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Sandy Lohr

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
182 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

We were selling search, but what we do is we have this technology platform and we enable

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

any of our clients that have so different companies that have lots of sales reps trying to reach lots of small businesses or medium-sized businesses anyone in local space and what we do is help them run programmatically search solutions display solutions social solutions so that is our mantra and the reason we do it so well is a we've been doing it a long time so we have performance

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

but also the scalability.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

So if you have to manage thousands of campaigns, you want to make sure that the tools are much easier than what you would find if you had to go into AdWords and Bing and Gemini Yahoo and Facebook, power editor on Facebook.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

So you can do it all in one platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

Yeah, so we have both.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

We have both managed service and SaaS model, and it's a media spend, so percent of media spend.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

And so managed service is our biggest category.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

We're known for our service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

So 70% was in managed service, and we have more Google PSP or Premier partners than any other platform technology company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

Why is that important?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

Because it means Google bets on us as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

So they're a lead source for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

Bing's a lead source for us, and that's because we work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

And the reason we work is when a small business tries to run on their own, it's likely to churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

And so when you're going through a reseller program, which our whole sales model is strictly channel-based, we don't work directly with any merchant, even though we're accountable for the results for them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

Precisely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

Got it.