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Konstantin Bayondin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
132 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

What's important?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

So we run a pilot project with our customers to prove the value to them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

And we get and expect to get two-thirds of them to convert into recurring permanent customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

And by far, we estimate that our churn should be like around 1-2% per month for those customers who converted from a pilot to a yearly project.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

Yeah, so we spend very little on marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

So for Q4 last year, we spent only $4,000 on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

We invest a lot into marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

outbound, cold outbound sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

We also believe that our next two channels to chase for are content marketing, foreign bound strategy to generate interesting content for decision makers,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

and to get their attention and eventually get them as warm leads.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

And the second channel that we believe in is the event-based marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

So going to events, conferences, and talking to the decision makers when they're ready to talk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

So in our industry, the upper funnel part is really tricky because it's very crowded in marketing technology space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

But whenever we get to a call, whenever we show a demo of our product, we get a conversion into a contract.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

for like 20% of our conversations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

So we, our gross burn is 130 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

130,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
100% YoY Growth to $1m Today, Raising $5m on $30m Post

And our target cost on sales is 40% of the revenue.