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Matt Dion

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
142 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

And so we brought the companies together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

We decided to sunset some of the technology and merge the other piece into our piece and then roll software and services together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

So it was a sort of a bit of a reshuffling.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

So we actually rationalized some stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

So we, like I said, we sunset some product that we had that we just sort of let that sort of, you know, disappear.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

And then...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

Yeah, well, basically, we looked at what customer usage and what people wanted.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

And so what we decided to sunset is we had a...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

legacy, well, what we think of as legacy SEO products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

So the traditional SEO analytics platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

And we actually decided that we wanted to, there were two parts to G-SHIP.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

One was this SEO platform and one was this tracking capability.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

So the ability to put a unique URL on every piece of content that goes out through every channel so that you can see the engagement

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

We felt that SEO was just changing so quickly that we actually morphed that into another product that we're going to be launching this year, which is using more machine learning to actually proactively optimize the content before publishing it versus the traditional SEO is to publish, let Google crawl it, see how you show up in the search results, tweak it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

It's a very slow manual iterative process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

And so we actually...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

We sunsetted the traditional platform, but we actually took the know-how and the technology and morphed it into a new product that we're going to be launching this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

So it was really just where things are going and where we saw our customers getting value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

And that's what we decided where to invest and where to sunset.