Sujan Patel

Managing Partner, Ramp Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sujan Patel is a growth marketer and serial SaaS entrepreneur who co-founded the sales engagement platform Mailshake and manages Ramp Ventures. He previously founded and exited digital marketing agency Single Grain and co-authored the book 100 Days of Growth.

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Sujan Patel says Web Profits rejects 90% of inbound client leads

“And we actually, I mean, our lead flow is pretty high volume, but I reject 90% of people because they're not a right fit.”

Sujan Patel Oct 8, 2016 ▶ 2:36 EP 441: $605k Revenue Agency Spins off $35k MRR SaaS Products with Sujan Patel

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AppSumo promotion drove 1,000 full-price customers in 90 days for Sujan Patel

“I learned firsthand what people want to do from thousands of people, and they may not be my target demographic or whatnot, but that resulted in immediately after the deal ended, the 90 days following that, that resulted in another thousand paying customers, re…”

Sujan Patel Oct 8, 2016 ▶ 10:51 EP 441: $605k Revenue Agency Spins off $35k MRR SaaS Products with Sujan Patel

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Web Profits generated $650,000 in agency revenue by August 2016

“We've done about 650,000.”

Sujan Patel Oct 8, 2016 ▶ 4:21 EP 441: $605k Revenue Agency Spins off $35k MRR SaaS Products with Sujan Patel

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ContentMarketer and Narrow share a 75% customer overlap, says Sujan Patel

“Like with content marketer and narrow, there's about a 75% overlap in customers.”

Sujan Patel Oct 8, 2016 ▶ 7:11 EP 441: $605k Revenue Agency Spins off $35k MRR SaaS Products with Sujan Patel

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ContentMarketer's Connector reaches 1 million sent emails with 58% open rate

“We just hit a million email sent With an average of a 58% open rate.”

Sujan Patel Oct 8, 2016 ▶ 8:29 EP 441: $605k Revenue Agency Spins off $35k MRR SaaS Products with Sujan Patel

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Sujan Patel reveals ContentMarketer generates $30,000 to $40,000 in monthly recurring revenue

“We did an AppSumo deal that brought in a few thousand customers. So our MRR is somewhere around the 30 to 40 K range.”

Sujan Patel Oct 8, 2016 ▶ 9:50 EP 441: $605k Revenue Agency Spins off $35k MRR SaaS Products with Sujan Patel

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Noah Kagan promotions drove up to 4,000 Quuu customers per campaign

“Every time we've done it, we've gotten anywhere between like 3004 thousand customers.”

Sujan Patel Oct 8, 2016 ▶ 12:57 EP 441: $605k Revenue Agency Spins off $35k MRR SaaS Products with Sujan Patel

Disclosure

Sujan Patel rebrands Connector to Mailshake following a trademark dispute

“We ran into a trademark issue with connector. So we can't use the name connector on its own. So we're going to rebrand it as mail shake. And that's what's coming out in the next probably 45 days or so.”

Sujan Patel Oct 8, 2016 ▶ 14:31 EP 441: $605k Revenue Agency Spins off $35k MRR SaaS Products with Sujan Patel

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Sujan Patel reports social media tool Quuu is approaching 20,000 users

“We are about to pass 20,000 users.”

Sujan Patel Oct 8, 2016 ▶ 11:58 EP 441: $605k Revenue Agency Spins off $35k MRR SaaS Products with Sujan Patel

Disclosure

Sujan Patel personally invested $45,000 to bootstrap ContentMarketer

“I put it in about 45,000.”

Sujan Patel Oct 8, 2016 ▶ 13:37 EP 441: $605k Revenue Agency Spins off $35k MRR SaaS Products with Sujan Patel

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Sujan Patel admits ContentMarketer experiences 9% to 11% monthly customer churn

“Yeah, it's around anywhere between nine and 11%.”

Sujan Patel Oct 8, 2016 ▶ 14:53 EP 441: $605k Revenue Agency Spins off $35k MRR SaaS Products with Sujan Patel

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