Eric Siu

Everything Eric Siu said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Siu: Neil Patel's blog drives tens of thousands of monthly leads

“What Neil didn't mention, and I don't think he'll care if I talk about this, but he actually drives You know, tens of thousands of leads a month off of his blog, right, which drives a couple million visits a month.”

Eric Siu May 12, 2023 ▶ 5:43 SaaS SEO Shortcuts That Drive $10M+ ARR, Building A Media Moat, & More!

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Siu: Associate's single SEO webpage generates $1M in annual pure profit

“Key thing is this page drives about a million dollars a year in profit, right? You can call it profit, you can call it a little different than EBITDA, it's pure profit though, ok? So I want to tell you a story around this, and I'll kind of dovetail it into a l…”

Eric Siu May 12, 2023 ▶ 8:15 SaaS SEO Shortcuts That Drive $10M+ ARR, Building A Media Moat, & More!

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Siu: Only 2% of LinkedIn users actively post content

“Only two percent of people actually post to LinkedIn.”

Eric Siu May 12, 2023 ▶ 17:27 SaaS SEO Shortcuts That Drive $10M+ ARR, Building A Media Moat, & More!

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Siu: Single Grain agency spends $60k to $70k monthly on internal content

“Our content process, we're spending like 60 to 70 grand a month on our stuff internally at Single Grain, I believe.”

Eric Siu May 12, 2023 ▶ 17:34 SaaS SEO Shortcuts That Drive $10M+ ARR, Building A Media Moat, & More!

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Single Grain generates $30,000 monthly recurring revenue from agency referral fees

“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 monthly recurring revenue o…”

Eric Siu Jan 31, 2016 ▶ 1:54 How To Acquire $1m+ Company For $2 Dollars with Eric Siu CEO of Single Grain

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Siu funded the $150K founder buyout using Single Grain's own revenue

“The buyout was actually about a 150 K, but that was paid out by the company's, you know, revenue. So it wasn't coming out of my pocket.”

Eric Siu Jan 31, 2016 ▶ 2:58 How To Acquire $1m+ Company For $2 Dollars with Eric Siu CEO of Single Grain

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Siu: Single Grain Did $140K MRR With -$27K Net Profit at Takeover

“The company at the time was doing, let's see, one, about 140 K in MRR, but here's the thing, right? We were actually, that year we were negative. So on the, you know, let's look at the negative cash plan on, on net income. Negative. Yeah. Negative net profit. …”

Eric Siu Jan 31, 2016 ▶ 3:27 How To Acquire $1m+ Company For $2 Dollars with Eric Siu CEO of Single Grain

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Siu: Single Grain generates $60K to $65K in monthly recurring revenue

“We are actually around 60, around 65 ish MRR, but the referral side is what's growing right now.”

Eric Siu Jan 31, 2016 ▶ 5:42 How To Acquire $1m+ Company For $2 Dollars with Eric Siu CEO of Single Grain

TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure

Siu: Single Grain receives a 25% lifetime referral fee on clients

“Yeah, so we get, ah, we get 25% of, you know, the lifetime revenue of the client.”

Eric Siu Jan 31, 2016 ▶ 6:16 How To Acquire $1m+ Company For $2 Dollars with Eric Siu CEO of Single Grain

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Siu: Channels $20K monthly from Single Grain into Care Sprout

“So I mean, we're the money that's being siphoned into the new business right now is about 20 K a month.”

Eric Siu Jan 31, 2016 ▶ 7:02 How To Acquire $1m+ Company For $2 Dollars with Eric Siu CEO of Single Grain

TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure

Siu became CEO of struggling agency Single Grain around 2014

“I took over the business around two years ago, so I'm not the original founder. It was a struggling business”

Eric Siu Jan 31, 2016 ▶ 1:31 How To Acquire $1m+ Company For $2 Dollars with Eric Siu CEO of Single Grain

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Siu: Takes a $55,000 annual salary from Single Grain

“Just from the business, my salary right now is only 55 K.”

Eric Siu Jan 31, 2016 ▶ 6:54 How To Acquire $1m+ Company For $2 Dollars with Eric Siu CEO of Single Grain

The other half of the tape: Eric Siu's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 2 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Nathan Latka 2Neil Patel 1

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Eric's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
STARTUP IDEASLEDGER	Founder & CEO, Single Grain	1	13	50% 1/2	full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast →
TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER	Founder & CEO, Single Grain	1 +1	23	—	full record on Top Founders →