Procurement Express
also referred to as: procurementexpress
9 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 31, 2023 by James Kennedy · across every show →
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Jan 31, 2023 neutral
Jan 31, 2023
Jan 31, 2023 bearish
Kennedy: ProcurementExpress data shows late-2022 drops in corporate purchasing volumes
“I will say that, you know, price has become more of an issue. I think we've all seen that anecdotally and also in terms of Purchasing volumes has gone down. An average dollar sale in the system has gone down. Now all on aggregated data is BS. So maybe I could,…”
Jan 31, 2023
Jan 31, 2023 neutral
Kennedy: Surging customer acquisition costs make bootstrapping ProcurementExpress impossible today
“If I was to start our product today, there's no way we would have enough money to compete with the other people like ourselves in the market, because the ACVs have become high enough to support more expensive marketing channels. They've pushed up Capterra, pus…”
Jan 31, 2023 positive
Kennedy uses 'lowest price increase ever' framing for SaaS price hike emails
“When we do a price increase, it's always some variation of this, which is, you know, What we're going to do for you in 2023 and our lowest price increase ever. So I'm not hiding the fact that we're doing a price increase. I personally love that line because it…”
Jan 31, 2023 positive
Jan 31, 2023 positive
Kennedy: Committing to annual price increases forces product teams to ship value
“Increasing the prices also pushes your team say, Hey, listen, I've got to write this email next year, a better price increase. So Let's think about that. What's going to be a no brainer when I write the email about, hey, they're charging us extra two bucks a u…”
Jan 31, 2023 neutral
Kennedy: Blind price increases unintentionally force shifts in SaaS customer segments
“If you're just increasing your prices and you're not thinking about it, at a certain point, you change the nature of your customers. So you might go from prosumer to mid-market, you suddenly might go from mid-market to enterprise, and then that changes how you…”