Rogue Startups Podcast
By Dave Rodenbaugh and Craig Hewitt: Bootstrapped Startup Founders and Software Entrepreneurs
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Description
The Rogue Startups podcast features two bootstrapped startup founders as they grow their businesses. We feature experts in the fields of sales, marketing, and product development to hear how they're growth hacking their productized services, WordPress plugins, and SaaS products. If you're on the journey of an entrepreneur then tune and hear how we're tackling some of the same obstacles you may be facing, and how we're winning in the game of business. Listeners of Startups for the Rest of Us, Mixergy, Zero to Scale, Bootstrapped Web, The Startup Chat, and Rhodium Podcast will love checking out our show.
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CleanRS093: Recognizing What Advice To Take, and What To Ignore | Today Dave and Craig talk all about advice. We’re all constantly seeking advice from our peers and coworkers, but how do you know when someone is giving you good advice, the advice you should take, and when should you politely ignore what someone | 5/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS092: Building Traffic and an Audience with Kurt Elster | Dave is flying solo today, as he talks with ecommerce and Shopify expert Kurt Elster from Ethercycle. Even if you are not in ecommerce, you will benefit from Kurt’s knowledge bombs about conversion rate and site optimization. Building traffic and having | 5/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS091: When Distractions are really Opportunities in Disguise | Distractions are everywhere these days. Every day we have countless things competing for our attention and taking away our valuable mental bandwidth. But not every distraction needs to be a negative experience….you can turn the tables on these sit | 5/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS090: Kickass User Onboarding | You never get a second chance to make a first impression. And these days with the software world (and SaaS specifically) being more competitive than ever it’s paramount that you create an unforgettable first experience for your users. Today Dave a | 5/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS089: Navigating The Road to $50k MRR with Mark Samms of NinjaOutreach | Today I’m excited to chat with Mark Samms, cofounder of blogger outreach tool Ninja Outreach. This story is particularly interesting because unlike some SaaS companies that enjoy seemingly overnight success Mark and his cofounder Dave Schneider (f | 4/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS088: MicroConf 2017 Recap – Living Your True Purpose | This week Dave and Craig catch up on MicroConf 2017. Lots of great lessons learned there for Dave, from strategic and actionable aspects of his business to some of the bigger questions about life, business, and the intersection of the two. A lot of times | 4/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS087: MicroConf 2017 Live, Unplugged, and Unfiltered | This week Dave is at MicroConf in Las Vegas and caught up with several other founders to talk about the conference and some things that they’re all facing in their business. On this LIVE show Dave is talking with: Brad Touesnard Einar Volsett Scott | 4/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS086: Microconf Preview and Technology with our Kids | This week Dave and Craig are catching up ahead of Microconf 2017. Dave is making the trip to Vegas for the Growth edition and digging into the e-commerce and Magento world. Dave has done a lot of thought and planning around getting the most out of this | 4/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS085: Revving up the Cold Email Machine | Today Dave and Craig are diving right back into the world of email outreach. Cold email as many would call it is a great way to get the word out about your product, and at the same time giving you a very proactive way to build your business. It’s | 3/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS084: Profit First Mindset and Cold Outreach Strategies | Today Dave and Craig are talking about things that really move your business forward. Both sides of the proverbial coin, maximizing business efficiencies, and ways to increase revenue. Dave has recently brought on a new support team member for his WordP | 3/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS083: Building Funnels that Convert | Today Dave and Craig bring back AudienceOps founder Brian Casel to the show. And today we’re talking all about building, evaluating, and optimizing sales funnels in our businesses. The seemingly magical goal of putting $1 into one side of your sal | 3/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS082: Split Testing Your Way to Success with Nick Disabato | Today Dave and I are pleased to welcome Nick Disabato, founder of Draft, to the show. Nick runs a consulting agency focused on gaining better insights for business through user feedback. Nick uses a variety of tools and approaches to accomplish this hol | 2/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS081: Small Conferences and Development Updates | Today Dave and Craig are catching up after both of them have been at smaller conferences in the past week or so. Dave just wrapped up the second annual Big Snow Tiny Conf West in Beaver Creek, CO and it was a smashing success. Putting together a confere | 2/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS080: Leveling up Development and Evaluating Your Sales Process | This week Dave and Craig dive into how we’re both approaching the development process of our projects, and how to look at your sales funnel as a whole to evaluate where it’s strong, and where you make improvements. Dave is recruiting the help | 2/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS079: What True Perseverance Really Means with Garrett Dimon | Today we welcome Garrett Dimon as a guest to the show. Garrett is previously the founder of Sifterapp, and