Ep. 469: Laura Roeder Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Laura Roeder, a serial entrepreneur and her newest company is Edgar, a social media application. She started working for herself creating websites for people when she was 22 living in Chicago. It spread to optimizing traffic and online marketing for her clients. In 2014 she launched her social media software business, Edgar. They haven't taken any money from investors and have grown to 2.8 million annual revenue.
The topics are entrepreneur and social media.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Social media
- Business competitors
- Success of Dropbox
- Keeping up a great reputation
- Be aware that competitors can access everything
- Women in the entrepreneurial space
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/
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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!
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| 0:00.0 | A big thank you to all of my listeners. |
| 0:03.7 | And if you would like to support this transmission even more and boost your trading account, |
| 0:10.3 | go to trendfowing.com slash now. |
| 0:16.4 | And without any further delay, on to today's show. |
| 0:23.6 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:30.6 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:40.8 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:47.1 | That's my passion. |
| 0:52.8 | Today, Laura Roder and I talk about social media and social media automation. |
| 1:00.0 | Laura is a serial entrepreneur. |
| 1:03.0 | Her newest company is Edgar, all about social media marketing automation. |
| 1:09.0 | I don't care what your business is. |
| 1:12.7 | It really doesn't matter. |
| 1:14.6 | But in this day and age, if you have not figured out what to do online, what to do within social |
| 1:22.2 | media, if you've not given it a rigid thought process, a disciplined, systematic plan of attack. |
| 1:30.8 | You're probably going to fail in any part of your business that's online. |
| 1:36.6 | And who the hell wants to fail? |
| 1:40.2 | My guest today, Laura Roter, helps give insights on avoiding the downside. |
| 1:47.1 | I hope you enjoy this conversation. |
| 1:56.8 | Let's just break it down in terms of names first. |
| 2:00.4 | If you had to define the 5, 6, 7, however |
| 2:03.9 | might be, of the key 80-20 rule, mission-critical, social media platforms we all need to be |
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