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Justin Burns

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
125 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

So, um, just very, very small, but most of the company is bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

Roughly around $20,000, so it wasn't much.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

It was very small.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

The rest of it just came from me selling off a lot of assets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

Yeah, it was, it was more like a, you know, kind of wanted to grow something even bigger and kind of, you know, I come from this space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

So it was something I'm real passionate about.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

And I was just like, you know, I was working with a guy who had a couple of SAS, you know, uh, he had built a couple of SAS companies and it was just something that I was just like, I want to get in this and really just that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

A guy named Mark Thompson.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

So he actually built a couple of SaaS companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

He's the owner of pay kickstart.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

So, um, he actually helped me and helped me built out, um, you know, just really understand this game of, uh, SaaS.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

Yeah, so we have a combination of two things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

So one is affiliate relationships, which I had before.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

So we did some affiliate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

We've been doing a lot of kind of, you know, kind of toying with the fact of like doing like affiliate marketing, like affiliate webinars that we've acquired.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

Probably 70% of our customers do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

And the other 30% is me kind of speaking at various events because I'm also a speaker.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

So speak about Maestro and users join and sign up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR

Yeah.