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Yuri Rahimi

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
58 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

So that's somewhere around that time, early 2014, you're doing maybe like $6 million a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

So let's pivot a little bit and go into the five different sites that GrandX is operating with both content and merchandise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

Can you break down the both business models and tell us exactly how you guys are making money?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

So how much revenue did Grand X bring in in 2015?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

Okay, so that's about a 66% increase from what you were doing in 2010, so you're growing at a pretty rapid pace.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

I'm assuming most of Grand X's revenue comes from TFM, is that correct?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

Okay, so can you kind of break down what percentage of the sales come from ads as opposed to the merchandise you guys promote or sell?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

And help me understand, are you guys distributing in-house content as well, or is it all third-party products you're selling?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

I mean, you do have a tremendous reach throughout different social media platforms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

So how are you guys converting content consumers into apparel customers?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

Because I'm assuming most of the growth in your apparel business is basically from your various sites, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

I mean, we love that because you're basically promoting your product with literally zero cost to you or very little cost to you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

Many of our listeners are entrepreneurs themselves involved with e-commerce and are actively engaged with social media promoting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

What has worked best for you and what are some key metrics that you're looking at when you're promoting online?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

Understand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

So what's next for Grand X?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

Is this company going to continue catering for lack of better words, you know, saying basically the frat culture, or are you guys going to expand by keeping, um, keep on making different websites and targeting and target audiences under the same umbrella?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

Yep.