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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

We're very ahead of the curve.

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

So in 2017, we saw a shift of work-from-home culture.

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

people trying to engage with remote employees and teams and best customers.

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

So we built an automated distribution platform so customers can buy swag.

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

We'll hold an inventory and do individual distributions to remote addresses.

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

This was pre the pandemic.

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

Pandemic hits, it becomes like a need to have, frankly, everyone's remote, everyone's disconnected.

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

So we had that kind of source to allow people to keep connectivity happening within the company.

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

Sometimes.

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

So sometimes people buy swag and we ship it directly from our suppliers to their office or their home address.

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

Sometimes we hold an inventory and we do individual distributions.

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

We have a 3PL that we work with.

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

They charge us storage fees and we pass those costs to our customers.

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

So we make it easy for them to do it.

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

And we're not looking to make that a profit center.

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

That's more of just a way that we can allow people to consolidate swag, bundle things up together and do that individual distribution.

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

Yeah, exactly.

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

50-50 at the start.

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

I was very front of the house, everything to do with the branding user experience.

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

And my partner was very accounting-based focused.