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Josh Ledgard

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
162 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Those are our goals for this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Yeah, I tend to be more of an engineer on it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

So like, although the math may work out that way, I tend to pretend when we're doing any of those calculations that our customer lifetime value, I tend to shave like 40% off of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

And I assume that like the worst case scenario of a customer is worth, you know, $450 or something.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

So I try to do all the math with our acquisition based on more on those numbers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Um, I look at it, say I'm willing to spend about $300, uh, for that, um, because it's not a primary, uh, that it's not our primary acquisition model right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

And so that's where you get into the weird math as an entrepreneur, when you realize that, you know, we're, we're, we're paying people to write content and doing that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

And that's all part of our acquisition, but is it our acquisition costs directly per customer?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

It becomes much harder to...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

To calculate that number of, you know, when all of the marketing activities we do that most of them are more important than the paid acquisition, which is probably more like, you know, 10% of our acquisition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Whereas, you know, I view that more as like getting our name out there and reminding people to come back than, you know, the important stuff, the other stuff that we do for marketing the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

I mean, I mean that if, if I'm doing, if I'm doing that, it comes out to closer to like 400 or 450.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

You're saving 30% or 40% much higher.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Like I said, it's, it's stuff that we're doing that,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

ends up also benefiting our existing customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Like whenever we have a successful customer, we'll try and get them in for, we'll do an interview with them and then we'll make a case study and then we'll do a blog post that promotes it, the content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

And then so that content ends up being helpful to our existing customers.