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Jeremy Parker

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
200 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

So we're very early in terms of outbound sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

We have zero outbound salespeople at this point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

What's the total team size?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

It's operations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

A lot of the backend after the orders are placed, it's the marketing team, it's customer success, handling the live chats on the site.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

It's more of that kind of stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

Yeah, we raised less than $4 million all in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

And we only raised about $1.25 million in the pandemic because, obviously, as you can imagine, the whole world fell apart, especially events and trade shows.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

A big part of our business went away in early 2020.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

So we just wanted to make sure we could raise some money just to make sure that we're safe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

So we raised our biggest round in the worst time, but really it was to share up things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

So we raised about $1.25 million right when the pandemic hit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

We ended up actually growing over 100%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

So we went from $7 million in 2019 to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

The whole world fell apart.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

Our whole industry dropped 20% to 40%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

We ended up doing over $15.5 million in 2020.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

2021, $33 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

This year, we're hopefully on track to break $60 million and keep growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CustomInk Paid Over $20m for Swag.com, Will do $60m+ This Year, 30% Margins

We've really figured out a niche for ourselves.