Ryan Shank builds PhoneWagon's investor pitch deck with customer Mark Barnes, who spends $250,000 monthly on ads and saw a 20% lift in campaign effectiveness using their call-tracking tool. Mark attributes 70% of his leads to phone calls, giving the deck concrete proof of value.
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$250,000 a month is what I spend. And by tracking my calls this way—
Alright guys, what is going on? Thank you for tuning in to the vlog today. Uh, today's vlog is actually super, super interesting. We're creating a deck because it is the final week of Techstars, and next week we're meeting with all these investors called Investor Week. And they basically put you through kind of gauntlet, and you're talking to investors all day. And every single one of the companies in here is making videos and creating pitch decks and everything. So we had one done, um, and we decided to just completely completely renew it, renew it, redo it. And so we called the customer on the phone, he told us all of his stats, it's amazing, his use case is incredible, used that for the deck. You guys are gonna see it, it's so sweet. Mark Barnes, he's the man, he subscribes to the vlog as well, so what's up? One of our largest paying customers and he's killing it, by the way, absolutely killing it. You guys will probably see the video. So I'm gonna take you guys to that now, but I appreciate everyone following along. 5 days left of Techstars, not a lot, 1 week left, oh my God, it's crazy. If you're new here, my name is Ryan Shank. This is our journey, we're building PhoneWagon from the ground up. There's no outside funding And we do it every single day, 7 days a week. We're going through Techstars in New York City. We got Kane over here editing. Kane's picking up side jobs. He's just killing it. Everyone's trying to recruit him away. Kane, don't leave! Mark knows that people are seeing his ad, are seeing these ads. All these different ads, and then it's like 70% of the leads are coming from phone calls. It's like, uh, there's something missing. Mark knows people are seeing the ad, seeing these ads. I mean, it sounds like more specific, like just like adding the numbers in there to make it sound like it's a real story, but also it's like 70% of the leads— places, newspapers, billboards, all these places, right?
$250,000 a month is what I spend. And by tracking my calls this way and the effectiveness that I use, I increase my effectiveness by 20%. But we use the call tracking. That's why each one of my papers and spaces where they're at, we place them there till we know which ones work. Then we commit some way. We did commit Michigan here recently. Yep. I can bring you in during my time on a conference call, on a Skype call, or a video conference on Zoom or something.
Or another thing, we could, um, we'd actually be happy to like fly down there and even sponsor like a dinner or even just like a drink outing just to like mingle with them face to face. Mark, I really appreciate you jumping on a call. This information honestly is super valuable. I'm actually gonna, I'll send you the deck once we get it done just to show you, but I really appreciate it. See you later. Have a good night.
Bye.
Yo, Mark is a fucking man. Holy shit.
Alberta, I know some, uh, people in Albuquerque.
And then he sells them a new garage door. And after that, he even upsells an asphalt driveway. And then he just sells them a new house. And then, and then he mentions that they're gonna need a new mailbox because the asphalt is gonna go over the existing mailbox. Once the new mailbox is in, he even mows their lawn for free. Hope you guys are out there working hard, being pioneers, being wagonaires.
