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Drew Sheehan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
194 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

I was very fortunate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

I mean, the sale of the company was

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

was many millions of dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

And I think the key for a lot of people early on is understanding and believing that when they build that product, it's going to be successful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

So yes, I think making sure that we find the right audience for our product is key and crucial.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

I just really believe that we'll be able to connect with that audience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

Yeah, so we just did one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

It was with a newsletter called The Hustle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

How did it do?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

I think on our part, it did pretty well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

Frankly, it went out to about 600 and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

70,000 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

We did it on a day that we thought would be the best because we were the only sponsor of the newsletter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

And what were the results?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

Yeah, we got about 2,500 clicks to the website.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

And our conversion rate was about 7%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

So we had 7%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

We had about...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

about 160 signups within a 24 hour period.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?

Correct.