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Cem Atik shares insights on acquiring and scaling distressed e-commerce and SaaS businesses, focusing on unit economics and effective marketing strategies.

Cem Atik built a portfolio that generated over two billion dollars in revenue without founding a single company from scratch, scaled a SaaS business from barely seven figures to forty-five million in twelve months, and now runs one of Europe's most active acquisition and growth operations buying distressed e-commerce and SaaS businesses and turning them exit-ready. Now he is pulling back the curtain on exactly how it works. Charles and Cem get into the real mechanics of acquiring and scaling businesses that other operators have given up on, from identifying the unit economics that separate a hidden gem from a money pit, to building a lead generation engine that converts without burning through ad spend, to running A/B tests that take a company from stagnant to scaling inside a year. Cem breaks down the organic content strategy that consistently delivers higher ROI than paid channels, the onboarding tweak that boosts conversions by up to forty percent, and what he would do in the first ninety days if he were starting a SaaS company from zero today. Together, they explore why selling the result always outperforms selling the product, why the highest return on investment platform is…

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Host: Charles Schwartz

Guest: Cem Atik

Topics covered

• performance marketing
• business acquisition
• SaaS growth
• unit economics
• lead generation
• content strategy

Keywords

• performance marketing
• SaaS
• business acquisition
• lead generation
• unit economics
• A/B testing
• ROI
• content strategy

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