Matthew Paulson

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Six Reasons I Won’t Sign Your NDA Before Having Coffee

Posted on July 26, 2018 by matt in Blog, Online Business 2 Comments

As the chair of a community-based angel investment fund, I receive a lot of meeting requests from business owners that want to have a conversation about raising money for their business. These entrepreneurs usually have minimal business development and fundraising experience and are looking for a way to fund their future growth. I rarely get much out […]

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How to Build an Interest-Based Community on Facebook

Posted on July 9, 2018 by matt in Blog, Email Notifications, Online Business, Sioux Falls Startup Community 1 Comment

Every successful community has central hub for the sharing of ideas the facilitation of random social interactions. Churches have Sunday worship. Service clubs like Rotary and Kiwanis have weekly meetings. Geeks have game nights at local comic shops. These regular places of meeting provide members of a community a forum to engage other people with […]

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How to Invest in Real-Estate Without Having to Deal with Tenants or Fix Broken Toilets

Posted on June 18, 2018 by matt in Email Notifications, Online Business No Comments

In 2012, a group of seven of my friends decided to purchase a rental home together. We found a nice undervalued property, fixed it up using our own labor, and rented it to one of our friends’ parents for a fair market rate. After a few years, we were able to pay off the house […]

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Why MarketBeat Became Accredited by the BBB

Posted on May 18, 2018 by matt in Blog, Email Notifications, Online Business No Comments

Over the last 100 years, marketers have pushed the promises they make to consumers to the limit to generate sales in an increasingly competitive world. They have used sex, action, greed and urgency to capture the increasingly fickle attention of consumers. They have made outrageous claims and guarantees about their products that simply don’t stand […]

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Webinar Replay: How I Went from $500,000 to $4 Million Per Year Using Email, Web Push and Facebook Messenger

Posted on April 6, 2018 by matt in Blog, Email Notifications, Online Business No Comments

I recently recorded a webinar on how MarketBeat has leveraged web push notifications, email marketing and Facebook Messenger to grow our business from $500,000 per year in 2013 to over $4 million per year in 2018. We go over several practical tips in this hour long recording (and there’s no sales pitch at the end!). […]

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Seven Best Practices for Web Push Notifications in 2018

Posted on February 21, 2018 by matt in Blog, Email Notifications, Online Business 4 Comments
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One of the best ways to build a business in this decade is to capture the attention of an audience and then rent that attention to advertisers that want to talk to your audience. We have done this with MarketBeat by earning the attention of 575,000 individual investors that have subscribed to our daily email […]

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My 6 Tips For Growing Your Online Business Organically

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Guest Author in Blog, Online Business No Comments
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The following is a guest post by Victoria Greene. Victoria Greene is a branding consultant and freelance writer. On her blog, VictoriaEcommerce, you’ll find a wealth of articles covering how new business owners can get their brand off the ground. She is passionate about using her experience to help fellow entrepreneurs succeed. As anyone who has […]

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Launching a Business? Build Your Audience First.

Posted on February 13, 2018 by matt in Blog, Email Notifications, Online Business, Sioux Falls Startup Community No Comments
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“What’s the first step to starting a business?” Common answers to this question include coming up with a name, figuring out who your target market is, identifying the products and services you want to sell, identifying a location for your business or setting up an LLC. These tasks are all important, but I would argue […]

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My Monthly Update – January 2018

Posted on January 23, 2018 by matt in Email Notifications, Everything Else 1 Comment

It’s been about a month since I sent out my last update, but here’s what’s been going on that you might find interesting: Aggressive 2018 Goals for MarketBeat I am hoping to grow MarketBeat to $4 million in revenue in 2018. It did $3.45 million in 2017. I plan on devoting 90% of my work […]

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My Monthly Update – November, 2017

Posted on November 20, 2017 by matt in Blog, Email Notifications 2 Comments

It’s been about a month since I sent out my last update, but here’s what’s been going on that you might find interesting: – MarketBeat is continuing to grow and it’s growing in a way that I hadn’t expected. Much of the growth has come from selling subscriptions. Currently about 2/3rds of our revenue is […]

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About Matt

I am a Christian, a husband, a father, an entrepreneur, an author and a private equity investor.

I am the founder of MarketBeat, the chairman of Falls Angel Fund and a cofounder of GoGo Photo Contest.

I have a B.S. in Computer Science and a M.S. in Information Systems from Dakota State University. I also hold a M.A. in Christian Leadership from Sioux Falls Seminary.

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Recent Posts

  • How Important are Trademarks and Should You File One Yourself?

    February 18, 2019
  • Announcing Sioux Falls Entrepreneurship Day on March 6th

    February 14, 2019
  • What to Do When Someone Copies Your Business

    February 12, 2019
  • Why Angel Investors Can’t Invest in Your Local Business

    February 7, 2019
  • How to Take Time Off From Your Business (Without Worrying it Will Blow Up in Your Absence)

    February 5, 2019

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