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Troy Dean

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
193 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

So typically speaking, a sonic brand trigger buyout might be worth about five grand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

So now we sell a business accelerator program for WordPress freelancers, WordPress consultants.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

So it's an online course and we basically teach WordPress freelancers how to kind of grow up out of their bedroom and become an actual consultancy or existing consultants who might be a little bit overwhelmed with work because they don't have their processes and their structures in place that we teach them how to basically get their act together in their business and get their processes and systems put in place so that they can handle the growth and move the business forward.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

Well, it's interesting because I saw what happened is I was building websites for my own creative endeavors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

I was building websites for the bands I was playing in and for my voiceover career.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

And then of course, other people are like, oh, you build websites.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

Can you build me a website?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

I'm like, yeah, sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

And then, you know, I started a web design business and then I grew that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

I partnered up with a buddy of mine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

We grew an agency.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

We had some, you know, pretty good clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

And then I decided I didn't really want to do client work anymore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

I wanted to sort of scale that back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

And we were selling a WordPress plugin on the side and I could see the benefits of recurring revenue through that business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

And then I just kept getting asked by all of our plugin customers, hey, how do you land these clients?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

And can you share your proposal template with me?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

And how do you run client meetings?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

And what do you do about scope creep?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Would You Sell Your Business to WP Engine for $1m With Troy Dean

And so I just started this conversation and eventually I...