Power in Numbers: Building Your Startup’s Team

by Joshua Dorkin on April 20, 2013

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For many years I’ve worked tirelessly to build BiggerPockets.com up with a team that consisted of a programmer, and myself (my wife does the books, so I can’t ignore her important role) — a team that most would call LEAN! While he wrote code, I handled every other component of the business — sales, marketing, [...]

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Timing is Everything for a Startup: Managing Multiple News Releases in a Short Period of Time

August 29, 2012 Commentary
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In the next few weeks, I’ll be faced with managing the following important newsworthy events: BiggerPockets crossing the 100,000 member milestone. Launching a MAJOR upgrade to BiggerPockets including new homepage and some great new features (TBA shortly). Announcing the outcome of a MAJOR, top secret project that BiggerPockets has been working on with a soon-to-be-named [...]

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Dead and Broken Links: Time for a Clean up!

July 9, 2012 Content

I just finished running a broken link check on our BiggerPockets Blog and it seems that in the 6 months that have passed since the last check, we’ve accumulated almost 500 dead links. The vast majority of the dead links were from: Links to news articles that no longer exist on major sites like CNN, [...]

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Is Healthcare a BFD — Big Fucking Deal? Ask President Obama

June 29, 2012 Commentary

I love politics. I love talking about politics. I love debating about politics. But rarely do I write about it. That might start to change. We’re all human and a casual slip of the tongue happens all the time by world leaders. That said, one of the things that we ask of our leaders is [...]

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Why You Should Track Your Social Media Accounts

June 27, 2012 Social Media
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I recently wrote a guest post on Inman Next titled, “Is Your Social Media Account Doing You More Harm Than Good?” where I talk about the dangers of having social media accounts that you aren’t monitoring. The piece generated some controversy, and I even appeared to offend a slew of users of Empire Avenue (thanks [...]

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Promoting a Conference – Part 1

December 26, 2011 Marketing

I’ve been spending time on a ranch in Southern California over the holidays and came up with a great idea for a series of promo videos for our upcoming BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Summit 2012. Check out Part 1 of the Cheesy Promo Series Below: More to come soon . . .

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Holy Cow! I’m Throwing a Conference: BiggerPockets REI Summit 2012 in Denver

December 3, 2011 Entrepreneurship

The announcement came two weeks ago, but since then I’ve been so swamped with getting my act together and with travel for the Thanksgiving holidays, that I didn’t have a chance to mention it here. On March 23-24, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center I am going to be throwing the [...]

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September Google AdSense Payments Delayed: Finally, An Answer . . .

November 11, 2011 Google AdSense

I just got the following email from Google regarding the delay of payment that I and many others have been experiencing as it pertains to our September 2011 earnings. I’m glad to hear that there is a resolution to the matter and I’m sure that I’m not alone in looking forward to the one-time mid-month [...]

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Is Social Media Replacing Blogging? Will Micro-Blogging Destroy Blogs?

November 8, 2011 Social Media
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It is always great to have the opportunity to share your knowledge with others, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to do so at BlogWorld. As a panelist on the topic of Promoting Your Blog in the Age of Social Media, I dealt with many questions on promoting a corporate blog and [...]

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BlogWorld 2011 and the John Chow Cookie Monster Song

November 7, 2011 Funny

I’m just getting back to reality after my trip to BlogWorld, and while going through my camera, I found this little gem that I recorded for your viewing pleasure. I’ll be posting about my experience shortly, but in the meanwhile, please enjoy the always entertaining John Chow, as he does the Cookie Monster song, complete [...]

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Recent Personal Blogging and Speaking News

September 21, 2011 Commentary

Hey everyone. There’s plenty of cool news in these parts . . . I’m going to be a speaker at Blogworld LA 2011 on a panel titled, Promoting Your Blog in the Age of Social Media with Doyle Albee, Brett Greene, Jeannine Crooks and Dave Taylor. Make sure to check out all the great speakers [...]

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Falling Back Into Old Bad Habits: Blogging vs. Social Networking

August 20, 2011 Social Media

The eternal debate over moving your social identity from blogging platforms to other social media like social networks will never die (for the foreseeable future, at least), but I for one believe that you should never cede complete control of your personal brand to the innumerable social networks. A personal or business blog, hosted on [...]

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How Your Virtual Assistant Can Ruin Your Online Reputation

August 14, 2011 Social Media

One of the troubling trends that I’ve seen more and more of recently, is that people are outsourcing aspects of their social profile to Virtual Assistants (VAs) who are clearly unqualified for the task. I see the average Joe, large speakers and other personalities who participate online and use a VA to do so on [...]

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How Dare You! How to Charge Your Friends for Calls, Emails, Texts, Social Networking & Video Conferencing

June 23, 2011 Funny

In a sign of the times, with our economy hitting lower lows and no hope in sight, some savvy entrepreneurs have come up with creative ways to survive. Below you’ll find an actual email I received today from a friend – Charles Feldman. As you can see, the cost of connecting is not cheap, and [...]

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Seeking a Website Developer Position? Don’t Be Stupid!

March 9, 2011 Entrepreneurship

I recently posted on various rails job sites about a new open position available on BiggerPockets (BTW – If you’re a ruby on rails developer and are looking for work, please get in touch ASAP!). In going through the various replies, I came upon one that seemed interesting, but the developer didn’t supply me with [...]

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