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Mains: SaaS Founders Should Raise Prices During a Recession
“It's not about dropping your price. In fact, you should probably raise yours, but that's a story for another time.”
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Jeff Mains: Price Cutting Sparks a Downward Spiral That Devalues SaaS Companies
“Because lower prices mean lower margins. Lower margins mean you have less to invest in differentiation. Weaker differentiation creates a spiral, and as competition heats up, then margins get lower, and it becomes more of a race to the bottom, and business is d…”
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Jeff Mains: SVB's Collapse Put Locked Tech Accounts in Play
“But if you look back a month ago, if you're in bank and you're trying to get those accounts, it's a cool kids bank. You're not going to get those accounts. They're not going to move. Inertia was disrupted and now they're all in play.”
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Mains: B2B Buyers Shift From Generalists to Specialists in Recessions
“In a recession, clients move from general to specific. They're looking for expertise. They're looking for certainty and stability, and so you can provide that to them in your solution.”
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Mains: Partner With Challenger Companies Instead of Industry Leaders
“Where I've had the greatest success has been working with the number two, three, four, five, six on down, because they're normally gunning for the number one or number two companies and trying to take, take clients from them.”
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Mains: Incumbent partners will not sell your product, only their own
“Where things go wrong is the big companies, they don't want to sell your stuff. And I've tried this a bunch of times. They want to sell more of their own stuff.”