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Blake Smith

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
331 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

And so we kind of came in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

It was DEF CON scenario.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

And I said, we're going to test at least one business model a week.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

until we figure out what we're going to do here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

And so we just started rapidly testing different ways of charging customers, different ways of, like, selling data, partnerships with other retailers, like, anything we could do, because we only had three months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

We ended up testing 22 different permutations and found, yeah, SaaS, and we found that actually people wanted...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

somebody on their side when it came to clothing somebody who worked for them as opposed to was trying to really i mean every personal stylist out there is actually just a salesperson and so by removing that tension we found that we could attract people a lot more so 2014 was your first year you experimented with these permutations over 20 of them what did you grow revenue to in total revenue in 2015

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

2015, we went from, gosh, I mean, the month, the year before.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

I'd say in 2014, we actually, we made like 10 or 15 grand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

And then in 2014, we made over 100 grand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

In 2015.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

In 2015, we made over 100 grand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

We're planning to hit a million this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

Yeah, it's pretty straightforward.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

We go to places that people are looking for advice, and then we tell them that we have a personalized tool that's going to free them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

People are very reluctantly going and looking for advice for fashion, and the world they have to go to is bloggers, YouTube, Pinterest, Google.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

It's all high-intensity workplaces.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith

And so we just advertise at those places and say, hey, what if instead of doing all this work,