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Josh Ledgard

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
162 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

So customers that want to run a contest or a launch or sign up people for an event, they pay us a monthly a monthly fee depending upon the size of their campaign, meaning how much traffic they're going to generate, how many leads they plan on generating.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Um, most people have a good idea and we can also scale up and scale down a campaign so they can start with a lower price plan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

And then as they get going, they can scale up to a larger price plan, um, to that, that fits their traffic, their traffic needs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

And then larger companies obviously are pretty good at guessing, you know, this campaign, we're going to spend this much in advertising, meaning we're going to get this much traffic in general.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

The average customer paying per month is around $75 to $80 per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

I mean, to a certain extent, we've just had to come to accept that churn is going to be a part of our business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

We probably have a higher churn rate than, let's say, a billing provider, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

And so that's what we've just assumed as part of the model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

And part of what we do to mitigate that is we've started working in the last couple of years with a lot more agencies to run these kind of contests on behalf of customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

And they may have customers that churn constantly, but they're constantly churning through five customers on a larger price plan for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

And they stick around permanently.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

And the other way we mitigate it is by finding a larger stable of the higher end customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

And so where we probably were at a couple of years ago, an average of more like $39 a month, like the lower tier customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Now we're at that higher average.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

But that also means the customers that are larger companies, larger customers, they're running monthly campaigns or campaign every quarter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

So they're less likely to quit and come back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

They'll just keep the plan open while they're preparing for the next.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Yeah, we spend money on paid acquisition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

We do two types of primary paid acquisition.