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Patel: Agency service churn is typically much lower than software churn
“Churn in our space is typically much lower than software churn.”
Patel: Canva reached $1M MRR roughly 30 days after launching
“They're one of the fastest companies to ever hit a million dollars in MR. I think they did it in 30 days or something like that of launching.”
Patel: NP Digital Acquired AnswerThePublic for $8.6M at $1M–$1.2M EBITDA
“Answer the public. We recently bought this company for 8.6 million, funny enough, from FE International that had a booth. And they were only doing one, 1.2 million in EBITDA, so we overpaid for it.”
Marketing in a niche takes the same effort as a large TAM
“Marketing is almost the same effort marketing in a niche as it is in a big TAM, so swing for the fences and go after a big vertical.”
Patel: Free tools win enterprise users by bypassing budget approvals
“If you're an employee at a big company, are you able to swipe a credit card? No, you gotta get budget approval, even for nine, nine dollars a month. So you end up picking up a lot of users, even if your product's not as good, because it's free.”
Patel: SaaS is a race to the bottom with price cuts
“SAS is a race to the bottom. Everyone keeps charging less and less for the same features and is copying other people. And that's what's gonna keep happening.”
Patel: Software division generates easily eight figures annual EBITDA
“Our software division can Generate easily eight figures a year in EBITDA, plus we're generating all the leads on the other, not revenue, eight figures in EBITDA, right?”
Neil Patel: Give Away High-Demand, Low-Cost Features Competitors Charge For
“What is the feature that all your competition charges for, that people need the most, that you can give away for free, that doesn't cost you a lot of money? That's what you want to give away free.”
Patel: Freemium Products Provide Better ROI Than Paid Marketing
“Instead of spending so much money on marketing to acquire a customer, why not have the product help you acquire more customers by just making a free version? It's the same thing. You spend money on marketing, you spend money on a free product. Better ROI and c…”
Patel: Automated one-click onboarding fails to create lasting SaaS engagement
“We've learned is we even tested things like sending out an email and having them just click a button and automatically starting tests for them doesn't work well because they're not running it on their own. We have to get the user to understand the value of run…”
Patel: Crazy Egg achieves a one-month CAC payback on YouTube ads
“No, no, no. I'm netting in the first month more than what I'm paying to our customer. Most SaaS companies will spend six, seven months worth of our customer. I'm spending around one month's worth of money.”
Patel: HubSpot Website Grader is completely free, not freemium, generating leads automatically
“HubSpot greater does not cost money, or greater does not cost money. It's not freemium, it's free. It markets itself because it's a good, free product. They don't have to do anything on the marketing end. It keeps generating leads, then they sell you on someth…”
Neil Patel: Bought Ubersuggest for $120k and invested $3M of personal funds
“So I bought Ubersuggest for a 120 grand, and I put like three million bucks in my own money to just try to crush my competition.”
Patel: Crazy Egg fully refunds inactive subscribers without dispute
“And they even email us six months or a year later being like, I never use this. We actually refund every single penny. We don't even make, we don't fight back or anything. We actually even have people emailing us who've been with us for a year or two and be li…”
Patel: Rapidly increasing paid ad spend cannibalizes inventory and spikes CPAs
“That's a big mistake people make at paid advertising. You don't do that. That's the worst thing ever. Just because something works for you at You know, a thousand dollars a day and spend, we break it down per day. It doesn't mean you just want to jump it to 10…”
Neil Patel: Bootstrapped Crazy Egg is much bigger than venture-backed KISSmetrics
“Yeah, Crazy Eggs is much bigger than Kismetrics.”
Patel: Personally spends $100,000 per month on NeilPatel.com brand growth
“I spend personally, like, a hundred grand a month to grow NeilPatel.com. Uh-huh. It doesn't really make any money, but just a fun experiment”
Patel: Passed on Airbnb Series A over HomeAway competition concerns
“Like, I've had options to invest in Airbnb and companies like that when they're raising their Series A, and I'm like, eh, I don't know how you're gonna compete with HomeAway.”
Patel: 40% of NP Digital Customers Originate From Ubersuggest
“40% of all our agency customers first come from Ubersuggest.”
Patel: NP Digital Generates Nine Figures in Annual Revenue
“Keep in mind, we're a nine-figure-a-year revenue company.”
Patel: NP Digital gets over 20,000 monthly leads in serviced regions
“If you look at from the regions we're in, twenty-something plus thousand leads a month.”
Patel: NP Digital adds roughly 249k net new email subscribers monthly
“We're doing roughly 249,000 net new emails on a monthly basis. That's after unsubscribes.”
Patel: Shifted from launching new companies to scaling existing ones
“What we've just been doing is focusing and I've learned over the years that I don't do enough of it. And instead of trying to create new ones or acquiring new ones, I just need to grow the existing ones and make them larger and larger. And that's what we've be…”
Patel: Crazy Egg targets 5% to 10% month-over-month growth
“Crazy eggs. So we've just been trying to grow it. We can go by five or 10% month over month, which is a tough goal to hit, but that's our internal goal.”
Crazy Egg Saw 30-40% Conversion Lift Simplifying Its Homepage
“We used to have a long page homepage that had a ton of options and a big story. And then when we changed it to this variation, I think we got like a 30 or 40% list. It was something like that.”
Crazy Egg Converts 22% to 30% of Trial Selectors to Billing Input
“When you're looking at the total numbers from the selecting a plan to going to checkout, it ranges on the traffic source, but on the low end, it's like around 20 to 20. And 22, 23%, somewhere around there. And on the high end, it's around 30%.”