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 →

Everything said about Procurement Express, oldest first

Jan 31, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Kennedy: Price increase churn strictly comes from customers who never onboarded
“We do have a bump in churn after we do this, for sure. It does exist, but it's always the people who were just never onboarded in the first place.”
James Kennedy Jan 31, 2023 ▶ 14:37 Episode 646 | Building a Recurring, Annual Price Increase Into Yo...
Jan 31, 2023
Disclosure
Kennedy: ProcurementExpress reaches $2M ARR with 25 employees
“Yeah, we did take an angel round actually, so we have like a five angel investors, yeah, in 2016, and but we have about 25 people, and we're in and around a two million ARR in revenue mark”
James Kennedy Jan 31, 2023 ▶ 4:45 Episode 646 | Building a Recurring, Annual Price Increase Into Yo...
Jan 31, 2023 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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,…”
James Kennedy Jan 31, 2023 ▶ 23:20 Episode 646 | Building a Recurring, Annual Price Increase Into Yo...
Jan 31, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Procurement Express manages $3B in annual spend across roughly 300 customers
“Now we have about 300 customers all around the world, half in the States, half everywhere else, and we handle about three billion dollars in spend for those customers each year, and that's what we do.”
James Kennedy Jan 31, 2023 ▶ 3:25 Episode 646 | Building a Recurring, Annual Price Increase Into Yo...
Jan 31, 2023 neutral
What-if
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…”
James Kennedy Jan 31, 2023 ▶ 21:21 Episode 646 | Building a Recurring, Annual Price Increase Into Yo...
Jan 31, 2023 positive
Disclosure
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…”
James Kennedy Jan 31, 2023 ▶ 24:15 Episode 646 | Building a Recurring, Annual Price Increase Into Yo...
Jan 31, 2023 positive
Disclosure
ProcurementExpress institutes automatic 5% to 10% price increases every September
“New customers to come on September, we do our price increase. We normally say exactly that. It's like between five and 10%. Last year it was eight percent.”
James Kennedy Jan 31, 2023 ▶ 12:31 Episode 646 | Building a Recurring, Annual Price Increase Into Yo...
Jan 31, 2023 positive
Insight
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…”
James Kennedy Jan 31, 2023 ▶ 21:57 Episode 646 | Building a Recurring, Annual Price Increase Into Yo...
Jan 31, 2023 neutral
Insight
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…”
James Kennedy Jan 31, 2023 ▶ 17:53 Episode 646 | Building a Recurring, Annual Price Increase Into Yo...
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