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Brendan King

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
244 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

If they don't start making money, they're not going to keep paying us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

So we call that crossing the valley of death.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

So we, you know, they're paying us a subscription.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

If they start making money with our products, which is what we hope they all do, of course, then they're going to stay forever until either a competitor takes them or they go out of business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

And, you know, that, so, you know, our churn is much lower if you consider the people who go across the valley of death.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

So, and then on the other side, they start selling products to small businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

So those big horizontal players like newspaper companies have a monthly churn that can be in the 5% or 6% range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

So you can have up to 60% SMB churn, and that's one of the reasons we're not in that space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

Whereas some of our other partners who are maybe niche players, maybe they're in the multi-tenant family space or they're in the auto space, they'll have churn that's much lower.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

They might be in the 15% SMB churn, which is more native to what the actual โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

So, you know, our costs, it can vary depending on how we do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

We're mostly what we are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

We have a we have an inbound model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

So we generate inbound leads.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

We have a segmented sales force.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

We have SDRs that call and close those leads, set an appointment, rather BDRs that close them and then they have off to success.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

So overall, our LTV to CAC is really, really good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

We're running 18 to 1 right now on our LTV to CAC.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

So I like to segment LTV.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
925 How to Grow ARR 48% YoY from $17m to $28m in SMB SaaS Space

our our businesses into cohorts so we have you know a core a cohort that pays us more than 20 000 an annual contract value is about 83 of our revenue and those guys will have a ltd somewhere in the you know they're they're all the lifetime's huge in fact we used to cap it when we measured this because it was you know just going to what'd you cap it at we counted at 10 years yeah um