Andreea is a serial entrepreneur. In 2007 she founded the eco-friendly inspirational t-shirt company Tees for Change (which she later sold), in 2011 she started helping other entrepreneurs dream big and launch & grow their product businesses at Launch Grow Joy, and in 2013 she founded Soaps to Live By.
Launches are important and shouldn’t be taken lightly. In this course we'll cover why planning a launch is so much better than just "putting it out there", we'll develop a launch plan that builds pre-launch buzz, we'll discuss what types of content to create before during and after your launch, how you should invest the majority of your time, and set the date for your launch. In the later lessons we'll get into specific tips if you are launching something people will pay for, like a product or service, and we will even walk through a couple case studies of blogs we've launched or helped re-launched.
Sahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad, a start-up based in San Francisco that is making accepting payments as simple and easy as possible. (Watch out Paypal.) In this founder story find out why he left Pinterest (when he was employee #2) right when it was gaining popularity to start Gumroad.
Affiliate marketing can be an extremely powerful & profitable strategy for your business. In this special Fizzle course Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income breaks down his strategy for affiliate marketing.
Jason is the founder of a bunch of online businesses. Most of them he’s sold. All of them have been small and fun. His most recent business is Paleo Plan, which we talk a lot about in this interview because it’s such a great example of the small, focused, simple online business.
Chris is a masterful salesman and one of the founders and full-time "frontline guy" for Simplifilm. This interview turned into a masterclass in sales as he shares with us tips, tricks, hacks and new perspective on what it means to convince, persuade and, ultimately, help people get what they want.
Brett Kelly is creator of Evernote Essentials, the most popular third-party guide to the Evernote software platform. He's also co-founder of LifeRemix, one of the most influential blogger networks of the past decade.
Nathan Barry is an experience designer for both the web and iOS apps. He also recently published The App Design Handbook, a guide to designing beautiful iOS applications. In this interview Nathan explains why he left college early to freelance, how working at a startup in Boise took him from being a designer to being an iOS programmer, and how he successfully grossed $12,000 in one day of eBook sales with less than a thousand subscribers to his blog.
Barron Cuadro is founder of Effortless Gent, a top men's style blog. He's also one half of Fifth&Brannan, a new men's fashion label based in San Francisco. In this interview, Barron shares how he built Effortless Gent into a popular blog and business that attracts over 50k unique visitors per month. We find out how Barron launched his first E-Book through the site, and how he and his partner Katie started Fifth&Brannan with a highly successful Kickstarter campaign.
Corbett Barr is the founder of Think Traffic, a site that helps entrepreneurs grow thriving and profitable online audiences, and he's also co-creator of Fizzle. In this interview we fill in the gaps between where he started and where he is now. Find out how Corbett started blogging, why he started Think Traffic and how he grew his following in the early days. We also discuss the question: what would you do differently if you were starting all over again.