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This week, Martin talks to Adam Stylo of Crafty Clicks. Andy Brice's bootstrappers meet-up in Swindon: http://www.meetup.com/South-West-Bootstrappers Crafty Clicks: https://craftyclicks.co.uk/ Adam on twitter: https://twitter.com/styloa Follow up and feedback: nick.swan@gmail.com, martin.judd@joinedupsolutions.com twitter : @nickswan @martin_judd

This week, Nick and Martin provide an update on what we've been doing and talk about fixed and flexible routines Nick’s blog post on burnout from 2011: http://nickswan.net/2011/12/29/thoughts-on-burnout/ Play episode from Zenfounder: http://zenfounder.com/episodes/episode-10-founders-at-play/ Get on your bike and ride: http://zenfounder.com/episodes/episode-13-get-on-your-bike-at-go/ Tim Ferriss a...

This week, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on what we've been doing and discuss the effects of burnout Interesting stuff: Content as a service: http://audienceops.com/ Loads of Microsoft updates at Build!: http://www.buildwindows.com/ Mobile Visual C++: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/explore/cplusplus-mdd-vs Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/Download .Net Core for Linux...

This week, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on what we've been doing and talk about recent Google updates and choosing an audience. Tropical MBA - business ideas: http://www.tropicalmba.com/businessideas/ Tech Crunch - do it for me services: http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/19/why-do-it-for-me-is-the-next-big-thing Better presentation of URLs in search results: http://googlewebmastercentral.blo...

This week, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on what we've been doing and talk about a range of topics from product audiences to content marketing ideas from Reddit. Microconf notes: http://microconfrecap.com Niche marketing with Reddit: http://www.viperchill.com/private-niche-reddit/ Follow up and feedback: nick.swan@gmail.com, martin.judd@joinedupsolutions.com twitter : @nickswan @martin_ju...

This week Martin interviews Louize Clark, founder of ConnectTVT. ConnectTVT: https://www.connecttvt.co.uk/ Follow up and feedback: nick.swan@gmail.com, martin.judd@joinedupsolutions.com twitter : @nickswan @martin_judd

This week, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on what we've been doing and have a bit of a rant on corporation tax. Jarrod Robinson, My new $156 startup: http://theteacherpreneur.com/2015/03/24/my-new-156-startup/ Pat Flyn, Product Idea Validation: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/product-idea-validation/ Thames Trail Half Marathon: http://saturdaynightmarathon.com/ Chromebit: http://www.bbc....

This week, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on what we've been doing and talk about half marathons, staying focused and lots of general stuff. Half marathons, SEO, small businesses dealing with large businesses Finding a prospects email address: https://www.leadfuze.com/find-email-address-prospect/ Older article: https://www.distilled.net/blog/miscellaneous/find-almost-anybodys-email-address...

This week, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on what we've been doing and talk about Amy Hoys book, JFS. Amy Hoy & Alex Hillman, Just F'ing Ship: https://gumroad.com/l/justship/ Martins sponsorship page for the Reading Half Marathon: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Martin_Judd Follow up and feedback: nick.swan@gmail.com, martin.judd@joinedupsolutions.com twitter : @nickswan @martin_judd

This week, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on what we've been doing and answer some listener questions. Listener questions How do you decide if you should get funding/investors vs saving money to start it yourself? What's best way to get sales initially without spending a fortune on advertising / marketing? Stuff Brennan Dunn, The Complete Guide To Finding And Selling Ecommerce Clients: htt...

This week, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on our projects and discuss how to recover from a failed project. Lee Ball found Nigel Mansells grand prix!!!!: https://archive.org/details/zx_Nigel_Mansells_Grand_Prix_1988_Martech_Games_a_128K Miracle morning - working it out: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/my-new-morning-routine-schedule-habits/ Yoga vids: https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawit...

This week, Nick and Martin provide an update on our projects and our goals for the year. Amy Hoy: https://unicornfree.com/2015/what-a-japanese-organizing-expert-can-teach-you-about-your-startup The Life Changing Magic of Tidying: http://www.amazon.com/Life-Changing-Magic-Tidying-effective-clutter-ebook/dp/B00KK0PICK ConnectTVT: https://www.connecttvt.co.uk/GROW Free bootstrap templates: http://sta...

