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There is no “MRR” grind in the No B.S. SaaS - only DRR.
The old MRR metric is a grind. It’s stressful. It creates a handful of problems that we DON’T want to deal with, like: - How do we get more people to convert from a trial to a monthly plan? - Who has this “problem” often enough that they’d be WILLING to pay every month for it? - How do we keep these folks around longer? - How do we prevent them from leaving? Even if you DO get to 100 recurring customers, unless you’ve got a reliable, scalable way to get MORE customers, in a few months/years they need to be replaced. Instead of 100 users paying me $X per month with no reliable, predictable way to MORE customers… We’d rather be getting 20-30 new customers a day with a system we can scale up or down whenever we want. We’d rather have 30, $47 sales a day, every day. (That’s $1,410/day). That’s what we call DRR - Daily Recurring Revenue. Getting new customers every day is a lot less stressful that trying to find the perfect 100 or 1000 customers who will pay every month for 2 years. It’s a lot more fun because we get emails from folks saying “Thank You for this great deal!” People share it in their groups, communities, forums. And I don’t know how this works, but we ALWAYS see people signing up for monthly plans even though we’re not pushing them. It’s less stressful because we aren’t trying to keep users around and make them pay more. We aren’t building in “Churn Prevention” systems to keep people paying when they don’t want to. As NOBS - we want to make money every day. And it’s totally cool if they never use the software. Read that again. We actually PREFER it if people buy and don’t use it! It’s going to be hard to get out of the MRR mindset, into the DRR one, but it’s a lot more fun and less stressful once you do. P.S. There is nothing wrong with the MRR model. It just comes with a set of problems we don’t have to deal with, and don’t WANT to deal with. Will you let me know if you’d be OK with DRR instead of MRR?
There is no “MRR” grind in the No B.S. SaaS - only DRR.
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Back in the day there was no MRR for software, but it left a big hole in the revenue model for most software companies. That was filled by the 'Upgrade' model. We had to release at least one major upgrade a year to get anything close to repeat business, and it worked a treat. Then in the early 2000s MRR became a thing (much to my surprise - few thought at the time that software could be 'rented'). It was the internet that made the change possible of course. People were already paying monthly for mobile phones, so why not software, but it only made sense in people's minds if it ran on the web (so called 'desktop' software had a real problem converting to monthly - I know because I sold a shed load of it through PC World, Apple Stores, WH Smith and a bunch of other UK retailers - and none were willing to change the model to rental as it would kill their market). The MRR model also killed my company at the time. So when the LTD model came along, it was a complete revelation - even though it had already existed from day one in the software industry (and most other industries too). The reality is that all software prior to 'rental' software was an LTD. So I relish the idea of DRR. It worked fine for me for 25 years, and it will again (with an MRR cherry on top as well). Nice one Aaron.
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@Aaron Krall - I sold an annual recurring today on one of my products that had been quiet for months - hallelujah lol. They're the best. And you're spot on. $10 a month seemed more affordable in the end than an outright $100 or whatever, but it took a while for people to accept this (myself included). Now I build most of the products I used to pay MRR/ARR for. That will change things too in time - but just like desktop publishing software, no one became skilled overnight lol. AI has a long way to go before anyone can just code anything commercial (that is long-lasting, bug free, and secure). This puts devs in a good place I believe. And all that really means DRR and LTD is the biz.
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