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Ray Edwards

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
200 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

We're looking for, I'm hoping for 10,000 sales or more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

And how big is your email list?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

Well, it's interesting that you asked me that because it was about 37,000 people large, but I just did an email list trimming exercise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

Oh, I love that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

You'd be familiar with this concept.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

I knew I had a lot of dead weight on the list.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

People who weren't reading my emails, who weren't clicking them, who weren't opening them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

And I just thought, you know what I need to do is get only the people who are interested in hearing from me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

So we went through this whole campaign for about two weeks of basically driving people off the list if they weren't interested.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

So now we're at about 17 or 18,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

Well, most of them came from, I have a JV manager.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

Up until last year, this business was just me and my wife.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

Wow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

And so we've done pretty well, but I got serious last year, well, year before last, about building a business that was bigger than me because I knew I'd put a cap on my income.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

So we did about $300,000 in revenue in 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

And then last year we did- What was that mainly made up of?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

That was mainly made up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Magic Words That Make People Buy with Ray Edwards EP 221

It was about 50% product sales and 50% client work.