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September 29, 2015

Digsy CEO, Andrew Bermudez, sits down with Nimble Founder & CEO, Jon Ferrara, who shares how he has grown both Nimble and former startup, Goldmine CRM without employing salespeople. This interview is packed with insight and great ideas. Watch the full video interview below.

Key Takeaways:

Jon is a trained engineer, turned sales genius
How he successfully bootstrapped his first startup, Goldmine CRM
How Goldmine CRM was acquired by Frontrange Solutions
How Nimble leverages social data and social signals to grow sales

How This Startup Bootstrapped & Got to Revenue in 30 Days

September 5, 2015 / Andrew Bermudez / 4 Comments

[Video] How Garry Heath of OC Startup DealTree.com (acquired by BestBuy.com) Built a Tech Startup that Got to Revenue in 30 Days

Join Co-Founder & CEO of Digsy Andrew Bermudez in an interview with Orange County tech startup entrepreneur Garry Heath about how he created a tech startup that got to revenue in its first month in business and how he built an electronics price data automation algorithm to scale quickly.

Key Takeaways:

How to Bootstrap and get to revenue is all about the channel: Garry hooked up with www.Buy.com to get supply to sell
How he created the 1st comps system to dynamically price electronics resales and optimize sales times
How to attract great talent at 30% below market and retain them
Why BestBuy acquired DealTree.com

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The Growth Hacks Fueling Tidy’s Explosive Growth (Video)

January 10, 2015 / Andrew Bermudez / 2 Comments

Tidy is one of the fastest growing local services startups in Southern California. You’ll be surprised to learn how their Founder & CEO, Kristen Schmitt is growth hacking Tidy’s explosive growth without SEO and SEM. We met Tidy when helped them find office space to rent in Orange County, California.

Highlights:

Tidy recreates the Ritz Carlton experience in your own home
Tidy uses several growth hacks yielding amazing ROI for the company
Kristen shares the tools they use at Tidy to communicate and be more productive

Video: How to Build a KILLER SaaS PRODUCT with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

December 15, 2014 / Andrew Bermudez / 1 Comment

Want to build a Killer Product? Want to delight people and make millions of dollars in the process? Then, you must nail down the key fundamentals of building AWESOME products that people love.

How do you build a great product?

Our video guest, Jon Ferrara, creator of CRM solutions will share his secrets on how to build products people love and grow through word-of-mouth.

Highlights:

The invention of CRM was a pivot from accounting software
Goldmine’s & Nimble’s growth hack: turn hundreds of Network VARS into customers and then into resellers
Goldmine’s growth acceleration: Build Relationships with Trusted Advisors and Influencers of their target audience
How to recruit rockstar employees without having to compete with other companies

Entrepreneur Hacks: Automating Your Rolodex

December 2, 2014 / Andrew Bermudez / 8 Comments

This is part of a series of posts where I’ll be sharing tricks and tools I leverage to get things done and be a more productive entrepreneur and CEO.

Entrepreneurs live and die by their rolodex.

Your network is everything. It’s the people in your contacts list that help you quickly raise a round of funding, recruit talented individuals and land a big customer.

Entrepreneurship is an extremely busy job. If you are, or have been, an entrepreneur, then you know how busy this role really is. Between building a business, building a product, fundraising, recruiting, working with your attorney, working with your accountant, managing a team, selling, marketing and executing, there’s very little room to do anything else.

Tons of important stuff that we should do that just never gets done — like keeping your contacts up-to-date and organized. This task is very important if you plan on raising money, recruiting new talent or getting more customers — which are pretty much the key roles of a CEO. To help you optimize your time spent managing your contacts. you must pick up good tools and tricks available.

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How Paint Colors Affect Employee Productivity in the Office

May 7, 2014 / Andrew Bermudez / 1 Comment

Selecting the right paint for your office walls can be just as important as selecting the right employees. The effect paint has on the environment of your office is huge and this also tends to influence how productive your workers are. According to research by the University of Hawaii at Hilo, visual elements which include colors in an office building can affect employee’s behavior, levels of productivity and attitudes in the work place. The ambiance in an office is by far one of the most influential factors in employee’s productivity. Colors can be very crucial in setting the right atmosphere for workers to feel comfortable and relaxed. After all, the main strategy in developing employee’s motivation is creating a good atmosphere.
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7 Time Management & Productivity Hacks for Busy Entrepreneurs

March 20, 2014 / Andrew Bermudez / 0 Comments

Time is the critical factor in growing a business, and most entrepreneurs don’t have much of it. Time works for you or against you, so it’s critical to know how to free-up time to focus on tasks that will have a long-term impact on growing your business and sales revenue. As a busy entrepreneur, everything you do should always add long-term value to your business, while at the same time ensuring that your business runs smoothly within reasonable operational costs. Here are some tricks we’ve learned from successful entrepreneurs we know about saving-time and scaling the growth of their company:

How Busy Business Owners Can Use Yelp to Find More Customers

March 13, 2014 / Andrew Bermudez / 0 Comments

The idea to increase sales revenue in your business using Yelp may seem farfetched but to be honest its not. With the right information, busy entrepreneurs can convert Yelp into a powerful cornerstone to help build their online presence & take revenue to a whole new level. The good thing is there aren’t too many technicalities involved. In fact, making the best out of Yelp is just a matter of getting the simple things right. There are a number of innovative marketing strategies through which busy entrepreneurs can use Yelp to build and grow their local service or product based business into a successful entity bringing in substantial sums in revenue. You don’t have to be a restaurant for Yelp to empower your business. Consumers turn to yelp for advice on Dentists, CPAs, Doctors, Financial Planners and other Products. Here is a quick list of strategies you can explore.