is now working as marketing lead at Wildbit. But Garrett’s really amazing story is one of perseverance. Garrett has battled with some linge | 2/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS078: SaaS Marketing Influencers and Funnel Optimization | Today Dave and Craig catch up on new developments in our businesses, including what SaaS influencers we follow, what funnel optimization Dave is undertaking here in the first month of owning Recapture, and how Craig working through the development proces | 1/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS077: MicroSaaS with Tyler Tringas | Today I’m excited to welcome on Tyler Tringas to the show. Tyler is a bootstrapped SaaS founder who has been very gracious with sharing a lot of his lessons, tips, and tricks in growing StoreMapper in the past few years. Tyler’s story is a g | 1/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS076: 2016 Scorecard, and Visions of Grandeur in 2017 | Today Dave and Craig are not just reviewing our goals from 2016, but grading our performance. There’s no sense in setting goals and reviewing them if you’re not brutally honest with yourself about your performance. Overall Dave and I both di | 1/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS075: Running a WordPress Based Business with Phil Derksen | Today Dave and I sit down with Phil Derksen of WP SimplePay Pro to talk through best practices in running a WordPress product business. Phil and Dave are now veterans of the WP plugin space, and now that Craig is finding his way into the WordPress dev c | 12/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS074: I’ll Show You Mine… | This week is The Big Reveal episode. Dave has been hunting for a SaaS property to acquire for over a year now, and the right opportunity has finally come up. This episode we dig into the how, why, and now ‘what to do’ of acquiring an establ | 12/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS073: To Sell is (almost) Human | Selling. Some people love it, and some hate it. What is it about the art of persuasion that has so many people polarized? This week Dave and Craig sit down to talk about Selling, mostly based on the fantastic book by Dan Pink, “To Sell is Human&# | 12/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS072: 8 Sneaky Ways to Spy on Your Competitors’ Marketing Practices | For those of you in the US I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. A great time of year to begin reflecting back on the year, what we’ve achieved and what we’re all thankful for. Certainly a lot for us all to be proud of and to cherish. T | 11/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS071: Avoiding Shady Business Practices | Both Dave and I have few developments within our businesses this week. With the end of the year coming Dave has seen a steadying of business over the last few months as opposed to the ups and downs that he saw previous years. He attributes this to con | 11/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS070: A $2.6 Million Kickstarter with Chad DeShon | Dave is off this week, but I’m excited to bring on Chad DeShon to the show. Chad is a previous SaaS founder who’s now involved in the Ecommerce space, selling Board Game Tables. With a combination of pre-sold, customized solutions, and now | 11/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS069: Exploring Opportunities with Offline Customer Based Businesses | Today Dave and I are exploring the world of ‘offline’ business. We’re looking at technologies, niches, and customers who are a bit different than the world many of us live in each day in the online business world. With this change is b | 11/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS068: Is WordPress a Viable SaaS Framework? | This week Dave and I are tossing around the idea of using WordPress to power your SaaS app. Whether this means just an easier, potentially quicker way to get an MVP up, or maybe even running the entire app long term. There are numerous examples of this b | 10/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS067: Founders Should Never Write SOPs | This week Dave and I are stirring the chili a bit, so to speak, and bringing up a controversial perspective on Standard Operating procedures and how it pertains to your hiring practices. An article from Tim Conley on The Forge Facebook group brought this | 10/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS066: Build vs. Buy and How to Effectively Copy Success | Today Dave and I are catching up after he had what looked like a really fantastic acquisition fell through. The SaaS market is bustling these days and offers above asking price are becoming the norm for high quality, recurring revenue software products. | 10/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS065: Doublecast – Conferences, Travel, and Team Retreats | Today Dave and I are excited to join Brian Casel and Jordan Gal from the Bootstrapped Web Podcast and Brad Touesnard from the Apply Filters podcast to talk all about travel, conferences and team retreats. The big announcement is that tickets for all 3 of | 9/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRS064: A New Hope | This week Dave and I dig into (as much as we’re able) a potential acquisition opportunity he’s looking at. This is exciting both on the personal and professional front. For a while there’s been a bit of lack of purpose and direction w | 9/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Awesome
Insightful and inspiring. Keep the episodes coming. It's great to hear stories like this from small bootstrapped founders.
Dave
I've known Craig for awhile and was a guest on the show. I can tell from the format and the vision that this has the makings of a great podcast. Craig asks the questions that listeners want to know, and it's perfect for bootstrapped founders, especially SaaS
I might be biased… :)
But you should check us out! Seriously, give it a whirl on a few episodes, and then leave a review.
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