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Joe Apfelbaum

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
336 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

So I had to really focus then because I knew this was my time to stand up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

I had the support of my of the CEO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

I had the support of my partner.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

And now was the time for me to be able to build one of the fastest growing companies in America.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

So in 2009, we did 500,000 in revenue at Ajax Union.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

At Ajax Union, 2010, we did a million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

2011, we did 2 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

And we were featured as one of the fastest growing companies in the United States.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

And we kept growing to a certain point where I decided that I don't just want to be hurting employees and growing revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

I want to focus on profit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

And that's where we are today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

What was 2015 revenue?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

Sorry, Joe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

so 2015 revenue was four million dollars and but we we kind of switched our whole business around so in 2014 we realized that we were just adding customers and adding employees and we weren't adding the bottom line so we didn't want to continue doing that so we said we're going to stop growing our top line and focus on our bottom line

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

And we've been able to double our bottom line every year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

And we've been able to decrease the amount of employees that we have, increase the revenue per employee, increase the revenue per client 10x.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

So we have much fewer clients now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

What is revenue per client?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

What's revenue per client?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

$10,000.