The Disruptware Blog

Everything we've learned about building and growing software businesses — SaaS strategy, growth hacking, product design and founder interviews.

Headlines for Marketing – Introducing headlinr
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Headlines for Marketing – Introducing headlinr

On just about every marketing blog that discusses anything online - there is a post about headlines.  It doesn't seem to matter what you are doing, publishing or emailing about - the headline is funda

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Listen To Your Own Advice
Business

Listen To Your Own Advice

KudaniCloud launched privately via webinar last week.  Why via webinar?.. why not open it wide?  So before I explain why..let me tell you whats been happening in the last few months.

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Email Marketing Expert Dan Fagella from CLVboost Discusses Marketing Automation, Stick Rate, and ROI
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Email Marketing Expert Dan Fagella from CLVboost Discusses Marketing Automation, Stick Rate, and ROI

On today's show I'm going to introduce you to Dan Faggella. Dan is an expert in conversion optimization, but specifically around email marketing, so marketing automation. And his company, called CLV Boost, is all about improving your customer lifetime value.

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Paid Traffic Expert Justin Brooke Shares His System For Making Traffic Profitable
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Paid Traffic Expert Justin Brooke Shares His System For Making Traffic Profitable

Today were talking to Justin Brooke, a paid traffic expert and the founder of IMScalable, which is an agency that specializes in paid traffic management.

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User Experience Expert Samuel Hulick Discusses Onboarding For SaaS Apps
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User Experience Expert Samuel Hulick Discusses Onboarding For SaaS Apps

Today were talking to Samuel Hulick, who's the founder of UserOnboard.com. He is an expert in user experience and knows all about onboarding for SaaS apps.

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Travis Ketchum On Building Massive Leads Through Contest Domination
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Travis Ketchum On Building Massive Leads Through Contest Domination

Travis Ketchum talks about Contest Domination and how it went from a simple plugin to a successful SaaS application. Find out how customers are benefiting.

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Saul Fleischman Develops A Unique Way To Optimize Hashtags With RiteTag
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Saul Fleischman Develops A Unique Way To Optimize Hashtags With RiteTag

RiteTag helps you find the right hashtags for all of your tweets. Learn more about it on this podcast interview with Saul Fleishchman.

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Why Aren’t You On Twitter
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Why Aren’t You On Twitter

Let's talk about Twitter. Are you in or are you out? Discover a great method you can use to determine if you are using the right hashtags or not. Read on...

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Raise Your Life Time Value Through Cross Selling
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Raise Your Life Time Value Through Cross Selling

Today I want to talk about cross selling and maximizing the lifetime value for your customers. What are the three methods to maximize revenue?

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The Power of Masterminds
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The Power of Masterminds

I want to talk about the power of Masterminds. I recently went to a new Mastermind organized by a friend of mine called Jared Stevenson. Local San Diego...

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Rob Burns Creates Groundbreaking Press Release Company prReach From A Market Vulnerability
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Rob Burns Creates Groundbreaking Press Release Company prReach From A Market Vulnerability

Ground breaking Press Release company publishes your release a twist for instant authority.

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Brand New App Survey-2-Sale Already Doubling Conversions
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Brand New App Survey-2-Sale Already Doubling Conversions

Survey-2-Sale is an amazing little app that gets customers actively engaged and participating and rewards them with a discount at the end.

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MIT, Y Combinator And A Series Of Startups Sparks Innovation For Austin NeuDecker’s Latest Venture Membright
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MIT, Y Combinator And A Series Of Startups Sparks Innovation For Austin NeuDecker’s Latest Venture Membright

Membright is a unique mobile app that helps control what you remember. Created by Austin NeuDecker who has years of experience with startup ventures.

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Simple And Compelling Is Digital Telepathy’s Winning Formula To Ground Breaking Design
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Simple And Compelling Is Digital Telepathy’s Winning Formula To Ground Breaking Design

Digital Telepathy is changing how websites are designed. Instilling a philosophy of simplicity and making things better all around for the user experience.

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10 Growth Hacks to Accelerate Your SaaS
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10 Growth Hacks to Accelerate Your SaaS

This collection of growth hacks comes from Thomas Schranz who's the CEO of a company called Blossom.IO. I've taken his ideas and expanded it to make it relative to my audience, but I think these things really, really work.

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How To Name Your Product
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How To Name Your Product

Knowing how to properly name your product is an important business decision. Discover the key factors that you should always consider.

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Two Dollar Trial And Referral Program Has Led To 24,000 Users For 22Social
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Two Dollar Trial And Referral Program Has Led To 24,000 Users For 22Social

22Social a Facebook based business continues to give value to its users and bring on new recruits with their referral campaign. Read More...

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The Question Is Not How To Get Funding
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The Question Is Not How To Get Funding

"How do I get funding?" is the wrong question to ask. Instead you need to be asking, "How do I get my first customer?" You only need one to get things moving.

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Productize Don’t Customize
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Productize Don’t Customize

Say no to customer customizations and instead discover why you need to productize instead. And find out how you can get your customers to pay for these features to be added to the core product.

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Al Bsharah’s Passion And Love For What He Does Translates Into A Big Win For Embarke
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Al Bsharah’s Passion And Love For What He Does Translates Into A Big Win For Embarke

On today’s show, I’m really excited to introduce someone called Al Bsharah who is the founder of a company called Embarke, which is all about email marketing and optimizing open rates and click throughs.

