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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Johnson's data shows SparkPost edged out SendGrid among migrating Mandrill users
“Well, we took a look at it, and we saw that they'd, they'd gone to a combination of SparkPost, SendGrid, Mailgun, and to a lesser extent Amazon S, S-Tree, or SES. And for the most part, it looks like SparkPost, one, they edged out SendGrid by just a little bit…”
Insight
NotableList analyzes actual emails instead of scraping webpages to identify tech stacks
“They're looking at web pages to see, you know, so if you want to know what someone's using in their email, obviously you want to look at the emails, not their web pages. And that's the key difference between what we do and say what a built with us or data nice…”
Disclosure
Johnson: NotableList salesperson is commission-only, but most sales came from network
“It's strictly commission. Our frankly, but frankly, most of our sales have not come through the sales salesperson himself, unless you count me. Most of the sales have come through through, through network marketing”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Johnson: NotableList achieves a 100% initial customer renewal rate
“Actually our first renewals have started coming in and so far we've had a perfect renewal rate.”
Disclosure
Johnson: Invested Over $400K Into NotableList in Cash and Sweat Equity
“I think I've put more than that into it, frankly, between, you know, cash and giving up giving up hours.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Johnson: NotableList Covers About 500,000 Brands Worldwide
“Right now, we cover about 500,000 brands around the world.”
Disclosure
Johnson: NotableList charges $7,500 per single seat with multi-user discounts
“At present, yeah. Well, it's obviously multiple users. We work out discounts, but that's the single seat license price.”
Disclosure
Johnson: NotableList operates with a three-person team
“Right now we are three. Myself, my co-founder, and a part-time salesperson who lives out in the West Coast.”
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Johnson: NotableList reaches 20 customers across SaaS and consulting
“At present, we're at 20 customers. Most of those are annual customers. A few of them are consulting customers because we, in addition to our platform, we do custom consulting for people who are looking to use our data in interesting ways that maybe we haven't …”
Disclosure
Johnson: NotableList was funded entirely from personal savings and consulting income
“We funded it from you know, basically, you know, my bank account and basically giving up all the consulting income that I was making and just plows into the business.”