapingBee grew so quickly Taking TinySeed funding Recommendations Book: Hello Startup Podcast: My First Million Indie Hacker: Matt Wensing Follow Pierre Twitter Personal site Follow Me👉 Listen to my new podcast, No More Mondays. Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Personal Website Buy A Wallet 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) Sponsor - AhrefsThank you to Ahrefs for sponsoring Indie Bites. Ahrefs is the most complete and valuable SEO tool on the market. Bootstrapped companies such as VEED and Transistor have used Ahrefs extensively to understand how to craft their SEO strategies, which have been such a pivotal part of their growth.If you want to get more traffic from Google on your side-project, I’d recommend first trying out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools for free. You’ll see what keywords your pages are ranking for, understand how Google sees your content and discover what changes you need to improve your search ranking. You should also check out their YouTube channel to understand both the basics of SEO and some more advanced techniques.To try out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, head to ahrefs.com/awt.

Bootstrapping Testimonial to $13k MRR after many failed products - Damon Chen, Testimonial

April 19, 2022 0:15:49 15.22 MB Downloads: 0

Damon Chen, who is the founder of Testimonial, a product that collects video testimonials that he launched back in December 2020, and has grown it to $13k MRR since then. Damon quit his stable job of 8 years at Cisco to pursue his dream of building a better life for himself as an indie hacker. This didn’t come easily for Damon, as he launched several products which made 0 revenue before hitting big with Testimonial. He’s also built some other fantastic products, such as embed.so and channel.so, as well as acquiring Supportman off fellow Indie Hacker Noah Bragg.What we covered in this episode: Damon's failed startup attempts Why he builds for fun Quitting his job and pivoting to Testimonial Using code from other projects How he went from 0 to 3k in 3 days Damon's approach to validation Growth tactics used to get to $13k MRR Having other projects for fun (Embed and Channel) Acquiring Supportman Growing his Twitter to 30k Recommendations Book: Getting Acquired Podcast: My First Million Indie Hacker: Pieter Levels Follow Damon Twitter Damon's blog Follow Me👉 Listen to my new podcast, No More Mondays. Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Personal Website Buy A Wallet 2 Hour Podcast Course Sponsor - PodQueueThis podcast is brought to you by PodQueue. Don't you hate when you find something you just want to bookmark and listen to later as a podcast, but there's no easy way to do it? Try PodQueue, and you can save audio from anywhere around the web and easily listen to it later in the podcast app you already use. PodQueue works with links from YouTube, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, NPR, the BBC, and more! There’s a 15-day free trial, and it’s just $5 per month afterwards, with no credit card required at signup. Use promo code “INDIEBITES” at signup to get an extra month free!👉 Try it here

Building a mentorship platform to $1m GMV - Dominic Monn, MentorCruise

April 15, 2022 0:15:13 14.64 MB Downloads: 1

Dominic Monn is the founder of MentorCruise, a marketplace that connect mentors and mentees in Tech, which is currently doing $15k in monthly revenue and processed over $1m through the platform. Previously, Domm was a Machine Learning engineer at Doist, a job that he left in Feb '22 to pursue MentorCruise full time.What we covered in this episode: Why Dom left his full-time job at Doist How going full-time has impacted MentorCruise What Dom’s day-to-day looks like Not feeling guilty about unproductive hobbies How Dom’s discovered mentorship through Udacity Taking 5 months to build an MVP Why validation wouldn’t work for MentorCruise How it took 3 months to get his first paying customer Why he decided to push through regardless How persistence pays off Why building a business is like building a muscle How programmatic SEO works Recommendations Book: Built to Sell Podcast: My First Million Indie Hacker: Julian Canlas Follow Dom Twitter Hire him as a mentor Personal site Follow Me👉 Listen to my new podcast, No More Mondays. Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Personal Website Buy A Wallet 2 Hour Podcast Course Sponsor - AhrefsThank you to Ahrefs for sponsoring Indie Bites. Ahrefs is the most complete and valuable SEO tool on the market. Bootstrapped companies such as VEED and Transistor have used Ahrefs extensively to understand how to craft their SEO strategies, which have been such a pivotal part of their growth.If you want to get more traffic from Google on your side-project, I’d recommend first trying out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools for free. You’ll see what keywords your pages are ranking for, understand how Google sees your content and discover what changes you need to improve your search ranking. You should also check out their YouTube channel to understand both the basics of SEO and some more advanced techniques.To try out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, head to ahrefs.com/awt.

