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Josh Weisberg

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
256 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

And that was the first phase was just understanding, like, people need to move from lists to actions so that you're sending a message at the right time in the customer lifecycle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

And then when we had events coming in, we realized we can use those same events to figure out, do these messages work?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

Now let's let people do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

Yeah, it was a SaaS model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

I think when we started out, we didn't quite know where are people going to find the value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

So when you're figuring out pricing, you're figuring out business, where's the value coming from?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

That's always an open question is what is the pricing unit?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

Where do people derive value from this product?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

And I think we kind of felt around a little bit and a lot of other products were using list size.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

So we're using how many contacts do you have?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

And for us, our big innovation was it's messaged users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

So how many people are actually getting messages?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

And it doesn't matter to us how many messages or what channels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

We'll take the number of messages off the table.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

We'll take your list size off the table.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

It's just about how many people are you actually engaging with and what are they doing because of the messages.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

So that was our subscription model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

Yeah, when we started off, we wanted to make a self-service product, which is actually one of the reasons we ended up at Zendesk is that they have that in their DNA too.