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LeadQuest · B2B · lead search tool

Add a lead-finding tool so users then need your email and automation tools

Founder says the products help each other; no numbers for the lead tool

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What they did

Last step of the tentpole strategy: ask what the side product's users need next. Mail-Lead users need leads to email, so they built LeadQuest (leadquest.ai) for lead search. From LeadQuest, the automation tab sends users to TaskMagic (e.g. auto-send found emails via Gmail), and users who want to mass-email their leads buy Mail-Lead. Jeremy says if he started over he would make LeadQuest the tentpole; the products are not separate side hustles but serve one ecosystem.

What happened

Presented as part of how Mail-Lead reached almost seven figures and TaskMagic grew; no LeadQuest numbers given.
Stage
growth

In their words

I Spent 24 Hours With A SaaS Millionaire

Play from 9:07
8:57

Pat WallsRight. Right. So people will come in and buy this product. They'd find this product. They didn't even know about TaskMagic. And then you'd have these upsell opportunities for them to use TaskMagic, which was that a subscription, TaskMagic?

9:07

Jeremy RedmanYes. So one of the major unlocks that we found with TaskMagic really early on was people didn't want to pay subscription pricing constantly. And the way to like really have this bank roll itself at the beginning was like lifetime deal and then usage-based pricing. The last step in this entire tentpole strategy is stack an ecosystem. So what do the people of Mail-Lead need? Oh, leads to email to. So we built leadquest.ai that helped them search for leads to email to.

9:39

Pat WallsYeah.

9:39

Jeremy RedmanSo then when you want to start bringing the emails that come up in leadquest.ai, and again, you click the automation tab on the left, it goes to TaskMagic. Right? Not only do you want to click the automation tab and you're like, "Take this email and automatically mail to Gmail." These people would like to go, "Oh, but I got to mass email all these leads that I have." Boom. Then they buy Mail-Lead.

10:05

Pat WallsRight. Right.

10:35

Pat WallsWhat do you think is the future of SaaS? Like if you were to start over today and start from scratch, would this be your strategy, or what would you change?

10:43

Jeremy RedmanIf I were to start over today, this is what I would do. So taking LeadQuest as an example, now how can I make LeadQuest the tentpole product? And when you start stacking them, they help each other. The big thing to like walk away with is these aren't like separate side hustles. They're serving the same ecosystem.

11:01

Pat WallsYes.

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