How Qusek CEO Hector Jimenez grew Qusek to $121K revenue and 4 customers in 2024.

guys he's 23 years old he's got a 25 000 bucks of Revenue last year his first company launched it started as an agency and said you know I like recurring Revenue better so he launched a software company that helps you with robotic process automation especially clients like e-commerce clients that get hundreds of emails or messages on Whatsapp he helps you automate those hoping to double Revenue this year for customers today pay 50 bucks a month for that RPA to what she's hoping to scale hey folks my guest today is Hector Jimenez he helped grow a startup from 50k in USD to 500k in annual revenue in 12 months he's an agency owner helping startups increase Revenue through growth marketing and robotic process automation companies called qsek.com hectory Ray takes to the top yeah I'm ready all right so just to be clear you are making money on an agency model right now or are you building any internal software um no we currently have two models the first one is the agency and the second one is robotic process automation which we sell as a subscription model but this new branch is basically like 10 of our revenue and 90 comes from agency clients yep yep well great SAS companies always start with I mean usually start with an agency so your 90 agency 10 SAS today tell us what folks are paying you for give us an example of a customer sure for example um we have clients who have a community on social media say tick tock or Instagram but they're having problems monetizing right so maybe they have a course Academy and they have a community but their hands are filled with a bunch of WhatsApp messages and they're not doing email marketing uh neither right so what we're doing Cusick is that we help them um see like the data that comes to their website and to optimize um their their flows basically so to give you a very clear example last year we worked with a client who was receiving around 500 WhatsApp messages per day and the CEO was just overwhelmed with that so we built a WhatsApp chatbot and in that way we help them like go from 200 users to 1200 users in two months we also did Facebook ads for them so that's basically what we do we're basically a marketing agency but we what we like to do with our clients is follow up weekly so on a weekly basis we analyze all the metrics going from top of the funnel name social media reach engagement all the way to the bottom like retention metrics so how many people churned how many people um renewed their subscription and yeah I guess in a nutshell that's what we do yeah understanding that how much revenue did you do on the agency side in 2022 uh in 2022 for me I did 25k it's my first year and it was 25k US dollars so 25 000 bucks last year uh that was and that was the that's the first year you'd launched the agency true yes when did you start writing code to launch the RPA business uh to be honest I don't do the RPA part uh my my business partner does it he is he's not even a coder um formally he he's taking some courses online and he uses uipath so I focus more on like bringing like with the clients that I have uh I see the problems they have regarding manual processes like for instance we have a marketing agency that used to lose to invest around one hour of time per week uh creating their marketing report so a lot of copying and pasting from Facebook to your PowerPoint presentation from Google analytics to canva you name it and what we did was that with my business partner I brought the client and he basically builds the infrastructure code to automation split Equity you split it 50 50 or what yeah the RPA Park We Do 50 50. oh what's going on there YouTube good to see you guys now imagine this you love watching these interviews with SAS Founders but imagine if we took all of the valuation data out from over 2807 interviews I've done manually saves you a lot of time well we've done this we've built the into the beautiful interface inside of founder path check this out I'll show you how you 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clients so what we're going for yeah because what we're going for right now is basically a low-cost model because what we notice is that here in Mexico uh a lot of the companies that do RPA they usually charge a very high initial fee for the development of the automation but what we want to do is more more like uh win money long term so basically our businesses retaining clients um at a low cost uh and basically that's the that's the business model how do you so what's the plan for this year or what do you want to grow Revenue to in the agency side we want to get to let me translate it to um to dollars because I have it very clear in Mexican pesos but this year we want to close at uh basically we want to double that revenue from last year which if it was give me a second so we want to reach 50k this year for the agency side and for RPA 50k this year and for the RPA side we want to reach at least 100K in Mexico and pesos 100K by Hector how do you I mean look you look like a young guy these are the best years of your life you have the most energy you can hustle the hardest you can sleep the least um you know everyone has to start at 10K a month in Revenue so I'm not giving you a hard time for that but like these do not seem like ambitious goals I mean how do you go from 25k to how do you to half a million in Revenue in a year uh I'm sorry I didn't understand the question this is not a this fee why do you get excited about going from 25 000 a year in Revenue to 50 000 a year in Revenue I mean why not set why not go after and go build a million a half a million a year business or a million dollar a year business and challenge yourself to think about how you would get to that yeah I think that would be a a more interesting approach probably yeah well I mean but don't just agree with me you've chosen to go a different route so why didn't you I mean why are you choosing to not be aggressive uh the thing is like I've tried to I've had a lot of trouble with the part of Delegation so I think that that's something that's more like personal like limiting belief that I have to break which I'm working on so yeah basically I guess that's that's basically the like the root of why I haven't been more aggressive like I really wanna um have Higher Goals...