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Brendan Candon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
252 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

And so those are the types of things that happens with how we acquire users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

A lot of it's done through Instagram.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

But we get pretty creative about our content marketing and how we leverage the athletes who already are on the platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

That's our main account.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

So we actually, we do each, you can look at it like at FiveLineSwap on Instagram, but we have six different accounts, one for each sport.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

So if you look at FiveLineSwap.hockey.baseball.com,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

our total Instagram following is about 150,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

We kind of have this cool content strategy, global posts, user-submitted videos of highlights and gear that they use and stuff from the site.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

So we've tripled our Instagram following over the past six months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

by putting in some of those strategies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

And yeah, social is a huge driver for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

And that's where most of our growth comes from.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

I mean, those are all tricks that I know people do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

We've done a little bit of that stuff in the beginning, honestly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

Like, some of it works better than others.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

So what's worked for us is pretty...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

Spending time creating really good content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

And it's not like high quality content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

It's just finding stuff that kids enjoy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

And that's highlight videos, trick shots, like all that type of stuff.