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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

Pure play SAS company.

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

It was birthed out of our consulting company, marketing automation consulting company.

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

And we quickly found that as we consulted clients, um,

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

They wanted the software to do things that it wouldn't do.

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

So we had a developer start to build these tools that they wanted and eventually spun that out as its own product and business.

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

They're getting a tool suite, a toolkit of about 50 to 60 different tools that they can layer on top of their marketing automation platform to make it do even more, to do advanced campaigns and do things that would typically require them to either hire a developer, extensively rig the marketing automation platform, or just do nothing.

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

All three are bad options for most entrepreneurs.

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

We've got over 2,500 customers and we process over 25 million transactions a month.

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

No, pure play SaaS.

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

Yep, that's exactly right.

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

And where were you a year ago?

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

A year ago, we were at 2,100 customers, roughly.

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

A year ago, we were down at about 130, 125, 130 MRR.

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

Yep.

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

Two things.

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

We had relationships in a niche of marketing automation users already.

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

So lots of webinars and outreach to them.

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

and then connecting with the platforms themselves.

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

So Marketo, Infusionsoft, Drift, ActiveCampaign, and others.

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

But then also there are thousands of consultants out there, and we give them a free version of our software so that they can play with it and then refer it to their clients.