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Dave Bell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
158 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

Um, we tend to be fairly aggressive, so we have a very business development oriented model versus a self signup model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

So, uh, you know, we are, we are not, you know, a company that leverages free trials or, or gives things away to acquire customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

So people need to contact us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

We need to do some business development.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

We need to go there and meet their team and we need to kind of do the presentation and invest a little bit of time upfront.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

Uh, but, but that pays, that pays dividends down the road.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

I mean, you know, like I said, at the end of the day, when you have a client,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

You have to invest in their success.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

And when you're educating a client, why you're different and how to view the data and what the value proposition of your product is, you've got to invest a little time in as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

My background, when I was at Playphone, we were closing enterprise deals with customers like Walmart and Best Buy and big guys like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

So we are very skilled and know what it takes to kind of go in and kind of interdepartmentally win those deals, even if it takes a little bit longer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

Yeah, I would say that's accurate or even a little more because a lot of our customers, like I say, they have, they have more than one app.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

They have some of them address 30 territories at a time, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

So

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

There are a lot of customers that scale beyond $30,000 a year for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

And so we really invest that time in making sure that we can educate and that we can really be a resource to these guys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

You're right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

It's a factor of how many people we leverage to get on the account.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

But there are some partners where we close them in a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

There are other partners where it might take 12 months.