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Jeff McQueen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
270 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

Um, you know, we've got a product that solves a really, really, really clear problem for people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

Um, and so it's really about, you know, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

Getting out of our own way and helping them both through making the product easy to use.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

It's a big promise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

It's a big product, so it's not easy to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

So there's a lot of improvements we need to make there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

So we want to drive the top of the funnel, but we also want to make the bottom of the funnel drive at the same rate by improving a whole bunch of the, you know, making it less of a funnel and more of a pipe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

Oh, I mean, for us, it's really about the, you know, the bottom is MRR and yeah, we basically just want to, you know, we can improve what we do from a sales perspective.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

Um, we can improve what we do from implementations perspective.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

Like we're not standing still.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

Sorry, to clarify, it's still going to be a funnel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

Not everyone who signs up to try the product is handing over their credit card the same day, so I'm being facetious.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

It will still be a funnel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

The difference is that we want to make it less of a funnel that has a really wide top and a really narrow bottom and where we put a bunch of leads in the top and then only some of them convert at a small ratio.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

We actually want to increase our conversion rates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

So that's really the driver.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

Where the top end of that list is, um, you know, but we're not really benchmarking ourselves off anyone else.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

Cause what we're doing is, is, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

sufficiently contrarian and different like nobody when we were early fundraising everyone's like you guys are crazy we're not backing this uh so what we're doing is is definitely contrarian and uh yeah we just keep optimizing and iterating and improving what we're doing what uh last question here before we wrap up with the famous five what's a weird thing you've done to acquire customers something something not normal um

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

Honestly, nothing comes to mind because I think my sense of normal is kind of warped.