Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 564 | Running a Business with 10,000 Paid Subscribers
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In Episode 564, Rob Walling chats with Sol Orwell about growing his website, examine.com to millions of views per month, changing revenue models, and the importance of doing customer interviews.
The topics we cover
[2:14] Intro
[3:06] How Examine started
[7:21] Examine's differentiated approach based on scientific research
[9:33] 10,000 paying subscribers
[10:59] Building trust through transparency
[15:26] Interviewing customers
[21:14] Getting hit by Google
[26:52] Sol's stunt marketing pages
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