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Parker: Consulting builds marquee logos that boost enterprise SaaS sales
“Even if you don't necessarily have an agency model, even doing some consulting in the space that you think that there's a problem in gives you a really good entrance. And I mean, those kind of names definitely help in fundraising and absolutely help when other…”
Amanda Parker Jul 9, 2016 ▶ 7:45 EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker
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Simply Insight intentionally cut $10,000 in MRR by firing low-tier accounts
“So we don't have any churn at the higher levels right now. So we originally were selling like a couple hundred bucks a month and just kind of test some things out in the market. We turned off that tab which was about 10 K per month MRR that we lost because we …”
Amanda Parker Jul 9, 2016 ▶ 9:08 EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker
Disclosure
Simply Insight raised on a convertible note with zero discount and interest
“No, it's a little bit more simple than that, so we're just doing a cap and no discount, no interest.”
Amanda Parker Jul 9, 2016 ▶ 12:19 EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker
Disclosure
Parker: Simply Insight presold client contracts before having a product
“Signed on our first client contracts before we actually even had a product, ah, in market.”
Amanda Parker Jul 9, 2016 ▶ 3:57 EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker
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Parker: Simply Insight is growing at least 20% month-over-month
“So, so we're growing at least 20% month over month.”
Amanda Parker Jul 9, 2016 ▶ 5:35 EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker
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Parker: Simply Insight expects $20k to $35k MRR this month
“Sure, so we're, we'll be expecting this month somewhere between, like, 20 and 35 K.”
Amanda Parker Jul 9, 2016 ▶ 6:02 EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker
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Parker: Simply Insight aims to hit $50k MRR by year-end 2016
“So our ARR our goal is by the end of the year, getting to 50 K MRR.”
Amanda Parker Jul 9, 2016 ▶ 6:24 EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker
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Parker: Our outbound sales rep nearly covered his annual salary in six weeks
“We're, so right now everything is outbound sales, so that's my sales guy's salary is essentially what we're paying, so he, he's pretty, almost close to have paid for himself for the year, and he's been around about six, six weeks now.”
Amanda Parker Jul 9, 2016 ▶ 7:01 EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker
Disclosure
Parker: Simply Insight charges $2,500 to $5,000 monthly subscription fees
“They pay anywhere between 2505 thousand dollars per month.”
Amanda Parker Jul 9, 2016 ▶ 3:13 EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker
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Parker: Simply Insight has about 10 clients
“So, we've changed around our pricing model, so it does depend a little bit but you're looking at about 10 clients.”
Amanda Parker Jul 9, 2016 ▶ 6:42 EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker
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