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Michael Hollauf

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
181 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

So we had a monthly plan, then we changed to a six-month and a year plan, and that actually brought the retention up nicely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

But yeah, I would say it's over a year, definitely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

So the usual online marketing, a lot of online marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

Lately, it's a lot of paid marketing as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

Where are you spending it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

Yeah, Google Ads, a lot of Google Ads.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

So we did a lot of SEO, like unpaid optimization in the past.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

We got a really great ranking there for the keywords that are important for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

But, you know, it gets more and more important to be up in the ads as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

There's more and more ads in the Google results and so on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

So we're spending a lot on Google Ads.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

It's probably not a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

The whole thing is probably 20 to 30K a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

We could spend more if we could, but there's not that much search volume on the best keywords for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

Who's your biggest competitor?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

In that space, it's probably the incumbent, which is MindManager.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

So it's sort of not a SaaS product, so it doesn't run on the web, but they started the mind mapping market in the 80s.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

They're still the biggest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

Is this MindJet?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 398: 5 Million Users, $250k in MRR, SaaS Founder Michael Hollauf of MindMiester.com

Yes, exactly.