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Nathan Berry

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1489 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

And we didn't want to be, I guess, pigeonholed into a really techie sounding name.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

Like ConvertKit kind of sounds like a WordPress plugin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

And then also, if you're out there serving your audience, and then you're delivering the best content, growing your audience, really serving them, then ConvertKit as a name sounds really salesy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

And it sounds like you're trying to put them through a funnel and you're trying to sell them and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

Uh, we want customers who have the other approach and they're trying to, you know, build the best content on the web and really invest in their community.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

Yeah, expansion revenue definitely helps, but it hasn't been enough to get us to net negative churn, which is the ultimate goal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

So it cuts our churn rate in half.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

Um, but you know, we still have to drive a lot of new revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

Um, it comes from three major buckets, um, of one third would be affiliate revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

So that's us doing webinars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

We've got a three person team that handles that, you know, scheduling and booking the webinars, all the logistics and then actually teaching them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

And we do about 15 webinars a month, uh, with different partners.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

That's exactly right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

So it's a relationship, um, teaching the webinar and then there's just so much behind the scenes of, you know, landing page, swipe copy, logistics, all of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

And that's what the third person does.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

And you said 15 months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

We tend to average 15 a month and those range from really big ones with someone like Pat Flynn that will drive, you know, 500 trials or something like that, which is pretty substantial.