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Hot Site: Learn From Other Onboarding Successes
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Hot Site: Learn From Other Onboarding Successes

Learn about a new site that has taken onboarding to a different level. Samuel Hulick examines the user experience at sign up. Read more...

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Lars Lofgren Shares His Strategies And Tactics To Grow KISSmetrics
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Lars Lofgren Shares His Strategies And Tactics To Grow KISSmetrics

A number of strategies and tactics to grow are needed for long term success. Discover what works and does not work for KISSmetrics.

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How To Monetize OpenSource Software
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How To Monetize OpenSource Software

Is it ethical to monetize OpenSource software? Sure is. Read on and find out even more interesting facts about how to make money from free software.

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Why Freemium Is The Wrong Model For Your SaaS Product
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Why Freemium Is The Wrong Model For Your SaaS Product

While Freemium is a very attractive proposition it may not be the best pricing model for a SaaS product. Discover the reasons why, who's done it well, and who's tested it and decided against it.

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Growth Hacking: How One Company Got 2000 Users In 20 Days
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Growth Hacking: How One Company Got 2000 Users In 20 Days

Ryan Hoover's great growth hacking strategy consisted of reaching out to influencers and getting validation, while using a free tool. This was a great way to make sure that the market was interested in his product before investing time and money.

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Paul Biggar From CircleCI On How Building An Amazing Product Eliminates The Need For Marketing
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Paul Biggar From CircleCI On How Building An Amazing Product Eliminates The Need For Marketing

Discover how Paul Biggar focuses all his efforts into his product, which leads to an army of evangelists who do the selling for him.

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Skin In The Game Strategy Could Be The Key To Inbound Marketing SaaS
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Skin In The Game Strategy Could Be The Key To Inbound Marketing SaaS

Listen to Andrew Dymski who's created a SaaS for Inbound Marketing agencies and how he will only allow paying beta customers to ensure they actively use it.

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Growth Hacking 5 Free Traffic Strategies
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Growth Hacking 5 Free Traffic Strategies

Today is Growth Hacking Day and I want to give you five strategies or tips to get free traffic to your business. Let's get started with number one. First of all, one thing that you can do is make your training videos accessible to the public and that has really two benefits. First of all, by SEO optimizing your training videos then you're going to get some more long tail traffic.

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How Content Marketing Is Still The Key To KISSmetrics Growth
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How Content Marketing Is Still The Key To KISSmetrics Growth

Listen to this interview with Neil Patel is the co-founder of Crazy Egg, Hello Bar, and KISSmetrics. He also has a very popular traffic generation blog called Quick Sprout. The Wall Street Journal calls him a top influencer on the web and Entrepreneur Magazine said that he has created one of the 100 most brilliant companies in the world.

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The 5 Reasons For Startup Failure
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The 5 Reasons For Startup Failure

Discover how not to crash your freshly minted startup, using five really simple concepts that anyone can use today.

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Lessons From The Failure of Vinay Patankars First Startup Could Make Process.St The Next Killer SaaS
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Lessons From The Failure of Vinay Patankars First Startup Could Make Process.St The Next Killer SaaS

Discover why investors look for Entrepreneurs on their second startup. Vinay and Process Street solves a real problem that exists in every business today.

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How To Wireframe With Balsamiq
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How To Wireframe With Balsamiq

Paul: Hi.  It’s Paul Clifford and today I want to talk about wireframing with Balsamiq.

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How To Accelerate Your Software Project
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How To Accelerate Your Software Project

I want to talk about accelerating your application with ready-made code that's already done for you. Now at the very basic level you've probably heard me talk about PHP as an example programming language which you can use. Well, together with PHP you can also use PHP frameworks. And those frameworks are things like CodeIgniter, CakePHP and one called Yii and a whole load of others.

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What Is The One Word That Causes Projects To Fail
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What Is The One Word That Causes Projects To Fail

Paul: Hi. It's Paul Clifford from Disruptware and I want to tell you about one word that stands between you and a software disaster. That word is communication. Now, essentially, let's look at just fo

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Growing Your Business Using APIs
Business

Growing Your Business Using APIs

Paul: Hi. It's Paul Clifford from Disruptware and I just want to talk about the four ways of increasing your revenue and growing your business using APIs.

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How To Design
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How To Design

Discover how to get that idea out of your head and into a form where you can communicate it to yourself and to your developer.

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How Do You Know If Your Business Model Will Work
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How Do You Know If Your Business Model Will Work

75 percent of startups fail. Find out whether you have the fundamental elements in place.

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How To Reinvent A Better Wheel
Business

How To Reinvent A Better Wheel

Never sit there thinking you don't have the perfect idea. 99 percent of companies take something that works and make it 10 times better. You can too.

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Which Language
Business

Which Language

With a plethora of languages, technologies and platforms to choose from here are some basic strategies to help you make your choice.

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What Is SaaS And Why Is It A Great Business Model
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What Is SaaS And Why Is It A Great Business Model

Online business strategies like SaaS are proving to be the most efficient software businesses on the planet. Find out how.

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This is startup…
Entrepreneurship

This is startup…

There are even movements like Code Academy and Programmr that encourages CEO's to get techie and start learning.  It's true that it pays to know something about tech.  It empowers you as the CEO to ch

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