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Chris Brisson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
565 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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

And so this is a great book, Marcos Rivera, he just came out with this book, it's awesome.

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

If you guys wanna learn everything about pricing, definitely get this book.

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

He actually worked for Vista Partners, and so like super strategy on pricing.

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

He says this, according to invest whatever,

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

The probability of selling to an existing customer is 60% to 70%, while the probability of selling to a new prospect is 5% to 20%.

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

Existing customers are 50% more likely to try new products and spend 31% more when compared to new customers.

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

So we know this.

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

We've heard it, right?

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

Yes, we know our customers are the ones that are going to spend more money, but like...

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

What are you going to focus on?

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

Are you going to focus on a new customer acquisition?

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

Or are you going to build out your product line to solve more problems to improve expansion?

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

So we call this our multi-pronged SaaS.

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

So again, we've got subscription plans, we've got transaction revenue, which for a while was like, oh, transaction revenue, that's not a good thing.

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

How do you get more towards SaaS?

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

That's okay, Twilio's doing pretty well.

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

We've got seats, we've got add-ons, services we're just about to introduce.

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

And so guys, what can we create, what problems can we solve within our product to help our customers get more value?

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

So plans, we sell numbers, we sell short codes, we sell all these other additional subscription products.

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

We also sell transactional, so text message credits.