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Ramon Barrios

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
138 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

We have our web, we have our iOS, and then we have our

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

We haven't raised since we last spoke.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

No, we have not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

We are burning right now...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

anywhere from 20 to 30.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

Uh, but what we notice is, uh, what we changed was that we, we moved the sales team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

So now we know that once we pass the 150 K MRR, um, 150 K a month in transactions, uh, we don't really need to spend more from there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

So it's, it hasn't been our focus right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

Well, we acquired all our customers through content marketing and email marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

And, you know, as you know, content marketing is slow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

So we're now trying to spend money to actually acquire customers through paid acquisition channels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

And then the development of the platform is the rest goes to that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

So one of them we actually met over here in Austin at Capital Factory, who manages a couple of developers in the Philippines who are great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

The other guy who manages our iOS, who developed our initial iOS app, Mike,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

partner exchanged 500 hours of design with him in order to get our V1 for free.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

He said it was the worst decision.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

500 hours?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

Oh my.