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@ow I feel the same.

What are your biggest complaints?

@JoeMinock @nbashaw @Austen @shreyas Thx ☺️

@ivanstegic @TransistorFM Yup! You can change the feed URL 👍

RT @petersuhm: Whoop!! We just launched @heyreform - our new form builder! 🥳

After 3-4 months of building, anyone can now sign up and buil…

@lauxmyth @Sawbones Thanks for sharing it!

@sh I would way rather be there than going camping tomorrow. 😬⛺

@sh WOW! 😍

@TransistorFM @jclermont We're still chatting about this. There might be a way to make it work.

@ianlandsman @TransistorFM I’m pretty sure they’ve been mostly doing group webinars for years.

Very different than what I’m talking about: enterprise sales demos for individual companies, and being a part of an enterprise sales process.

@jenniferbourn @ChrisBadgett Thank you!

@ricardgo404 Thanks!

RT @jmckinven: Indie Bites is back with a bang! @mijustin is one of my bootstrapping heroes, so it was an absolute blast to record an episo…

@therealaseifert @rosstuck Agreed!

@willdjthrill Always curious. 😄

@_erod https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1419074691323420674

@peldi What are the underpinnings of that fun?

Self-awareness?
Money in the bank?
Structure of your company?

Relationships?
Freedom?
Purpose?

@coderholic @scottmathson @TransistorFM Again, it all depends on your market.

Enterprise isn’t automatically a “10x opportunity” in every category.

@scottmathson @TransistorFM @coderholic Except that’s not what’s happening.

We have tons of folks coming to Transistor from Anchor and lower-priced competitors. There’s no “race to the bottom” for us.

@scottmathson @TransistorFM @coderholic I think you’re downplaying the additional coats (engineers, support, sales, legal)

All that additional weight + cost: is there really enough demand to necessitate all that?

We were top ranked for “private podcasting” for a long time. We saw about as much inbound as you can get.

@scottmathson @TransistorFM Different markets. Storyboard is enterprise focused and offers additional security (SSO). Supercast offers billing, which we don't do currently.

Look at Castos and Captivate (who launched private podcast features after us). Their pricing is more similar to us.

@ianlandsman @patio11 It makes sense in your market.

Less so in podcasting. 😉

I'm not convinced there's enough demand on the enterprise side of podcasting to justify investing in that kind of sales process.

@scottmathson @TransistorFM The problem is these companies absolutely require a call for their process. They won't accept anything else.

https://twitter.com/mjwhansen/status/1418682442400026624?ck_subscriber_id=1098922

@bonder @PhilipAnderse @TransistorFM Also: I don’t believe there’s enough enterprise-level demand.

@TylerMKing @mattwensing Yup. We have a FT success person in the UK.

She is doing these calls for her timezone. 👍

We could hire another FT person for this in North America, but not sure if it’s worth it for 60 calls a year?

That might net out to $20k/year in additional revenue.

@_RyanBorn For these enterprise-type customers, group calls won't work though.

https://twitter.com/mjwhansen/status/1418682442400026624

@dohertyjf The biggest problem is lack of *demand* in that price range.

Very few leads.

There are enterprise-level private podcast hosting companies (uStudio and Storyboard).

They charge $250k+/year, but that requires a TON of extra weight in the company (dedicated sales, IT, legal).

@tylertringas @TransistorFM Won't work for these customers because of the privacy component of "private podcasts."

They need me on a call with their security folks, legal folks, market dept, procurement, et.

They don't want other companies on the call. Very privacy focused.

@mattwensing 95% of demo calls have no idea who I am.

These are folks in procurement, or in the marketing dept, that just need to go through their rusty enterprise process to get anything purchased.

@caseyfulgenzi What product was that for?

@caseyfulgenzi https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1418656725071110144

@AmanVirk1 Thanks for sharing it!

@tillkruss Damn!

