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Nathan Barry

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1090 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

So overall, it was a very, very successful promotion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

Content marketing is probably half of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

And then the other half is doing webinars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

So content or partnerships and affiliates with people like Pat Flynn and Chris Guillebeau and a lot of other influencers around the web is a big way that we've grown our customer base.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

So we just say, Hey, we'll come to your audience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

We'll teach them how to grow an email list, you know, marketing automation, et cetera, and pay out a 30% affiliate commission to anyone who ends up signing up for a convert account.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

So we've probably added 25,000 subscribers to our list this year, just purely through joint venture webinars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

Yeah, almost exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

And when we use the, you know, a Google hangout hybrid instead of go to webinar, but, but yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

So we do Google hangout and then we use a tool called chat role to have kind of that live chat interaction.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

And our designer just built some custom pages for it so we can have sell on our site.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

There's so many of them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

We do about 10 to 20 or more webinars a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

Yeah, so our...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

Uh, you know, we, we have a growth team and there's two people on that team who are involved with the webinar process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

Um, and so they, uh, hunt down the partners, you know, we talk to all of our customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

It helps that so many of our customers have, you know, 10,000 subscribers, 50,000 or a quarter million email subscribers or something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry

So that's a great place to start.