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Dominic Edmonds

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
189 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

I had no money when I started the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

It was $160 million, which is the size of many IPOs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

Yeah, we're winning pretty well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

I think that helps being one of the early entrants to the space, which means that we've been able to develop our offering together with the view of the market as it's grown itself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

So yeah, we went through a blend of our technology features together with service as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

We don't shy away from giving people the best in class.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

Off the top of my head, you're going to say it's relatively small, given that the professional SaaS piece is what we build on in terms of scalability.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

But my background in agency means that I understand that when you talk about building relationships, rather than investing in hands-on client support, it allows you for cross-sell, up-sell opportunities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

So it's all about building a relationship.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

Having somebody who can pick up the phone is really important to us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

Yeah, absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

So we've been through a number of different pricing models over the eight years it existed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

We started out in a pure performance-based pricing model, which was really cool because it allows you to really get ballsy with the market and really talk about what you want to deliver.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

But as you mature, you understand that actually you need to build something a little more predictable for those tough CFOs out there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

So we've had a number of iterations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

So we started out with performance.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

Now I would still class performance as SaaS for us because having done that for kind of three, four years in the early days, we understood seasonality down to an art, meaning that we understood performance.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

what to expect from a client depend on their sales cycle, excuse the pun.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

So that was fairly predictable.

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