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Alex Quilici

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
255 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

So again, that was a contact from our past who'd done that for another company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

He actually had done it for a company called Line 2, which was a second phone line.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

And it built up a remote supply through essentially an agent who knew how to pull everybody together in Jamaica and knew how to evaluate customer support.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

So we put that together, leveraged him, and now the team's 15, 20, something like that of just those contractors there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

And they do a terrific job.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

Live chat on the website, emails, phone calls, phone support, all of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

If he sent me an email, I think I want to be careful about having a zillion people contact him.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

But yeah, he's perfectly happy to build support teams up for people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

He's very, very amazing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

So it's kind of the network effect there too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

So there's a lesson here, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

So in our network, we had one person who's been kind of an outsourced CMO for a variety of companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

We brought him in to help us with strategy, positioning, a whole set of things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

And he'd start going, well, you guys really need help here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

I know somebody.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

Let's bring them in as a contract for 20 hours a week and work on something.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

I know somebody else and gradually built that up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

And then we've been hiring people too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

Like some of the contractors have become full-time because they really like working with us.