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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 tech's an enabler to get us there, but it's about the idea first and foremost.

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

And then, once we'd done all that, we then started doing what we call partner launches.

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

Any of you guys run affiliate programs for your businesses?

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

Cool.

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

Well, we do that and we probably do it slightly differently to how you do it, but it works really well for us.

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 have a one-week promotion strategy.

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

So when we run with an affiliate, we typically run for one week.

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

And then we all move on and do our own things.

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 not a long-term relationship, typically.

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

But it allows us to sign up customers at scale.

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

So a one-week promotion for us, on a bad one, we'll sign up 30 new paid users.

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

So it's highly, highly time efficient for us.

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

So here's our growth.

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 for context.

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

We didn't start developing anything until April last year.

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

So April 2021, we started.

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

I get slightly weirded out by this slide, by the way.

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

I've sat in the big room where I watch all the grown-ups, where they've got charts that are like multi-years.

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

We start in 2014, and we've got 2017, and they've got these big time spans.

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

Some of them have got years.