OfficeAuto Pilot: “Five Years Of Abject Failure Before We Found Any Traction At All” – with Landon Ray

Landon Ray, Ontrapalooza, Bootstrapping, Customer Acquisition, Failure, Marketing, SaaS (software as a service), System

How does a founder who almost went bankrupt end up turning things around?

Landon Ray is the founder of OfficeAutoPilot, which makes email marketing software with powerful online marketing tools.

I invited him to talk about how he bootstrapped his company, and about his latest project, Ontrapalooza, which is more like a killer 2-day business party than a conference.

Landon Ray

Ontrapalooza

Landon Ray’s latest project, Ontrapalooza, which is more like a killer 2-day business party than a conference.

 

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It’s also sponsored by Grasshopper. Do you need a phone number where your customers can dial in, press one to go to sales, press two to go to customer service, etc., and maybe even all those numbers actually lead to your cell phone but it makes you look big? Do you need that kind of feature and so many others? Go to Grasshopper.com Alright, let’s get started.

Hey there freedom fighters, my name is Andrew Warner and I am the founder of Mixergy, home of the ambitious upstart, and in this interview I want to find out how a founder who almost went bankrupt ended up turning things around. Landon Ray is the...

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