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Bart Jan Yates

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
99 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

But it's still something we're exploring.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

But as of today, this is our revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

So I launched as a student, which, so I'm from Belgium and in Belgium, like if a student launches a company, they get like a lot of press, a lot of like magazines.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

And so, so this is where like all the start came.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

And then I did like the basics, really like the Mailchimp, the blog writing, the podcasting, all the basic things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

And this led us to having 290.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

We are also in an industry, so the hotel industry, which is very familiar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

So like

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

Like, you know, one hotel and one street says, okay, these guys, you have to work with them and then it starts spreading.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

But marketing and rebranding is something that's for this month actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

I have done some podcasts before and we always had some wonderful results.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

No.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

No, I don't have that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

Ooh, that's a hard question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

I think it's around 8,000, but we were in a collaboration with some local government where we were able to get a big portion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

So it's not 8,000 that subscribe to our website, but we received some of them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

Yes, we send out a two-weekly blog, so a two-weekly newsletter, and we always have wonderful click-through ratios.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

We are around 30%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

No, sorry, 30% of everyone clicks through our website reader blog.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

Yes, exactly.