Ed Freyfogle of OpenCage Geocoder and I (founder of Feature Upvote) discuss how we handle customer cancellation requests in our respective SaaS products. We discuss how we might do it differently.

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Our guest sponsor, courtesy of Balsamiq, is Vivid.fm. Vivid helps podcasters reach more subscribers via social sharing by automatically creating video teasers.

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Last week we heard Ed's top 5 habits for small teams. This week, Steve shares the habits he uses to keep his small team productive.

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Our guest sponsor, courtesy of Balsamiq, is Checkvist, the professional list making tool.

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Ed shares his top 5 habits he recommends for small bootstrapping teams, to keep your product as good as it should be.

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Our guest sponsor, courtesy of Balsamiq, is Mimiran, the CRM for people who hate selling.

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Steve and Ed consider whether Freemium is a viable business model for bootstrappers.

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Our guest sponsor, courtesy of Balsamiq, is IvyBackup.

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Ed from OpenCage Geocoder and I talk about the marketing techniques that work - and don't work - when you product is targeted towards developers.

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I’m joined by Ed Freyfogle for the first of several episodes in which he is my cohost. Ed is the co-founder of OpenCage Geocoder, a bootstrapped, profitable SaaS.

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Our guest sponsor, courtesy of Balsamiq, is Mockless.

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We also rant a little about how some businesses could improve the finer details of billing.

Craig and I are both bootstrapping our businesses while living in foreign countries. In this episode we discuss what that's like for us personally. We also discuss the challenging practicalities of visas, languages, and business while living abroad.

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We also discuss:

Craig turns the tables and interviews me about Feature Upvote and about this podcast.

We discuss:

We discuss how you can become a speaker at events, and whether this is a viable way to raise awareness of your product and services.

Topics include:

Craig and I discuss how bootstrappers can use the podcasting ecosystem to promote their products.

We discuss three ways to use podcasts - and the pros and cons of each:

We 'go meta' and talk about why Steve has launched the new iteration of the Bootstrapped podcast.

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