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Paris Childress

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
141 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

And we were

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

We helped them pivot and launch their SaaS product about 18 months ago and basically got them from zero to 100,000 customers in about 16 months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

Correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

Well, the first 100 customers was through paid search.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

And we thought we had maximized paid search, but then we got into Facebook and into YouTube.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

And there were some breakthrough moments.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

One was switching to data-driven attribution, which really unlocked the value of YouTube.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

And the other was Facebook ads, basically leveraging all the great creative content that they were producing online.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

to drive acquisition through Facebook.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

High six figures.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

The first keywords are the branded and competitor terms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

because this is a product that's a new category.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

It's basically a loop synthesizer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

So people aren't really looking for this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

So we went after competitors' terms, platforms that are selling loops and samples that musicians use to make music.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

And we wanted to basically catch that adjacent search intent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

After that, we...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

We started going after other types of keywords that had slightly less intent, but we were just moving further away from the bullseye, so to speak.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

And we continue to do this even now, building out more and more keywords around the digital audio workstations and other popular brands that music producers are familiar with so that we know we have the audience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

Yeah, that's it.