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
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- Anaconda: From Bootstrapped Startup to 40M Users - with Peter Wang [418]
- Oribi: How a B2B SaaS Startup is Competing Against Free - with Iris Shoor [293]
- What to Do When No One Will Pay for Your SaaS Product - with Ryan Born [228]
- Treehouse: How a Developer Bootstrapped an 8-Figure SaaS Company - with Ryan Carson [246]
- Walls.io: Bootstrapping Solo to Over $10M ARR - with Michael Kamleitner [382]
- Makerpad: How Ben Tossell Bootstrapped a $240K Side-Project - with Ben Tossell [238]
- Jobs-to-be-Done: Customer Interviews That Drive Growth - with Bob Moesta [423]