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Brian Halligan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
234 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

And we're just pouring new customers in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

at this lower price point, and then we're able to upsell them the marketing product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

So this has really worked out quite well for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

A couple of thoughts on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

One mistake I think entrepreneurs make and investors make is they don't try to maximize the supply and demand curve.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

They just keep trying to drive those price points up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

I mean, really map it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

So there's some people out there that would spend a dollar for HubSpot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

And there's some people out there that would spend $10,000 for HubSpot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

Everyone just rushes to the 10, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

That's just the knee jerk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

How do we maximize ARPU?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

They end up going up market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

And historically, that's been the move because you couldn't really get at the low end of the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

But the internet kind of allows you to explore that low, fat, large, low end of the supply and demand curve.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

And so we went counterintuitively, you know, we explored both sides and we went down that supply and demand curve and we came out with our second product and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

And then we can start cross-selling them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

And so that's the first comment I would make is we had a hell of a time convincing venture investors that SMB was a good place to make money.