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Scott Chisholm

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
169 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

all the subscription you have in your book of business for the, for the four to 12 months for transactions is a little bit different and it can get hairy when you're trying to predict what's going to happen over the next 12, 18 months in terms of runway.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

So we use the trailing 12 months to stay pretty conservative and we,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

So by size.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

So smaller organizations will transact less on the platform and their transaction fee dynamics is a little bit different.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

So we know approximately what the revenue will be from that sized organization.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

And we do that by segment essentially, but we use a trailing 12 month average so that we stay conservative and we put that on top of the subscription base.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

So that becomes our total revenue run rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

I think the split between subscription and transaction fee is really up to the customer in our mind.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

We look at it as a big curve, and it's really all about cost of fundraising.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

We want to bring the cost of fundraising down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

So if we can continue to...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

lower, um, to provide software to more people, then absolutely we'll keep lowering the costs Amazon style, uh, across every plan so that the cost of fundraising keeps going down and that we in class, it becomes accessible for more and more organizations over time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

Um, we've, we've taken a, a page out of HubSpot's playbook in the early days, and it's very inbound marketing focused.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

So we have

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

four full-time writers, we have an editor, we have a full-time video person, and really our marketing team is almost like a little bit of a media company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

We have one of the most read blogs in the space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

We produce content daily, webinars, you name it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

And so that really, that thought leadership content and positioning in the sector has been our primary playbook from a marketing and acquisition standpoint.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

People will download a guide, they'll read a blog, they'll become a lead, and then they'll learn about what we have to offer on the technology side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company

So that's probably the primary one.