ʘ ͜ʖ ʘ Nº141 a crazy plan in Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬🐴
As you read this, I’m embarking the Silk Road Mountain Race.
It is a fixed route, unsupported, single-stage cycling race through the mountains of Kyrgyzstan of about ~1700 kilometers with 26,000m of climbing.
Watch my dot as I tackle this 2 week race: here.
As I’ll be off the grid & in the mountains, the next issues of the newsletter will be curated by the Twotone team : )
As always thank you for reading,
Jon
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Cycling
SILK ROAD MOUNTAIN RACE — A TALK WITH MAX, BENGT, JON #SRMR, an episode from Calamaro on Spotify — open.spotify.com
My friend Stefano at The Broom Wagon interviewed Max & me + our bud Bengt from Berlin too! Give it a listen to hear our answers to:
- who we are
- how we prepared for this insane race
- about our bikes
- what we’re bringing with us
- what we’re looking forward to
- and what we fear the most
The Pamir Highway: A solo ride across the barren heart of Central Asia — cyclingtips.com
Not the same routes we’ll be doing these next two weeks but the same region. What an awesome ride.
I’ll be journaling each night in my tent & doing a similar write-up for Cycling Tips in September : )
Pathfinder Giro 2018 — www.facebook.com
My favorite reason to go to Eindhoven is back in October!
Startups
Zebras vs. Unicorns — www.linkedin.com
Zebras know what’s up.
MessageBird offers single API for customer comms across WhatsApp, WeChat, Messenger and more — TechCrunch — techcrunch.com
MessageBird, the Amsterdam-based cloud communications platform backed by Accel in the U.S. and Europe’s Atomico, unveiled a new product that aims to make it easier for enterprises to communicate with customers across various channels of their choosing.
FRAHM launched! — frahmjacket.com
Looks great!
Sales & PR
Top Follow-Up Tips To Raise Your Response Rate
reply.io
You need to know your prospect, grab their attention with a snappy subject line and then write a message that convinces them to take some kind of action. So when you’ve spent hours/days/eons working on an award-winning email, it’s a real kick in the conversions when the results are meh.
Tips For The Perfect Sales Pitch | Nimble
How many types of sales closing methods do you know?
What is Conversational Marketing? — www.drift.com
Drift is convinced this is the next big thing.
Seem like MessageBird above agrees.
What do you think?
Radness
The #silkroadmountainrace hashtag on Instagram
When you’re taking breaks from watching dots, check some grams.
Albeit sparse from racers, there will be coverage despite the remote setting.
