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How MessageDesk Grew from $200 to $14K MRR with 266 Customers Through Organic SEO (Interview with Revenue Operations Manager Josh Merryman)

Josh Merryman (Revenue Operations Manager of MessageDesk) spoke to Nathan Latka on August 5, 2021.

MessageDesk figures from the interview

MRR (2021)
$14K
Customers (2021)
266
ARPU (2021)
$52
Gross Churn (2021)
6%
Total Funding
$500,000
“So we're a business text messaging platform that helps small and medium sized businesses grow their customer base, market affordably, earn more online reviews, and get paid faster through business text messaging.”
“So we officially went to market in February 2020. Ending February, we had $200 in MRR. So from there until now, it's been consistent growth.”
“So all of our sales and marketing is all through organic just content. So we are literally just ranking on Google for keywords and people are finding us naturally.”

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Bio

As the Revenue Operations Manager of MessageDesk I align sales & marketing goals with product development. I also lead the sales team where we scaled from 0MRR in Q2 2020 to 15kMRR & 270 customers by Q3 2021.

Company

MessageDesk

Reno, United States · Founded 2020

Revenue
$158.7K
Funding
$1.2M
Team size
14
Customers
266

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