Whoosh Traffic: Launching A $1M Dollar Company With Birthday Money – with Erica Douglass

Erica Douglass, Whoosh Traffic, Bootstrapping, Customer Acquisition, Networking, Sell Your Business, Traffic, Web 1.0, Women Founders

How does a founder who used her birthday money to launch a company end up selling it for over a million dollars?

In 2001 Erica Douglass created SimplyHosting, a web hosting company that she sold about six years later. I invited her here to talk about how she launched it, built it, grew it, and sold it.

I also want to find out about her newest company, WhooshTraffic. You can find it, of course, at WhooshTraffic.com, and it helps your site show up high in Google Search results for specific key words.

Erica Douglass

Whoosh Traffic

Erica Douglass is the founder of Whoosh Traffic, which helps you rank for specific keywords in Google search results.

 

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And do you remember when I interviewed Sara Sutton Fell about how thousands of people paid for her job site. Look at the biggest point that you made. She said that she has a phone number on every page of her site because – and here’s the stat – 95% of the people who call end up buying. Most people though don’t call her, but seeing a real number increases their confidence in her and they buy. So try this, go to Grasshopper.com and get a phone...

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