StartupResources.io — Issue #116
Hi folks, another Friday, another dollar. Well, okay, hopefully more than one and possibly in a different currency. The Icelandic one is called “króna” and is pronounced kind of like the beer Corona (no relation — our money is not beer 🤔).
In less than an hour, my native country Iceland is competing against Nigeria in the World Cup. Wish them luck (or if you’re Nigerian, may the best team win!). In the last game (against Argentina, which was a 1:1 draw), the game had 99.6% TV viewership. Hoping we get above 99.9% today — lots of businesses are closing right about now so folks can go watch, including CrankWheel.
Tool of the week
Proficonf | Conferencing and webinars in your browser
Proficonf is a WebRTC-based web conferencing and webinar solution, that allows for video chat, screen sharing, synchronous playback of media files, and more. It has also got webinar functionality. Free for now, while it’s in beta.
Tools discovered recently
RampReceipts | Automate Receipts & Invoices for Stripe
This lets your customers configure their own receipts, e.g. with the information they need on each receipt, before downloading them, thus saving you customer support costs. Looks neat and some of the same folks are behind this as Mailshake, an excellent email automation product I’ve used and enjoyed for a while. Pricing is $19/month or $99/year.
Ubersuggest’s Free Keyword Tool, Generate More Suggestions — neilpatel.com
Helps you generate keyword ideas for your content marketing strategy and production. Unlimited suggestinos for free.
Webjets.io | Collect, organize and share anything — webjets.io
This is kind of interesting, a way to collect, organize and curate information in a visual manner. Nothing at all like Evernote!
Paved | Email Marketing & Sponsored Content — www.paved.com
Lets you search for newsletters whose target audience might be a fit for your advertising messages, and book promotional spots of several different types with them. Probably can get some high ROI if you target correctly.
SurveySparrow | Online survey software — surveysparrow.com
Takes a conversational, mobile-first approach to online surveys, that according to some of their testimonials, increases completion rates. Free for up to 100 responses, starts at $29/month after that.
Kapwing Subtitles | Add Subtitles to Video — www.kapwing.com
This is a free tool from Kapwing that lets you upload a video, then add subtitles so that it can get more engagement on social media, where most folks don]t turn on the audio in videos that are auto-playing.
Articles for this week
I like having a boring business — www.indiehackers.com
I like having a boring business. I’ve purposefully worked at making it as dull as possible. There are no all-night hackathons of one or jam-packed days wh…
My New SEO Strategy: Blog Less, Spend More on Technology — neilpatel.com
This article is how I discovered the Ubersuggest tool, listed above. The idea is that if you can afford it, you can get a lot of SEO value by providing free tools that users would otherwise need to pay for.
15 Tips on How to Develop a Successful Startup with (Almost) No Money — medium.com
I’m quoted extensively in this piece, along with the founders of two other bootstrapped startups. I thought it was worth sharing as it has a bunch of concrete advice on how to bootstrap.
The 2018 Sales Technology Landscape: Your Go-To Sales Tech Guide — www.saleshacker.com
This is interesting for folks figuring out their sales tech stack. Over 800 top sales technology players in 38 different categories. My main gig, CrankWheel, gets a mention 😎
How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) — twitter.com
This is a huge Twitter thread by @naval that has some great advice for how to create value for others and how to use leverage to get rich from that value.
That’s it for this issue
Thanks for reading. As always, it’s my pleasure putting together the newsletter for you — a great way for me to end the week, and a great habit to keep up with what’s new. If you’d ever like to chat with me, I read every response — just hit reply.
Cheers,
Jói
P.S. This newsletter is made possible in part by my main project CrankWheel, which is a screen sharing solution for inside sales and telesales teams. We have a free-for-life plan that you can use solo or in a team, check it out and tell your friends! I’ll leave you with this awesome picture of my co-founder in full team Iceland uniform, at a conference today 😎⚽️
