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Michael Maximoff

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
276 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

So don't just buy a database and just send a blast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

Be very targeted in terms of who and how you send an email to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

So it's better to spend more money on this very nice targeted 100 or 500 leads and get the result out of them than blasting 5,000 emails and getting a 0.5% open rate, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

As I mentioned, set up your DNS correctly, you can use our platform for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

Create engaging content, subject line matters.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

So the way, so the idea is that the more open rate, reply rates and engagement rates you have for your emails, the better your reputation is and the higher your reputation is, it means that generally you're gonna have more open rates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

So it means that if you have a very low engagement rate, then you need to work on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

because by having higher, you're gonna set up yourself for success.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

Average sequence of emails, five, six follow-ups adhere to the natural mailbox limit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

So the setup matters.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

So for example, our perfect setup for the cold emailing is

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

Google as the ESP and tool reply.io or outreach.io as the engagement platform to sending out emails.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

And when I'm using Google as an ESP, one mailbox has a natural limit of under 250 emails per day that can be sent with a delay about 200 seconds between emails.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

So it means that I can send only 200 because if I send more, then it harms my reputation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

And I really wanted those 60, 70% open rates, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

Personalization is the key.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

Show me you know me, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

So personalize your outreach as previous speakers were talking, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

Always A-B test, of course.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue

Different industries, different ICPs, different templates, right?