Eric Boggs: He’s the CEO at RevBoss – a sales prospecting SaaS company. RevBoss helps B2B sales teams grow pipelines and win more customers. Prior to RevBoss, he was the founder and CEO at Argyle Social and was a one-man sales team at Bronto Software. Eric is in North Carolina with his wife and 3 small children.
Famous Five:
- Favorite Book? – The Hard Things About Hard Things
- What CEO do you follow? – Matt Williamson
- Favorite online tool? – Stripe
- Do you get 8 hours of sleep? – No
- If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – “To not worry so much about the long term—that things just have a way of working themselves out”
Time Stamped Show Notes:
- 01:35 – Nathan introduces Eric to the show
- 02:10 – Eric shares what happened to Argyle
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- 02:42 – Argyle raised $1.5M
- 03:52 – Argyle’s buyers
- 05:32 – Eric was only 22 when joined he Bronto
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- 05:39 – Eric was a one-man sales team for 2 and half years
- 06:32 – Eric went to business school after Bronto
- 07:05 – Bronto is now an Oracle company
- 07:12 – RevBoss is a SaaS company that helps B2B seller relations find more prospects and win more customers
- 07:45 – In between the Argyle wind down and RevBoss, Eric was a consultant for a year
- 08:20 – RevBoss’ competitors
- 09:20 – RevBoss started as a services company and launched in September 2016
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- 09:47 – Building a services business is easy, growing it is hard and turning it into a SaaS business is much harder
- 10:26 – Eric shares the weird things he encounters in the business
- 11:07 – “We’re cannibalizing ourselves a little bit” in the short term, in regards to services revenue vs. recurring Saas revenue
- 12:12 – Average customer pay per month
- 12:28 – Weighted MRR
- 12:39 – RevBoss raised a seed round for $1.1M
- 13:45 – Eric sold 20% of the business for $1.1M
- 14:50 – Total 2015 revenue
- 15:01 – Team size and location
- 15:41 – Projected LTV
- 16:27 – CAC
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- 16:34 – All inbound sales
- 17:20 – Gross churn
- 17:59 – Eric plans for the worst after his experience with Argyle
- 19:50 – The Famous Five
3 Key Points:
- Recurring SaaS revenue will beat out services revenue in the long run.
- Your worst experiences are your greatest teachers.
- Don’t worry too much about the long term—things just have a way of working themselves out.
Resources Mentioned:
- Acuity Scheduling – Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments
- Drip – Nathan uses Drip’s email automation platform and visual campaign builder to build his sales funnel
- Toptal – Nathan found his development team using Toptal for his new business Send Later. He was able to keep 100% equity and didn’t have to hire a co-founder due to the quality of Toptal
- Host Gator – The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible.
- Audible – Nathan uses Audible when he’s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books.
- The Top Inbox – The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens, and follow-up with email sequences
- Jamf – Jamf helped Nathan keep his Macbook Air 11” secure even when he left it in the airplane’s back seat pocket
- Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives