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Matt Ekstrom

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
111 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

That was it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

And we were overwhelmed at that point with customers and customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

Users on a daily basis trying to do support trying to do everything that a business needs to do Including continuing to scale grow So I think they saw that the fact that we hadn't put a dime into marketing other than using our own tool Eating our own dog food so to speak.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

So I think a lot of that played into it

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

Really, that's a very interesting question because we're just about to launch our company search, which will include about 10 to 12 million companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

starting in the US, where you can do that sort of hyper-targeting on the type of company, which, you know, and then be able to prospect people on top of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

But no, we had to, you know, go without those sort of specifics, I guess, so to speak.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

Yeah, it was more using Google to really hyper-target, you know, certain individuals.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

I think we saw our most success from an outbound standpoint, just looking for terms like sales hacker, things like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

But overall, our customer base is pretty diverse, so we're really trying to still figure out who our ideal customer profile really is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

What is the- And I think it's changing, I'm sorry, with the company search that we're gonna release, we're gonna appeal to probably larger teams than we have in the past.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

Of course, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

How many?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

I think every company does.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

It's less than 5% churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

Annually or monthly?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

altogether annually, but you know, most of them were, you know, we had a couple of wealth advisors as an example that came in, bought our biggest package, prospected, you know, got 5,000 people or so out of it and then realize, Oh, I don't need to do this anymore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

So the, you know, not necessarily people we targeted, but word of mouth got around, Hey, there's this new tool that will help you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom

And I think they got more than they bargained for.