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Adam Sandman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
453 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

We would write some of the content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

The problem with an SEO vendor, especially in B2B, is they don't know your industry as well as you do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

So they're not going to write such good content, potentially.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

But you can write good content, but you don't know what to write, where to write, where to structure it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

So I think having some organic writing resources combined with an SEO firm is paramount.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

You can't just say, here's my website, SEO it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

That's, I think, unrealistic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

And if you don't spend at least $5,000 a month on SEO, it's not worth spending anything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

Yeah, a firm that's not charging at least $5,000 probably isn't going to make any difference to your ranking.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

For paid search, it's about seven or eight years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

For SEO, it's only two years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

Correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

Must have been two or three million a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

That was the, that was the paid search.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

The paid search was only 10% of,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

The lower range of your range, just kidding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

Yeah, 10% of the AdWords spend also has gone up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

So back then we were already spending about $4,000 to $5,000 in AdWords spend.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

They were managing that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

And then we've now grown up to, I guess, 13, 14, where I said $1,000 in AdWords spend.