Steve McLeod
Founder of Feature Upvote
Appears in 138 Episodes
#243: The End
The time has come to finally put this mostly abandoned podcast to rest. It's kind of a sad day for me but it is time to do this. Thank you listeners, thank you to Ian...
#242: Boredeom
When you run your own little software company, be it a SaaS or old school downloadable software, and you've been doing it for several years, and you've got through the...
#241: Podcasting
In this episode, I talk about how I'm using podcasting as a business tool. Not as a guest, not to promote my product, not as an advertiser, but as a way to build up an...
#240: Why I repositioned Feature Upvote to the video game industry
I want to tell you what's happening with my product, Feature Upvote, over the last year or so. I've dramatically changed the positioning, to be a feedback management p...
#239: Our Business Heroes with The Gross Profit Podcast
I was recently a guest on The Gross Profit podcast, hosted by James Kennedy. In that interview, James and I talked about our business heros, and well, it seemed to me ...
#238: B2B SaaS design with Nathan Powell
I chat with Nathan Powell, freelance product designer whose work these days is mainly with B2B SaaS. We chat about how developer founders can go about improving their ...
#237: Michael Koper, founder of Nusii
I chat with Michael Koper, founder of Nusii. We talk about what it's like when your product spends several years at a revenue plateau.
#236: Steve McLeod, founder of Feature Upvote
I'm the guest on my own podcast! A year ago, Ben Pages joined my company, Feature Upvote, to be our marketing manager. Ben had questions about the early days of Featur...
#235: Maeva Cifuentes, founder of Flying Cat Marketing
I chat with Maeva Cifuentes, founder and CEO of Flying Cat Marketing, an SEO and content marketing agency. We discuss Maeva's journey from freelance translator to CEO ...
#234: Ed's marketing catchup
My frequent guest co-host Ed Freyfogle tells us about his recent marketing endeavours, including one that was inspired by April Dunford's "toilet talk". "Toilet talk",...
#233: Running a lifestyle business and proud of it
We have two guests interviewing each other! I invited two friends of the podcast, Andy Brice, and Robin Warren, to chat with each other about what it's like running a ...
#232: Running a WordPress agency, with Marc Jenkins of 16by9
Marc Jenkins runs 16by9, a small web studio that focuses on building WordPress sites. Marc and I talk about what its like to start and build up this type of company, a...
#231: Bad support loses customers, and payment failures
I catch up with my frequent co-host, Ed Freyfogle, after a long summer break. Amongst other topics, we discuss how bad customer support will lose you customers. We als...
#230: Introducing Pushing to Production
Something a bit different in this episode: we're playing an episode of the new Pushing to Production podcast, where Ed Freyfogle was the guest. It's a conversation abo...
#229: Saying no to a generous acquisition offer, with Simon Bennett of SnapShooter
Simon Bennett, founder of SnapShooter, returns to the show. We chat about a generous acquisition offer Simon recently received for his company - and why he ultimately ...
#228: How to get backlinks (without feeling dirty)
An effective content strategy for your product requires getting backlinks. In this episode, I share 9 strategies I use for getting backlinks for my product's website -...
#227: Joining TinySeed with Nick Swan of SEOTesting.com
Nick Swan from SEOTesting.com discusses how he took on a co-founder for his already-established business, why he decided to no longer be a 1-person show, and most impo...
#226: Sponsoring events, podcasts, and newsletters with Peldi @ Balsamiq
We are joined by a good friend of the podcast, Peldi Guilizzoni, to discuss how to go about sponsoring events, newsletters, and podcasts to promote your product. In p...
#225: BoS Europe 2022 retrospective
I first recorded this episode for the Business of Software podcast. I chat about the experience of attending the recent Business of Software Europe in-person event, to...
#224: Recalibrating prices, and Postmark got acquired
Ed and I talk about how currency fluctuations are affecting our pricing. And we give our opinion on the recent acquisition of Postmark, a bootstrapping success story, ...