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James Kennedy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
189 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

But that's what I was looking at at the very start.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

Was I at least getting one demo with someone from one in every 20 customers?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

Would they at least do a demo with me?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

And if they did a demo, even if our product wasn't right yet, it taught me, okay, the good thing about our product is no one does a demo of a purchase order management system for fun.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

So if they were doing it, there was some value there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

It's just a question we had to close the gap about what we did and what they were looking for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

It's one in 20.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

More or less, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

And now those figures are obviously all blended across channels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

Of course.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

So it's radically changed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

Like a referral customer is going to be a lot different to a Facebook lead to, you know, some other sort of paid up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

Referral, of course, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

Yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

And of course, referrals are free, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

You never pay for that customer in the first place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

We do have a quite, we treat that separately.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

We have a quite extensive partner network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

And we do pay up to 30, 40% kickback, depending on, but that's the kind of, we look at that different.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

the lifetime value of the contract.