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The Hustle's Trends product reached roughly $5M ARR in its first year
“But I think in the first year it ended at like something like five or six, I forget, maybe five million in recurring revenue. It could have been a little more, a little bit less. I don't remember.”
Parr: A $300 subscription price is 'no man's land' and kills conversion
“300 dollars. What I learned early on is no man's land. You should either charge thousands and thousands or tens of thousands of dollars or like a 150 bucks. 300 dollars is no man's land. That's, it was a bad, I really screwed that pricing point up, and the res…”
Sam Parr seeded the Trends community by giving influencers free early access.
“A lot of times, particularly in trends, my one of the first communities that I built, I would seed it by having 10, 20, 30 people who I knew were impressive. And I just said, you don't have to pay anything, but you're joining this community. Also on this date,…”
Druckman: Q&A forums like Quora are effective tools for tracking emerging trends
“Quora is a good place or any forum where people are asking questions. It's a good place to see kind of how trends are starting, what people are thinking about, what they're wondering about.”
Trends generates millions in subscription revenue with a five-person team
“Trends right now is making many, many millions of dollars in subscription revenue. And it's pretty simple. And there's like, I think there's only five people who work on it. So it's like a pretty profitable thing.”
Parr orchestrated fake engagement for HubSpot's CEO during acquisition talks
“One time when HubSpot was looking to buy us, I saw that Brian Halligan, the then he's the founder and then CEO of the company he joined and I messaged like 80 people and I said, Hey reply to Brian, here's the message to say to him. And so many people commented…”
Parr: The Hustle reached 2M daily readers and Trends made millions
“This podcast was owned by my company called the hustle. We just sold it for a lot of money to this company called hubspot. And before we sold it, thank you. And before we sold it, we had a daily email that reached around two million people a day. And then we o…”
Sam Parr predicts Trends will reach $10 million ARR in 2021.
“At the end of this year, Trends will potentially be a ten million plus a year recurring revenue business.”
Parr: The Hustle could have charged $30,000 annually for Trends
“Had we made relatively minor changes, like not that different, like it wouldn't have cost us more money. We maybe would have had a few more people. And we are right now we charge 300 dollars a year. There's a world where it wouldn't have had to been that much …”