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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 we started the SaaS fall delivery platform.

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

So we've developed it for about a year, right?

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

And these are the sort of like revenue metrics growth that we have for the SaaS.

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

And we obviously didn't raise any money or et cetera, because we had the agency that can finance that, right?

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

And I'm gonna talk in a minute about how we kind of packaged our team and what is the cap table, et cetera, et cetera, right?

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

So over the next 20 minutes, I'm gonna talk about the agency, the folderly, and the cold emailing in general.

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

Maybe give you some tips, folks, about how to send a nice cold email, all right?

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

So talking about the agency.

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

So the first one, how we tested SaaS ideas on agency clients.

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

So when we were growing the agency, right, and we've been growing or doubling every year, and these are the projection of how many clients we had per se, right, we were able

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

we were able to work with a lot of different industries, right?

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

And because of that, we were able to collect the feedback out of those industries on what they need.

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

So in a way, we were able to understand who from those industries have bigger problems with spam, right?

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

For example, is it e-commerce or is it computer software or SaaS or et cetera, right?

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

And that helps us a lot to be able to understand what are the first industries that we could be marketing this to, right?

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

And just going back a bit here, it also helped us a lot to be able to understand what industry are ready to pay more for our product and also

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

Using this, we were able to sell our first clients as the service, which I'm going to talk also in a minute.

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

So the few things here, how we test the sales idea on the agency clients, right?

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

So first one,

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

We had, as I mentioned, clients from the different industries, right?