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Amanda Parker

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
125 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

Yes, absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

So we had a product before this that we were working with a lot of those clients that you mentioned earlier called Uplet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

And that has eventually morphed into Simply Insight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

So we started Simply Insight about six months ago when we signed on our first client contracts before we actually even had a product in market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

It is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

That's always been our motto is kind of sell first or find clients, find a problem first and then build.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

Don't build yourself into a hole.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

almost more important than money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

Going into like Q4 of 15 is when we kind of launched it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

Well, when we started signing on contracts, so we had our first client contract at the end of November, early December.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

In this case, they just put down a deposit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

But right now, yes, all our clients are on annual contracts that pay monthly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

So we call it Ramen Profitable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

So we have a team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

Say that again?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

Ramen Profitable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

So what that ultimately means is that we can pay everybody, you know, not market rate, but pretty good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker

And we're generating some pretty good revenue.