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Thomas Harding

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
146 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Not quite.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

I mean, I'm happy to share a bit of the story there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

We probably look more like an agency previously, but no, we just have a dedicated customer success team that if people need a little bit more hands-on help, we'll give that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

If you want to do things by yourself, we're good to kind of just let you use the software as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

On the SaaS side, so our fees can range anywhere between $500 a month up to $5,000 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

On how much of our services you're using, how much of the software you're using.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Yeah, at the moment it's broken up by features and as well just what kind of number of accounts that you're using with us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

So if you just have one Instagram account or one Snapchat account, that's right down there on the bottom tier.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

If you don't need much support from our team, you're kind of in that category.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

But if you've got multiple accounts that you're trying to manage and you want access to all of the features, all that user-generated content, the analytics that I was talking about, that's where you start to go up the tiers as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Founded in early 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

So we've been going just over four and a half years now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

So stories came out at the end of 2013.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Did they really?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

yeah so snapchat snapchat came out of the stories end of 2013. we came out early 2014 and i can tell you when we're out there pitching our software initially we'll get a lot of funny looks from people being like what is this thing uh and so you know you mentioned are we more like a marketing agency back then we actually were because we're out there pitching the tools and we're saying hey do you want to use our tools and people saying i don't get this thing

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

uh actually you know we want to we want to reach this audience but we don't understand this would you guys mind helping us out and so that's what we did in the beginning you know we we did everything from creative services so coming out with campaign ideas content creation um right through to executing campaigns then over time we kind of took all of our learnings here and keep feeding it back through to the product feeding it back through the product and eventually the market got to a point where it educated enough

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Instagram came along, Facebook came along.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

All these new platforms were there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

And for us, we did do a little bit of a pivot, I'd say, away from being a Snapchat-focused company to a Stories platform.