Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 726 | Selling 29,000 Copies, Information vs. Motivation, and Making Your First Level Last (A Rob Solo Adventure)


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In episode 726, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure where he covers several topics. In this episode he reveals the sales details around “The SaaS Playbook” by sharing the volume and sales channel data. He explores the importance of motivation over mere access to information, particularly for developers, with the introduction of AI. Rob also previews several exciting projects to be released in the near future.

Topics we cover: 
  • 2:49 – The SaaS Playbook sales channel breakdown
  • 8:20 – Learnings from the book launch
  • 9:51 – Upcoming books and courses
  • 12:07 – ”Teach them how to run fast, better”
  • 16:04 – Access to information vs. motivation
  • 19:40 – Creating your onboarding last
  • Links from the Show: 
    • Discretion Capital
    • Einar Vollset (@einarvollset) | X
    • Episode 707 | Once.com, Open Source to FT Income, and More (Hot Take Tuesday)
    • TinySeed
    • The SaaS Playbook
    • The SaaS Launchpad video course
    • Sherry Walling (@sherrywalling) | X
    • Netflix’s Sprint
    • John Romero (@romero) | X
    • Masters of Doom by David Kushner
    • Doom Guy by John Romero
    • If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you!

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