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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

The second one, our agency clients were the low hanging fruit.

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

So imagine this, we have this hundred clients that we work as an agency, we deliver the service, right?

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

And we know these guys because we have an account managers assigned to them.

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

We know how much money they spend on marketing, et cetera, how big their sales teams are.

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

We know that they are sending cold emails, right?

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

And we know that they have a problem with spam.

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 thing we do is we go to them and say, hey guys, we can solve this problem to your sales team and this is how much money that's going to cost.

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, they don't necessarily even need to have a product for this to solve, right?

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

They just need the problem, they have a problem, they want the problem to be solved.

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 start making the first money out of

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

being able to solve the problem and not offer the product.

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

And that was a great sort of like experiment for us because then we knew who was ready to pay us for the problem and how much money they were able to pay us.

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

And I will actually go back to this, but just want to show you, this is one of the first clients that we had, and this is the email that we sent.

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, what we realized, we're like, okay, now we need to understand how we can package this.

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

Defaultly as a product was grow from a service.

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

So what we did, we sell this audit.

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

So we came into a client and we say, hey, we wanted to understand what's your current sending reputation is and what the problems are.

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

And there's an audit that's cost $2,000, which is obviously we just take it off.

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

It's not a real number, right?

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

So we can spend $500 on that.