Michael Jensen
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And so we kind of saw this hole there.
And so what we decided to do then was make a business of that and create these do-it-yourself SEO tools because there were free tools all over the place.
And so we decided to put it all in one system and to make it a tool set with a bunch of reports and things that would let just the average website owner be able to do something themselves.
Yeah, so it started slow, of course, but we're now over 200,000 active customers.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Most of that comes with partnering with hosting companies, but we do do a lot of direct customers as well.
Uh, well, I, I don't, I don't see all the numbers.
Uh, you know, the finance guy does that, but, um, but yeah, you can do math.
Yeah, so we do fine for ourselves.
We keep our operation lean.
We only have about 12 employees total, so programmers and customer support.
What's nice with working with the hosting companies is that they handle some of the customer support before it comes to us.
So yeah, the 200,000, those are all paid customers.
Uh, and so some of them, you know, are, are maybe on the cheaper side and some of the, the, you know, there's a, there's a revenue share with the hosting companies as well.
And so there's some, you know, there's some numbers to, to fiddle with there, but.
Um, you know, maybe, um, I, the, you know, the, the first one that we landed was, um, with, uh, so one of my business partners is Danny Ashworth and he, uh, was, he started blue host itself.
And then Bluehost got bought out.
And so the company that bought them out, that was our first hosting company that we were in.
Yeah.