Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart. Have you ever had an idea for a new business or new product and suddenly realized that somebody else already had it, and so you gave up and moved on to something else? That’s what happened to today’s guest, Joshua Parkinson.
He had an idea for a Facebook app that let you schedule your posts for the future. Soon after the idea occurred to him, he realized that other apps already existed and were doing it already. This is the story of what happened when he pushed through anyway, and how he built his business despite the competition. The name of the company is Post Planner. As I said at the top, it schedules Facebook posts for you and saves all that information on your Facebook timeline or your Facebook fan page timeline.
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