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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

So Xero, QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, their marketing automation, HubSpot, for example.

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

So we'll actually sit in the middle as a bus.

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

And what's great about the way that we've approached it, and I sort of got to this at the top of our conversation, where we're about recognizing that

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

the businesses that we help have smart, creative people who, the last thing they want to be doing is filling in 20 spreadsheets, right?

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

No one got into the business of being an architect to sit there and update Excel or to fill in a reporting system to make a CFO happy.

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

That's right.

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

So we've actually, where we've had so much success that guys who've tried to solve this problem, because this isn't a new problem,

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

Guys who've tried to solve the problem before and failed have largely been because they expect sort of the mountain to come to them instead of them going to the mountain.

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

And so what we do is we let our users and encourage them to connect to the systems they're already using.

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

And then we become this intelligent automated machine that sits in the middle.

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

And then they just have to give it a little bit of an update here and update there after the fact.

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

So, for example, we'll automatically fill in somebody's timesheet.

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

Um, and that comes from doing those sorts of connections.

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

So yeah, it's like sign up or write, connect your Google account, connect your office 365 account, connect your exchange account, whichever one of those it is, you do that.

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

That's key.

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

Um, and it goes from there.

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

Uh, it's really to accelerate the process.

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

Um, you know, we've got, you know, thousands of customers, but there are millions of businesses, businesses that have this problem.

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

And that's just using the count of the industry size in the U.S.

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

It's not even including, you know, the rest of the rest of the professional services, which is dominant in the Western world.