Trainual

29 statements across 2 episodes · 9 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 21, 2018 by Chris Ronzio · said 32 times in 3 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Dec 21, 2018 neutral
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Ronzio: Trainual has over 300 active affiliates selling the product
“So we've got just over 300 affiliates that have helped up, helped us sell the product.”
Chris Ronzio Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 6:31 1245 He Used These 3 Channels To Hit $50k in MRR in 7 Months
Dec 21, 2018 neutral
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Ronzio: Trainual tracks in-app content creation metrics to flag potential refund requests
“We're tracking things like how many subjects they've created, how many users they've added, how many of those users are admins, how many processes they've documented. And so we can kind of red flag an account that has low usage and know that they would be a ca…”
Chris Ronzio Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 9:44 1245 He Used These 3 Channels To Hit $50k in MRR in 7 Months
Dec 21, 2018 neutral
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Ronzio: Trainual offers affiliates a 20% recurring commission
“We pay a 20% ongoing commission.”
Chris Ronzio Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 6:56 1245 He Used These 3 Channels To Hit $50k in MRR in 7 Months
Dec 21, 2018 neutral
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Ronzio: Affiliates drive about 14% of Trainual's monthly revenue
“About 14%.”
Chris Ronzio Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 7:06 1245 He Used These 3 Channels To Hit $50k in MRR in 7 Months
Dec 21, 2018 bullish
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Ronzio: Trainual has just under 600 paying customers
“Just under 600 paying customers today.”
Chris Ronzio Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 5:29 1245 He Used These 3 Channels To Hit $50k in MRR in 7 Months
Dec 21, 2018 negative
Insight
Ronzio: Per-user pricing breaks accountability in training software
“If we charge per user, people share licenses and that defeats the purpose of the system. So we do in buckets of users.”
Chris Ronzio Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 3:25 1245 He Used These 3 Channels To Hit $50k in MRR in 7 Months
Dec 21, 2018
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Ronzio: Trainual's monthly ARPU is $95
“95 dollars right now is our ARPU.”
Chris Ronzio Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 2:59 1245 He Used These 3 Channels To Hit $50k in MRR in 7 Months
Dec 21, 2018 bullish
Disclosure
Ronzio: Trainual grew from $1.8K to nearly $60K MRR in 2018
“So January, we had 1800 a month in SaaS revenue. And so now we're approaching 60 K, like you mentioned.”
Chris Ronzio Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 5:58 1245 He Used These 3 Channels To Hit $50k in MRR in 7 Months
Dec 21, 2018 positive
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Ronzio: Trainual's CAC is under $300 with a 70% trial conversion rate
“Paid is under 300 dollars cost to acquire a customer. It's cost us about 180 dollars to acquire a trial. And then with that 70% conversion, we're under 300% or 300 dollars on a customer.”
Chris Ronzio Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 12:25 1245 He Used These 3 Channels To Hit $50k in MRR in 7 Months
Dec 21, 2018
Insight
Ronzio: Process documentation lacks urgency unless a company is scaling or hiring
“Documenting your business is something that everyone knows is important, but it's not an urgency unless you're really scaling, really hiring.”
Chris Ronzio Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 11:14 1245 He Used These 3 Channels To Hit $50k in MRR in 7 Months
Dec 21, 2018
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Ronzio: 8% of Trainual users facing a credit card gate start trials
“Eight percent right now.”
Chris Ronzio Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 8:32 1245 He Used These 3 Channels To Hit $50k in MRR in 7 Months
Dec 21, 2018 neutral
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Ronzio: Trainual's blended monthly churn rate is approximately 4%
“Our blended percentage is about four percent.”
Chris Ronzio Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 11:28 1245 He Used These 3 Channels To Hit $50k in MRR in 7 Months
Dec 21, 2018 neutral
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Ronzio: Organized Chaos reached over $1M annual revenue before SaaS pivot
“We were just over a million a year in consulting revenue.”
