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Siu: Friend's performance agency generates $30M profit on $80M revenue
“So one of my friends, his pay for performance agency does eighty million dollars a year, thirty million in profit, and they have like 30 employees.”
Siu: AI co-pilots make software developers 4x to 8x more effective
“With AI co-pilots and everything, like developers are becoming four to eight, eight X more effective.”
Siu: Marketers still spend hundreds of thousands monthly on SEO backlinks
“When it comes to links, people are like, oh, SEO's dead, links don't work anymore. I'm telling you, I have a lot of friends, they, they're spending like a couple 100,000 dollars a month on links because it works.”
Siu: Voice AI agents will eventually close SaaS deals autonomously
“It'll probably get to a point where eventually it can just close the customer too, especially if it's SaaS or help a customer or try to set up phone calls to move over to your AEs.”
Siu: Solana micro-incentives boosted internal tool engagement by 77%
“That increased our engagement on a lot of these tools by like, I think it was like 77%.”
Siu: Top agencies sold for 15x to 20x EBITDA prior to 2022
“Pre twenty-twenty-two, you're at five million EBITDA, you can sell for 15 to 20, if, like, your agency's really good 15 to 20 X.
And so, that's like a hundred million dollar business, if you wanted to sell.”
Siu: Agencies have a 1-2 year window to exploit programmatic SEO
“I think we're going to see more agencies doing programmatic SEO too.
Cause like, you know, you had this one to two year window where you can do it, and I think search just changes.”
Siu: SEO tools like Ahrefs and Ubersuggest report inaccurate keyword volumes
“And often times, when you look at the keyword volumes for these, on these SEO tools, whether it's Ubers.js or Ahrefs, they're often incorrect.”
Siu: Spiralize operates as a pay-for-performance CRO agency taking revenue cuts
“You know, there's actually a pay for performance CRO agency based in Atlanta. I think they're, I forgot their name. I would, oh, spiralize. That's their name. And let's say your conversion, your e-com conversion rates one percent right now. I'm like, okay, wel…”
Siu: HubSpot hires dedicated staff specifically to refresh existing content
“HubSpot, because we just talked about them, they spend a lot of money hiring people that are just specifically refreshing their content.”
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.”
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…”
Siu: Only 2% of LinkedIn users actively post content
“Only two percent of people actually post to LinkedIn.”
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…”
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. …”