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Joshua Keller

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
115 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

Anyone who's doing it the old way, as soon as I show them the new way, it's game over.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

I mean, you just got to pass that learning curve of obviously any new system that you're learning has a learning curve.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

But once you're past that, there's no going back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

So when I'm saying affiliates, I mean affiliates of Union Square Media.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

So we have our own media buying team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

But then let's say if we're not good, as good as on Google, and we give that same deal out to an affiliate, they're running it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

So it's an affiliate of the agency, not of affiliate of bringing on Maximus new clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

I mean, we haven't even began the referral program because people are just naturally recommending it because they understand the power of the tool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

It's like once they cross over, they're becoming our evangelists.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

So there's definitely a little bit of churn, I would say about 30%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

And it's mostly due to, I don't know how familiar everyone is with how Facebook's working right now, but it's very up and down, especially if you're in e-commerce and a lot of other categories.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

One day you're doing really well, the next day you're not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

So there's a lot of

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

people looking for other solutions besides Facebook and Google, and they naturally come over to native, but it's still number nine on their things to do list.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

And if you're not paying attention to anything, you're not going to be good at it, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

No.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

So like of the total amount of customers we've ever signed up, we've lost so far 30%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

I think that's what we're basing everything on.