Arno Belenga, co-founder of sales tool Breakcold, reflects on early SaaS pricing experiments.
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“We learned along the way that to, that we had to double the prices. And since we did, we doubled the conversion rate.”
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Breakcold abandoned Twitter for cold outreach due to poor conversion quality
“Our target audience was not on Twitter, even though we managed to do a lot of impressions there, and so our acquisition channel right now are called emails and LinkedIn”
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Breakcold achieves a 20% response rate on personalized LinkedIn outreach
“I would say. 20%. 20%.”
Arno BelengaMay 24, 2022▶ 14:15How he used Twitter to hit $24,000 sales for new SaaS Tool
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Belenga: Breakcold plans to remain bootstrapped despite investor interest
“Obviously we were highly motivated to keep it bootstrapped for now. Many investors come to us and I just had a call like an hour before with a guy who made it to one billion in error in annual recurring revenue. Was crazy. But yeah, I think we can still manage…”
Arno BelengaMay 24, 2022▶ 15:19How he used Twitter to hit $24,000 sales for new SaaS Tool
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Belenga: Drop out of university and start building immediately
“Don't stop uni, stop university, and start now.”
Arno BelengaMay 24, 2022▶ 17:07How he used Twitter to hit $24,000 sales for new SaaS Tool
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Breakcold acquired its first five customers via Twitter in one week
“Actually I was starting to kind of build my personal brand on Twitter, and so I was building in public because it's a thing in Texas on Twitter, and this is how we got our first five paying customers like one week after realizing the MVP we got our first MRR p…”
Arno BelengaMay 24, 2022▶ 4:00How he used Twitter to hit $24,000 sales for new SaaS Tool
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Belenga: Breakcold generates four custom sales lines per prospect via AI
“We built our own AI models to personalize your sales outreach. So for example if you import CSV with the LinkedIn URL of your prospect and the web, if your prospect has the website URL or LinkedIn URL, we able to generate four different first lines per prospec…”
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