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Episode Synopsis
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 TinyConfTools 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 fundedWho to hire firstWho 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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