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Carlo Cisco

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
426 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1560 Why 15k Members Pay $300/mo For This Special Card (Not AMEX)

The average savings is 31%, but you can be as high as 70%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1560 Why 15k Members Pay $300/mo For This Special Card (Not AMEX)

I tend to save like 40% to 50%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
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But what's cool is it completely changes the caliber of the place you can stay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
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We're still a startup, so being able to stay at five-star resorts at basically half the price, that's a pretty compelling thing for me, and it completely changes the nature of your trip.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
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Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
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And Standard is a unique example, too, because they don't tend to like to be on those kinds of sites.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
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So that's part of why they're featured separate from the hotel portal, is that they actually are a sort of rare brand where they really like sort of the importance of their brand, the demographic that they bring in, and they tend to stay off of those sites in general.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
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But in total, our hotel program encompasses 500,000 locations at a little over

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
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200,000 of those.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
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And it varies based on inventory.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
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We have the best rate anywhere.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1560 Why 15k Members Pay $300/mo For This Special Card (Not AMEX)

How do we make money?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1560 Why 15k Members Pay $300/mo For This Special Card (Not AMEX)

Mostly our membership fee.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1560 Why 15k Members Pay $300/mo For This Special Card (Not AMEX)

Membership fee is the vast majority of our money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1560 Why 15k Members Pay $300/mo For This Special Card (Not AMEX)

$300 a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1560 Why 15k Members Pay $300/mo For This Special Card (Not AMEX)

No, we don't have to fund any of the benefits.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1560 Why 15k Members Pay $300/mo For This Special Card (Not AMEX)

So we hope that they use it as much as humanly possible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1560 Why 15k Members Pay $300/mo For This Special Card (Not AMEX)

On average, members recoup over 3x that annual fee.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
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And that's in addition to having access to our concierge, getting invites to member events, other things that are more experiential that are harder to put a dollar value on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1560 Why 15k Members Pay $300/mo For This Special Card (Not AMEX)

Not currently, but I think that that is a popular element of our events for sure.