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Josh Merriman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
238 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Our churn rate month to month is about 6% to 7%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

In our early days, first couple months when we were going to market, it was a lot higher than that because we really hadn't dialed in our messaging.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

We weren't going after the people that had a consistent text messaging need.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

That's really what separates us from the rest of the SMS field.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Most people are going after text message marketing as their content strategy and their target market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

For us, we're going after operational messaging.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

If you're a real business, your operations aren't just one month out of the year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

They're 12 months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

For us, it's not a huge concern.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

It's just really about targeting at the top level, making sure we find the right people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

And do you have additional product lines yet where you're able to upsell your base of two and 33 customers to other things?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Or is that ARPU really stuck between that 50 to 200, $300 range?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

So right now it is kind of stuck.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

We are developing additional features, additional things to move to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

There is this, in the text messaging world, there's a lot of directions we can go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Do you go omni-channel, bring on social media channels as a solution like Instagram and Facebook Messenger?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Do you go the route of doing text and email?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

We actually just launched Chatbot that businesses can put on their website.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

That's going to be an upsell opportunity.