In this episode, we are joined by Kevin McArdle, the Co-Founder and CEO of SureSwift Capital, a holding company that acquires and operates small businesses in perpetuity, Tune in to hear us discuss how SureSwift Capital maintains its portfolio and important tools that keep the company running. Topics: SureSwift’s operating infrastructure.Why and how SureSwift ends up running … [Read more...] about RS171: Running a Portfolio Business with Kevin McArdle
RS170: Doubling Down on What’s Working
This week Dave and Craig catch up on their businesses after a few weeks without updates. Craig is looking forward to the end of the year to put together a SaaS specific founder retreat in Tuscany, Italy toward the end of the year. If anyone is interested in joining head over to saasretreat.com and drop in your email for future updates. Dave has been riding high on some recent success with … [Read more...] about RS170: Doubling Down on What’s Working
RS169: Headwinds and Tailwinds in Your Business
In this episode, the discussion surrounds the tailwinds and headwinds of business. Tune in to hear this discussion about the ways in which business has changed and can potentially change in the future. Topics: A message from Rob Walling regarding their MicroConf episode.The binary thinking of the MicroConf community.How MicroConf and other conferences are great for extroverts.Different … [Read more...] about RS169: Headwinds and Tailwinds in Your Business
RS168: Microconf 2019 Takeaways
In this episode, Craig and Dave break down MicroConf, how to decide which conferences to attend, and how to implement new marketing tactics, among other things. Tune in to hear this discussion about conferences and how you can get the most out of attending them. Topics: The general consensus about MicroConf.Learning about new marketing tactics.Choosing the right conferences to attend.Is … [Read more...] about RS168: Microconf 2019 Takeaways
RS167: Growing from $20k -> $100k MRR with David Henzel
During this episode, Craig speaks with David Henzel, entrepreneur and founder of MaxCDN. David founded MaxCDN before selling the company years later. Now, he offers other entrepreneurs the opportunity to learn from his experience during his online course, Managing Happiness. Together, Craig and David discuss what it’s like to run your own business and the process of growing from a small … [Read more...] about RS167: Growing from $20k -> $100k MRR with David Henzel
RS166: Effectively Managing the Emotion of Feedback
Dealing with feedback at work is tough. Whether its with customers or your internal team so many of us get emotional when dealing with feedback and criticism at work. This week's episode is based on a blog post from the Trello blog in which they walk through 5 steps to effectively managing your emotions when receiving feedback. … [Read more...] about RS166: Effectively Managing the Emotion of Feedback
RS165: Converting High Ticket SaaS customers
Today Dave and Craig talk about what approaches you should consider when designing landing pages and marketing copy for high end (hundreds of dollars per month) SaaS products. But first, our friends at ReleaseNotes.tv are giving away 2 tickets to their ReleaseNotes conference. Rogue Startups listeners can go to releasenotes.tv/rogue to enter for a chance to win a complementary ticket to this … [Read more...] about RS165: Converting High Ticket SaaS customers
RS164: Are Onboarding Emails dead?
Today Dave and Craig catch up on their businesses with a few new developments on both fronts. Dave has been completing several integrations for Recapture, including Carthook, EDD and several other shopping cart solutions. Interestingly some of the integrations that they've done are now waiting on approval from the integration partners...something good for us all to keep in mind next time we're … [Read more...] about RS164: Are Onboarding Emails dead?
RS163: Surviving Long Enough to be Successful
This week both Dave and Craig are podcasting on the road. Craig his family have been on vacation for the past week visiting Marrakech, Morocco and is now in Barcelona for a few days hanging out with other bootstrappers. Dave is in California and got up at 6:00 am this week to record this podcast episode! This week Dave and Craig catch up on a few updates in their businesses, notably … [Read more...] about RS163: Surviving Long Enough to be Successful
RS162: Finding Stability
Today Dave and Craig catch up after Dave was out at Big Snow Tiny Conf west last week at what is now his annual mastermind retreat. They also talk through how to find mental stability on this rollercoaster that is a startup. What things we (and you) do to help cope with the wins and the losses as we go along this path. … [Read more...] about RS162: Finding Stability
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