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Jason Pearsall

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
266 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

Look, we only have two.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

We service golf courses and it's very clear who our buyers are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

I can tell you at every golf course who runs that golf course, who the golf professional is, what software they're using, when their contracts up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

And so when you have a very small niche, it's all about data and it's all about knowing how to action the data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

And so, you know, we're very intentional about approaching golf courses that have high signals that they're going to be making a transition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

Same with multi-course operators.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

It's been another fuel of our growth is that there's been a lot of consolidation where we can win one deal and win 100 accounts, where in the past, you know, you haven't been able to do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

You know, one multi-course operator represents 100 golf courses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

So we've won a couple of those and then, you know, we've just gotten better at selling.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

Other element is a big part of it is just investment in product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

I mean, there's significant investment into product that's enabled us to build a superior solution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

And when you have, you know, when you have likely the best technology for the customer in the vertical, you know, you kind of get out of your own way and just let the technology work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

Yeah, look, of course it's true.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

And that was just one of the elements of that SEO wasn't a priority when we didn't have the capital as an early stage business to invest in SEO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

And we recognize that SEO investments take time to get an ROI on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

And so we couldn't make decisions that were

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

18 months into the future that sometimes you have to be able to make because we weren't funded to do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

And so, yeah, certainly a priority.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

That was the case.