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Nathan Barry

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1090 total appearances

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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 we just, you know, network at conferences, who's who in the blogging world, I get intros, that kind of thing.

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,

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 so we're trying to do two things.

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

You know, we're trying to get someone to switch their email list from MailChimp or Aweber or whatever to ConvertKit.

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 later on, we're saying, hey, if this has been a great experience for you, we'd love it if you'd promote it as well.

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 so we kind of have a lot of effort put into that, like two-step direct sales 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

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

And it helps that affiliates is already a known channel.

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

Like I talked to other people who run B2B SaaS and they're like, oh, can we try affiliates?

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 I'm like, sure, but.

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

how many of your customers have an audience of 50,000 people that they can reach?

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 so that's been an advantage for us.

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 also do that same technique that you do of we just ask how many subscribers do you have as a way of tailoring the webinar content because it's really educational.

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

But then also we save that chat and just look through it and see, oh, who should we reach out to?

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

If someone there said, I've got 20,000 subscribers, then you bet we're going to follow up with that person.

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

If you know, you know, you talk to the partner early on, you know how many subscribers they're sending over, you know, what their audience size is, that kind of thing.

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

you can tell how big a promotion is going to be.

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 we'll do the small promotions as well.

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 if you can only bring 25 people to a webinar, we'll still happily do it because we have it down to a great system.

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 we see it as we get to do a live demo to 25 people at once, which is more one-on-one.