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Berman: ZoomInfo rarely refreshes the specific data customers actually need
“Last time we used ZoomInfo, because we were ZoomInfo customers we had a very hard time finding up-to-date data, regardless of what they said, because they'll spend their ten million a month, and they'll update data that's completely different from anything tha…”
Berman: US-based reviewers produce higher quality leads than offshore workers
“Having an American that actually understands the business model of each client runs through each lead specifically you're going to get a lot more high quality leads than you would You know, having a Filipino that's reviewing a list pulled from, you know, some …”
Berman: Technical co-founders eliminate dev costs, citing Taplio seven-figure acquisition
“And then the one time we did this successfully for cheap was with Tapleo, that seven figure acquisition Tapleo tweet hunter. And that was when the founder was the coder. So Tebow was a coder and we were able to do it. I don't think we had any depth costs. It w…”
Berman: Always require upfront credit card details before offering SaaS trials
“I'm not a big fan of the free trial with no credit card. So the way that I always launch our SAS is Tapleo everything before is you get in there, you have to put in your credit card in order to see the SAS. And then there's a free trial after. So I go by numbe…”
Berman: Marketing technology success comes down entirely to sales execution
“Any sort of MarTech, any sort of marketing technology just comes down to sales.”
Berman: Founders should clone existing software rather than create original ideas
“I wish I knew how easy it was to just clone a business that already existed and just do that. Like I would never come up with an original idea. If it was up to me, I would just be like, all right, what are people paying for it now? Let me, a MailChimp. All rig…”
Berman: Inspire Beats generates around $1.3M in monthly revenue
“The number you said is about right.”
Berman: Average entry-level engineer salary in India is $800 to $1,200
“Average engineer salary here for somebody fresh out of college is, you know, 800 dollars, a thousand dollars, 1200 dollars.”
Berman: Inspire Beats shut down pure SaaS because customers demanded services
“And we actually, when we started, we used to do full SAS, no service at all. And we had to actually end the SAS platform because all of our customers wanted the service.”
Berman: Inspire Beats bootstrapped to match or exceed LeadGenius in revenue
“We bootstrapped basically over the last two and a half years to be about their size or maybe even a little bit bigger than theirs.”
Berman: Inspire Beats maintains a customer acquisition cost under $40
“So I'd say it's cheap. Probably about, you know, 40 bucks a customer, maybe less.”
Inspire Beats SDRs send 150 to 200 cold emails per day
“So we aim for a 150. Our best guys do probably about 200.”
Berman: First Principles' SaaS portfolio generates about $6M annually
“Their SaaS portfolio makes about six million a year, you know, over a couple of companies.”
Berman: Building the Omni MVP took six months and cost $50k
“It took so many, like six, seven months just to get the software into a good spot. And, you know, we're doing it at cost. It still costs probably 40, 50 grand of just.”
Berman: LeadShark cost $75k–$80k to build and barely worked at launch
“Cause even when we did lead shark, it cost us 75, 80 K. And by the time we launched, it barely worked.”
Berman: Twitter lead giveaway generated 400 comments in one day
“I was just giving away 379 leads. We have 400 comments in a day and each one of those 400, they get the leads. And then the second thing in the comment is a link to Omni.”
Berman: Tweet Hunter generated roughly $130k in monthly revenue
“TweetHunter is doing, I think, 130,000 a month.”
Berman: Lemlist bought Tweet Hunter and Taplio for over $2M plus earnout
“Yeah, it was two point something in all for Tapleo and TweetHunter, and then there was an earn out.”
Berman: InspireBeats quickly reached over $1 million per month in revenue
“It was over a million a month. Very, very quickly. We were getting like all these companies in Silicon Valley.”
Berman: Omni.us collected $24,000 in cash in one month via annual packages
“Cause you can see like 12 grand in revenue, but now that we're selling the annual packages this month we've collected 24,000 in cash. Most of it came in the last two weeks.”
Inspire Beats serves over 700 active clients across leads and outreach
“We've got over 700 clients right now. A little over 60% of them do leads only, and they're more large companies. And then the smaller companies, about 40% do with outreach.”
Inspire Beats: Typical customer reaches $1,899 monthly package within 45 days
“Our typical customer ends up on the rocket package after about 30 to 45 days. 1899 a month for the rocket.”
Berman: Inspire Beats sees 90% to 93% monthly retention for SaaS clients
“So it really depends on the industry for SAS. It's high. It's like 90%, maybe a little higher, 92, 93%.”
Berman: Cold emailing drives 90% to 95% of Inspire Beats customer acquisition
“Cold emailing right now is about 90, 90 five-ish percent of how we get customers right now.”
Berman: One Inspire Beats client pays over $100,000 per month
“Well, so if it works, basically we have one customer that's paying us for 20,000 leads a month. So that is it, like it's almost a six, it's over a six figure contract per month.”
Inspire Beats pays its cold email reps San Francisco market salaries
“It's American and it's market rates for San Francisco.”