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Adrian Dayton

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
447 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

I mean, I was making with bonus, like maybe 80 grand a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

So in Buffalo, that's plenty of money, you know?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

Um, and so we had student loans, we had a baby, my wife wasn't working.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

Um, you know, we had a house payment and I said, honey, it's okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

I've got an idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

I am going to start a business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

teaching lawyers how to use Twitter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

And she just, she just cried harder, you know, but she, she was really supportive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

And over the next few months, I wrote the first book on social media for lawyers and my consulting business just exploded.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

So I was just consulting and I went from in the first year, I made about a hundred grand a year and I grew it doubled almost every year until I was doing about $400,000 a year consulting to large law firms all over the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

And I was making great money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

I mean, yeah, I was making $7,500 a day to go and work with these firms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

And obviously I couldn't sell 20 days a month, but sometimes I would sell, you know, uh, you know, five to 10 days a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

And I would just, you know, I had months where I would just absolutely crush it and I had no expenses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

All the money just came right into my account.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

And I mean, a lot of people would say like, why did you ever start a company?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

Like that sounds like a pretty great lifestyle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

And obviously lifestyle was good, but

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1168 Social Media For Lawyers Doubles YOY to $1.5m ARR, Raising $1m?

But I felt like I wasn't having the impact that I could with like a product.