iFixit: Over $4 Million In Sales With No Outside Funding? – with Kyle Wiens

Kyle Wiens, iFixit, Bootstrapping, Content, Customer Acquisition, eCommerce, Scaling

How does a bootstrapper who creates online repair manuals generate over $4 million in annual sales?

Kyle Wiens is the cofounder of iFixit. You probably know iFixit as the guys who take apart every new iPhone and other shiny gadget to show you what’s inside. iFixit is a collaborative wiki with the goal of crowdsourcing gadget-repair manuals for every type of device imaginable and generates millions by selling spare parts.

I want to find out how he did that and about Dozuki.com, a site that lets companies create vibrant product manuals that their customers will actually enjoy reading.

Kyle Wiens

iFixit

Kyle Wiens is the cofounder of iFixit, a collaborative wiki with the goal of crowdsourcing gadget-repair manuals for every type of device imaginable.

 

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