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Robert Warner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
369 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

The first thing that we did was we ran weekly calls with our customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

Every Wednesday, noon Eastern, there'd be a call on a webinar with all our customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

We'd tell them about all the new features we were releasing, and they gave us some great use cases.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

Because they felt like they were invested in the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

They got the deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

They got on the ground floor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

They got the best pricing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

They were winning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

And we made them our heroes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

Because people were going out and using this data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

You know, saying, hey, I use your data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

I sent a few videos out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

And I got a client the next morning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

It's worked like a gangbusters.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

Because they've never seen this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

I'm like, brilliant.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

Bring it on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

Record it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

And so we gathered all this feedback.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

We also learned that building a product for 5K is really good until you realize you haven't architected it very well, and your first server bill comes in for $8,000.