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Dominic Edmonds

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
189 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

However, taking something then to a blend of a base fee, which allows us to talk about servicing, allows us to talk about the implementation fees, the costs that go with it, and then applying a performance fee on top was our second iteration.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

And now we've moved into a 100% flat fee model, which again matches with the same kind of fees people would have been paying us on average, but it smooths it out rather than making it choppy, I guess.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

No, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

So when I say flat fees, those flat fees means instead of a customer who may go through a period where they're in sale on their, let's say it's a fashion retailer and they're paying us $20,000 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

And when they're not in sale, they could be paying

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

effectively the equivalent of an average billing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

So a flat fee is between those, meaning that over the year, nobody loses out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

We do have variance because obviously we work in different sectors as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

On average, though.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

Yeah, on average, you'd be looking at a monthly MRR, which is technically what we live in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

We'd be talking around about $5,000 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

So I came out of agency.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

So strictly speaking, we started in 2010, February 2010.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

February 5th, actually, just passed our eighth birthday.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

But I came out of an agency role where it was becoming clear to me that clients were approaching us to address abandonment issues on their side because they would list them as they had a high abandonment rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

They didn't.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

They had an average abandonment rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

The challenge you faced, Mr. Klein, is the same challenge your competitors are facing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

And that really was a crystallization behind

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

Sales cycle could be a singular enterprise level product which can address this issue for a number of customers.