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Tom Wright

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
119 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

We don't like going on site with customers, obviously.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

customers in 68 countries, so that can be quite challenging.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

But if necessary, we will go side-by-side with those general managers and actually present Cascade internally as a tool that's solved

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

No, so the vast majority of our marketing is inbound.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

So we have like a pretty good kind of like presence on Google.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

If you search for Google things like how to write a vision statement, how to create a strategic plan, really generic strategy terms, we're pretty much number

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

one for almost all of those terms with our blog posts, our e-books and things like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

So the vast majority comes through that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

Because of that, it's difficult to measure the exact cost.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

Obviously, there's a time investment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

We don't do any advertising per se.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

We do a little bit of remarketing on Google AdWords.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

Yeah, so we only have kind of like one full-time marketing person, and I obviously do a lot of the blogging myself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

So we have one marketer and then we have one salesperson based in our head office in Sydney.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

And then we have just added three salespeople over in our Portland office.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

But that's literally brand new as of like a couple of months ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

There's not a lot of competition, which means.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

you're not really competing from an advertising perspective.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

That also has downsides because you've got to create a value prop that people don't know exists.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR

It's not like selling a CRM where people can see it as a commodity with a comparable feature set or a comparable cost.