SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 533: $1.5M Raised, $100k MRR Helping 800 Customers Manage and Track Documents with CEO Tim Samulet
08 Jan 2017
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is The Top, where I interview entrepreneurs who are number one or number two in their industry in terms of revenue or customer base. You'll learn how much revenue they're making, what their marketing funnel looks like, and how many customers they have. I'm now at $20,000 per top.
Chapter 2: What is Tilkee and how does it help manage document tracking?
Five and six million. He is hell-bent on global domination.
Chapter 3: What was Tilkee's revenue in its first year?
We just broke our 100,000 unit sold mark. And I'm your host, Nathan Latka. Okay, Top Tribe, this week's winner of the 100 bucks that I give away every Monday is Kim Dust.
Chapter 4: How did Tilkee transition from small to enterprise customers?
She's in the entertainment industry and is currently working a full-time day job and doing her side hustle on the side. Kim, congrats. For you guys' chance to win 100 bucks every Monday, simply subscribe to the podcast on iTunes now and then text the word Nathan to 33444 to officially enter.
Chapter 5: How does Tilkee maintain low customer churn rates?
Again, text the word Nathan to 33444 after you've subscribed. Guys, if you want an easy tool to use to book your meetings back to back, to batch your calls, to make sure people actually show up on a schedule, you want to use Acuity Scheduling.
Chapter 6: What factors contributed to Tilkee's growth to $100k MRR?
It's what I use for all my podcast interviews at NathanLatka.com forward slash schedule.
Chapter 7: What is the customer acquisition cost (CAC) for Tilkee?
I'll tell you more about how I use it later on in the episode. Nathan Latke here. This is episode 533. Coming up tomorrow morning, you'll learn from Darian Shirazi. He's the CEO of Radius. He's 29 years old. They just raised $100 million and they're helping expand B2B sales pipelines. Top Tribe. Good morning. Nathan Ladka here. And our guest today is Tim Salme.
He is the CTO at a company called Tilky, which is a SaaS solution software for business proposals, follow up and sales process tracking. It's a super hot space. But for that, he was involved with OXFOZ Technologies as the CEO. He's also manager of general services at another company and also project manager at Travel Dew. All right, Tim, Kate, are you guys ready to take us to the top?
Yes.
All right. Very good. And Kate, you are just real quick. Tell us your role at Tilky and then we'll jump in.
I'm a business developer. I'm actually currently developing the European market along with my colleagues, focusing mainly on the UK because I am English, as you can probably tell.
Very good. So, Tim, give us an overview of kind of what Tilky does specifically and then how you guys generate revenue. What's your business model?
Okay, so the pitch is very simple. As a salesman, and I used to be a salesman, not a very good one. I'm an engineer, so it was a real challenge for me to actually sell. And when I used to send my business proposal, basically it was a PDF file and put it in a mail. When I pushed the send button of my mail, the contact with my prospect was quickly lost.
So I used to do a couple of random follow-ups, but it was never the good time for my prospect, and nobody called me back. So that's why we created, with Sylvain, my co-founder, that's why we created Tilki. And Tilki is a very simple software, a SaaS, that you can use to analyze the reading behavior of your prospect. And using Tilki, you are able to...
To follow up on the right prospect at the right time with the right message.
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