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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

So the people who've been are Google Ads managers, franchises, e-com stores, digital agencies.

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

That's been typically our customer so far.

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

So let's start with our beginning.

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

What happened?

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 was late March 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

Joe and I had built a product.

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

It was an information product that we were selling to our agency customers.

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

And one of the commitments that we'd given was that we would give them a list of plumbers to prospect to.

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

It was about the plumbing market, this thing.

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

So we'd give you 1,000 plumbing leads, which was a great idea until we realized we couldn't get it.

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

We tried just about every tool known to man to buy them.

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

couldn't get it.

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

Just nobody had that data.

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

All we wanted was a thousand advertisers in the US.

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 have thought it'd be really, really easy.

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

Nobody could give us the list.

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

So in an act of desperation, I said to Joe, I've got an idea how we might be able to build something to do this ourself.

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

I'd been just Googling, as you do, looking for answers.

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

I said, let's give it a test and see what happens.

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

So we did.