You're listening to the My Wife Quitter Job podcast, and if you're new here, it's a show where I bring in successful bootstrap business owners to teach us what strategies are working and what strategies are not.

Now I don't bring on these famous entrepreneurs simply to celebrate their success.

Instead I have them take us back to the very beginning and delve deeply into the exact

strategies they used early on to gain traction for their businesses.

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Now before we begin I wanted to give a quick shout out to my sponsor Big Commerce.

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