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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

Like, you know, coming out of the Great Recession here in the States, 28 percent of all new jobs are created in the sector that we serve.

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

It's crazy.

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

And these poor folks are just, you know, driving like they're driving down a winding mountain road with the windscreen blacked out, using a rear view mirror of their accounting system to tell them whether or not they made money last month and wondering why they, what they just ran into.

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

Was it a guardrail or have they gone off the edge of a cliff?

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

So we want to solve that problem for those poor guys.

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

Honestly, it's not an ARR number.

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

It's getting the machine right.

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

For us, it's about growth rates.

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

And it's about growth rates at the front of the funnel and growth rates at the bottom of the funnel.

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

It's not about the end number.

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

It's about the machine.

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

So quantifying that, we want to get our inbound leads up to 15% month-on-month growth.

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

And they're not far from that now.

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

So the marketing team is doing well.

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

Obviously, then getting the machine in place and having the machine scale, we're only five AEs, a couple of SEs, right?

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

So it's still a small team in that scale.

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

Um, so ramping that up.

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

Same number on the bottom.

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

The intense to the actual, the intent is to make the funnel look more like a tube.