Eric Siu

15 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 31, 2016 by Eric Siu · said 3 times in 2 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Jan 31, 2016
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
Jan 31, 2016
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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
Jan 31, 2016 positive
Disclosure
Siu acquired the remaining ownership of Single Grain for two dollars
“We worked out a deal where at the end of the day, out of pocket, out of my own pocket, I paid two dollars for the company.”
Eric Siu Jan 31, 2016 ▶ 2:42 How To Acquire $1m+ Company For $2 Dollars with Eric Siu CEO of Single Grain
Jan 31, 2016
Disclosure
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
Jan 31, 2016
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
Jan 31, 2016
Disclosure
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
Jan 31, 2016
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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
Jan 31, 2016
Disclosure
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
Jan 31, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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
May 12, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
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.”
Eric Siu May 12, 2023 ▶ 3:42 SaaS SEO Shortcuts That Drive $10M+ ARR, Building A Media Moat, & More!
May 12, 2023
Disclosure
Siu's survival website spends $40k monthly to drive 20M visits
“This, in terms of our monthly expenses on this site that drives the twenty million visits a month, we're spending about 40,000 dollars a month, and the team looks like it's basically a, I think it's gonna, there's gonna be a breakdown in a second, but it's bas…”
Eric Siu May 12, 2023 ▶ 3:01 SaaS SEO Shortcuts That Drive $10M+ ARR, Building A Media Moat, & More!
May 12, 2023 bullish
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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!
May 12, 2023 positive
Insight
Siu: Content refreshes provide higher ROI than producing new content
“The more you actually refresh, the more bang for buck you're gonna get.”
Eric Siu May 12, 2023 ▶ 3:35 SaaS SEO Shortcuts That Drive $10M+ ARR, Building A Media Moat, & More!
May 12, 2023 bullish
Disclosure
Siu: Owned survival website generates $3M annually in affiliate revenue
“This site drives about three million a year just off of affiliate revenue, that's not including other revenue.”
Eric Siu May 12, 2023 ▶ 3:57 SaaS SEO Shortcuts That Drive $10M+ ARR, Building A Media Moat, & More!
May 12, 2023
Disclosure
Siu: Marketing School podcast receives 2M monthly downloads, targeting 5M
“Just for some context, on the Marketing School pod, we're about two million downloads a month right now but we want to get that to five million views a month, and we think this is going to be a big piece of it”
Eric Siu May 12, 2023 ▶ 5:17 SaaS SEO Shortcuts That Drive $10M+ ARR, Building A Media Moat, & More!
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