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Entrepreneurs on Fire

How Google crushed Dave Schneider's soul, and how he crawled back to success

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Since September 2012, Dave has traveled to over 30 countries while running several online businesses. In January 2015, he launched a SaaS company, NinjaOutreach, which specializes in blogger outreach and influencer marketing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Entrepreneur on Fire 1,016.

0:04.0

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0:10.0

Hey Fire Nation and welcome to Entrepreneur on Fire where I chat with inspiring entrepreneurs 7 days a week.

0:18.0

Join me on our upcoming live podcast workshop where I'll teach you how to create, grow and monetize your podcast and answer any questions you have.

0:27.0

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0:39.0

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1:05.0

Fire Nation. The countdown has commenced. Chalney Doom is here and I am fired up to bring you our featured guest today, Dave Schneider.

1:17.0

Are you prepared to ignite? John I'm 100% fired up to this interview. Since September 2012, Dave has traveled over 30 countries while running several online businesses.

1:29.0

In January 2015 he launched a SaaS company Ninja Outreach which specializes in blogger outreach and influencer marketing.

1:39.0

They filled many gaps from that intro and give us a little glimpse into your personal life.

1:44.0

Sure, love to John. We're talking about I guess a course of three years or so here, a little bit of a backstory. After graduating from college with an implied math degree I went to work in corporate finance with my girlfriend. We were living in DC at the time and feeling a little unfulfilled with our corporate jobs. I'm sure many of your audiences as well.

2:04.0

We decided we wanted to travel. We saved up a lot of money as much as we could and we set off on a two year backpacking trip.

2:14.0

At this point we didn't really know anything about the internet or working online but we did start a travel blog like everyone else and their mother who goes traveling.

2:24.0

One thing led to another, we started generating traffic, we started making some revenue, we started paying our bills and that really inspired the entrepreneur in us.

2:32.0

So I'm skipping a little bit here but basically from one business to the next just growing that way and for the last three years we've just been on the road working.

2:43.0

I love the quotes everybody and their mother because literally when it comes to travel bloggers there are mothers, the start blog is just to talk about how their children are actually travel blogging.

2:53.0

Yeah, better than the ones that I was writing.

2:56.0

Now Dave, here now you're at a networking party somebody walks up to you and they say you know I know you used to be a travel you school all over the place maybe you still do but in 10 seconds how do you answer the question what do you do?

3:10.0

What I usually say is I run a software business called Ninja Outreach which helps businesses connect with online influencers.

3:17.0

I get it clean clear crisp fire nation ignite Dave one thing I love to talk about you did a good job with the entrepreneurial origin story but I wanted to have a little deeper to that point that you talked about where corporate wasn't really just feeling right there's little chasing in there you maybe dying to slow death of you know 100 paper cuts in the in the cubicle.

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