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Ron Lynch

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
159 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

So you have to have a 1-800 number.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

You have to have an offer of some kind.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

Well, this, again, was a $400 product, and this was really the insight into how do you sell that within 30 seconds or a minute.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

And what we did was devised a contest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

And at the end of every spot, right up until last year, for the first six years they were on TV, at the end of the spot, it says, enter to win everything we make.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

We give a complete suite of our products away every day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

And there was just a little entry, like an entry voucher.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

It's a URL.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

So we drove the consumers to GoPro.com, where the first thing they did was they filled out their data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

So there was a data capture right away.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

Then they get past that data capture.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

I would say probably 60% to 70% of folks filled out that data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

Wow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

So...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

People wanted the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

It wasn't available at retail.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

So you had a young audience that would go in, they'd enter, to get past that so they could get to the site.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

So they'd get past that, get to the site, then they'd get engaged in the site and the content, and the spot sold.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8

The site itself sold.