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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

But that was the cost that we thought is fair to get that problem fixed or at least to pinpoint the problem, right?

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

So long story short, so you have the customer, they say sure.

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

And then we determined that they had like eight mailboxes that they had problems with.

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

We market those mailboxes and then we made this first 10 or so, you know, 10 or ish.

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

thousand dollars from that customer and that's when we realized so the customers for example a marketing agency they're sending a lot of cold emails they had problems with spam and they are ready to pay us for this so this money went to financing our developer team right so it means that we already had some money to be able to without even taking off the money of the agency we're able to

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

essentially to take those money and to be able to invest them into our engineering team right so i think that the my point here is that very often the great thing about the agency is that you have these great clients that you already work with but very often the agencies they still focus on delivering the best service but they're not thinking about how they can actually

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

productize their services, how they can solve the problem that they're solving with the service with 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 while they're already making money, how they can create products subsequently that these products will be marketed to the clients that don't necessarily use this agency services, right?

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

So because we already have relationship with these clients, selling them this software was an easy, like a no brainer for us, right?

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

So that's how we make the first sales.

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

Then sell service, then create a product.

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

That's what I said, 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 created the service, which already solved the problem and we start selling that service and start making money and then we subsequently created the product.

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

Then high cost of the service gets you easier to sell a product.

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

Right now, if you go to Folderloo website, you will see that software costs about $200 per seat, which is for the SaaS is a lot, right?

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

And if you are a business that has five, 10 salespeople, then you will be spending $2,500 a month on this software alone, which is also a lot, right?

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

Because that's another software that you pay for.

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

However,

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

If you already pay us $1,000 for the service or $15,000 for 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 then we need to uptake you for another $400, $600 for that, then you will go for it, right?