How I Make $60k/Month in My SaaS Business - Christopher Gimmer

When most people share the story of how they started their company, they tend to leave out all the things that happened behind the scenes that contributed to their startup taking off. In this talk, Christopher Gimmer shares how multiple side projects and years of dabbling helped him launch a $60k MRR SaaS business.
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[@El_Diablo_12]

14:37 the more content, product, cold emails you send - the more lucky you’re gonna get 15:30 new product idea came from a business problem he had 17:10 second time they leveraged an existing audience 20:00 building SEO keywords and getting creative with keywords 23:00 driving leads with the content 24:30 updating content is underestimated for SEO 24:50 manual outreach and guest posting is the promo for new articles. Which gets backlinks and ranking ability. 26:00 always double down on what’s working 27:00 it’s a long game that we’re playing 37:30 start as small as possible, launch as quick as possible. Work your way up. 39:00 hiring based on resources and pain level 40:00 SaaS is extremely predictable and can be projected out. Hiring becomes easier in this case. 41:20 not wanting to work on a stock photo site. Going where the fun and your passion is. 43:00 guest posting on blogs wasn’t for signups. It was to link back and help to rank blog posts on his own site with good search volume

[@Kingromstar]

Set playback speed to 1.25

[@Cal97g]

2x bro

[@danishhameed8799]

Salaam bro, do you have your own Saas?

[@warriordx5520]

i set it to 3x HEHEEE

[@wesambadr3136]

I set it at 1.5 no matter what ...

[@someoneinmars]

That's the best one this morning

[@InsaneDeveloper]

This is the most underrated channel. A lot of valuable advices. Thanks to

[@MicroConf]

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[@sanchit8818]

Oh my god. This is pure gold actionable advice. Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@kitbot2318]

Are you biulding micro saas?

[@slavkodesik855]

Great talk! I love how he shows the lineage of their organic growth. And evolving by pivoting it's really more frequent than we think. My partner and I started a lifestyle website some ten years back, narrowed it down to a niche website for the fitness program industry, and then developed our own fitness Video on Demand platform. Few years down the line, and we are now bootstrapping a web-platform for education and entertainment for school age children which includes meditation, fitness videos, chess, collectible cards, stories, and many other modules. We wouldn't be in this project without the seemingly unrelated things at the start.

[@AZ-bx8yi]

Great advice! Also, set playback speed to 2x, you'll save 21min. You're welcome.

[@DaveStewartLondon]

Props to the camera operator 😆

[@glauberamos]

Really nice talk! It was my favorite from the event

[@VivekGuptaIn]

This is single best advice on the internet!

[@wicleansoonwicleansoon7367]

Gold content! Very clear hands on account of your sales and content strategy!

[@MicroConf]

Glad you think so!

[@bsgautomobile]

Super smart guy... Great presentation.

[@paulholsters7932]

Amazing content! I am creating a Saas tool (webapp), but in the field there is already a similar tool (desktopapp) made by a big player. Do I have a chance at a piece of the market?

[@saasmarketing]

This was a a great video. Thank you for sharing with us!

[@MicroConf]

Thank you for watching.

[@luminrabbit9488]

Fantastic video with great insight’s. It’s great to hear the marketing strategy as someone who is going to be building a Saas bootstrapped 👍

[@rahgurung]

What a great talk, insightful

[@Dorian_Barber]

This is inspiring.

[@MicroConf]

Thank you, Dorian.

[@jmzhang34]

Just curious, how many developers in the team for the first product

[@abjee1602]

Zero

[@carlosg1535]

gold, thanks!

[@MicroConf]

No problem!

[@supaplextor]

What if my user could adopt your theme on a per account basis without the webmaster importing stuffs?

[@dappdevelopment1927]

7:16 Start speaking about the Bootstrap business :-)

[@bramburn]

the titles of these videos are not helpful, this is a really good video talking about marketing and focus.

[@kupon.espana]

great stuff. do you give consulting ?

[@leanprogrammer]

What did they use for keyword research?

[@glauberamos]

ahrefs

[@raihankhan4374]

How did you guys not get wiped out by unicorn Canva?

[@nitinsharmatheone2292]

I have also same question

[@glauberamos]

In the internet there is no such thing as only 1 winner, each niche usually has multiple profitable companies at the same time

[@guskross6918]

FYI, the past tense of "lead" is "led."

[@tobebuilds]

Great talk.

[@sharpie882]

You are a f**kin genius for that🤯. Now there is no worldly excuse not to set up a website. 16:50

[@MicroConf]

Thanks for watching.

[@mattli7160]

THANKS

[@Pablillotron]

Why does he say "up and to the right" when talking about increased users or revenue timeline? A timeline by default goes to the right so isn't it enough to say "up"? Or am I missing something?

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Good video

[@ddgflorida]

Good advice and talk (minus the f*** word)

[@killerthoughts6150]

woah, isnt showing fake users fraud/cheating?

[@LRG53]

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