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Joe Coleman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
225 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Of course.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

And sometimes it has been, but yeah, you're totally right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

I mean, our payback

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

it swings anywhere between, you know, uh, six months in a year, sort of depending on how we do that quarter and those kinds of things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Uh, but yeah, our, our view is, you know, as long as it's under a year, I think that the business definitely deserves investment and those kinds of things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Um, yeah, we're, we're in a position now where we're really fine tuning ourselves and marketing machine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

We built an excellent marketing team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

We also brought in a really strong sales leader and a really strong sales team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

The thing about enterprise sales that sucks is you have long ramp-up times for reps.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Deals take a while to close.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

And so you do all this great work to get the thing in place, and then you got to wait a little while to see all those results.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

And so we're anticipating kind of end of Q4 this year, Q1 2019, when things are really going to start taking off for us and all that hard work we did figuring out the formulas for sales and marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

are really gonna take off for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

And then we'll likely look at another round of funding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

That's a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

I guess I'd have to say the Blue Ocean Strategy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

I'm a big fan of that one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Yeah, it's a weird question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Yeah.