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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

I'm like, shit.

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

We need to do something.

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

So I was like, hey, I've got this other idea.

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

Let me go ahead.

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

Let's try and launch this.

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

So it was called Kika Conference.

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

It was sort of like Uber Conference for...

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

Marketers and we launched it a year and a half later a lot of money later.

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

We made a whopping $1,500 Spent a year and a half a year building this product great product and so I pulled this up on my email and this is December October 21st 2016 and my goal was generate $1,000 in sales horrible

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

So, but what happened was through this whole journey, I just, I said, all right, this is not working, but if I were to start over, what would I do?

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

You know, if I were to draw a line in the sand and just say, you know, if I were to reinvent this entire business, what did I learn?

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

I realized like this conference call thing, but people call loop was still going, you know, we're generating revenue and I would always hear what people wanted and said, okay, well, what could I create in order to,

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

Sort of solve their problem.

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

And so about 15, 13 days later, whatever it was, I said, all right, let's stop building kick a conference because it's obviously not working.

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

And let me just try and sell this new idea, which sales message was really an idea I had in the summer.

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

And I was like trying to play around with it.

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

And I said, all right, before we write a line of code, let me go ahead and pre-sell this.

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

So I popped into Photoshop, I created some slides, I sort of mocked up the product, I sent an email to our list and did a webinar.

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

And the webinar turned into $3,100 in sales, more money than we made in a whole year and a half trying to sell this other product that we spent a lot of money with.

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

So this is where the idea of sales message came from was like, oh, okay, well, let me put it together.