Saa s companies, are you segmenting your customer acquisition channels correctly
1. SaaS companies, are you segmenting
your customer acquisition channels
correctly?
Thursday, January 16th, 2014
2. Who are we?
● Elizabeth Yin
o Co-founder and CEO of LaunchBit, a
customer acquisition platform for SaaS
companies
o ex Google marketer
o BSEE Stanford
o MBA MIT Sloan
SaaS customer acquisition
3. ● Lars Lofgren
o Growth Manager at KISSmetrics,
customer analytics for SaaS companies
o University of Colorado
Boulder
Who are we?
4. ● Why SaaS customer acquisition is HARD
● How to test marketing channels
● How to measure performance
● Q & A
Today’s talk is on ...
15. ● BigDataSoft, Inc.
○ LTV: $4,500 per customer
○ SaaS rule of ⅓
■ Can spend up to $1,500 per new customer
Let’s test for performance
16. But sales take a long time...
● What is our cost per lead?
17. ● Lead scoring tools
○ Work email address
○ Geolocation
○ Engagement with your site
○ Budget
○ Click through rate (CTR)
How to determine lead quality
18. ● LaunchBit: SaaS advertising platform
○ Email ad network
○ Niche blog ad networks
○ Audience targeting
Setting up a test
19. How to measure your channel
performance
Thursday, January 16th, 2014
SaaS products are not inherently viral (http://andrewchen.co/2012/10/12/saas-products-arent-viral/)
No silver bullets -- you need lots of lead bullets
TONS of customer acquisition channels to keep track of
TIme based cohorts -> difficult to segment LTV of different groups
Complicated user acquisition flow
lead generation
lead nurturing
sale
retention
-How to set test goals
-How to measure your test results
To get at least 1 sale:
$1500 minimum budget
2% leads to sale goal
Need at least 50 leads
At $30 per lead goal
-How to set test goals
-How to measure your test results
-How to set test goals
-How to measure your test results
-How to set test goals
-How to measure your test results
-How to set test goals
-How to measure your test results
-How to set test goals
-How to measure your test results
-How to set test goals
-How to measure your test results
-How to set test goals
-How to measure your test results