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Bootstrapping vs venture capital & lessons from a veteran - Spencer Fry, Podia

April 12, 2022 0:15:17 14.71 MB Downloads: 0

Today I’m joined by Spencer Fry, founder of Podia, a platform helping creators make a living online through selling courses, digital downloads, webinars and more. 7 years in, they have a 35 person team and have an awesome product for creators. But this isn’t Spencer’s first rodeo, bootstrapping and exiting 3 businesses between 2003 and 2014, notably Carbonmade and TypeFrag. What’s interesting about Spencer is that he's actually raised funding for Podia, and I wanted to find out why a seasoned bootstrapper like Spencer went down this route, and if it’s a an option that more indie hackers should consider.👉 50 minute version of this conversation.What we covered in this episode: Why Spencer raised funding for Podia Why you should look at funding as a tool Beer ≠ funding 3 interesting predictions on the creator economy Spencer’s article with those predictions Bonus: Spencer’s famous vodka pasta dish Opportunities to build in the creator economy Why entrepreneurs are different gravy Solo founder vs co-founder Recommendations Book: Ben Horowitz Book 1 / Book 2 Podcast: Axios Today / All In Pod Indie Hacker / entrepreneur: Tobi Lutke Follow Spencer Twitter Personal Blog Follow Me👉 Listen to my new podcast, No More Mondays. Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Personal Website Buy A Wallet 2 Hour Podcast Course Sponsor - AhrefsThank you to Ahrefs for sponsoring Indie Bites. Ahrefs is the most complete and valuable SEO tool on the market. Bootstrapped companies such as VEED and Transistor have used Ahrefs extensively to understand how to craft their SEO strategies, which have been such a pivotal part of their growth.If you want to get more traffic from Google on your side-project, I’d recommend first trying out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools for free. You’ll see what keywords your pages are ranking for, understand how Google sees your content and discover what changes you need to improve your search ranking. You should also check out their YouTube channel to understand both the basics of SEO and some more advanced techniques.To try out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, head to ahrefs.com/awt.

Why your product needs marketing - Dagobert Renouf, Logology

April 08, 2022 0:15:35 15.0 MB Downloads: 0

Dagobert Renouf is the founder of Logoloy, a logo and brand design service that he started with his wife, doing around $3k in monthly revenue. This is an awesome story. Dago started building Logoloy in September 2018, then completely failed the launch after building for almost 2 years. It wasn't until May 21 that Dago realised he actually needed to find a marketing channel that worked for him -which was Twitter. Dago went for 15 years chasing money, but then realised that wasn’t the course to happiness. So after a turbulent few years, he’s now in a place of fulfilment, with plenty of the journey to go.👉 Extended episode here.What we covered in this episode: Making his first internet money in high school Getting a cease and desist at 15 years old The dangers of being focused on money Finding the idea for Logology Taking 1.5 years to launch his startup Having a failed launch after 1.5 years of building Marketing when you don’t want to do marketing Discovering a distribution channel that works - Twitter Growing to $3k per month Recommendations Book: Zero to One by Peter Thiel Podcast: Wannabe Entreprenuer Indie Hacker: Tony Dihn Follow Dago Twitter Logology Follow Me👉 Listen to my new podcast, No More Mondays. Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Personal Website Buy A Wallet 2 Hour Podcast Course Sponsor - AhrefsThank you to Ahrefs for sponsoring Indie Bites. Ahrefs is the most complete and valuable SEO tool on the market. Bootstrapped companies such as VEED and Transistor have used Ahrefs extensively to understand how to craft their SEO strategies, which have been such a pivotal part of their growth.If you want to get more traffic from Google on your side-project, I’d recommend first trying out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools for free. You’ll see what keywords your pages are ranking for, understand how Google sees your content and discover what changes you need to improve your search ranking. You should also check out their YouTube channel to understand both the basics of SEO and some more advanced techniques.To try out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, head to ahrefs.com/awt.