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Nick Zekets

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
142 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

I'm not sure that we're ready to go live with that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

If you would like to multiply them, that's fine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

The range is pretty diverse.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

But yes, that is okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

Well, so I think it's really important to know where it is that we came from.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

Last business that we built and we exited in 2018 was a marketing automation platform built on the concept of personalization.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

It was called Quadrangle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

It was built specifically for higher education professionals.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

The mistake that we made was building all the features on top of a personalization engine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

So as we exited that business, we did reasonably well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

The issue was, and our recognition was that the intelligence we had underlying our feature set was really the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

And we had made the mistake of building the feature set on top.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

And as we started to roll out of that, we had a really good sense that a lot of MarTech companies were trying to figure out how to do exactly this, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

How do we deliver personalization

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

And they were doing it because their customers were asking them to deliver on personalization.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

And what was happening is the market was basically building, you know, more and more and more tools for tagging your content and for creating more segments and for creating dynamic logic to line content and humans up, but really content and segments was the best that was happening out there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

And, and so the demand is,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

incredibly well understood.