Craig Hewitt

11 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 27, 2020 by Craig Hewitt · across every show →

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Mar 27, 2020 neutral

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Castos Operates With a Four-Person Remote Contractor Team

“We're four people. All contractors and, you know, getting up to full time. So that includes myself. Two developers, a support rep and myself.”

Craig Hewitt Mar 27, 2020 ▶ 8:21 1707 How He Cheated Growth With $5k Acquisition on Day 1

Mar 27, 2020

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Castos Has Just Under 1,000 Paying Customers

“We have just under a thousand paying customers now.”

Craig Hewitt Mar 27, 2020 ▶ 4:56 1707 How He Cheated Growth With $5k Acquisition on Day 1

Mar 27, 2020 neutral

Assertion Supported

Castos Acquired a WordPress Plugin With 15,000 Active Installs

“So the plugin had about 15,000 active installs in WordPress at the time.”

Craig Hewitt Mar 27, 2020 ▶ 2:05 1707 How He Cheated Growth With $5k Acquisition on Day 1

Mar 27, 2020 neutral

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Hewitt Focuses Primarily on Castos Despite Podcast Motor Being Larger

“Podcast Motor, does you know, podcast editing and production services for podcasters, and it's still bigger than Castos, but Castos is kind of where I focus most all my time now.”

Craig Hewitt Mar 27, 2020 ▶ 8:51 1707 How He Cheated Growth With $5k Acquisition on Day 1

Mar 27, 2020 negative

Insight

Podcast Hosting Storage-Based Pricing Is Broken

“And for us, you know, it's kind of a funny business because the storage, you know, doesn't really cost anything. It's the bandwidth for us to send files out. So I think the pricing just in the industry is broken or a little funny.”

Craig Hewitt Mar 27, 2020 ▶ 6:20 1707 How He Cheated Growth With $5k Acquisition on Day 1

Sep 19, 2020 positive

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Hewitt: Castos reaches 2,000 customers

“We're right at 2000 customers.”

Craig Hewitt Sep 19, 2020 ▶ 8:19 Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Sep 19, 2020 positive

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Hewitt: Castos reaches $60,000 in monthly recurring revenue

“Yeah, and so with the services, we're right at 60,000 a month.”

Craig Hewitt Sep 19, 2020 ▶ 10:17 Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Sep 19, 2020 neutral

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Hewitt: Castos operates with seven full-time employees and contractors

“So we're seven full time people. And with the services arm, we have some contractors that do, you know, audio editing, writing. We have some folks on the marketing team that help on a contract basis.”

Craig Hewitt Sep 19, 2020 ▶ 8:35 Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Sep 19, 2020

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Hewitt: Castos raised $120k from TinySeed for marketing and engineering

“A 120. Yeah. I mean, you know, they had kind of their standard deal. I'm sure I and I talked about that when he was on it and we didn't have kind of too many questions there and, you know, we signed up there and they took a percentage of equity in return for t…”

Craig Hewitt Sep 19, 2020 ▶ 11:35 Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Sep 19, 2020

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Hewitt: Castos relies entirely on SEO with almost zero paid acquisition

“I mean almost all, we don't do any paid acquisition hardly at this point. So all of ours is, is organic, you know, content and SEO. So I don't have a number, but it's very low.”

Craig Hewitt Sep 19, 2020 ▶ 14:01 Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Sep 19, 2020

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Hewitt: Castos maintains a 2.5% monthly churn rate

“Yeah. I mean, our monthly churn is like two and a half percent.”

Craig Hewitt Sep 19, 2020 ▶ 13:12 Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Craig Hewitt

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