Brisson delayed taking a salary until Salesmsg bootstrapped to $6M
“We didn't raise any money, and in fact, I just started taking a salary.”
Brisson: Salesmsg will probably reach between $7M and $8M in revenue
“So we did 36,003 61, two we'll probably hit between seven and eight.”
Mockup webinar pre-sales out-earned 18 months of building a failed product
“And the webinar turned into 3100 dollars in sales. More money than we made in a whole year and a half trying to sell this other product that we spent a lot of money with.”
Brisson: Call Loop raised $90,000 in 2012
“I raised 90,000 dollars in like, 2012, and I'm like, man, I just took somebody's money, and it's not a lot of money, but this thing sucks.”
Brisson: Spent 1.5 years and $150K on unwanted Call Loop product
“And that journey, how I lost a year and a half a time, a 150 grand working on a product no one wanted.”
Brisson: Salesmsg bootstrapped to $6M in high-growth revenue
“So I'm gonna talk about how I pivoted from flat and unhappy to six million and high growth, all completely bootstrapped.”
Brisson rejects hypothetical $500k cash buyout offer for Call Loop
“No way, Nathan, come on then.”
Brisson: Call Loop generated $385k in 2015 revenue
“Yeah, I went to three 85.”
Brisson bought out inactive Call Loop co-founders in 2015
“Yeah, so I bought out my business partners last year. Which would have been 2015, yeah. Yeah, 2015, so end up buying those guys out. They were kind of silent, I would say, for maybe a year and a half, two years, so for them it was you know, it was a nice payda…”