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Disclosure
Fazio made over $500,000 from a cold email course via organic Twitter
“No, no, no ads. That's entirely from Twitter. All half a million of that is from Twitter.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 7:55 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Insight
Fazio: Ditch free lead magnets and charge $5 to filter real buyers
“I don't like giving like free stuff and getting, getting like a free lead magnet or something. Cause then you have an email list of people who don't buy anything. Like if you're going to make some kind of magnet and it's like, you might as well like make it li…”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 13:09 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Insight
Fazio: Cold email is exclusively for selling high-ticket B2B services
“The only thing you should send cold emails for is if you're selling some kind of high ticket B to B service. That's the only reason you should send cold emails.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 13:31 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Opinion
Fazio: The Sell SaaS white-label mailing tool is "absolutely miserable"
“No, they do, but it sucks. I hate it. It's absolutely miserable. So if you send cold emails, there's a very particular way it needs to be set up and the way the one they have is just dumb. Like it sucks.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 15:44 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Insight
Fazio: SaaS founders should offset CAC by selling paid onboarding courses
“In terms of other SaaS founders growing their sasses, I feel like a lot of them will spend an absolute ton of time making these giant support articles and all these videos when you guys could just package this up in a course and use that as your front end offe…”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 16:52 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
What-if
Fazio says he absolutely would have taken Lemlist's $85M acquisition offer
“Yep, absolutely.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 19:25 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Insight
Fazio: White-labeled SaaS companies command significantly lower acquisition valuations
“Yeah. But the only problem with that is your sale value is going to be a lot lower.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 3:40 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fazio: Clean Leads struggles with a massive 22% monthly churn rate
“Churns at about 22%.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 4:46 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Insight
Fazio: Growing a Twitter audience requires executing Brunson's Dream 100 strategy
“Your first function is to do Russell Brunson's little dream 100 thing. You need to post a lot of value, have threads, make a giant pinned thread on your profile, just give an absolute ton of value. And now what you're doing is you're finding other big accounts…”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 6:22 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fazio claims Gumroad creator Chris Johnson makes $200,000 monthly from courses
“This guy makes 200,000 dollars a month from his courses.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 8:23 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fazio: Clean Leads reaches approximately $20k in monthly recurring revenue
“Right about 20,000 MRR.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 4:37 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fazio: Personalized onboarding Loom videos doubled trial conversions to 40%
“So that's increased trial conversion, like a lot from. 20% to. 40%. Something like that.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 5:11 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Disclosure
Fazio forced course students to use his SaaS to acquire early users
“No. So what happened was I just put it in the course. So as you're getting the course buyers and they're going through the course, then they'll just see, oh, you have to use clean leads to do this.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 7:11 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fazio: Over 4,000 customers have purchased Cold Email Mastery
“Just over 4000.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 10:47 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Disclosure
Fazio spends just $10 daily on retargeting ads for his course
“Only retargeting ads. And that's at 10 dollars a day. And I didn't start doing that until three months ago.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 11:07 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fazio: Course generated $20,000 to $24,000 in past 30 days
“The last 30 days, the course has done like 20, 24,000.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 13:50 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Disclosure
Fazio: CTO owns 30% of contact e-com and upcoming email app
“So I have a CTO and he just manages the dev team. So he owns 30% of contact e-com. He's going to own 30% of the mailing app as well.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 14:27 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
Disclosure
Fazio: Cold Email Mastery began as a $30 agency lead magnet
“So it used to be just an ebook and it was like 30 something dollars. And the whole function of it was to get agency clients for done for you cold email.”
Daniel Fazio Jun 5, 2021 ▶ 10:21 Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
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