There’s some technology out there that I’ll bet you aren’t even using in your business, and it’s a huge conversion booster! When I tried implementing this tech, you know what happened? It reduced my sales demo no-shows by 30%… meaning my sales velocity almost doubled! I also used it to warm up calls before the demos. So what is this
I was recently working with one of my coaching clients, Mark, when he drops this bomb: “How do I fix the feeling I have inside where I don’t know why I’m doing this anymore?” (I hear this more than you’d think.) From everybody else’s perspective, Mark’s is extremely successful. $1M+ in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) from his SaaS with 60%
Where does your entrepreneurial spirit come from? Is it in your blood? For whatever reason that I still haven’t figured out, I’m in a family of business owners. So for this week’s episode of Escape Velocity, I wanted to try something a little different. I sat down and interviewed Pierre Martell, the CEO of Martell Custom Homes. Yes… I interviewed
When I was 16 years old, I screwed up. It wasn’t pretty. There’s no way to sugar coat it… I crashed a stolen car into a house while trying to escape the police. High on drugs. No driver’s license. Stolen handgun in my backpack. And I woke up the next morning… in a jail cell… wondering what my life was
Pre-selling your software before you’ve even built it is a very attractive idea. Think about it: You get people to buy a concept, take that money and use it to build the software, and then you launch it to everyone else. …All with no money out-of-pocket.
Here’s a hypothetical for you: If your business suddenly took off – I mean like accidentally monopolizing your market and seeing exponential growth overnight – would you be able to handle it? Or would you crumble into a stressful wreck?
When I was building my company, Flowtown, I remember one of our potential investors talking about Expansion Revenue. I thought “Uhh… okay. What the heck is that?” You don’t wanna learn about this stuff FROM potential investors. Staring at them wide-eyed when they outsmart you doesn’t exactly scream ‘good investment’. But now I know how to use upselling to increase
You might not know my story yet, but… I’ve come a long, long way. I wasn’t born into success. I was a very troubled teenager, big-time. In and out of jail a few times. Rehab too. But I pulled myself out from some bad places, took responsibility for my life, taught myself to code, and started building software companies. I
Have you asked anyone working a normal job about their workflow? If you get in the details of their processes, you’ll immediately see the optimization opportunities. Just think of all the excel sheet management that goes on in the professional world… This is one of the main reasons why there can never be enough SaaS businesses. There are just countless
Years ago I attempted to raise money for my first company, Flowtown, with my co-founder Ethan. You know what we did? We cold emailed investors. We figured “We have a startup, they invest in startups… so surely they want to hear from us”, and hoped our confidence would cut through the noise. It didn’t work. Obviously. They didn’t even bother
