How Bob Healy Raised 405k in 4 Months on Kickstarter: The GrillGun Story: An EOFire Classic from 2020
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
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🗓️ 29 January 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2020. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.
Bob Healy is an engineer, businessman, inventor and entrepreneur. He is the founder of GrillBlazer and creator of the GrillGun and Su-VGun, which you can see at GrillBlazer.com, which he funded using Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Whenever you want to make something and turn it into a business, you have to be detailed.
2. Figure out an effective marketing strategy for your project regardless of whether or not you run a successful Kickstarter project.
3. There is nothing more important than having integrity. It is easier to remember the truth than to remember what you made up.
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| 0:00.0 | Boom Shake the Room Fire Nation, JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network with great shows like The Hustle Daily. |
| 0:12.0 | Today we're pulling a timeless Eofire episode |
| 0:14.2 | from the archives so the giveaway may not be active. |
| 0:17.0 | And we'll be breaking down how Bob Healy |
| 0:19.4 | raised $405,000 in four months on Kickstarter, The Grill Gun Story. |
| 0:26.2 | Bill is an engineer, businessman, inventor, and entrepreneur. |
| 0:28.8 | He is the founder of Grill Blazer and creator of The Grill Gun and Sue Vigan which you can see at grillblazer.com which he |
| 0:36.7 | funded using kick-starter and indie go-go and today for our nation whenever you want to take |
| 0:41.2 | something and turn into a business, you have to be detailed. |
| 0:44.0 | We'll talk about figuring out an effective marketing strategy for your project, whether or not you're going to be using it on |
| 0:48.4 | Kickstarter, and how there is nothing more important than having integrity, remember that fire nation and so much more. |
| 0:55.8 | And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Bob and our sponsors. |
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| 1:20.9 | Bob, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something interesting about |
| 1:26.8 | yourself that most people don't know. |
| 1:29.6 | What's up Fire Nation? One thing that's interesting about me that most people don't know is, besides |
| 1:35.5 | being an engineer and a businessman, I sing classical music. I like to perform and sing. I've been in many plays as a Broadway actor and |
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