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Brendan King

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
248 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

digital advertising.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

We make second order revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

So we provide those services to them and they resell them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

So we have a first and second order revenue model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

It's interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

When we started, we were a point solution provider.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

So we started by building a listing management system, reputation management, and social media management.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

And

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

When our partners resold those, we only made money if they made money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

As we evolved in about 2014-15, we realized that our partners didn't have a product problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

They had a scale problem, a sales and marketing problem, a fulfillment problem, a delivery problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

We started to charge a subscription just to use our platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

Our subscription revenue is now about a third of our revenue, so it's very meaningful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

But our second order revenue is really what's really important.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

So our partners won't pay us a subscription if they don't make money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

So we only succeed if they succeed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

No, we're, um, this year we'll end the year at a run rate of $28 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

So we sell, um, we sell on a yearly subscription, uh, billed monthly, uh, for our, for our subscriptions to our, to our resellers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

But they, they resell that, um, the second order revenue or, you know, that that's all