Welcome back to startups for the rest of us. This week, Mike Tabor joins me to update us on his status so we can hear about his decision making around whether to launch a freemium plan, whether to do an absumo deal, how his potential partnership slash merger is panning out. And what would a Mike Tabor episode be without a discussion about Google

audits? For those who are newer to the show, Mike Tabor co-hosted this podcast with me for the

first 448 episodes, and now he is known as the co-host Emeritus. He is doing a lot of work on his

startup Blue Tick at bluetick.io, which is a SaaS app that does

personal outreach at scale for all your follow-up emails. We've established in prior episodes

that Blue Tick is not supporting Mike full-time, and it hasn't been growing for the past year or so

as he has switched his focus to focus on this potential partnership

slash business deal slash merger with another SaaS app

that is further along.

So with that, let's dive into my conversation with Mike.

Mike Tabor, thanks for joining me again.

Hey, how's it going?

Pretty good, man.

You know, for astute listeners, it's only been two months since you were on the show,

episode 543, and I still am getting tweets and emails about it. It was the April Fool's episode.

And like, two days ago, someone's like, I just caught up and I'm listening in April Fool's episode. Spider-Man, Spider-Man would have won. And then he sent me a picture of a graded

Secret Wars 8, which is the first, you know, with a black costume first. That was fun. Did you have

fun recording that? I did it. It was a good time. I think after we stopped recording on that one, you said, I could have gone for a lot longer. And I was like, dang it. I didn't know that because you're like, I had Wikipedia articles I was going to quote. You really prepared, man.

I did. And that's probably unfortunate for you because I knew what we were going to talk about. So I did prepare.

And I'm like, probably hustled you a little on that one.

Yeah.

No, it's all fair.

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