Hey, what’s goin on Indie Hackers? My first post here, heard lots about Indie Hackers.
Some background about me, create a fitness clothing brand, sold on Amazon ($4k monthly rev) and dropshipping at break even or less and most recently helped my brick and mortar go from $0 to $250k in 10 months during a pandemic.
I recently bought, in feb 2021, a small online live fitness company which I’ve been documenting on a podcast. I’ve also got a bunch of guests I’m interviewing related to buying and building online business.
Go here if you’d like to check out my journey and guests related to buy and building!
@darryllim Way to go with the hustle? Did you help the local store using paid ads?
Also, BuyBuildpod looks great! I'll definitely give that a listen.
Thank you @harshvijay! Appreciate it Harsh! Hope you like the pod
Yes, I used paid social ads. I read on trends and listened to My First Million which helped with the original idea, we were first to market and i was able to do cold outreach to media which ended up being PR which I turned into local paid ads, as well as a video promo we created! We also had Michael Buble come by and post about us on his social media a couple months ago!
This is really good progress! Keep it up haha.
Thank you very much! Appreciate ya Harsh!
Looking good Darryl! Which guests do you have lined up?
Thanks @PeeJay - appreciate the compliment. Great question.
We have recorded and post a few which include:
A few guests who have agreed and we will record soon:
Had a blast on the pod! Keep up the good work!
Thanks for volunteering and opening up about your whole experience!
Excited to chat with you guys!
Pumped to have you on!
Excellent line-up!! Looking forward to Daniel Scott Mitchell especially as I heard about that contest on MFM.
We’re chatting and recording with him today! Should be a fun one
It was a lot of fun. @darryllim and @nscalf are fantastic hosts!
Thank you David, we had a great time learning about you and Marty and the business. We'll get ya on again soon!
Hey Darryl, thanks for sharing and welcome to the community! Congrats on your achievements and your fifth podcast episode! Would love to know what inspired you to start a podcast (rather than, say, a blog or newsletter)?
Thanks @tessl ! I’ve always wanted to talk to others and get to know them, it’s a great way to network. With newsletter or a blog, it’s very independent and I’m not a great writer anyways.
That makes complete sense. You're right, it's this personal interaction with others that's so special about podcasting. I stopped my first (monologue) podcast after a year even though it was going well because without other people involved it more and more felt like a chore. All the best to yours!
Hey everyone, I’m Nick, the cohost of Buy and Build. One of the major things we wanted to explore in this podcast is that there’s a third path people don’t really talk about (it’s usually build vs get a job). I’m really excited about some of the conversations we having coming soon for you all!
Nice to have ya here finally @nscalf - lol