How to build your business through relationships and social sales

Jon Ferrara, Nimble, B2B, Marketing, Networking, SaaS (software as a service), Scaling

When you’re building a business it’s easier to grow faster if you connect with larger businesses that already exist.

Today’s guest did that. Jon Ferrara is the founder of Nimble which is a social sales, and marketing CRM for individuals and teams.

He connected to LinkedIn and he connected with Facebook. Life was good. And then what happened to him was the danger of building your business on top of others. He got shut off.

He had to rebuild and the way he did it was through relationships. I want to find out how he did it.

Jon Ferrara

Nimble

Jon Ferrara is the founder of Nimble which is a social sales, and marketing CRM for individuals and teams.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses and I do it for an audience of real honest to goodness entrepreneurs who are building their companies right now because they aspire to do something big, to leave a legacy, to have a great life, to have impact on the world. And here’s the thing, when you’re building your businesses it’s easier to grow faster and be more useful if you connect with these bigger companies that already exist.

Today’s guest did that and he grew. He’s Jon Ferrara. He is the founder of, among other things Nimble. Nimble is a CRM, contact relationship management software, and it connected to LinkedIn. He connected to Facebook. He enriched the data, so if you had a contact in his software, you had all this extra data that came in from those partnerships. Life was good. He built up something useful and...

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