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Jeff Glueck

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
184 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

private company that runs 65,000 jukeboxes where you can control the music in the bar or restaurant with your phone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

People love it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

I won't disclose their revenue, but it's a lot higher than you'd think.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

And they had a problem, which is that people had their app and they loved it, but the problem was that

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

You didn't know if you were in a place that had this setup.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

And so they tested this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

And in a matter of weeks by implementing technology, they saw sales go up 80% to 90%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

Because when you walked in and stopped,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

that you'd get a notification on your iPhone or Android and it would say, hey, are you at Joe's Dive Bar?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

Rihanna is the most popular artist here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

You love Rihanna.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

Get the party started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

And that people loved.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

It was a combination of very contextually smart social message.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

And it was the right time, right place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

When you talk about marketing classically, it's always about the right person, the right time, the right place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

But it was always baloney because

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

A lot of the way mobile marketing started out was this apocryphal story of, we're going to ping you coupons every time you need them at Starbucks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

And that was a nightmare.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

I mean, one of the powerful things about us is with millions and millions of users for years, we've learned...