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Monetization and retention offer significantly higher revenue impact than acquisition
“We gather data on what they're spending time on, and we basically found that you know, there's way more impact on spending a bit more time on monetization, a bit more time on retention, compared to spending time on acquisition.”
Gumroad mishandled communicating its past price increases to users
“You know, I think we can all think of companies like Gumroad that have, you know, not gotten this quite right in the past.”
Paddle data shows B2C subscription growth flatlined in late 2022
“And we basically saw that you know, growth in the B to C market basically flatlined starting late last year.”
B2C market performance is often a leading indicator for B2B
“B to C is often very much a leading indicator for B to B.”
Paddle data shows B2B SaaS growth slowed significantly in mid-2022
“And what's interesting is that, you know, starting, say July, August last year, we actually started to see Growth slow down a lot in the B to B space.”
Early-stage founders focus entirely on acquisition while guessing on pricing
“And inevitably, we hear that people are spending almost all the time on that sales and marketing stuff, especially at the founder stage, right? Spending almost all their time, they mostly guest on their pricing work, and they're not really working to gather da…”
Lack of a dedicated pricing committee stalls company momentum
“If, you know, no one owns pricing, then you never get any momentum. And if everyone owns pricing, everyone has complaints, everyone gets into arguments, you never get any momentum out of it. So, not having a pricing committee of a designated people to work on …”
Qualitative buyer personas are insufficient for SaaS monetization strategy
“You probably have a persona that looks like this, very qualitative, what is this person's age, their firmographics, what you know, their seniority, stuff like that, I'm sure all of you probably have something that's at this level, but it's not enough. And the …”
SaaS companies should define anti-personas to avoid poor unit economics
“There's a lot of customers that you can probably technically service, but they're gonna distract you, they're not in your core focus, the unit economics isn't there, so a lot of the time, you know, you might have personas that you can technically serve, but th…”
SaaS companies should adjust pricing relatively often
“We do, in fact, recommend, you know, changing prices relatively often, and not making the same once in a generation thing.”
Price increases should emphasize product value rather than protecting margins
“Number one is, relate to the value delivered, not internal factors. Don't say, I gotta protect my margins. Say, hey, I know this hurts for you guys, but this is gonna help us fund improvement of our products, and we have this stuff coming on that's gonna incre…”