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Lauren Vriens's avatar

Wait, but what did work eventually?? So curious now!

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Kyle Poyar's avatar

We’ll need a follow up post… but Melissa is generous with sharing what works on her LinkedIn!

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Lauren Vriens's avatar

Amazing, thanks!

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Amrit Vatsa's avatar

thanks; I had the very same question. the linkedin post answers it though.

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Andrew J Turner's avatar

Bullseye - were they mistakes or learning points ?

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Rafa Jimenez's avatar

This is the 3rd time that I have read this post. It is helping me to understand my marketing results! And take advantage for the next steps.

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Melissa Kwan's avatar

Thank you for taking the time, Rafa! Don't forget to listen to this podcast :) https://ewebinar.com/podcast/episodes/0-marketing-strategies

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Daniel Ionescu's avatar

YES! You can have bootstrapped successful businesses.

I loved how this broke down everything that didn't work!

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Todor Todorov's avatar

I see this all the time. Startup founders spending money on various “experts” and agencies like they have a magic wand. A lot of wasted money.

You’ve got to do the learning and work yourself first until you know what help you need.

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Mike Jalonen's avatar

Thank you for your post (and follow up LinkedIn post on what "did work"). Having launched several SaaS/online businesses we've experienced a lot of the same challenges. It's great to see this all here in one post, thank you!

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Michelle's avatar

This was so enlightening! I'm a new founder and am immensely thankful to have read this now. Can't wait for the next issue. Very curious as to what worked!

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BoogieBoard's avatar

Amazing article. I appreciate the candor here.

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Steven Forth's avatar

Thank you Melissa. Shared this inside Ibbaka. You make a lot of important points, but the key thing I take away is that you need to be authentic and concerned with other people and what you can do for them.

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Guru Kini's avatar

This is so accurate! I think every new founders should go through this cycle as a rite of passage. All these are too tempting to not attempt. But I hope with insightful articles like these, new founders will learn to cut their losses early and focus on the product or business.

Thanks for sharing, Melissa.

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Kyle Poyar's avatar

So glad the post resonated!

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Neo Kim's avatar

nice article, learnt a lot.

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Iñigo Laucirica's avatar

Thansk for sharing! This post really conveys the writer’s hunger for fast and constant learning

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Kate Syuma's avatar

This is a MUST have read for any new founders 🙌 Melissa is full of insights!

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Kyle Poyar's avatar

🙌 🙌

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AJ Brau's avatar

Really appreciate this

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Matt's avatar

No mistakes. Only happy little trees.

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