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Fiat cash, aka government-issued currency, may be singing its swan song. The good news? Bitcoin and free markets have the potential to help people claim back their sovereignty. Chris Gimmer joins us on the show to talk about why the state of markets is so dismal, how government intervention has played a major role in this demise, and why Bitcoin is the way forward through the mess. Chris is the Co-founder of Snappa, a top-of-the-range design and templating SaaS product, as well as the creator of the bitcoin dashboard, Bitbo.io. In this episode, Chris dives into how we can transition from a fiat frame of mind into a Bitcoin-centered system. Discussing how Snappa is using BTC as their reserve asset, we hear first hand how this has enabled them to weather the economic downtown caused by COVID-19. In an ever-evolving global situation, Chris shares about why he's moving from Canada to the U.S., and how using a divisible, portable currency allows both brands and individuals to break out of the limitations provided by fiat currency, despite their geographical location. Tune in as we explore why we should be considering a bigger, future-oriented picture by investing in BTC.
Fiat cash, aka government-issued currency, may be singing its swan song. The good news? Bitcoin and free markets have the potential to help people claim back their sovereignty. Chris Gimmer joins us on the show to talk about why the state of markets is so dismal, how government intervention has played a major role in this demise, and why Bitcoin is the way forward through the mess. Chris is the Co-founder of Snappa, a top-of-the-range design and templating SaaS product, as well as the creator of the bitcoin dashboard, Bitbo.io. In this episode, Chris dives into how we can transition from a fiat frame of mind into a Bitcoin-centered system. Discussing how Snappa is using BTC as their reserve asset, we hear first hand how this has enabled them to weather the economic downtown caused by COVID-19. In an ever-evolving global situation, Chris shares about why he's moving from Canada to the U.S., and how using a divisible, portable currency allows both brands and individuals to break out of the limitations provided by fiat currency, despite their geographical location. Tune in as we explore why we should be considering a bigger, future-oriented picture by investing in BTC.
Learning SEO by trying MozMarketing is hard when you don't have a product or service to focus energy towards. SEO as a focused practice can't start yet.Chris Gimmer on SEORPG Twitter trends: giveaways, support each other threads, etc.Adam would rather have a smaller number of engaged fans then a huge follower count as a vanity metricPositive sum thinking in agenciesAgencies are being acquired for talent acquisitionWar for talent in techDebate on how hiring process should workHow to negotiate: Whoever has more information winsBrandon stumps Adam with his favourite interview question: "In the last 24 hours what was the most interesting thing you did that isn't related to work?"The science of behaviour change. Motivation comes first, but how can you change it?It's easier to run away from pain, than run towards a goal
In my first ever solo podcast I discuss some of the reasons that I’m so interested in Bitcoin. I talk about what Bitcoin is, how it works at a high-level, potential use-cases for the technology, why people believe it’s valuable. I also give some future price predictions! Could bitcoin hit 100k??? (None of this is financial advice!) Credits to Satoshi, Chris Gimmer, Saifedean Ammous, and PlanB/100TrillionUSD whose works were referenced in multiple instances throughout the episode. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pokinglife/support
Chris Gimmer is the co-founder and CEO of Snappa.com. The company specializes in creating easy to use graphic designs. Snappa.com targets people with no experience in graphic design. Their main customers are social media managers, marketers, small business owners, and anybody else who is interested in creating graphics easily and fast. If you lack enough resources to either outsource or even hire professional graphic designers, then the Snappa.com tool is designed for you. Chris is a finance and accounting expert. The idea of creating online marketing graphics came up to him while he was on vacation. Listen in to understand how Chris met his co-founder and the journey behind the establishment of Snappa.com. In This Episode What do you need to build your online venture from scratch, to scale it, and finally succeed? This episode takes you through the hassle that the Snappa.com tool went through. Chris Gimmer realized way earlier that he was not meant for the public service even though he had worked for the government for more than five years. In his quest to do something different, he started researching about online business. He would later meet his co-founder Mark who had also been a government employee but had taken up programming on the side. Chris and Mark developed a connection and later founded various companies together while still working for the government before finally settling on Snappa. Without any experience in online marketing or SEO, Chris and Mark launched their first business, a student’s online dating website. Listen as Chris tells Geordie the strategies they used to operate the website and how it faired on. Chris agrees that while the business was growing they had no way of making money from it. This forced them to rethink their operations and in the process, they ventured into research with their main focus on SEO. In a bid to strategize, the two CEOs launched another website which became a market place for templates. Hear the ongoing discussion as Chris tells Geordie how much revenue they made from the website, the expenses they had to deal with and how much profit they eventually made. After lengthy deliberations, Chris and Mark decided to venture into another online business that would enable them to increase their earnings. Listen to how conducting surveys helped them along the way, how Chris and Mark managed to oversee the operations of their business while still employed. How did they navigate through the challenges they faced? Listen to Chris as he shares the story behind their app. With time, Chris mastered the power of keywords in enhancing performance. Listen to him explain how they leveraged keywords to reach a wider audience and boost the performance of their business. Chris explains how the business broke even and the point at which they managed to hire additional staff. He also discusses the content generation strategy they had in place to reach a wider audience and improve their ranking. Chris and Mark are preparing to launch a new bigger and better product soon.
