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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

And we have different acquisition channels.

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

The reason why we are marketing that as a different product is because then you can fight in every category, right?

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,

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

Belkins is competing with some agencies and it's a very straightforward value proposition folderly with other leads for us and other product with other category and all of those generate leads.

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

And the great thing is that because it's one team and one company, right?

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

We are able to sort of like utilize deal of each other to be able to sell to each one of them.

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, if the Belkins agency been on the market for five years and we already have

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

probably 5,000 or 6,000 lost deals in our pipeline, we are able to access those deals to sell the product, right?

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, it's decreased the acquisition cost for those.

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 can sort of like, and then because the same is the same ICP, right?

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

The same ideal customer profile.

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, if the Balkans agency is catering their services to a small mid-sized enterprise type businesses to sales and marketing leaders, then all

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

our products and services we develop should cater their developers into the same type of ICP and in this way we can use the lost deals or deals of other products to market them to each other which creates a lot of additional traction during the beginning when you have a product right because when you have a product that you need to get those first 10 users or 100 users and

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

That's how we know that whenever we create a new product, we are able to have a zero budget, but we are able to test it to understand whether it has a need or not.

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

Delivering a service using a product as unique value proposition, this one is great because

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

The way we were looking about our unique value proposition, and I started this appointment setting agency in 2017, you can imagine there was a lot of companies doing the same, and how I was different, like do I have a different messaging better, 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 I was thinking with my partner about how we can create unique value proposition, and we focused on email as one of the channels, right?

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

And when we were focusing on this channel and we created Folderly, that was our unique selling point for our agency salespeople to be able to sell it, right?

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

Because then other agencies are just agency delivering the service.

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

And we are appointment setting agency focusing on email acquisition channel, utilizing our proprietary technology to be able to get you in front of the customer and close more appointments, which is great.