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Matt Schwartz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
185 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

What do you mean revenue?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

The search work that I was executing, about $750,000 in search fees, and I was making around $100,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

Let me do it myself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

Yeah, I could.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

So I could do if I did seven hundred and seven fifty on my own and can make half of that, you know, then, hey, I'd be in a much better situation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

So I had nothing to lose, not to mention my wife begged me to go and interview with other firms and and see if I could get a job.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

And I had basically an opportunity to go work at every single firm that I would have been interested in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

So, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

I knew I could get a job if it didn't work out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

And so although the first year was very tough, it grew exponentially to the point where now we're over a million dollars every year in revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

1.1.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

Correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

I have one key associate partner, not a partner in the business, but key associate, who is my VP of search operations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

And then we literally work through a team of virtual assistants through an organization called the Less Doists that I'm a huge fan of, if you're not aware of them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

Yeah, it is with Ari and Nick, but their virtual assistant company is the Less Doists.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

So the philosophy is the art of less doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

And then, yeah, I don't know if you, if you use them, we go through Trello.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

Oh, we're both in the brotherhood together, aren't we?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.