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Welcome to first dedicated “get off my lawn” episode of the hotlou show: Why I hate touchscreens. Mike and Lou discuss how product managers are falling victim to marketers’ obsession with touchscreens. As with too many things, product managers often lose the corporate product development battle to the marketing team. This episode is a call-to-arms …
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In this episode, host hotlou shares the story of the day he met his lord and savior Mark Zuckerberg. Unsurprisingly, there’s a bit of a meandering — this time on the current state of stand-up comedy — until Lou shares the story. But buckle up and get ready to hear way more about how Zuck …
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So you’re stuck in a conversation and you can’t escape? We’ve all been there. This week, hotlou could hardly contain his excitement as he shares perhaps the funniest social experiment in history. And the lessons you learn from this episode might just help you escape that rambler at the office, at your front door, or …
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It’s time to come clean. Half the reason the hotlou show exists was for the eventual opportunity to interview the unstoppable mother-daughter team Mandi and Dina Simon. At just 7 years old, Mandi approached her mother Dina wanting to help other kids. Soon after, the Minnesota-based nonprofit Simon Says Give was founded. And just a …
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Introducing … [drum roll] … the best intro email ever! This week, hotlou shares his lessons in how to write an intro email. Mike jumps in with a few lessons of his own. And together, they may have — dare we say — crafted the most perfect intro email ever. Write an Intro Email that …
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This Lousday, hotlou discusses a rarely used, but incredibly effective strategy that answers one of the most common questions: how to get more likes on Facebook. It works for brands, for public personalities, B2B companies, and everything in between. Mike even hints that he may already be employing this strategy elsewhere (stay tuned for a …
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In this week’s episode, the Lounatics are treated to a healthy dose of what many artists might call lunacy: Pablo Picasso’s potentially apocryphal quote “Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal.” Then, hotlou shares one story of using this principle to create a post that’s probably been shared millions of times and maybe been seen hundreds …
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This episode features some birds and the bees talk, minus the birds anyway, to focus on a social media boat. Host hotlou shares how a single, simple post with a floating boat on a page with not even 500 followers managed to get 159,000 likes using a technique often called cross-pollination. And then he and …
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Many in the Minnesota startup community are familiar with the startup 8thBridge. In particular, 2009 catapulted 8thBridge into the startup stratosphere locally and nationally. In that year alone, they launched the very first storefront ever on Facebook, won the biggest entrepreneurship competition in Minnesota, and raised $5M in a venture capital Series A Round. Except, …
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Minnesotans are notoriously provincial. In episode 12, hotlou discusses how he leveraged their provincialism to grow a Facebook App and Page to 100000 users and/or followers in 30 days. We’d like to again thank our sponsor Dad Jokes Daily — a page powered by Evergreen. March to 100000 users on the new Minnesota Page …
