Convirza

16 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 14, 2017 by Jeremiah Wilson · said 10 times in 1 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Nov 14, 2017 positive
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Convirza's customer acquisition cost payback period is nine months
“I would say it's nine months right now.”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 22:44 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
Nov 14, 2017 neutral
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Convirza's pre-acquisition customer acquisition cost was $1,200
“Pre-acquisition it was 1200 dollars.”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 20:01 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
Nov 14, 2017
Disclosure
Convirza's average customer pays approximately $600 per month
“Our target our average customer is about 600.”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 8:04 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
Nov 14, 2017 positive
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Convirza's best customer acquisition channel for a decade has been free webinars
“Our best source for the past decade has been webinars, which don't cost us anything.”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 21:36 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
Nov 14, 2017
Disclosure
Convirza made roughly $20,000 from one client in its first six months
“The first six months I had one client they paid me probably 20,000 dollars if I remember right.”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 13:20 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
Nov 14, 2017 positive
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Wilson estimates Convirza customer lifetime value at four years
“There's different ways for us to calculate it, but I'd say lifetime value is four years.”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 21:11 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
Nov 14, 2017
Disclosure
Convirza employs 66 US staff and 40 engineers in India
“We've actually built a really strong team in India and that's 66, by the way, doesn't include India. I have a whole, I have a group of 40 in addition to that in India that are actually augmenting our engineering team.”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 19:04 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
Nov 14, 2017 negative
Opinion
Wilson found angel and institutional investors a poor fit for Convirza
“I have not found angel investors or investors in general to be a good source of revenue, a good source of investment for us.”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 14:25 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
Nov 14, 2017
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Convirza reports a 3% monthly gross logo churn rate
“Three percent.”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 17:26 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
Nov 14, 2017
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Convirza operates at a 60% gross margin
“60%.”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 23:51 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
Nov 14, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Convirza raised $24M in total funding after 2010
“So after 2010, we raised capital over a number of rounds, twenty four million.”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 14:07 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
Nov 14, 2017
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Convirza serves over 1,000 agencies and 50,000 businesses
“We have over a thousand customers, but that's not the whole story because their agencies remember. And so those agencies, customers could also be called our customers. And in general, in our industry, we'll, we'll call it 50,000 customers. We actually have 50,…”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 15:46 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
Nov 14, 2017
Disclosure
Convirza's sweet spot is marketing agencies paying $2,500 per month
“Our sweet spot is that 2500 dollar customer. That's going to be your agency who's got multiple advertisers that they support. But we also have the mom and pop paying 29 dollars and we have the enterprise paying a 100,000 dollars a month.”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 8:08 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
Nov 14, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Convirza plans to stay flat at $10M ARR during acquisition integration
“I'm planning on staying flat where I'm at. Just past ten million. Getting this acquisition done, getting it off my back Those are problems. I'm, you know, every business has them. We're stuck and now get past that.”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 16:57 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
Nov 14, 2017 positive
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Convirza built its own telephony platform instead of relying on Twilio
“Well, again we chose, so our competitors Are using companies like Twilio where they, where they're actually not doing the engineering themselves. We built out our own we built out our own platform. So we are our own phone provider and that, that has cost us m…”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 23:58 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
Nov 14, 2017
Disclosure
Wilson spent $70,000 on Convirza's initial 100 prototype recording devices
“I bought a hundred of them to get started with. Nathan Latka: What'd it cost you to buy when you bought a hundred of them? Jeremiah Wilson: What's that? Nathan Latka: What'd it cost you when you bought a hundred? Jeremiah Wilson: 70,000. Nathan Latka: Total. N…”
Jeremiah Wilson Nov 14, 2017 ▶ 11:53 843: SaaS: Call Tracking Convirza on $10m ARR, Major Acquisition to Double Business
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