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Rob Faro

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
213 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

They've got their tentacles out all over the place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

And most of the, the wedding industry is very unique and that word of mouth is still a very powerful tool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

So discovery is done by referral or by usually visual discovery.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

So we want that once they're discovered, we want to find a way to convert that individual that's discovered them and interested in them into a conversation, ultimately into a client.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

We launched in 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

We've done, gosh, I couldn't give you a number, but I can say it's been the hundreds of thousands when it comes to weddings that have been planned on our platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

Wow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

So it's been pretty impressive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

And one of the other unique features of our site is we're not wedding specific.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

We're event agnostic, as we like to say.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

We've seen a lot of wedding planners are very unique because a lot of them do more than just weddings.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

They'll do social events.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

They'll do product launches.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

They'll do corporate events.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

Whereas conversely, a corporate event planner will very rarely do a wedding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

So we're seeing about 15 to 18% of the events on our platform right now are non-wedding events.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

Oh, great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

Including product launches for some pretty high-profile brands that we were humbled and honored by.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

We had a little customer service call.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

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