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Erik Matlick

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
183 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

Bombora will be three years in October.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

So at the core of what we do, we're a data co-op.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

And what that means is we have partnered with many, many publishers and very notable large ones like the Wall Street Journal, CBS, Quinn Street, Bloomberg recently.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

They all pool their behavioral and B2B data together so that they have more scale and they know more about their users and they can build insightful, innovative products for their advertisers and marketers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

So that's at the core of what we do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

We have three different products, if you will, that are the Bombor family.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

There's Surge Analytics, where we can identify, using all the data that we have access to, we can identify what companies...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

in the world are interested in your products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

So if you're a B2B marketer, let's say IBM or Lenovo, and you're trying to sell a product like servers, we can actually identify which companies out of two companies in the world are most likely to be in market for servers in the next three to six months, let's say.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

That part is a SaaS model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

We sell it as a subscription.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

And we sell it either direct or through our channel partnerships.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

We have over 55 channel partners who sell our analytics SaaS product, if you will.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

The other product, Audience Solutions, is sometimes SaaS, but more frequently not SaaS.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

It is a product that's bought on a CPM, which is a cost per thousand product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

Media world, what that means is they're buying data and they pay for it as they use it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

For every thousand impressions that they use our data to target an ad, they pay us a certain cost per thousand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

So it's a variable price.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

But what we have seen is that the more subscriptions that we sell, the more revenue we drive on the variable piece of our business as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

So, you know, we launched the analytics a year and a half ago.