Google AdWords

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27 statements across 26 episodes · 10 bullish · 4 bearish · 26 people on the record · first statement Jun 3, 2016 by Ryan Urban · said 8 times in 7 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Jun 3, 2016
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Urban: Bounce Exchange has never spent meaningful money on paid AdWords
“We think we shut down almost all of our social media. we just did our first trade show last month. We haven't spent a dollar in our life on on like paid actually for our brand term. I think we put like 500 dollars into it because someone else was bidding o…”
Ryan Urban Jun 3, 2016 ▶ 18:29 From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban
Sep 12, 2016
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Rasheta: iStabilizer spends about $30 in advertising per gimbal sale
“Yeah, we do spend money on advertising through Google AdWords and Facebook advertising, and we have it on the gimbal, for example, as the example, it costs us about 30, 30 dollars to acquire a sale.”
Noah Rasheta Sep 12, 2016 ▶ 10:30 Ep 415: Phone Accessory Company Hits $2.5M Revenue 2015 with Noah Rasheta of iStabilizer
Sep 21, 2016 negative
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Teckst spent $10,000 on Google AdWords yielding 2,000 unqualified leads
“We tried doing Google AdWords and we spent around 10 K on that. And it was about 2000 unqualified leads in, in one month.”
Matt Tumbleson Sep 21, 2016 ▶ 14:12 EP 424: SaaS Teckst Passes 65 Enterprise Customers, $2.5M Raised with CEO Matt Tumbleson
Sep 29, 2016 neutral
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Ledgard: KickOffLabs spends $800 to $1,000 monthly per marketing channel
“Blog content and promotion, we'll probably spend, you know we'll probably spend about anywhere between 800 to a thousand dollars a month on that. And then AdWords and direct ads are probably spend about the same there. So we spend about the same on each one.”
Josh Ledgard Sep 29, 2016 ▶ 6:49 EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard
Nov 10, 2016 negative
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Ambron: High-end rivals inflated AdWords prices for reputation keywords
“Our big competitors like reputation.com who charge a lot more money than us and they go for a different type. And there's a few boutiques similar to them. They have raised the price of those, you know, say AdWords and things like that, that, you know, we've ne…”
Patrick Ambron Nov 10, 2016 ▶ 16:00 EP 474: SharkTank No Deal, $6M Raised, $4.2M in 2015 Revenue, 10,000 Customers To Help Clean Up Your Online Image with Brandyourself CEO Patrick Ambron
Jan 18, 2017 positive
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Breaz: Bant.io launched off an initial $200 AdWords campaign
“First customer was Captify, but no, we basically ran like a 200 dollars AdWords campaign right when we started and everything took off from there.”
Andre Brees Jan 18, 2017 ▶ 11:29 EP 543: Bant CEO Hits $32K MRR, Helping Companies Get Higher Quality Leads with CEO Andrei Breaz
Mar 26, 2017
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Toofr acquires customers completely organically with zero ad spend
“It's completely word of mouth organic. I don't spend on AdWords. I don't really do anything.”
Ryan Buckley Mar 26, 2017 ▶ 8:40 EP 610: Toofr Hits 100 Active Customers Paying $180 Monthly to Get Better, More Accurate Emails With CEO Ryan Buckley
Sep 5, 2017 positive
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Zendesk quadrupled lead volume using Mariana IQ without increasing costs
“These guys are people who spend something like 50 bucks a click to all the way up to a hundred bucks a click on on Google AdWords for something like Helter software, and they were able to increase their lead volume, like, four times, based on Mariana, while ho…”
Venkat Nagaswamy Sep 5, 2017 ▶ 6:51 773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?
Nov 13, 2017
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Serpstat cut Google ad spend by 80% using proprietary web analytics
“We spent near 10,000 dollars per month to Google AdWords, and then we created very interesting system for web analytics and we cut 80% of our spends. So we spent right now only 2000 dollars per month and save this almost everything that we got from the Google …”
Artem Borodatyuk Nov 13, 2017 ▶ 14:18 842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017
Dec 20, 2017 positive
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Poptin acquires free users via Google AdWords for about $3 each
“We acquire like three, three users for like about three bucks per user.”
Tomer Aharon Dec 20, 2017 ▶ 13:10 879 SaaS: From $360k Agency to 2 month old, $30k ARR SaaS
Dec 31, 2017 positive
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Wu: Test keyword conversions with Google AdWords before committing to SEO
“We buy AdWords first just to make sure those words convert. And before we go all in on, on, on, on organic.”
Eugene Wu Dec 31, 2017 ▶ 14:01 890 SaaS: Self Serve Infographics Tool Hits $250k MRR
Jan 19, 2018
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Pecherskiy: Advertisers Do Not Care About Platform Margins If CAC Beats LTV
“Nobody, nobody really cares how much Google what margin or how much money they make out of it. Because at the end of the day, if it drives sales, then like if at the end of the day, if your customer acquisition cost is lower than your LTV, then you're happy.”
Vitaly Pecherskiy Jan 19, 2018 ▶ 6:51 909 AdTech: How to Get Advertisers to Put $20m Through Your Platform While You take 5%-50%
Jan 22, 2018 neutral
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Rawson Spent Peak of $400K in One Month on Google AdWords
“400 grand.”
