Is SaaS dead?
I analyzed 758 startups with over $1,000 MRR on https://t.co/MZc8tGa5LQ.
1. Their revenue over the last 4 months is slightly declining.
That compounded decline would be about 11% per year. At a steady pace, that's 45% degrowth in 5 years.
2. B2B revenue is holding up better than B2C.
Median revenue growth was 0% for B2B (255 businesses), versus −6.2% for B2C (257).
3. Existing momentum tends to persist.
Among businesses whose revenue grew at least 5% from June to July, 54% subsequently grew MRR. Among those whose revenue previously fell by at least 5%, only 35% grew MRR.
n=758 startups and $41.63M in revenue in the last 4 months.
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My total charges currently stay at ~5.5%
I might soon need to enable its Managed Payments for MoR which adds another 3.5% fee, bringing the total to ~9%
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3 months ago I decided improve my SEO.
So far it has generated 664K impressions & 11K clicks.
What worked for me:
- Maxing PageSpeed Insights
- Feeding the GSC reports to Claude every week
- Requesting index for new pages manually
- Adding internal backlinks
What I DID NOT prioritize:
- Submitting to 100s of directories
- Paying for external backlinks
- Paying for an SEO tool
3 months ago I decided improve my SEO.
So far it has generated 664K impressions & 11K clicks.
What worked for me:
- Maxing PageSpeed Insights
- Feeding the GSC reports to Claude every week
- Requesting index for new pages manually
- Adding internal backlinks
What I DID NOT prioritize:
- Submitting to 100s of directories
- Paying for external backlinks
- Paying for an SEO tool
3 months ago I decided improve my SEO.
So far it has generated 664K impressions & 11K clicks.
What worked for me:
- Maxing PageSpeed Insights
- Feeding the GSC reports to Claude every week
- Requesting index for new pages manually
- Adding internal backlinks
What I DID NOT prioritize:
- Submitting to 100s of directories
- Paying for external backlinks
- Paying for an SEO tool
Don't miss on Bing Webmaster Tools to monitor your search traffic and keywords.
I was honestly surprised that many people still use Bing search.
My site also performs better there.
The CTR on Bing is 2x from Google.