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Michael Mandel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
166 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

a lot of travel, you know, a lot of T and E for events and going to different cities to, to meet with prospective customers and sponsoring events and speaking at conferences and things like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

Um, and then on the, that's on our enterprise side of our business on the exchange side where we bring on brokers and appraisers and research people, you know, we, we spend money on email marketing, um, some SEM, but it's more SEO driven, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

and you know we also can you quantify that michael it's like last month how much total did you spend just on like direct paid stuff um you know at the top of my head i couldn't tell you for last month it varies quite a bit month by month based off of a lot of it is driven by how many events we've gone to and how much travel we've done that's like a huge percentage of it ignore that stuff i'm talking just paid google ads facebook ads direct paid channels are we talking like a grand or 100 grand or more

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

Oh, it's more along the lines of a grand or less.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

We spend very little on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

No, it's much less than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

I mean, our customer acquisition cost is probably more around, you know, 15 to $20,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

Um, that's a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

You know, I think there's just only there's only so much that's reasonable to spend to to acquire these customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

I think most of it is just kind of traditional sales efforts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

And I don't know that I could spend twice as much and get twice as much out is really the best answer to that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

We have negative 6% or 8% net ARR churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

So we expand our customers at a much higher rate than our customers churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

Um, so that's, uh, you know, number we're very proud of.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

Um, it's been, you know, we, the actual true churn without expansions is low single digits.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

Annually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

My favorite business book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

Um, good question.