180: The Uber of Swimming Lessons 🌊 | How Diana Goodwin Transitioned her Swim Business to a SaaS Business: MarketBox.

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Millionaire Interviews Podcast & Sir Austin Peek

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Diana Goodwin is Founder & CEO of MarketBox, a B2B SaaS product which enables service-based marketplaces and businesses to grow and scale their businesses. Diana initially founded AquaMobile, an on-demand swim lesson provider which is now the largest of its kind in North America and Australia. The AquaMobile software gave her the opportunity to start and spin out MarketBox. Join our 🔥 Facebook Group to meet other listeners of the podcast: facebook.com/groups/mipvips. This Episode is Sponsored By: According to Erica, the Millionaire-Interviews Group Call is like a VIP experience where she is surrounded with CEOs who are willing to provide useful feedback. You can join the Group Call by becoming a Patreon member, just visit: millionaire-interviews.com/patreon Want to Support the Show? Well we'd love for you to join our Patreon Group! What's in it for you? Well you'll instantly get a scheduled call from Austin, where he'll help you with your current or future business... Sign-Up Now at millionaire-interviews.com/patreon. 😀😎😍 *** For Show Notes, Key Points, Contact Info, Resources Mentioned, & the Fabulous 4 Questions on this episode visit our website: Diana Goodwin Interview. *** Support this Podcast via Patreon Feedback? Questions? Comments? We would love to hear from you! Hollar at us via: Facebook Group (@MiPViPs), or Twitter (@acpeek or @millionairepod), Instagram (@millionaire_interviews), LinkedIn (@austincpeek), Facebook (@millionaireinterviews), or Email: [email protected]. 😎😍😀

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0:00.0	But I assume it's got something to do with money money money money
0:05.0	Just to give you context in a week where we would have done $70,000 of sales
0:11.8	We did 5,000 because the site was so broken people couldn't use it
0:16.3	It's not even about the loss of revenue. It's now you've got all these angry customers who are very angry at you
0:21.7	It ruins your brand, it ruins your reputation so much that was a stressful time
0:26.3	If we can help any listeners out there, I'm happy to actually offer any listeners
0:34.3	Trying to explain to my family what exactly it was I was doing
0:38.3	I don't even know if my mom still knows what I do
0:41.3	Well it's funny because I was talking to an entrepreneur this morning
0:44.3	who's having that same problem like she's invested close to $50,000 trying to build
0:49.3	I think the most valuable thing for me was even just the network of people that I now count as friends, as peers people that I now have all around the world that I can reach out to if I need help
1:05.3	And I'm also there for them to support them however they need it
1:09.3	Hi, my name is Diana Goodwin and I'm 36. I'm the founder and CEO of Marketbox
1:20.3	The Marketbox team is based in Toronto, Canada
1:24.3	Marketbox is a business to business SaaS platform that software is a service platform
1:30.3	Our software is meant to help service businesses, manage the logistics and sales of selling services
1:38.3	So we're best suited for businesses that are either service marketplace or have a business that has service providers that have to travel to different locations to serve their customers
1:51.3	Whether they have to travel to homes or to businesses
1:55.3	The reason that we started this software is because my first company, which is called Aquamobile, which I bootstrapped for over eight years
2:04.3	We had to build a software internally to manage all of the traveling swimming instructors who would go into clients' home and condo pools to teach private swimming lessons
2:14.3	Because there was no software that existed for us to manage all of these swimming instructors and also the sales piece of things
2:22.3	So eventually other businesses started to approach Aquamobile for our software and we then turned it into the current Marketbox platform so that we could help other businesses that have service providers who are not tech savvy
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