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Armand Thiberge

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
96 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

Yeah, I mean, I think there are many ways to calculate the churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

And at Senninblue, we calculate the churn after three months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

So for us, the first three months, it's a trial period.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

We don't really know about what's happening at the starting point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

I mean, the first month is around 30 percent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

What we are looking at is the lifetime value of a customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

And what's happening in the first three months is not very important.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

So what we look at and when we optimize all our acquisition channels, we look at who are the customers after three months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

Whatever is happening between the first three months, we don't count that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

And it's some unwanted revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

And yeah, it's a revenue, of course, but we are not focusing on that at all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

What we look at is more the marginal CAC because we think that the CAC is not the right measurement if you have 90% of customers which are free and 10% which are paid at the same company having the same CAC for all their customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

the second business would be much more healthy because it would have a CAC which is more scalable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

So what we look at is our marginal cost of acquisition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

And when marginal, it means the cost to acquire a new, an additional customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

We have a lot of free customers and this is the world of house and this is the beauty of the SMB model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

But we look at the marginal cost of acquisition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

So what is your marginal CAC?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

Marginal CAC, it's $500, $600.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1531 The Mailchimp of Europe Hits $20M in ARR, 30,000 SMB Customers

But again, it's not an average CAC.