Rob Rawson Jan 22, 2018 ▶ 8:54 912 SaaS: Internet Hacker Builds Bootstrapped Productivity Tool, Passes $2.4m in ARR
Mar 3, 2018 positive
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Coppinger: Software directory listings currently outperform Google AdWords for Teamwork
“Getting listed on certain websites is working better for us than Google AdWords. So we're slowly doubling our how much money we're putting into those.”
Peter Coppinger Mar 3, 2018 ▶ 12:33 952 How Teamwork.com Got 20,000 Customers and $18m in ARR With No Funding
Mar 3, 2018 positive
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Coppinger: Teamwork maintains an overall 8:1 LTV to CAC ratio
“Google AdWords has been a very mixed bag for us. We, we've got up to about a 30,000 monthly spend with Google AdWords with mixed success. We have a CAC to LTV ratio there of about three to one, but our overall CAC to LTV ratio across all our marketing efforts …”
Peter Coppinger Mar 3, 2018 ▶ 9:04 952 How Teamwork.com Got 20,000 Customers and $18m in ARR With No Funding
Mar 13, 2018
Insight
Halligan: Winning in SMB SaaS requires low CAC and 100% net retention
“Now the key is you can now build an SMB business, but you have to do two things. One, you need to keep your costs to acquire a customer under control. You can't acquire customers through Google AdWords and TV ads and stuff like that because the math just blows…”
Brian Halligan Mar 13, 2018 ▶ 14:15 962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing
May 16, 2018 negative
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Paid ads, AdWords, and Facebook have never worked for Weekdone
“We've never been able to make paid ads or so work. So the conversion there has been really bad, actually. So yeah, we still experiment, but neither retargeting or Google AdWords or Facebook actually work for us.”
Yuri Kaljundi May 16, 2018 ▶ 10:15 1026 "Juri, would you sell to me now for $1.5m?"
Jun 5, 2018 neutral
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Enplug spends roughly $500 monthly on Google AdWords
“So we spend maybe only like now, 500 dollars on Google AdWords per month.”
Nancy Liu Jun 5, 2018 ▶ 10:36 1046 She Controls WeWork TV Screens, Passes $4.8m ARR
Nov 9, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Levin: SEMrush outspent all search niche competitors on Google AdWords
“We started spending a lot of money on on AdWords to the point where we realized we already spending more than any other company in this niche.”
Eugene Levin Nov 9, 2018 ▶ 12:28 1203 SEMRush to hit $80m ARR This Year, Here's How
Apr 8, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Taei: Visme's paid customer acquisition cost is under $75
“And in those areas, when I look at it, the CAC is under 75 dollars.”
Paymon Taei Apr 8, 2019 ▶ 20:12 1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
Jun 22, 2019
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Customerville spent up to $400,000 annually on Google AdWords inbound marketing
“We kind of started out spending 50 to a 100,000 a year and then got up to the point where we were spending between three and 400,000 dollars a year on AdWords and related costs to drive an inbound marketing campaign.”
Max Israel Jun 22, 2019 ▶ 13:28 1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!
Aug 26, 2019
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Rossi: Organic search, search ads, and affiliates drive most Buzzsprout signups
“Most of our customers are coming through either organic searches, paid acquisitions through affiliates or search engines.”
Tom Rossi Aug 26, 2019 ▶ 7:22 1493 How Podast Hosting Company Buzzsprout Passed $15k in MRR, 1000 Customers, Bootstrapped
Oct 1, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Paid Ads Cannot Justify Mailtag's $7 Monthly Subscription Price
“We tried running a few digital ad campaigns like a Google AdWords or Facebook in the past, but that, that's been not much efficient, and it doesn't justify the seven dollar per month cost to acquire the user because the conversion to the different sort of an a…”
Rishikesh Kale Oct 1, 2019 ▶ 6:38 1529 Will This Company Ever Scale Past $6k/mo?
Oct 23, 2019 neutral
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Paris: noCRM spends roughly $20,000 monthly on Google AdWords
“We have around 15 maybe in dollars, maybe 20,000 dollars per month.”
Sonny Paris Oct 23, 2019 ▶ 12:01 1551 Another CRM Hits 2500 Customers, $180k MRR
Jun 20, 2020
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Hollinger: Visitor Queue Has a Customer Acquisition Cost Around $500
“We have a CAC of about 500 and AdWords plays, plays nicely into that, and so does Facebook and our current channels.”
Nick Hollinger Jun 20, 2020 ▶ 9:16 VisitorQueue Hits $270k Revenue, Powers Your Sales Team ABM
Jun 28, 2022 positive
Insight
Validate keyword intent via paid AdWords before writing organic SEO content
“So, first of all, I would recommend what we did is do AdWords, do paid search, find which keywords you rank for, find the competitiveness of those keywords on paid search, and then translate them over to content writing in organic, in the SEO search.”
Adam Sandman Jun 28, 2022 ▶ 5:20 He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team
Oct 12, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Facebook ads outperform Google and YouTube for Avestor's fund SaaS
“And but Facebook has been the most effective so far.”
Badri Malinar Oct 12, 2023 ▶ 17:44 This SaaS For Fund Manager's Just Hit $40k of MRR charing a % of AUM Managed
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