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Product PeopleEP63: Sacha Greif – how things get popularSacha Greif joined me again for a chat on how he marketed Discover Meteor, and why certain blog posts get popular.Notable quotes“I’ve always believed that people really respond to quality content.” – Sacha Greif“You can tell when someone has written something with no research; getting quality data, screenshots, and diagrams really helps.” – Sacha Greif“There’s a direct relationship between the amount of time I put into a blog post, and how popular it is” – Sacha Greif“People respond to books: they don’t want to have to look thr...
2014-08-1535 min
Product PeopleEP42: Is self-publishing getting saturated? Nathan Barry, Sacha Greif, Paul JarvisPaul Jarvis ( Everything I Know), Sacha Greif ( Discover Meteor), and Nathan Barry ( Authority) invited me to host a Self-Publishing Hangout with them this week. It was a great opportunity for me, because I’m about to publish my first “book” ( Amplification). Our Google Hangout ended being a 2 hour marathon of us sharing our experience with writing, publishing, and promoting eBooks, as well as answering questions from everybody in the chat room.
In Part 2 we discuss:
is the self-publishing market getting saturated?
the publishing process: what tools do you use to create your books?
what do you outsourc...
2013-09-0447 min
Product PeopleEP41: Sacha Greif, Nathan Barry, Paul Jarvis, and Justin Jackson on self-publishingPaul Jarvis ( Everything I Know), Sacha Greif ( Discover Meteor), and Nathan Barry ( Authority) invited me to host a Self-Publishing Hangout with them this week. It was a great opportunity for me, because I’m about to publish my first “book” ( Amplification). Our Google Hangout ended being a 2 hour marathon of us sharing our experience with writing, publishing, and promoting eBooks, as well as answering questions from everybody in the chat room.
In Part 1 we cover choosing a topic, whether you need to be a good writer, writers block, fear and quality!
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2013-08-2836 min
Product PeopleEP08: Sacha Greif on choosing a co-founder and building MVPThis is part 2 of our interview with Sacha Greif. In this episode we talked with him about how to find a partner, and the pain involved in building up a product income.Sacha is a designer and coder from Paris, France, but he’s now living in Osaka, Japan. He’s worked with companies like Hipmunk, but he’s best known for his cool side-projects. His most recent, called Telescope, is an open source platform for creating your own Hacker News.HighlightsWhen searching for co-founders, Sacha says: “If you try to find...
2013-01-0940 min
Product PeopleEP07: Creating info-products with Sacha Greif (part 1)What are some good strategies for creating, pricing and selling an ebook? In Part 1 of our interview with Sacha we discuss what he learned launching his first book, and what he plans on doing next time. We also take a look at Meteor, “an open-source platform for building web apps” using pure JavaScript.HighlightsSacha kick-started his product career by selling themes on Themeforest. “I was doing products before I knew I was doing products.”His first real solo product was his ebook: Step by Step UI Design. He recommends starting small: “I didn’t set...
2013-01-0238 min