Joe Apfelbaum

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Joe Apfelbaum is the founder and CEO of the B2B digital marketing agency Ajax Union and evyAI, an AI assistant for LinkedIn. He is also a business strategist and the author of several books, including High Energy Networking.

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Apfelbaum: Paid Upwork contractors $2/hour to build targeted lead lists
“I have there's a website. It used to be called Odesk. Now it's called Upwork. And I would just hire people for two dollars an hour to build it for me.”
Joe Apfelbaum Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 24:39 EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion
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Apfelbaum: Scaled TheWatchery.com from $3M to $40M in revenue
“I helped them grow from a mere three million dollars to forty million dollars in revenue”
Joe Apfelbaum Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 3:02 EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion
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Apfelbaum: Ajax Union generated $4 million in 2015 revenue
“So two, 20 15 revenue was four million dollars.”
Joe Apfelbaum Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 4:29 EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion
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Apfelbaum: Ajax Union downsized from 75 employees and 350 accounts
“But we used to have 75 employees and 350 active accounts.”
Joe Apfelbaum Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 5:41 EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion
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Apfelbaum: Ajax Union's average client retainer is $10,000 monthly
“So our average retainer for clients, we work with midsize companies that are five million to fifty million in revenue. And our average retainers, 10,000 dollars a month.”
Joe Apfelbaum Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 9:58 EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion
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Apfelbaum: Ajax Union raised $1M at zero profit on $2M revenue
“You know, we were, we had a two million dollar top line and we had zero profit and they were willing to give us a million dollars with a great evaluation.”
Joe Apfelbaum Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 14:33 EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion
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Apfelbaum: Ajax Union's 2016 revenue goal is $6 million
“My goal is to do six million dollars in revenue.”
Joe Apfelbaum Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 5:58 EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion
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Apfelbaum: Ajax Union targets $1M to $1.5M in 2016 net profit
“My bottom line is to do at least a million and a half, depending on our growth for next year.”
Joe Apfelbaum Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 6:02 EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion
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Apfelbaum: Ajax Union netted about $500,000 profit in 2015
“About half a million dollars.”
Joe Apfelbaum Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 6:25 EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion
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Apfelbaum: Personal 2015 take-home from Ajax Union exceeded $200K
“So my take home, including bonuses was north of 200,000.”
Joe Apfelbaum Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 8:14 EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion
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Apfelbaum: Ajax Union generated $500K in first-year revenue
“500,000.”
Joe Apfelbaum Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 8:59 EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion
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Apfelbaum: Ajax Union provides returns to angel investors via profit sharing
“Well, they're getting a return and they've been getting a return. So it's a profit sharing.”
Joe Apfelbaum Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 15:43 EP 412: 5 Kids, $5 Million 2015 Agency Revenue With Joe Apfelbaum of AjaxUnion

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