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Eugene Levin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
238 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

MARIUSZ GASIEWSKI- Still have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

It's not as big as it used to be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

But I think early on, that was extremely important.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

The way affiliate marketing in B2B SaaS works is not that people will sell your product for you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

But if they want to write some kind of article, having an affiliate program gives them extra incentive to write about you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

So for us, it really helped to spread the message.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

It would never work if product was not good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

But because product was so good, affiliate network was a huge boost early on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Now it's, of course, a smaller part of the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Oh, at its peak, probably a third.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

That was around 2012, 2013.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

All right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Three, four million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

We had to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

So that's actually something that I don't recommend to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

So do perpetual 40%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

We did it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Because maybe early on we're a little bit desperate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

It was a phenomenal deal for affiliates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

It attracted a lot of really great people.