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Kim Kaupe

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
159 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

You know, there are some cases where, and I'm sure, you know, your listeners can go through this too, where, you know, a company might really like it and they take it to management, the artist, and the artist is like, I'm not really feeling it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

So, you know, everybody has to sign off.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

But yeah, that's our direct client.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

And with them, we were really like an agency.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

So very much like a wholesale system where we'll sell them, you know, the passport, let's say for three dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

They'll in turn market up for five, whatever the amount needs to be between them and the artist and sell it for, you know, twenty dollars or fifteen or whatever kind of they decide with the artist.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

Sure, that really depends on what it's being used for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

You know, we've done album launches, for example, with Katy Perry, and she's ordering north of 200,000 units of something.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

So that can be a very large order.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

Or we've done as little as, you know, 500 units of something that the band is individually numbering and individually signing, and we're only going to create 500, and they're

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

you know, that's going to be it in terms of like, it's never going to be printed again.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

And it's, you know, more of a collector's item.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

So the range is really kind of varied, but I would say on average, anywhere between 5000 and 20,000 units.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

You hit the nail on the head.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

We always try to shoot for anywhere from, you know, a 20, 25, 30%, 35% profit margin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

But I have to be honest, I have girl crushes just like everybody else.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

And there have been some artists where if we can't get the numbers work to work, I'm just like, fine, you know, we'll do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

It's Taylor Swift.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Classy Way to Turn Down a $720k Shark Tank Deal Backstage, EP 283: Kim Kaupe

And I'm so excited.