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Cody Barbo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
245 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

Yeah, subscriptions formally kick in this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

I mean, we were charging for updates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

The price of the subscription, we would charge for updates throughout 2019, which gave people any life event that happened, the ability to come back, make the necessary updates, and still get their documents printed and shipped to them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

But it was about a 1% conversion, but that was off a small batch of the initial customer base from 2018, since that was really our first year in market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

We only had one product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

2019, we launched two more products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

So three in market, which means 2020, we have first full year, three products in market, people coming back in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

And based on the life events that have triggered, that would require paid subscription updates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

And I'll have better numbers for you as the year progresses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

Yeah, the vision, I mean, the whole vision for the company is as we push the regulatory landscape for all 50 states to allow for an end-to-end digital experience, digital signature, digital notary, digital storage of documents, we want to forego even the need for that significant upfront cost and immediately kick you into the subscription day one, which is just an ongoing annual fee.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

And that can be subsidized.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

It's possible on our entry-level documents, so the Guardian document potentially, because the document for Guardian is really top of the funnel for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

If you're a parent with minor children and you at least want that peace of mind, let's get you into the funnel with that product here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

But very quickly, you might realize, like I was saying earlier, if you have assets, you own a home, you have investments, you have a life insurance policy, you want to make sure those are cataloged correctly, we bump you up into the will tier.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

Or from the will tier, we bump you up into the trust.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

So we have flexibility to work with our pricing since our margins are fantastic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

But we want to be really smart in terms of how do we communicate trust with a paid product?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

Because we felt that a free product within estate planning can actually communicate distrust.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

Well, what's the catch?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning

If I'm making these sensitive decisions, right?