Our first Interview! Hurray! We're going to be bringing you limited interviews with great company and product builders. Our first episode features Chris Gimmer of Snappa who's even written about going from Idea to Product market fit! It covers a wide range of topics including why Snappa chose to bootstrap, how they got their first customers, how they price their product, and how they kept and keep growing it. This podcast is brought to you by Dignified the Digital Products Lab. If you need help with Product Strategy, Building a product, or engineering we're here for you: goodday@wearedignified.com Show Notes: Books mentioned; Lean Customer Development, Steve Jobs Biography, Four Steps to the Epiphany, The Price of Tomorrow, and The Bitcoin Standard Our agency Dignified Twitter link @brandonwaselnuk Intro music by our friend Jack H. Litster
Ben and Derrick are back from MicroConf. There were plenty of solid talks and takeaways to help them think, theorize, and hypothesize about moving forward with their products. Also, Ben presented two Starter Edition sessions: Q & A with Rob Walling and Idea to Validation to Launch: The First 365 Days of Tuple. Today’s Topics Include: Ben stuck to plan of not going to many talks; made connections and socialized Growth-adjacent trend of not buying tickets to conference, but hanging out with others Ben crushed it when MCing Starter Edition; being part of conference at organization level MicroConf’s Unofficial Mantra: Charge more; pricing is powerful lever to pull for ROI, and businesses know they should do it, but don’t; if they do, it’s too small Tuple has stabilized, and it’s time to generate revenue; started emailing list Retro on financial situation; nothing to worry about yet, but not feeling rich Links and resources: MicroConf (https://www.microconf.com/) MicroConf Recap (https://microconf.gen.co/) Ben Orenstein at MicroConf (https://www.microconf.com/starter/speakers/ben-orenstein/) Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Wistia (https://wistia.com/) Jason Cohen (https://blog.asmartbear.com/) Hiten Shah (https://hitenism.com/) Chris Gimmer (https://chrisgimmer.com/) Ruby on Rails (https://rubyonrails.org/) Drip (https://www.drip.com/) Art of Product on Twitter (https://twitter.com/artofproductpod) Derrick Reimer (http://www.derrickreimer.com) Website Derrick Reimer on Twitter (https://twitter.com/derrickreimer) Ben Orenstein (http://www.benorenstein.com/) Website Ben Orenstein on Twitter (https://twitter.com/r00k?lang=en) Level (https://level.app/) Tuple (https://tuple.app/)
Chris Gimmer is the co-founder of Snappa - a SaaS app that helps non-designers create online graphics in a snap. Snappa makes it super easy to create graphics for social media, ads, blogs, and more. Since launching on November 23, 2015 - the startup is now doing over $55K USD in monthly recurring revenue. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/georges-khalife/support
Chris Gimmer and his co-founder built a pretty slick piece of software called Snappa. I liked it so much I became a paying customer just nine months after their launch. But they launched on a .io domain name and – as Gimmer describes in "How (and Why) We Purchased the Snappa.com Domain for $40,000" – their "cool startup domain name" left their customers confused and questioning the longevity of their operations. So, negotiating the price down from $84,500, they bought Snappa.com for $40,000 on a payment plan. But nothing is ever as easy as it sounds, and in this interview Gimmer explains the details behind his thought process at each stage of his bootstrapped SaaS startup.
Chris Gimmer is the co-founder and CEO of Snappa, the fastest way to create graphics. Chris joined the government after school, but quickly found himself wanting to explore other career paths - eventually stumbling on to tech startups. He and his co-founder, Marc, began working nights, weekends, and even the occasional lunch hour at work to launch some of their first online projects. Their second bootstrapped startup - Snappa - first launched just over 12 months ago and has seen over 40,000 signups since then through a combination of growth focused tactics. Chris joins us to share his story, how he got into startups, how they’ve leveraged constraints to push growth as a bootstrapped company, what it’s like scaling a SaaS company, how to approach partnerships with bigger companies, and much more!
Preston talks with Canadian entrepreneur and Snappa.io founder Christopher Gimmer about entrepreneurship, software development, and how he built Snappa into a massive SAAS company with over 1,000 users.