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Joe Long

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201 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

So it's a team out of India.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

It's a company called Flexin and CEO Logistics.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

I've got some Flexin, F-L-E-X-S-I-N, and CEO Logistics.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

So they've done a great job for me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

I just contacted and looked up the reviews way back when, and they started working with me over time within the budget that I had.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

Well, it was about $10,000 a month to begin with, and then it floated up to about $20,000, $25,000 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

And now we're just kind of putting icing on the cake and we're down to around $10,000 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

About $320,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

So throughout all this time, from 2015 forward, I actually restarted a business that I had started during the internet boom back in 98 to 2002.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

It was called Q Associates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

And Q Associates was an agency, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

We did staffing and consulting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

And the secret sauce is I do what other companies don't do well for themselves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

That's the small and medium-sized businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

So maybe they're really good at manufacturing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

Maybe they're really good at installing floors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

But they're not really good at accounting, IT, HR, payroll.