Jay Gibb and CloudSponge

Jay Gibb is the founder and CEO of CloudSponge – a B2B SaaS company that sells an address book widget. We talked about growing an audience, research good opportunities for building a product, and Jay gives some fantastic advice for cold outreach.


Show Notes

* Jay Gibb
* CloudSponge
* BuddyPress
* Invite Anyone
* Quora

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Intro: Hey, everybody. Welcome to episode 124 of How I Built It. Today my guest is Jay Gibb, the founder, and CEO of CloudSponge. CloudSponge is a business to business SaaS company that sells an address book widget. I wasn’t sure, to be honest, how this interview was going to go, but Jay offers a lot of really great insight into research and building out a great, useful, and focused tool. His trade secret has to do about cold outreach. After I recorded this interview, I took that trade secret and that advice to heart, and I think you will too. We will get into that interview in a minute, but if you want to stick around until the end, I am going to talk about my plans for the future of my podcast course. But first, a word from our sponsors.
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