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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

How we grew to $15M with less than $1M marketing spend

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm very excited to share this recording with you guys, which happened at our conference,

0:04.4

SaaSopin.com, with over 100 speakers, all founders of B2B SaaS companies. We have a very high bar

0:11.2

for what speakers share on stage. So you're going to enjoy this episode where we dive deep into

0:15.3

revenue graphs, real tactics, and real growth metrics.

0:26.1

You are listening to conversations with Nathan Latka, where I sit down and interview the top SaaS founders, like Eric Wan from Zoom.

0:30.3

If you'd like to subscribe, go to getlatka.com.

0:34.4

We've published thousands of these interviews, and if you want to sort through them quickly by

0:38.5

revenue or churn, cac, valuation, or other metrics, the easiest way to do that is to go to

0:44.0

gitlatka.com and use our filtering tool. It's like a big Excel sheet for all of these

0:48.5

podcast interviews. Check it out right now at gitlatka.com.

0:55.5

Hi, everyone. So yeah, my at GitLatka.com. Hi, everyone.

0:57.3

So yeah, my name is Lucia and I'm CEO and co-founder of Surfer,

1:00.5

a B2B SaaS product that we grew to 15 million ARR in around five years

1:07.9

with less than $1 million of marketing spent in total.

1:12.9

At server, we are building an AI SEO content automation platform

1:17.9

that does all the heavy lifting around content ideation, writing, optimization,

1:24.0

and then performance measurement so that you can focus on the stuff that matters,

1:28.9

which is telling the story to your customers and we are taking care of making sure they can find it.

1:37.8

Should I see that slide somewhere or not?

1:41.7

So over the next 20 minutes, I'm going to show you some marketing tactics that for us were a waste of time and we didn't attempt them at all or we just attempted them and wasted some time.

1:56.0

There is some stuff that's usual, yet it can be tricky to execute, or it's kind of like underrated.

2:03.6

So I'm going to talk about pricing a bit, about affiliate marketing, about building a community.

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