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Thomas van der Klei

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
174 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

We don't really push for it at this moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

It's one of those things that, you know, we need to get done.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

But we're a small team and there's only so much you can get done in a week.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

Yeah, it's usually the custom domain, team members.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

It's really different.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

We don't have like one specific customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

We have such a wide array of customers that they're all, you know, upgrade for different reasons.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

It is future imperative, of course.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

There is a very good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

Now, there are several reasons.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

I think that if you want to do affiliate marketing yourself, as opposed to doing it through a network, I'm not sure how familiar you are with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

So like you pay them, you pay them a percentage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

But if you want to do affiliate marketing yourself, you have to make a very enticing offer for affiliates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

Um, because you know, they like affiliate detention is scarce basically.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

So you have to make something really cool for them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

So they want to promote you over other people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

Now it gives you an extremely big edge if you don't have to, if you don't have to pay any per transaction fees because, because you can use the money either, you know, for your own bottom line or even better to create a more enticing offer for your affiliates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR

So, you know, we think that's not huge though, Thomas, right?