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Disclosure
Hickman paid $25k debt and replaced 60% of salary before quitting
“And I, my goal was to get to, I kind of had three requirements for what I needed to, in order to take the quote unquote leap. And it was to have paid off my debt, which at the time, Was about 25 K in debt to be making at least 60% of my full-time salary throug…”
Disclosure
Hickman: Earned low six figures as Head of Mobile at Cabela's
“So at Cabela's it was just low six figures, like just over a hundred. After bonuses.”
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Hickman: Mobile Marketing Engine peaked at just over $6,000 MRR
“The highest MRR that we had was, and I've been focused on MRR. You know, we did some of these one-off obviously discovery processes and everything. The MRR got to just over six grand.”
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Hickman: Mobile Marketing Engine lost $1,300 in MRR in one month
“So we hit six grand. 30 days later, we lost two of our early, early clients that were like the early clients that were paying at the five, two clients at the 500 mark and one at like the three 50 mark. So we lost like 1300 dollars right at like All in one mont…”
Insight
Hickman: Pitching unrecognized pain points creates an arduous B2B sales cycle
“The biggest thing that I found the challenge is that they don't they don't yet understand mobile and they don't even think that they have a problem. So like, if there's no pain, I'm coming in trying to show them that there's a pain, then educate them on mobile…”
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Hickman signed first marketing automation customer within seven days of idea
“We had the first customer sign on today, and, you know, this idea came last week, so not even seven days ago. The first paying customer, and I have two customers that are basically about to be signing on as well”