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Massimo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
263 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

to the signup page, you add conversions, you have users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So we had a pretty substantial increase in the number of active users in the application.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

The year over year rate before was around 17% and it shot up to over 55%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

But the interesting thing is that it wasn't just

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

Any users, even the heavy users of the application, the growth rate for those heavy users went from around 15% year over year to over 30%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So the freemium model actually brought in people that turned out to be heavy users of the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

It wasn't just a solution for the light users of the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So in this particular case for us, it worked really, really well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

We already talked a little bit about the team retreat.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

I'm going to give you some more pointers that might be helpful to you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So again, B, it's been a remote company now for many, many years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

Look, you're going to hit bumps on the road.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

And the problem with a remote company, well, how many of you have remote staff?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

many many of you okay so you've probably been there where it's all great but when when you hit bumps on the road when people get pissed when people you know uh short temper that's where being a remote company it's challenging because it might be the wrong word in slack it might be right so how do you so you need buffer you need people to have a buffer with each other where even if they're not you know able to kind of just talk it out

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

getting a coffee, they maintain a positive business relationship.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

How do you build that buffer?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

I'm absolutely convinced that you need to get people together to build that buffer that will then help you when shit happens.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So how do we do that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

We do it in three ways.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

One, the team retreat that we talked about already earlier with Nathan.