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Nathan Latka

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224696 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

So you're at $15 million of revenue today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

How many folks are full-time on the team?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

And are they based in Romania mainly, or what's the split?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Well, how do you structure it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Because you're in a very tricky spot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

28,000 paying customers at 15 million of ARR means the average customer is paying $535 per year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

But the variant is huge here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

You have some customers paying $16 per month, and you told us your largest customer is $200,000 per year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

You can't put a sales rep on a $100 per month account, but you absolutely need a sales rep on a $200,000 per year account.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

How are you solving this?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Gabriel, it looks like one of your biggest growth strategies, maybe early on especially, was SEO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

I mean, you are a really, really high domain rating here at 91.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

That's generating almost 168,000 organic hits to your website per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

I mean, this is really hard to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Was this intentional?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Was it accident?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Tell me about your SEO strategy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

It looks like based off my sort of quick forensic analysis on your SEO background here, the most successful like tactical SEO thing you've done are templates because they're driving 60,000 clicks to your website free per month right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

If somebody else was competing with you paying five bucks a click, right, that's $3 million extra they're having to spend to get that same traffic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

You also have templates driving 15,000 clicks a month.