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Enrico Casati

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
153 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

So we're basically skipping at least one passage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

And that's just

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

If you consider like the normal distribution, it can get longer than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

For example, like shoemaking companies sell into distributors in Japan and sell through agents in Japan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

So that's another passage, another step in the way, plus the retail markup.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

It's, it really depends on the marketing budget that you want to spend.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

Cause right now we're in a high growth phase and that's why we, we asked for BC investments and a high growth phase.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

You can, I mean, typically we can spend 20, 25% of the budget on marketing just because we want to grow three, four, five times a year over a year, year over a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

Three, four or five times.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

Like let's say you sold a hundred thousand, uh, euros last November.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

You want to sell like at least 300,000 if you're in a high growth phase in a, in a year from that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

And, uh, that's why you invest so much in marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

It's, it's, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

It is both like a direct, you know, click and buy kind of advertising, but it's also, since we're building a brand, we're not an e-commerce platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

We're not sending products that people already search for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

We're trying to make people want our products, fall in love with our products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 603: Velasca Has Sold 20,000 Italian Shoes to 15,000 Men, $1.6m 2016 Revenue, $750k Raised with CEO Enrico Casati

In January, we will be spending $20,000 in marketing, but it's going to be ramped up very, very fast to $50,000.