Is FOMO holding you back?

You can't grow your business by trying 100's of different things. It's important to focus on key strategies to grow your business while delegating the rest. See how our approach of adopting a deliberate strategy have affected Wildbit's growth over the last year.

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1. FEAR 
 OF 
 MISSING 
 Is FOMO holding you back? Natalie Nagele CEO of Wildbit @natalienagele
3. 16 100,000+ 26 YEARS IN BUSINESS COMPANIES LOVING OUR PRODUCTS FAMILY MEMBERS
 IN 5 COUNTRIES
4. A new workflow to write, review, and ship web applications. A fast & reliable transactional-only email platform for web applications A complete workflow to write, review & deploy code. Instantly build and ship code anywhere in one consistent process for your entire team. Com ing soon
5. 0% 28% 55% 83% 110% 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Postmark Annual Revenue Growth Rate Projected Growth Rate
6. Photograph by Katie Chase
7. Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
8. Growth tempts you to lose focus, when it’s focus that defines your growth.
9. 1. Focusing ourselves as leaders and founders 2. Defining our company’s mission 3. Focusing our product’s mission The framework
10. Personal Focus 1
11. It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day
12. What are you good at? What do you love to do? What does the business need you to do?
13. Garrett (Marketing) Rian (Product Management) Alex (Systems)
14. If you don’t trust them to do it better, you need to find someone else.
15. Photograph by Martin Resich
16. –Benjamin Franklin Never confuse motion with action. “ ”
18. Defining your Business 2
19. Photograph by Mike Enerio
20. • How many people do I want to work with? • Do I want to stay close to my team, or would I rather have awesome management that handles that? • How much control do I want over the business? Over the product? • How important are working hours vs. personal hours? Do I want to spend more time at home or at the office? • Do I want to run a business for a long time? Or do I want to build it and flip it? • What’s my $number? (Everyone has a number.) What type of Business do you want to run?
21. There is no wrong answer, we build businesses for personal reasons.
22. Advisors and Friends build better confidence than following what you read on the internet.
23. What would you do with $1 million in cash?
24. Photograph by Evo.co.uk
25. Can we turn that $1 million into $2 million?
27. Focus the product’s Mission 3
28. We don’t compete on features, we compete on reliability and performance.
29. How long does it take for emails to reach the inbox? How many emails reach the inbox? Data updated every 5 minutes Full transparency about service interruptions
30. Focus.
31. 0% 28% 55% 83% 110% 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Postmark Annual Revenue Growth Rate Projected Growth Rate
32. After bouncing around to several different mail platforms, officially a @postmarkapp convert. Easy set up, super fast, no domain throttling. @CameronHScott “ I am amazed at how good @postmarkapp is. With so many players in the market is nice to see one that works as advertised. Thank you! @addictedcoder “ Shout out to @postmarkapp for being really proactive in support and super chill. @JohnBarton “ Really impressed with the features and service by @postmarkapp, if you are looking for a Mandrill replacement, give it a shot! @jenssegers “
33. Focus yourself 1 Define your Business 2 3 Focus your product
34. Natalie Nagele CEO of Wildbit @natalienagele wildbit.com