SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Acquire $1m+ Company For $2 Dollars with Eric Siu CEO of Single Grain
31 Jan 2016
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.
Chapter 2: How did Eric Siu acquire a company for just $2?
I'm now at $20,000 per talk.
Chapter 3: What challenges did Single Grain face before Eric's takeover?
Five and six million.
Chapter 4: How did Eric leverage his expertise to negotiate ownership?
He is hell-bent on global domination.
Chapter 5: What strategies helped Single Grain grow from zero to $30K monthly revenue?
We just broke our 100,000-unit soul mark. And I'm your host, Nathan Latka.
Chapter 6: What is Care Sprout and how does it generate revenue?
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Chapter 7: How does Eric optimize lead acquisition for Care Sprout?
Good morning, Top Tribe.
Chapter 8: What tools does Eric use to track business performance?
The new year is almost here, and you're going to love our guest today. His name is Eric Hsu, and he's the CEO of digital marketing agency Single Grain, which has helped companies like Salesforce, Yahoo, and Intuit scale their revenues online. He also interviews entrepreneurs on marketing and personal growth on his podcast, Growth Everywhere. Eric, are you ready to take us to the top?
ready as ever nathan let's do it so first things first you said that you are loving the show so i wanted to have you on tell me about single grain how do you guys make money
Yeah. So the original, I mean, it's like, it's like a typical marketing agency where people will come to us looking for SEO help or paid advertising help. And, you know, just to be frank, I was, I took over the business around two years ago. So I'm not the original founder. It was a struggling business.
And, you know, I really started to figure out, started to look at things and say, wow, I, there's certain parts of the business that I just don't like. So I really want to talk about how, you know, I was able to stop doing what, you know, I'm not good at and really started to focus on what we are good at.
Um, and in this, in this scenario, you know, we still get a lot of great leads and, you know, we, we've kind of started going in a direction of becoming a referral agency where we're giving business to other agencies and we're collecting a recurring income. So that's been continuing to grow in the last eight months.
And then the, the monthly recurring revenue on that so far is a $30,000 a month from zero, um, eight months ago.
See, Top Type, don't you love it when I have guests on that listen to the show? They give us the numbers. I don't even have to ask. It's great, Eric. $30,000 in MRR. I want to go back first, though, real quick, because I think this is interesting. You said you took the agency over two years ago. Did you buy out the founders? I mean, tell me what you did there.
Yeah. So I interesting story. I was brought on to help help the agency. I was given a 10 percent stake. And then down the road, the original founder decided he didn't want to do agency anymore. He wanted to go do something else. There were a couple of other partners in the business.
But, you know, we worked out a deal where at the end of the day, out of pocket, out of my own pocket, I paid two dollars for the company.
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