Premiumbeat: How A Father & Son Bootstrapped A Profitable Business – with François Arbour

François Arbour, Premiumbeat, Bootstrapping, Customer Acquisition, Mental Game, Mixergy Fan, System, Traffic

François Arbour and his father thought it would be easy.

They got permission from musicians to sell royalty free access to their music. All they had to do was build a web site, buy some ads and the orders would come rolling in, right? So they launched Premiumbeat.com. And they waited. And they waited. And finally they got an order — but it turned out to be from François’ friend who wanted to show support.

Building Premiumbeat wasn’t easy. But they did it. And today the company can virtually run itself. This is the story of how they did it.

François Arbour

Premiumbeat

Francois Arbour is the co-founder of Premiumbeat.com, which provides high quality Royalty Free Music for all new and traditional media, including websites, online videos, slide shows, DVDs and CD-ROMs, television, radio, films, etc.

 

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