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Chris Brisson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
565 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

And so like what are these core feature sets that you can just start to knock off to get to that ultimate yes?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

Now I love what Todd just talked about is like this forcing function to move up market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

And we've gotten some big customers and we're like, oh my God, they just broke our system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

I'm like, yes, this is awesome because we just figured out a whole new opportunity, a great business or a great feature to build to allow us to get more of those customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

And so it's like, we say yes to those guys, even though we know that at some point maybe they may churn, but they're gonna open up so much opportunity for us to solve these micro problems that can mean, you know, a six figure, a multi six figure contract.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

And so that's how we do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

So I got a minute and a half here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

So let me talk about some of the keys to scaling.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

So one of the things I talk about is the idea called stack the line.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

And so what a lot of companies focus on, if you look at really the two ways to grow SaaS companies, if you follow Jay Abraham, he talks about three ways to grow your business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

But in SaaS, there's really two ways.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

One, you get more customers, which is the hardest part.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

is you increase ARPU.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

And so what are the ways and strategies from which you can increase average revenue per user?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

And so the loneliest number is number one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

A lot of companies are like, cool, we've got $49 plan and the only way to grow is to get them into 99.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

That sucks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

Why?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

Because it is hard to get somebody to move into that value metric and they may not be in that next value metric to move up to pay $99 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

Even though you're training them and teaching them,