This week, Nick and Martin discuss evaluating a product idea on personal criteria and provide a brief update on our projects. Tenby: http://www.tenbyvisitorguide.co.uk/ Nicks Actions Initial setup and landing pages for golf.io website Martins Actions Write landing page for Joined-up Data around import/export Set-up Google ads pointing at landing page Follow up and feedback: nick.swan@gmail.com, ma...

This week, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on our projects and discuss lifestyle/business design. Lifestyle/business design links: http://www.bootstrappedwithkids.com/episode-83-meaning-podcast/ http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-223-what-to-do-when-your-partner-quits-defining-success-and-charging-more-for-a-self-hosted-app Forever projects: http://jwb.io/20130122-the-jo...

This week, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on what our projects and discuss ChiRunning amongst other topics. Targeted leads: http://www.leadfuze.com/ Outlook iOS app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-outlook/id951937596?mt=8 Stupid Tricks with Promoted Tweets: https://medium.com/message/stupid-tricks-with-promoted-tweets-57325552109d Nicks actions Cold emails for Golf Site Engine (...

This week, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on what we're working on and discuss cold calls, cold emails along with progress on our annual goals. Robert Grahams book, Cold Calling Early Customers: http://coldcallingbook.net/ Summaries of books: https://www.blinkist.com Tony Robbins book, Money: Master the game: http://moneymasterthegame.com/ Nicks actions Cold emails for Golf Site Engine (50...

This week, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on what we're working on and discuss productivity using the Pomodoro Technique. Staying productive using the Pomodoro technique: http://simpleprogrammer.com/2014/02/17/secret-ridiculous-productivity-im-using-now/ Using Kanban flow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9k0OhJkjQ0 Andy Brice launched Hyper Plan: http://successfulsoftware.net/2015/01/15/h...

This week, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on what we're working on and discuss social sharing widgets, mastermind groups and CDNs. Visual Studio Web Essentials: http://vswebessentials.com/ Microconf US: http://www.microconf.com/ London Bootstrapped Meet-up: http://www.bootstrappedbusinessmeetup.com/january-2015-meetup 3d printing and health http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-30...

This week, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on what we're working on and Nick has some tips on personal retreats. We're in iTunes! Search for Britstrapped - we'd love some 5 star reviews! We have also enabled Facebook comments on the site so please feel free to give us some feedback. Dodgy looking referrals to Joined-up Data - looks like it’s referrer spam based on a quick search: https://wo...

This week, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on what we're working on and discuss morning routines and personal retreats. Sad day - Steven Gerrard leaving Liverpool: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30654535 Nicks #runstreak - on to day 2, people encouraging him to post to Facebook Rob Walling - AMA - bootstrappers.io http://www.bootstrappers.io/posts/X7gbX69BriytCsrkd Hal Elrod on Smart...

In the break between Christmas and New Year, Nick and Martin provide a brief update on what we're working on and give a bit of an intro on who we are. AB testing impact on Google Crawling: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/website-testing-google-search.html Ron Hill RunStreak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Hill#Streak Masters of doom: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Masters-Doom-crea...

The second episode of the Britstrapped podcast with Nick Swan and Martin Judd. An update on what we're working on, goals for 2015 and Nicks new product idea. Reddit ads: http://ryanluedecke.com/reddit-ads/ Optimizely: https://www.optimizely.com/ Brian Casel interview: http://www.bootstrappedwithkids.com/productized-services-brian-casel Restaurant Engine: http://www.restaurantengine.com 24hr produc...

The first episode of the Britstrapped podcast with Nick Swan and Martin Judd. We're a couple of Brits bootstrapping businesses in the UK. In this first episode we talk about what we're working on, getting traction and definitely not VAT! Martins new product, Joined-up Data: https://www.joinedupdata.com/ Nicks business: Voucher Codes Pro: https://www.vouchercodespro.co.uk/ The 7 Day Startup by Dan...