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Dmytro Okenev

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
172 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

Yeah, back then she was the full-time employee.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

She is really good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

Actually, my marketing lady, who we got back then, we were hiring her.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

And what we were looking for is that the person could actually write great stories.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

So the idea was that we should use the natural communication language, which will be not geeky, which will be not marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

I don't know how to say it correctly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

And then that people can actually write nice stories.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

What I found that these stories are not converting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

So it's great to have these

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

yeah almost entertaining content but we also need to provide other other types of content so these are the editorial content these are you know social proof credibility content that we definitely should provide um and now i'm making a new plan for the next year so that we will

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

we will provide more tailored content for some specific niche businesses and more content for educate our users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

So related to our

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

Use cases.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

Um, yeah, during these years, we got like a huge interesting network of external writers who can help us because if one writer writes all your blog, then it's all one style, you know, we need diversity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

So yeah, even when we got like three in house writers back a few years ago, we were still

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

we're accepting the guest guest post that if they were really, really nice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

Now, my opinion, the map barely fits here for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

Oh, that year wasn't great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

I think we were a little bit less than 2 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

Okay.