Insight
Bartlett: Enterprise Developers Lack Budget and Purchasing Authority for SaaS
“Developers don't have money to buy products at a company. I mean, maybe some do, but at an enterprise, it's not the developer that makes a purchasing decision.”
Insight
Bartlett: Multi-Product SaaS Approach Is a Distraction Once One Product Gains Traction
“It, it's a big distraction, honestly. I mean, certainly in the early days when none of them really had any traction, maybe it's fine. But once StatusGator started gaining some traction, so around twenty-twenty, I would say, honestly, during the pandemic is whe…”
Opinion
Bartlett: Traditional venture capital treadmill is a dreadful model
“The VC, like, treadmill never interested us at all. We've all, all of us have worked at startups, and it's just very dreadful idea to me, honestly.”
Opinion
Bartlett: Official Service Status Pages Lie and Are Extremely Slow
“Status pages lie. Everyone knows they lie. They're very slow.”
Insight
Bartlett: 14-Day Free Trials Fail for Outage-Dependent SaaS Products
“It's very hard to deliver a aha moment in a 14 day free trial with a service that is dependent on other providers going down.”
Insight
Bartlett: Outage Monitoring Works Best in Verticals With Non-Technical Staff
“I think the thing that we found that has the most commonality among the verticals that we do well in is that they have a high number of, perhaps unsophisticated, is a diplomatic way to say it, users.
So, education is a big market for us, not so much in terms o…”
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Bartlett: Raising Legacy Pricing Created StatusGator's Only Noticeable Growth Bump
“That was a game changer. Got rid of a lot of dead weight, people that weren't good fits. Big time game changer. That's the only little Not even a hockey stick, but it's the only bump in the graph if you look there.”
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Bartlett: 'Status page aggregator' is StatusGator's top keyword after inventing category
“Status page aggregator didn't exist, and we made that up. We could say we invented that. The reality is that is our number one keyword now that people, people search for. We dominate that keyword because we have first mover advantage there, but no one was sear…”
Insight
Bartlett: Early Outage Detection Transformed StatusGator From Vitamin to Painkiller
“Yeah, that's been a game changer for us in terms of marketing or selling our products. It really turned it from a vitamin into a painkiller, as they say. Like, knowing that a service is down is useful, but knowing before anyone else does is much more useful.”
Disclosure
Bartlett: StatusGator Reached Low Seven-Figure ARR With Six Employees
“We're low seven figures ARR, and we have six full-time employees, including myself and my business partner.”
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Bartlett: 90% of StatusGator's Growth Comes From Organic Search
“And that turned into basically our number one acquisition channel. I would say 90% of our growth comes from people searching for services online.”
Assertion Supported
Bartlett: StatusGator Raised Lowest Tier From $10 to $79 Monthly
“So we had raised prices many, many times on new customers, starting at 10 dollars a month in 2015 to now 79 dollars a month is our lowest tier plan”
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Bartlett: StatusGator Closed an Enterprise Deal With a Three-Year Free User
“We just did an enterprise deal with a customer who's been on the platform on the free plan for three years.”
Disclosure
Bartlett: StatusGator Monetizes Free Outage Reports by Selling Enterprise Alerts
“We basically sell data from visitors to our site to enterprise customers. That's the two sides of the market. People visit our site, report an outage for free. They don't just cost you to report an outage, right? That's one side of the marketplace. And the oth…”
