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Oscar Nelson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
130 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

Otherwise, we just try to be present in contexts where we know that a lot of marketers are present.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

So we talk to a lot of consulting agencies to make sure that they know who we are so that we can get referrals.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

We have some agency resellers trying to sort of hijack their customer base like that because in enterprise, even if we speak specifically about our core target customers, the big marketing teams, the big contracts, the sales cycles are super long.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

So if we would manage all of that ourselves, it's...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

Well, I knew we were going to ask that, so I tried to calculate it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

And customer acquisition cost is one of the metrics that we have found most difficult to work with ourselves, because what to include, what not to include.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

Some customers find us from an AdWord, and we can know what we paid for that AdWord, and they come to us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

Whereas others, we work on them for

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

nine months and do so much to sort of penetrate them and the cost may be huge so just splitting basically our costs across the customers we acquire it's a lot I mean it's

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

Not onboarding, not things that comes after sort of with one customer, but everything else.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

Yeah, I would say so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

Roughly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

I just wanted to think it through just because what you said, what to include, what not to include.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

Because after we win the customer, we do have support for that year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

If we exclude that, then yes, we win it back before a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

But if we were to include all of the support, it would be still under a year or just over, but roughly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

So we have on a monthly average, we spend between 20 grand, 20,000 US dollars on external marketing of various sorts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

And then sometimes it's only bought advertising.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

Sometimes it's a big event, for example, a trade show or anything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space

Very good question and difficult to say.