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How Melissa Kwan automates webinars without the need of being on camera
What do you do when you run out of leads for your business? It’s a little scary when you don’t know where your next customer might be and you have to learn something new. For Melissa Kwan, enterprise sales are her bread and butter. It’s where she’s made multiple businesses successful and how she’s been able to be a successful entrepreneur. With her current venture, eWebinar, sales are quite a bit different.

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Platform Risk: Surviving Apple's Catastrophic Changes
The company that calls itself a Phoenix. Learn how Geniuslink survived 4 different times where revenue was cut in half overnight.

My favorite online community platform
Community businesses are becoming a hot trend. Here is Matt's favorite online community platform.

Building with the same online marketing strategy for 13 years
Building a venture is a marathon, not a sprint. Learn how Buffer bootstrapped it's way to $18 million in revenue per year.

A Baby's Sleep Problem Led to a $3.5M Business
Liz Hilton couldn't sell her baby sleep product through retail or Amazon - until one TikTok video changed everything.

Why This Founder Said NO to Easy VC Money
When everyone was raising "free money" during the 2020 COVID boom, this founder did the opposite

She Got Paid for Her MBA Instead
Instead of paying for an MBA, Layla Pomper treated her business as her education and got paid $250,000 to learn while building ProcessDriven from an overqualified virtual assistant into a YouTube-powered operations consulting company.

Sleeping in Boats Led to This $300k Studio
How Kylen Blom turned a college pitch competition into sleeping in boats around the Great Lakes and eventually building a $300k creative studio in Holland, MI.

NASA Writer to $1M Founder
From NASA writer to $1M web agency founder through mindset shifts and putting service before sales.

They Made $1 Million+ Going Against Google
Two bootstrapped founders proved that sometimes the best way to compete with a tech giant is to be everything they're not - simple, privacy-focused, and not free.

The metrics of a successful online community
If you’re building your own online community, it’s really tricky to figure out what metrics to use for success. Thankfully, Circle provides some answers with their 2024 Community Benchmark Report

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My favorite online community platform
Community businesses are becoming a hot trend. Here is Matt's favorite online community platform.