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Jacob Lenski

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
153 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

That's where I got the force first for paying customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

Um, apart from that, we've had a hundred free users, uh, and currently, you know, alongside of our partners, we're doing some market research.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

We're basically reaching out, uh, trying to, you know, find out if there's any sort of specific niche or market gap we're missing, see if there's any of the problems people want to solve with the tool, see, you know, whether we can patch up a leaky bucket, right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

So one interesting, so especially within the dropshipping niche and e-commerce, things like Shopify platforms, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

Any Shopify kind of thread.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

There's all scope specific dropshipping communities, which you could reach out to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

But yeah, mostly think of e-commerce or website building platforms, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

Where would dropshippers and e-commerce sellers hang out?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

It was $27 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

No, we've had three churn, one's still paying.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

So we've spoke to them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

This was early on when we sort of presented the product as, you know, we wanted to get the feedback.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

We wanted to get some paying customers, see how hard would it be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

And the main three turned because one, it was still, you know, it was an early product, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

There's still plenty of things to fix.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

There's still plenty of things to improve.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

The one paying customer stayed on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

He's still happy to give him feedback and he's been using the tool weekly, which is great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

Another thing is those three paying customers have now converted to lifetime customers for free.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

We've appreciated their feedback and their early adopter mindset, and we found them useful.