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Josh Merriman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
238 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Do you

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

So originally I came in, I was a marketing person when we were interviewing and all that, but I had a background in web design and web development.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

So my first three months on the ground was actually doing software engineering, working in the code base, developing features, because at that moment we were just such an, we

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

There was no reason to do marketing and sales yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

It was like we had nothing to sell.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

So it was all hands on deck from product development wise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

And what are customers paying per month today on average?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

So right now our average revenue is about 52 bucks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

We have two official plans.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

One starts at $39 a month, one $99.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

A majority are at the $39 range with about 25 to 30% of the $99 range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

That's around 266 times 52.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

I mean, what you're doing 13, 14 grand a month right now in revenue, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

And that's up from nothing about how long ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

When did you launch?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

So we officially went to market in February of 2020.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Ending February, we had $200 in MRR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

So from there until now, it's been consistent growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

In the world of SaaS, it's so crazy because there's companies that in that same timeline might do a million in MRR, ARR.