Podcast #12 - Founders of Leadbot
The three original founders of Leadbot.com (Bill Ramsey, Rob McAleer and Ben Wagner) share their experience of building an online brokerage for quality financial services leads. From a grim morning of a catastrophic data loss where they were forced to serve their web site off of a laptop to a record-breaking seven-figure year of revenues for ‘06, Leadbot is a come-back story of a startup business that has overcome adversity and firmly established itself as a reputable company with loyal customers. Their core belief: for even most tech-oriented businesses, the success factor comes down to the focus on the human elements and the relationships you build with your customers.
You can learn more about Leadbot through the Leadbot web site and you can leave comments for the founders here in the comment section.
January 23rd, 2007 at 8:43 am
[…] I’ve known Bill, Ben and Rob for several years and it was an honor to interview them recently on how they’ve built their company Leadbot.com from nothing into being one of the major players in the financial services leads industry. They share stories from the early days and hard-earned lessons they’ve picked up along the way. Imagine the gloom of coming in one morning to find that your ISP had deleted your entire customer database and failed to ever create a backup. Then imagine the fortitude and humility necessary to rebuild the database by piecing it together one customer at a time from scraps of paper and angry phone calls. Listen to the street lessons they share from experience on the latest Venturecast episode. Pass it along:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]
January 28th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
[…] Grid7 Venturecast #12 with the founders of LeadBot is now online. The three original founders of Leadbot.com (Bill Ramsey, Rob McAleer and Ben Wagner) share their experience of building an online brokerage for quality financial services leads. From a grim morning of a catastrophic data loss where they were forced to serve their web site off of a laptop to a record-breaking seven-figure year of revenues for ‘06, Leadbot is a come-back story of a startup business that has overcome adversity and firmly established itself as a reputable company with loyal customers. Their core belief: for even most tech-oriented businesses, the success factor comes down to the focus on the human elements and the relationships you build with your customers. […]