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Alan de Souza

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
137 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

So a lot of these users were newcomers to the space as well, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

A lot of these users didn't really know what they need to do to kind of reach the inboxes of users, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

So this is what the challenges were.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

So cold outreach itself, though we think it's a very saturated space, it's still pretty new out there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

A lot of businesses still don't use cold outreach because using Google Ads, using Facebook Ads is pretty simple for SMB.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

uh pulled out we still feel like rocket science they need to know what is what is dns records what are how do you set up cold email infrastructure how do you find these leads how do you enrich these leads what do you do how do you even verify these leads all of this so it becomes pretty tiring for people they try to avoid

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

going the cold outreach route.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

And I think that's what we kind of solved for them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

And when we were solving, we would understand, okay, that this is where they find it difficult.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

How do we simplify that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

So we went on simplifying the user experience for anyone who came to us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

Yeah, so I mean, churn rate in our industry is also pretty high, but thankfully, we are at a single-digit churn rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

We are around 7% to 7.5% churn rate right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

Yes, logo churn per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

So new customers are still coming in from referrals.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

We have built a pretty strong affiliate cycle where people who come in, they kind of further refer users and they get in their friends in as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

We have... Okay, so most users sign up, but actually the affiliate spread is between about, say...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

roughly about 250 to 280 users who have actually driven sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

Yes, yes, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

A lot of them have driven more than one customer, but yes.