@thejonotron Lol. Yup. Money is one of the outcomes from doing those things. 👍

RT @heyyfernanda: @mijustin I just wrote about this: the aggregation of marginal gains. Where purposeful, gradual, day to day improvement l…

@TonsOfLaziness @levelsio And also here:
https://justinjackson.ca/build

@TonsOfLaziness @levelsio A few ideas here to get you started:
https://justinjackson.ca/hard-valuable

@TonsOfLaziness @levelsio Yes, you'll need overlap between your experience + a good market.

But here's what's in your control:

- learn to recognize the shape of good market opportunities
- get out of your bubble and explore different industries (contractor or employee)
- build skills
- make connections

@ReginaWalton Thank you! ❤️

@TonsOfLaziness @levelsio I agree; it can be frustrating.

For me, the surfing metaphor was helpful.

If you want a chance of surfing a great wave:

1. Learn the fundamental of surfing (paddling, etc)
2. Spend time in waters with great waves (show up)
3. Paddle out for waves that are a good match for you.

@BigBradBrown Mostly by talking about it (sharing it on podcasts, twitter, our blog, word of mouth).

In our category ("website hosting") there's already a handful of affiliates who are killing it... so they found us. 😄

@TrevorLongino Yeah, we're not really using @usefathom goals for anything serious right now. 😉

This is how we track that our funnels currently:

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1417939401913495552

@TrevorLongino @TransistorFM @usefathom According to the folks at Fathom, having an overall bounce number in that range is pretty normal for SaaS (especially in podcast hosting, where a large number of searches are podcast listeners with listener-related queries)

Our bounce rate from specific referrers is much better.

@TrevorLongino @TransistorFM @usefathom Yeah, wondering if this has something to do with that:

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1417889813055741953

@alphacolin Who do you use for healthcare?

We’ve had a hard time finding a provider for @TransistorFM’s USA employees (currently just @jonbuda, but shortly a new engineer)

@jasonlbeggs @JackEllis @Netlify We’re using @statamic and their static site generator.

@LifeWithArjay @usefathom @TransistorFM I'm doing quite a bit on Reddit currently:
https://www.reddit.com/user/spankymustard/posts/

Quite active in r/podcasting and r/podcasters:
https://www.reddit.com/user/spankymustard/comments/

Anything else I should be doing?

RT @SethDKlein: We need our govts to approach #ClimateEmergency with the same ambition & urgency they confronted the pandemic. Only they ar…

@iamashley 😮💯

@stenmorten @petecodes 💯

RT @petecodes: I just interviewed Justin Jackson @mijustin 🔥

We chatted about

💰Finding the best markets for bootstrappers
💡How to take on…

@Matthew_Reid @stripe Nope.

@BarrettABrooks Yes! 🙌

@seanpritzkau @stripe Thx. just trying to give folks a little nudge!

@dchymko @1PercentFTP NICE

@amberlturner @candleflare Awesome! Adding you now

@amedina_dev I'll add you to the friends section. 👍

Which domain/project do you want me to list?

@amedina_dev @jameswood12p @stripe @like2have @danhulton @nodewood @TransistorFM Were you already participating?

Looking for new companies who haven’t joined Stripe Climate yet.

@jmckinven @indiebitespod Nice! Adding you now.

@CarterBryden @stripe @like2have @danhulton @nodewood @TransistorFM @approximatedapp Yup! If you enable it, send me the screenshot and I'll add you.

@gertjanwilde @stripe @like2have @danhulton @nodewood @TransistorFM @apideck Did you enable it yet? I can add you now.

@abinaya_rl @stripe @like2have @danhulton @nodewood @TransistorFM Awesome!!!!!

I’ll update my page with your info as soon as I’m back at my computer.

@irisdotfm @stripe @like2have @danhulton @nodewood @TransistorFM Yessssses! I’ll add you to my list as soon as I’m back on my computer

@marvindanig @stripe @like2have @danhulton @nodewood @TransistorFM @bubblinapp @redgooseapp YESSSSSS

@twigpress @stripe @like2have @danhulton @nodewood @TransistorFM Added you to the bottom section here (along with @usefathom)

https://transistor.fm/climate-change/

@rsobers @thatbberg @sacca Yup! I'm a fan. 👏

@AlejandroVBeta1 @a16z The only climate investment I can find by @a16z is a $4.5 million @usepatch.

