Flowtown: How It Failed Then Succeeded At Creating A Product Customers Love – with Dan Martell

Dan Martell, Flowtown, Customer Acquisition, Failure, Mental Game

Want to learn how to build a product or feature that customers will love? Learn from the man who got it wrong seven times before finally figuring out the right way to launch.

When I interviewed Dan Martell of Flowtown, he told an incredibly useful story about how he kept failing and failing at product development before he finally figured out the right way to do it. I thought it was so helpful that I decided to edit it out of our interview and make it into its own program.

As a result, this program is a lot shorter and much more focused than my usual. Listen to it and let me what you think.

Dan Martell

Flowtown

Dan Martell is the co-founder of Flowtown, which makes social media powerful. Previously, he founded Spheric Technologies, providers of IT consulting and services.

 

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