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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

Okay.

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

Yeah.

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

I mean, integrations is a pretty common one.

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

And we've done a lot of that work.

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

My poor engineering team, like one of the downsides of having a co-founder, an engineer is his CEO.

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

And even though I'm supposed to be focusing on marketing sales and success, I still

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

to much of their chagrin, you know, commit code.

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

But yeah, I mean, basically one afternoon we were doing an integration or we had a bunch of inbound leads that were clearly an opportunity and it was a strategic thing as opposed to being something that would tactically move the needle that quarter.

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

And so I just built the integration as a POC on a Friday afternoon.

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

One of the funny things about building a startup on the West Coast of the US is Friday afternoons are really quiet.

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

East coast is gone to the pub.

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

Uh, England's recovery already.

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

They're already drunk.

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

Uh, and the Australians are recovering from a hangover.

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

And so you basically got this, this, uh, you know, you're at the tail end of the week and for the entire world.

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

And it's kind of peaceful.

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

Um, so yeah, someone Friday afternoon.

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

How many integrations do you have currently?

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

It's all about co-marketing.

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

No one's going to kind of get out of bed for you.