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Dave Currie

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
139 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

I came in in 2005 with the then owner, Todd Newton.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

So prior to that, my background's in the agency marketing services space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

It was through a joint venture with a company out of the UK that I was working with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

The accent's Australian, but I happen to be working in London at the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

So a combination of things that drew me to this opportunity in the North American marketplace being the largest advertising market in the first world sort of side of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

We're currently at about 85 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

And the vast majority of those are based here in our headquarters in Atlanta.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

We've got teams in New York and scattered throughout the country as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

Our average subscription rates, relatively low.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

It's a nice low entry fee of around $6,000 to $7,000 based upon the subscription level they're signing up for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

And then we charge an additional user rate between $400 or $500 per user per year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

And just like a lot of SaaS platforms, the account base is built up by user or seats.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

It's more commonly known.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

That's about right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

So we look at customer acquisition a couple of different ways.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

Given a relatively low ACV, we were very deliberate in our marketing efforts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

Up until 2014, we were spending a lot on paid search and a lot of the traditional advertising norms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

On average, on an annualized basis, somewhere in the vicinity of 100 to 150,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

Yeah, we rapidly declined that down to around $50,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 624: Winmo Passes $1.1M in MRR, Helping 2000 Customers Close More Sales with CEO Dave Currie

So a third of that and placed the remaining dollars into content marketing.