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What tools do you use for sales and support? Which tools work best for project management? How do you know who to hire first if you’re a bootstrapped company?

Brian and Jordan asked for your questions and Twitter delivered. Today, they are answering Twitter’s questions about what tools they use, and who to hire, and when.  

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“It’s interesting the way we think of tools and how we sell tools to other companies.” – Jordan Powered By the Tweet This PluginTweet This

Here are today’s conversation Points: 

  • NoSnow TinyConf
  • Tools that we use: 
    • Techstack (Laravel, Angular, React, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Tailwind)
    • Project Management (Github, Notion, MixPanel, Confluence, Jira)
      • Marketing Changelog 
    • Sales, Marketing, and Support (Pipedrive, Asana, Hubspot, Salesforce, Intercom, Customer.io, HelpSpace, HelpScout)
    • Metrics and Internal Tracking (Grafana, Profitwell, ChartMogul, MixPanel, Amplitude, Google Analytics, Fathom Analytics, Plausible Analytics)
    • Communication (Slack) 
  • Hiring when you’re bootstrapped, versus when you’re funded
    • Who to hire first
    • Who they are hiring now
“If you can market and get your tool into their hands sometime during that first year of the company, you have such a higher likelihood of getting in. Some of these tools are so sticky.” – Brian Powered By the Tweet This PluginTweet This

Resources:

Brian on Twitter

Jordan on Twitter 

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