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🗓️ 3 April 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Michael Perry, owner of Kit, an online marketing software that lets people connect eCommerce sites to different social media platforms. Listen as Nathan and Michael talk about how they started their respective businesses, how they’re using Facebook to target clients today, and why Kit should be so attractive to entrepreneurs.
Famous 5
Favorite Book? – Search Inside Yourself
What CEO do you follow?— Mark Zuckerburg
What is your favorite online tool?— Clara
Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— No
If you could let your 20 year old self know one thing, what would it be?— Nothing f****** matters
Time Stamped Show Notes:
01:15 – Nathan’s introduction
01:43 – Welcoming Michael to the show
01:47 – Defining small business survivalist
02:20 – How Michael currently makes money
02:23 – The idea for Kit
03:37 – How Kit started and how many clients currently working with it
04:32 – No one wants to invest in technology for SMB—But they should!
05:20 – “We didn’t want to be an agency, we wanted to become a software company and create a digital person that can work for SMB owners 24/7”
06:16 – Right now, Kit has about 2000 paying customers
08:22 – People have this misguided notion that everything on the internet should be free—this is simply not the case
09:03 – Acquisition cost per customer is at $21 via Facebook
11:26 – Kit is not a non-profit—it’s all about revenue
11:48 – What revenue number would you love to hit in 2016? -$150,000-$200,000 MRR
12:19 – Hitting those metrics is not an option
13:26 – 99% of the time it’s the people behind the business that make the business GREAT
13:34 – It’s better to have a good team than a good idea
15:05 – @MichaelPerry [email protected]
3 Key Points:
SMB business owners would be wise to invest in technology early—the long-term gains outweigh the upfront expense.
Just because something is on the internet, doesn’t mean that it should be free.
It’s your team—not your ideas, not your products—that make your business great.
Resources Mentioned:
Kit –an online marketing assistance
Host Gator - Powerful web hosting made easy and affordable.
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The Software as a Service (SaaS) entrepreneur who wants to grow to a $100m+ valuation (episode #14).
Your host, Nathan Latka is a 25 year old software entrepreneur who has driven over $4.5 million in revenue and built a 25 person team as he dropped out of school, raised $2.5million from a Forbes Billionaire, and attracted over 10,000 paying customers from 160+ different countries.
Oprah gets 60 minutes or more to make her guests comfortable to then ask tough questions. Nathan does it all in less than 15 minutes in this daily podcast that's like an audio version of Pat Flynn's monthly income report. Join the Top Tribe at http://NathanLatka.com/TheTop
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0:00.0 | This is the top, where I interview entrepreneurs who are number one or number two in their industry in terms of revenue or customer base. |
0:09.0 | You'll learn how much revenue they're making, what their marketing funnel looks like, and how many customers they have. |
0:16.0 | I'm now at $20,000 per talk. |
0:18.0 | Five and six million. |
0:19.0 | He is hell-bent on global domination. |
0:21.2 | We just broke our 100,000 unit sole mark. |
0:23.9 | And I'm your host, Nathan Latka. |
0:27.7 | Okay, Top Tribe, remember every Monday I give one of you $100 to invest in your idea to help get it to the top. |
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0:39.2 | the word Nathan to 33444 to prove it. Again, that's Nathan to 3344 to prove it. Last week's |
0:47.9 | winner was Mike Sherbakov. Mike runs his own internet business. He's doing between $100,500k per year, and he's a blogger, |
0:55.6 | author, and influencer building his business listening to the top. |
1:00.1 | Coming up tomorrow morning, TopDrive, you're going to hear from Sheree Alexander, and she |
1:04.9 | breaks down how to get event organizers to tell you their speaker budget so you can optimize |
1:10.2 | your keynote fee. |
1:12.3 | Okay, Top Tribe, good morning. |
1:14.0 | I've got another good one for you this morning. |
1:16.0 | His name is Michael Perry, and he's the CEO and founder of Kit, |
1:19.7 | a virtual marketing assistant for business owners. |
1:22.2 | He's a Bay Area native, and Michael started working in his family business |
1:25.4 | at just 10 years old and is a self-proclaimed |
1:27.8 | small business survival enthusiast. In 2013, he was awarded innovator of the year for small |
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