(This is, also, I believe one of their smallest investments in the past year)

https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/04/andreessen-horowitz-could-make-the-carbon-offset-api-patch-its-latest-climate-bet/

@_architexture_ @jjhorgan @JustinTrudeau The air quality numbers today in #vernonbc are abysmal.

https://www.iqair.com/ca/canada/british-columbia/vernon

@ThomasSmale @microacquire That's what I mean: way less qualified buyers.

(And, on the investment side, way less need for investment [generally])

There's just not as many people who can spend $5M+ on an acquisition.

@einarvollset @microacquire That’s a good point.

What was curious to me and the friends discussing this, is the kinds of interest (and volume of interest) we’ve gotten at each stage.

@birbigs Ah. I just deleted that tweet to fix my grammar. You replied too quick! 😆

@dannoblaster Hahaha

RT @mijustin: If you watch people make purchasing decisions, you'll notice they'll often get decision fatigue.

They're tired of experienci…

@dannoblaster Isn’t every leader in the world doing the same thing?

@logan__woolf Yeah, Nelson is awesome

@pjrvs It just cleared up yesterday and today.

It’s been really bad.

@AdamYamada I think that’s pretty rare.

@pqtdev What’s @forcir?

@ahmednadar Yes. I’m in the interior of BC. We had temps as high as 46C here in my town.

Lots of fires burning around us.

@seb_sebsn 😳

@webby2001 Awesome post! 👏

I have many thoughts, but I need to synthesize them before I respond. 😄

@_agtlucas @IronMaiden Me too!

@TransistorFM Love this color combo.

@theothercole @anitakirkovska @chrismessina But, overall, is usage up or down?

My guess is DAUs are way down?

@JoshDoody @adamwathan @tailwindcss @hamstu Wow! That was a good run!

(Tailwind is awesome by the way; you’re going to love it)

@MichaelMartocci @GeorgeGoognin They’ve had plenty of exposure in the tech press over the years.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/06/kayla-itsines-sweat-app-will-rake-in-77-million-this-year/

One challenge: who would you charge?

The most likely seems to be authors / publishers.

Maybe similar to Amazon? There could "sponsored/promoted" placement?

"Other books related to this book you might like..."

@floraworley I wonder if @toddpgood knows some folks?

@ideasasylum Yeah, but having 13+ million people follow you on Insta hardly makes you "unknown." 🤣

@Mqsley From 2016: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/fitness/inspiration/the-body-thats-worth-46-million/news-story/f5091323a5f54558557a7792456d6083

@dankim Congrats! 🎉

@GoPodfriend @mattwensing 🤔 What have consumers moved to?

Almost 100% of podcasts are still powered by RSS, whether it’s on Spotify, Apple, @OvercastFM, Pocket Casts, Google, FB, or Amazon.

@stenpittet @hammer_mt Yup; completely different magnitudes.

@scottbolinger Yes. That’s exactly my point here: https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1251692255515009025

@RyanTheJenks We should be focusing all of our investment, research, and innovation on fighting climate change.

That’s priority #1.

“Living on Mars one day” should we way down the list. https://twitter.com/sacca/status/1411482575671988224

@scottbolinger “Not all billionaires” 😜

Branson and Bezos have made commitments, but have taken little action.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2021/07/12/billionaires-claiming-climate-leadership-should-not-promote-space-tourism/

@blirwin Omg! Stay safe!

@hammer_mt You’re getting your “order of magnitudes” and statistical probabilities wrong.

It’s far more likely we slow climate change and keep the earth habitable than getting 8 billion people into space anytime soon.

@hammer_mt The math on finding a new home… doesn’t look good.

@hammer_mt We’re talking about costs and scale of a completely different magnitude.

Plus: the earth is on fire.

RT @TheYelitsa: Why is space exploration, something that 100% optional and not of any significant importance in comparison to the problems…