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Dave Lee

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
259 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

And it may be just the type of market that we're in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

These are small businesses like

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

It's January and a lot of failed credit cards this month because everybody's maxed out their cards from December.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

And it's just the state of nature of the thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

And also, when it comes down to it, although we have a lot of tools that could be full standalone tools, we are really reliant on the platforms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

So if Entreport, for example, has a huge turnover and those customers are using Plus This as well,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

that is built in turnover for us also.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

So it's just part of the game.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

We will expand the product offering and have standalone products that we'll be able to offer our existing base.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

But for the past year, the expansion has really been in going to these other platforms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

We used to be exclusively for Infusionsoft and then two years ago realized we really need to diversify.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

And there are some other players, really interesting players that started to pop up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

ActiveCampaign, Drip, and others.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

And so we have taken everything that we had and integrated it with those other platforms so that we can plug into their customer bases as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

No, fully weighted CAC is about 170 bucks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

And usually the ones that we're paying are the consultants.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

So if there's an ActiveCampaign consultant ecosystem, we'll tap into that and incent them to refer and pay them an affiliate commission.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

So that's one way that we've done it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

We've also connected with... We go out and visit the guys at ActiveCampaign and show them... They learn quickly that their customers that have...