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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

And as a result of being connected to all of the customer systems, like CRM, like all their conversion pages, forms, email conversion rates, all that type of stuff,

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

what ends up happening is we can actually talk about whether or not people who are being exposed to personalized content are more or less likely to turn into customers, right?

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

And understanding ACV and opportunity amounts and things like that.

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

We can quantify the value of personalization because we are part of their commercial complex, right?

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

I think one of the problems that happens with consumption models in other businesses is that, yeah, Hey, this is a shortcut to say, build a product, right?

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

Um, you know, and Twilio has a really hard time saying, Hey, when you build stuff on top of all this, this is how much money we've made you.

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

Uh, maybe, maybe not.

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

We, we aren't, we are not unsure because in order for us to work, we have to be tapped into all that data because that's what tells us who somebody is and what they care about.

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

And that comes along with that revenue productivity.

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

And we can see basically by looking at our performance and the customer's prior performance without personalization, what the impact is.

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

So, you know, yeah, right.

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

At a certain point, I start to spend over my skis a little bit.

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

And I'm sure at some point, some people are going to ask us for, you know, sort of flat rates or an annual spend, and it'll look more like SaaS or whatever it may be.

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

But I think the mandate when it comes to consumption model businesses, and this hasn't been happening and you saw it in Snowflake, it's a really astute observation.

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

is that it's sometimes really tough to tie back to every time that happens, whether I'm making money, but the stripes of the world haven't had that problem.

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

Sure, sure.

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

And so it's on us to get as close to attributable as humanly possible.

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

Right?

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

No, of course not.

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

Of course not.