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Pablo Fuentes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
207 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Companies, a lot of small businesses go out of business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

And yeah, it's a competitive marketplace.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

So the real key to making a business like this work is having a distribution engine that works well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

And for us, organic traffic, we tried the sales model and that didn't work for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

And it has to do with the product is just not simply not expensive enough for us to justify the cost of a sales force.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Mm-hmm.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

So we've been really successful at driving customers through organic traffic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Uh, sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

I mean, I'm talking about the total number of customers I have posted since the beginning of 2015 from this business model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Uh, last month we did about 150,000 or so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

I don't have the number of top of my head.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

I would have to look it up here for you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Uh, well we do, we do look at, uh, we do look at the number of jobs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

It just depends because there's two different types of jobs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

There are some people who are still, uh, on a, on a subscription model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

And then there's some people that are still, um, so the total number of jobs is almost a thousand last month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

We used to, and we still have some legacy customers, so it's not in, and we went away from that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

So we're still in transitioning to pay as you go, but we, we had almost a thousand jobs last month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

The percentage of subscription is down to a little bit less than 25% now.