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Ferris Speddy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
204 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

Yeah, so we have an email list about half a million, social media audience of also about half a million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

And then we have the in-app placements.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

Our YouTube channel alone is about 50 something thousand subscribers going, growing three to 5,000 subscribers per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

So it's a very engaged, you know, people are watching these videos for like 10 minutes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

It's a very engaged audience there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

And we're sprinkling in the sponsorship placements throughout all of those channels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

We've raised about a million dollars in the life of the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

A lot of different sources, like most entrepreneurs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

We did a startup accelerator.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

We've gotten grants.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

I've won pitch competitions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

We did two rounds of equity crowdfunding, which is actually probably the most... A lot of people ask me about that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

We raised online via WeFunder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

So we have 300 investors across 36 different countries.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

through those two campaigns that we did, which total about $600,000 in investment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

And then we have a little bit of VC in that and outside of that as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

What year did you do the WeFunder campaign?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

We did the first one in 2017, and then we did one in 2019.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

And how much did you do in 2017?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions

The first campaign was $130,000, and then about $460,000 in 2019.