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This Week Building Exit Five (Bootstrapping a B2B Media Company): 1) We debuted new branding - new logo, new colors, new font, new design, website, etc. We worked with this great company called NoBoringDesign run by Eli Rubel 🏄‍♀️ and it came out awesome. The response from our community...

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Keith 🇨🇭2 years ago

New brand looks great! Just a heads up though. Seems that anything you moved to the media subdomain hasn’t been 301 redirected. So your podcast pages + every episode page is 404’ing from Google search. (Couldn’t DM you, I’m not premium).

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Nash2 years ago

@eli_rubel New brand looks great 👏👏

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Dave Gerhardt2 years ago

@eli_rubel thank you!

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Amanda Goetz2 years ago

@eli_rubel What. a. week! Trying to grab one of those spots for the event and can't wait to chat later today!!

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Dave Gerhardt2 years ago

@eli_rubel see you soon

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