How a Startup Grew Its Blog from 9K to 500K Monthly Unique Visitors
Joshua Parkinson is the Founder & CEO of PostPlanner, a Facebook tool that makes it easy for people to find and post amazing content to increase their social media engagement. Joshua founded the company in 2011 and to date Post Planner has over 25,000 monthly active users.
Success Quote
- “It’s the things you do to avoid depending on luck that ultimately makes you lucky.” — Joshua Parkinson
Book Recommendation
- “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” by Nir Eyal & Ryan Hoover
- “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution” by Walter Isaacson
- “The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters” by Gregory Zuckerman
- “The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder” by Peter Zeihan
Links, Resources & People Mentioned
- Post Planner – @postplanner
- Nir and Far
- Jira
- Fate Hacker
- Scott Ayres – @scottayres
Contact Information
Recommended Podcast Episodes
- Airbase: From Solo Founder to 8-Figure ARR SaaS - with Thejo Kote [381]
- How a SaaS Startup Used Engineering As Marketing to Drive Growth - with Randy Rayess [155]
- What to Do When No One Will Pay for Your SaaS Product - with Ryan Born [228]
- Mode: How 3 First-Time Founders Built an 8-Figure SaaS - with Benn Stancil [307]
- How This Non-Technical Founder Launched Two Successful SaaS Startups - with Hiten…
- Walls.io: Bootstrapping Solo to Over $10M ARR - with Michael Kamleitner [382]
- 7 Key User Flows to Unlock Your SaaS Growth - with Peter Loving [410]
- Loomly: How We Grew Our SaaS to Over 7000 Customers - with Thibaud Clement [280]
- Oribi: How a B2B SaaS Startup is Competing Against Free - with Iris Shoor [293]
- Treehouse: How a Developer Bootstrapped an 8-Figure SaaS Company - with Ryan Carson [246]