Tynan: Home Decor Blogger Triggered Framebridge's First Major Sales Spike
Susan Tynan · Framebridge: Susan Tynan (2017) · May 6, 2019 · at 34:19
Susan Tynan, founder of online custom framing startup Framebridge, explains how organic blogger traction in late 2014 drove the company's first major surge in customer orders.
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“Late October, someone, a home decor blogger, wrote a blog post, and we had our first real sales spike of a day and that was the first day we thought, okay, like, it's on.”
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