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Ben Jabowi

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
146 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

It was $160 million, which is the size of many IPOs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

Yeah, so we found that in the small, mid-size e-commerce market, there was really a gap.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

So much of those marketers are focused on driving traffic to the site and then on automatic nurturing campaigns after conversion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

But, you know, if 98% of the traffic's not converting, that was the opportunity that we found to build a really easy to use, quick time to value SaaS platform focused on converting more website traffic into leads and sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

So we go to market through a freemium model, but it's basically premium SaaS subscription based on the level of features that you need in terms of targeting, coupon integration, and certainly we have some scaling metrics based on traffic to the site.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

Yeah, we have kind of two segments that we look at.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

We have a fully self-serve funnel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

The average there is about 50 bucks a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

And then we have kind of a product qualified inside sales driven effort that's growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

That's about $300 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

Okay, good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

Yeah, so right now, let's see, it's about 80% of the business is self-serve.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

We actually just brought on our first member of the sales team about four months ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

So ramping quickly, but already 20% of MRR is coming from direct inside efforts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

We're 20 today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

We'll be 30 by the end of the year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

Breakdown is 11 on the engineering team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1277 Mailchimp for Shopify Customers Passes 5,000 Paid, $3m in ARR, 15k Shopify Reviews

A handful of customer support.

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