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Chris Buttenham

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
161 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

Yeah, we've tested all of the channels in many different ways.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

I think what we've discovered, this is sort of anecdotal, but OB is very much an impulse buy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

And it's a sort of specific time in the buyer journey type thing where you can't really hit them with the ad if they really haven't felt this pain to a certain degree.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

And that pain is very specific at a very specific time in a company's journey.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

And that's really difficult to narrow in on, on paid ads.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

What has worked though is retargeting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

So people that are coming in from some of those free channels and then just retargeting them to keep the brand top of mind and also doing some targeted ads specifically on Google against competitor keywords has been, you know, there, there's a, there's a

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

A market, there's a vertical that's growing in our space, these like modern knowledge tools.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

And so they are way more capitalized than we are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

And so leveraging some of their traffic that they're paying for and getting in front of their customers is something that's starting to work for us as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

We are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

It's just super low volume, which is, I think, the unfortunate part about the core product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

And the sort of segment that we've reached product market fit in is quite niche.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

And that's where we're trying to remove that platform dependency, broaden our horizon a little bit on the product side, which also broadens our horizon on the type of customers that we can acquire and make successful and not churn and so on and so forth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

which is, you know, putting us in a better position to compete against some of the other solutions out there in the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

Story is we've, we've written a shitload of blogs and there's a couple that just went viral and like, like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

And there's no rhyme or reason, you know, just

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

writing on the topic of Slack and that that's the one that seems to continuously drive a ton of traffic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

The subtle art of not giving a fuck.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

Managing people was hard.