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Brian Clayton

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
171 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

So it was probably 2015 before we had more than 100 customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

And then after that, we started to figure out, okay, well, we can't pass out flyers all day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

Because one time I got bit by a dog passing out a door hanger.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

Oh, jeez.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

So it's like 10 customers per dog bite is not a scalable user acquisition strategy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

Yeah, that's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

You only got one leg left.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

And so we bet the company on organic SEO and we started figuring out, okay, how do we reverse engineer what big players like Angie's List and Thumbtack are doing and apply it to lawn mowing?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

And we started to really just bet the company on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

How do we create great content?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

How do we get people to find us when they're looking for us and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

And that's when things really started to grow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

We're getting about 100,000 people sign up a month through Google organic search.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

And that's across thousands of landing pages.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

We have landing pages for every single little city and town all over the country.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

So if you live in Lincoln, Nebraska or Peoria, Illinois, there's a landing page for you to sign up for GreenPow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

And it's taken us a long time to build out that content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

Just good old-fashioned internal tools where we would pop up an HTML page for every single one of these cities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

And we had to build our own internal CMS.