What did we learn?
- SaaS business can start on the side, but to grow – they need full time attention from their founders.
- What are the skills that you or your cofounders can develop BEFORE embarking on the hard journey of building a SaaS business?
- Forget your blog, social channels and email list. Find a database of prospects and hit them one after another until you’re over $50k MRR.
- Niche down and focus on the group of customers that you serve best (and that serves you best)
- When you find a growth channel that works: go HARD.
- Consider building a smooth, data gathering, customer experience improving onboarding flow for your SaaS…
- All tribes thrive when they come together in person – when is your next event?
- What are your brand values and have you truly internalised them?
- If you go freemium, ensure that you “get paid” by your users in the form of exposure to the people they communicate with.
- What are the skills or assets you can build NOW that will lead to the immaculate conception of your SaaS business or next killer growth strategy?
- Baremetrics for ConvertKit
- Why the Future Belongs to Creators - Nathan Barry at ConvertKit Craft + Commerce 2019
- ConvertKit: Nathan Barry’s Bumpy Road To $1.7m MRR
- Derrick Hicks on LinkedIn
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