Chris Ronzio Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 4:23 1245 He Used These 3 Channels To Hit $50k in MRR in 7 Months
Dec 21, 2018 negative
Insight
Ronzio: Fast-growing SaaS gets no more from Lighter Capital than credit cards
“They'll only give you a three or four times what your MRR is. And when you're growing at such an early stage like this, they look backwards. So they look at your last three months of our MRR and with how much we've been growing, you know, 30, 40% month over mo…”
Chris Ronzio Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 14:14 1245 He Used These 3 Channels To Hit $50k in MRR in 7 Months
Jun 19, 2020 neutral
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Trainual's customer acquisition payback period is roughly four months
“Our payback period is, you know, called four months today”
Chris Ronzio Jun 19, 2020 ▶ 9:52 Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes
Jun 19, 2020 bullish
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Trainual expects to finish 2020 at approximately $3.5 million ARR
“Yeah, so we should end this year at the, about 3.5 ARR.”
Chris Ronzio Jun 19, 2020 ▶ 7:16 Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes
Jun 19, 2020 positive
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Trainual reached $250,000 in monthly recurring revenue in May 2020
“Yeah, that's it. We hit that last month.”
Chris Ronzio Jun 19, 2020 ▶ 7:05 Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes
Jun 19, 2020 neutral
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Trainual's average revenue per customer is over $100 per month
“On average they're a little over a hundred dollars a month.”
Chris Ronzio Jun 19, 2020 ▶ 3:52 Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes
Jun 19, 2020 bullish
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Trainual monthly churn drops to 0.7% after "4x4" customer activation
“Okay, so four users and four subjects is our metric. Four by four. We've got posters of like a Jeep driving up a hill all over the office. So if they do four by four, Churn is under one percent monthly. It's like a, like .7% monthly, which is really where we w…”
Chris Ronzio Jun 19, 2020 ▶ 10:41 Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes
Jun 19, 2020
Disclosure
Trainual bootstrapped year one and raised a convertible note in December 2018
“So we did a convertible note round just after my last episode last year, so December 2018. We bootstrapped the whole first year, and then this year the convertible notes have grown us to this point.”
Chris Ronzio Jun 19, 2020 ▶ 2:36 Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes
Jun 19, 2020 neutral
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Trainual pays a $350 to $400 CAC for $100 per month customers
“Three 50 to 400 dollars.”
Chris Ronzio Jun 19, 2020 ▶ 11:22 Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes
Jun 19, 2020 positive
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Trainual is getting more signups from organic channels than paid ads
“It has been to date, but it's starting to flip where we're getting more of our signups from organic now, just based on how much content and marketing we've done.”
Chris Ronzio Jun 19, 2020 ▶ 3:19 Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes
Jun 19, 2020 neutral
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Trainual's annual gross revenue churn is between thirty and forty percent
“So it's gone down a bit, but it's still in the high thirties, low forties.”
Chris Ronzio Jun 19, 2020 ▶ 10:25 Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes
Jun 19, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Trainual's convertible note blocked repayment once the startup hit revenue thresholds
“So we had an interesting trigger in our convertible note where once we hit a certain revenue threshold, the ability for me to pay back went away.”
Chris Ronzio Jun 19, 2020 ▶ 7:33 Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes
Jun 19, 2020 neutral
Insight
Trainual uses 25-seat pricing buckets to prevent users from sharing logins
“So the big utility of our app is it's tracking everyone individually being trained up to speed up to date. And so we didn't want to sell per license per user and have people share logins and kind of game the system. So 25 user buckets kind of match with the st…”
Chris Ronzio Jun 19, 2020 ▶ 4:20 Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes
Jun 19, 2020 positive
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Trainual is cash-flow break-even driven by upfront annual sales collections
“Surprisingly, we just crested the profitability cash flow profitable mark. The, and that's due to annual sales. So annual sales coming in the cash flow from those you know, keeps our, keeps us right about break even.”
Chris Ronzio Jun 19, 2020 ▶ 12:24 Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes
Jun 19, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Trainual employs two sales reps focused purely on inbound leads
“No, we've got two sales reps, but they're a hundred percent inbound. So it's more about just talking to customers that need extra help.”
Chris Ronzio Jun 19, 2020 ▶ 5:39 Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes
Jun 19, 2020
Disclosure
Trainual spent roughly $120,000 on advertising in May 2020
“No, last month we were probably a 120,000.”
Chris Ronzio Jun 19, 2020 ▶ 3:13 Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes
Jun 19, 2020 positive
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Trainual reached over 2,500 customers by June 2020
“We're just over 2500 now.”
Chris Ronzio Jun 19, 2020 ▶ 6:51 Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes
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