Ben successfully navigates Facebook's support maze. Liam sizes up the leap to Teachable's Pro plan as he grapples with an age-old startup dilemma... he needs money to grow, but needs to grow to make money!

Instagram_boy

Instagram shopping checklist

EarlyParrot referrals

DotCom Secrets book

Ben discovers the potential of referrals for email marketing, while Liam's wanders through a misty maze of deal-making with his ever-elusive sales partner.

https://www.earlyparrot.com/#

Ben is boning up on SEO with a side-hustle, while reworking his Reddit strategy. Liam gets a run of high-ticket sales and ponders how to negotiate commission rates with his new sales rep, Claire.  

 https://yoast.com/ 

 https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/ 

 https://kopywritingkourse.com/join 

Liam's time away from his morning broadcast leaves him with a new perspective, and a new plan. Ben has a new dropshipping idea.

Check out Design Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.

Ben's freelancers drop the ball, leaving his marketing strategy in the lurch. Liam launches his conversation classes, to unexpected results.

Automate posting Shopify products to Social Media > Outfy.com

Booking classes/appointments > Simplybook.me

Liam's Utopian vision is shattered while Ben deals with feedback from a traffic spike

Ben makes some rookie errors hiring a freelance editor while making gains with an SEO analytics suite. Liam's course sales dry up as he mulls over whether to extend the runway by teaching on AmazingTalker or start building out a MVP for his own product.  

Strange Planet  

Discover Earth Podcast

Liam finds a new platform for teachers, and a potential protege. Ben maps out a flywheel and finds a formula to quantify the elusive product-market fit. 

America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization.

Amazing Talker.

Tim Wu, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.

Ben's Product-Market fit tweetstorm

Our first ever guest is Mark Wilbur, the quintessential non-traditional technical founder. He's currently running alchemist.camp, a hands-on subscription website to help programmers learn the powerful Elixir programming language.

Cracking the Coding Interview ->  https://www.amazon.com.au/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/0984782850 

Actionable Gamification ->  https://www.amazon.com.au/Actionable-Gamification-Beyond-Points-Leaderboards-ebook/dp/B00WAOGY4U 

How I Tricked Myself into Being Awesome ->  https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/05/how-i-tricked-myself-into-being-awesome/ 

Alchemist Camp Podcast ->  https://alchemist.camp/podcast

Mark's blog -> https://toshou.com

Mark's Twitter ->  https://twitter.com/logicmason 

Ben unlocks new hashtags by mixing Google’s Vision AI with Instagram while Liam mulls over how on earth his first gamified live show halves the view count but doubled engagement. 

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