{"id":3029,"date":"2021-03-25T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xperience.consulting\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2021-03-25T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:30:00","slug":"450-my-first-business-fup-a-story-about-sapaintball-co-za","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xperience.consulting\/?p=3029","title":{"rendered":"#450 My first business F&#8217;up, a story about SAPaintball.co.za"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3029-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/chtbl.com\/track\/1D527E\/cdn.simplecast.com\/audio\/418a1c23-3f88-4780-98ba-b44c36e35ffd\/episodes\/c59e91a8-9550-4fd7-b078-0d0be657f391\/audio\/98d4a28c-f6cc-403d-8651-f091c07f7088\/default_tc.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/chtbl.com\/track\/1D527E\/cdn.simplecast.com\/audio\/418a1c23-3f88-4780-98ba-b44c36e35ffd\/episodes\/c59e91a8-9550-4fd7-b078-0d0be657f391\/audio\/98d4a28c-f6cc-403d-8651-f091c07f7088\/default_tc.mp3\">https:\/\/chtbl.com\/track\/1D527E\/cdn.simplecast.com\/audio\/418a1c23-3f88-4780-98ba-b44c36e35ffd\/episodes\/c59e91a8-9550-4fd7-b078-0d0be657f391\/audio\/98d4a28c-f6cc-403d-8651-f091c07f7088\/default_tc.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Weenerdawg launched SAPaintball.co.za ([S]outh [A]frican Paintball.co.za), a digital community portal 20 years ago. He is now a strategy consultant and held marketing and technology-related roles. Reflecting on the success of SAPaintball.co.za, and the benefit of 20\/20 hindsight, he realises how lucky he was. He says it&#8217;s essential to start early when it comes to establishing your brand\u2014Building and shaping it with intent by engaging with your customers.<\/p>\n<p>You can find me, Werner Puchert, on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/wernerpuchert\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/weenerdawg\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weenerdawg launched SAPaintball.co.za ([S]outh [A]frican Paintball.co.za), a digital community portal 20 years ago. He is now a strategy consultant and held marketing and technology-related roles. Reflecting on the success of SAPaintball.co.za, and the benefit of 20\/20 hindsight, he realises how lucky he was. ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finding-frequency"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/xperience.consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-fup-night-final-001.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xperience.consulting\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xperience.consulting\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xperience.consulting\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xperience.consulting\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xperience.consulting\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xperience.consulting\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xperience.consulting\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xperience.consulting\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xperience.consulting\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xperience.consulting\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}