Way better
than cold emails
An audience asking for help.
We recommend your brand.
Goodbye awkwardness.
Relationships
ready to nurture
Skip the top of the funnel.
Start a conversation.
Build a real relationship.
Start
with startups
A hot market.
An eager audience.
Opportunity calls.
Our program is simple:
1. Founders share their needs
Every single day, founders fill out forms to tell us their struggles
2. We verify and enhance
Our automated system immediately requests:
A double opt-in to confirm intent
Geographic region and city
Startup details: revenue, stage, age, size, industry, etc.
3. You get connected
Awareness
Answer new requests
Our CEO sends a personalized recommendation email with your target links when founders ask for help in your category.
Customize filter criteria to determine which founders we send you.
Reach
Fill your pipeline
A daily drip of emails to answer the hundreds of outstanding of requests that arrived before you joined the program.
Same custom filter criteria apply.
Context
Explain your brand
You and our CEO in a topic-focused livestreamed conversation—and our audience asks questions.
Provides discovery via long-tail video, podcast audio, and social clips.
Discovery
Convert the curious
A landing page in our Backstage Marketplace makes your content and links always accessible.
Captures website and search traffic.
Offers more content than our email intro.
X-Factor
Be part of a moment
Our Build with Backstage promotion showcases one Backstage partner per week to our entire global audience - beyond the founders requesting help.
Unique content opportunity and wide visibility.
Runs July through September.
More
We’re always adding new benefits
Follow-up emails
Appear on stage at any city event
Your podcast in The Founders Live Podcast Network
Your audio ad syndicated in the FLPN
Product placement in Exploring Greatness
It’s easy to get started
Become one of our premium partners with one quick call:
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Yes, this is a highly valuable service that enables serious businesses to help founders in our community.
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Payment is monthly, in advance.
We offer an annual option which is essentially 12 months for the price of 10.
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Backstage Marketplace partners commit to a minimum of 3 months in the program to proliferate their message and presence in our ecosystem.
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We'll answer your request and set up a call within one business day.
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We do not sell lists of data, we provide introductions to you so you can help founders with the needs they indicated on the form.
We include you on these emails so you can join the conversation once we’ve introduced them.
Once we’ve sent the introduction, you can see the basic company information the founder provided (website, LinkedIn, funding stage, etc.) in your real time dashboard.
We only include the info they have sent to us as part of their request.
What are you strugglng with?
We can connect you to partners who can help.