Saastronautics

In the first 36 hours of our giveaway, we have over 8000 visits and over 400 leads!

This beat our expectations. We are just starting paid ads now, so these results are all organic.

We hope we can grow our audience through this giveaway and provide some great prizes for our participants.

We launched our first giveaway today.

We put focus on partnerships and sponsorships. So, we tried to secure as many sponsors as possible from recognizable names. We have almost 30 sponsors for this giveaway that are providing prizes ranging from just 1 lifetime account to 100. We are also receiving exclusive discounts from some of the bigger brands that don't do lifetime accounts.

We also made sure that many people can win, not just the top 3. So, we have prizes and gifts for all participants. We also have over 30 random lucky winners. Personally, I prefer to join giveaways where I know I have a better chance of winning.

You can check out our giveaway here:
https://marantas.com/viral-campaign/

We've been busy working on exclusive partnerships with SaaS startups and we now have over 10 deals signed.

There are some delays as expected, but we need to make sure we complete everything in time. More than half of the companies we signed want us to launch their deal before Black Friday. That means we need to launch a new deal every 1-3 days.

It's a lot of work but we're happy about it :)

We just signed our second deal.

We actually have a lot of leads and prospects but we can't handle it all at the moment. We're trying to get everything down as fast as we can.

We've hit the ground running and we can't stop. We need to set up some solid systems and workflows in place, so we'll be working on that all month.

Fun times!

We have a big internal team meeting today. Everyone will be on board for this call and we will be going through everything related to the business now.

We are about to launch our new website soon. There's still a lot of intricacies and details that I want to fix (my OCD), but now that I have a bigger team, I am forced to put my OCD in check and just get things off the ground. This is a good thing.

Excited for...everything! This is all so much fun and a great learning experience.

Our team has grown to 6 people now. Delegating and working together has been great.

Our Retargetkit campaign is doing well. We ran into some issues and complaints about our deal structure. I know we can't please everyone, but I'll be the first to admit our deal structure was a bit more limited and expensive compared to other "lifetime deals"; however, I believe it was still worth it.

Our goal here is not only to please and entice our audience, but to make sure our partners, SaaS founders/teams, are happy with what they're getting into. The deal structure, especially for lifetime deals, need to be viable for the SaaS company.

Retargetkit's founder did not like our original deal structure and we did not push for it, as we respect how much love goes into SaaS projects.

After all the early feedback, Retargetkit's team has agreed to revise the deal structure to better match our original proposal. Community feedback has been generally positive.

Really fun and exciting to do this work. We are learning a lot as we go. I love connecting with such skilled people. I have even more admiration and respect for SaaS founders than before.

We launched our first lifetime deal with the awesome SaaS toolkit for retargeting - Retargetkit.

We launched this deal on our partner's site to save time as our own website is not complete yet.

Very excited.

One of the biggest shocks was the bullying and negative sentiment from other people who have launched similar businesses or are planning to. You would think that a community of entrepreneurs would help or at least wish success, but that was definitely not the case.

We remain positive and ignore the negativity. Focus on our goals and take it step-by-step.

We signed our first deal with a close friend, who is a developer and a SaaS founder. Our first deal is with Retargetkit, a complete toolbox for your retargeting efforts.

Since our website is not complete yet and we wanted to get things started to test our processes, we decided to launch this deal on our partner's site. We also lowered our % to 10% from 30%.

We are meeting with SaaS founders and teams every day. A lot of leads and prospects. Things are looking good.

We launched our first viral giveaway campaign with Retargetkit as a part of our ramp-up campaign to the actual lifetime deal.

The website is halfway done and there's much more movement than there was when I was alone.

We've added a few more teammates and it's been easier to do this because all the partners are agency owners. We're all pitching in and getting extra help from each of our own teams.

This is very fun and exciting. I have high hopes for this project.

I must have forgot how difficult it is to start a business. My agency has taken off and we've hit almost 7 figures in annual revenue. It's been very difficult to focus on this project with the workload at my agency.

I have partnered with a friend who is also a marketing agency owner to help with growing this new business.

This has helped speed things up.