{"id":17734,"date":"2021-05-20T22:26:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/?p=17734"},"modified":"2023-08-10T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T14:36:30","slug":"using-chartmogul-as-a-bootstrapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/using-chartmogul-as-a-bootstrapper\/","title":{"rendered":"Using ChartMogul as a Bootstrapper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m a ChartMogul customer, and I\u2019m a bootstrapper. I\u2019m the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/featureupvote.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Feature Upvote<\/a>, a bootstrapped and profitable SaaS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a cash-strapped bootstrapper, if I spend money on a service, it has to be <em>essential<\/em>. I need to choose wisely where I spend my company\u2019s limited funds. Because, as 100% owner of my company, the money I spend is money coming out of my own pocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So why do I spend some of that precious, limited money on ChartMogul?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-before-chartmogul-home-grown-metrics\">Before ChartMogul: Home-grown Metrics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the early days of my business, I wrote my own system for calculating metrics. I say \u2018metrics\u2019, but it was really just the singular \u2018metric\u2019 of MRR. I only cared about MRR because I hadn\u2019t yet learned about other important SaaS metrics such as Churn and Lifetime Value. MRR was what many bootstrappers were sharing on Twitter and Indie Hackers. Calculating MRR seemed easy, something I could do with one SQL query and a basic web page. And it was easy \u2014 when I had just one price point and a few customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as my business got traction, pricing got more complex. There were discount plans, coupons, and refunds. My SQL query to calculate MRR was becoming complex and indecipherable. I also had no way to view history and trends. Knowing MRR alone is not useful if I can\u2019t compare it to MRR from a month, six months, or a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I added multiple currencies. That completely broke my home-grown metrics. The data it showed was simply wrong. But I didn\u2019t want to spend time maintaining it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was in the unpleasant situation of having to make business decisions with little data, and what data I had was wrong. As my fellow bootstrappers will know, you always have too many things to do. It is hard to find the time to maintain an internal system used only by the founder. It is the type of work that always finds itself pushed off the to-do list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Discovering ChartMogul\u2019s free plan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I read a blog post from another bootstrapper that featured an attractive chart of their MRR growth over time. 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It breaks down my MRR growth into \u201cNew Business\u201d MRR and \u201cExpansion\u201d MRR. This concept of expansion growth was new to me. I soon learnt that it is important for success in SaaS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expansion revenue is revenue growth that comes from existing customers when they upgrade to a more expensive plan. If your product doesn\u2019t yet have a pricing model that allows your happy customers to give you more money\/month, I highly recommend adjusting your pricing model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;I discovered that by accident, I had baked <a href=\"https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/understanding-mrr-movements\/\">expansion<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/reactivation-expansion-mrr\/\"> revenue<\/a> into my pricing model.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another SaaS metric that ChartMogul gave me was <a href=\"https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/saas-churn\/\">Gross Churn Rate<\/a>, a metric I now watch as closely as MRR. This shows how quickly I\u2019m losing those hard-won customers. In the early days, this churn was way too high for my company to ever be sustainable. I got churn under control, partly by improving my product, support and docs, but mostly by increasing prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">$10K MRR: Time to start paying<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy day! I got a notification from ChartMogul telling me I had hit $10K in MRR. But also a sad day, because now I would no longer be able to use ChartMogul for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first impulse was to cancel my ChartMogul account. I was still cash-strapped, with too many competing demands on my limited revenue. Paying money to see some pretty charts each month didn\u2019t seem to be a sensible business decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, I realized it was much more than pretty charts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I had come to rely on the information that ChartMogul gave me. It had become essential in my decision-making.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To save money, I <em>could<\/em> resurrect my home-built SaaS metrics system, and devote some time to make it accurate and show more metrics. 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Clearly, I have no business acumen at all and should start checking the job ads. A way I\u2019ve found to deal with the yoyo-ing of my business self-belief is to look at longer-term trends in ChartMogul.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One way is to compare metrics year-on-year. ChartMogul does this comparison with many metrics by default. This long term view keeps me relatively calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another way is to smooth out the curves by grouping data by quarter. I set the date range to all-time and group data by quarter instead of by month, then view the MRR chart. This quarterly view shows me a smooth and steady increase in MRR. Instead of being blinded by monthly swings, I can see that our long-term progress is good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Effect of a large price rise<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I have the developer\u2019s mentality, shared by many technical founders, whereby we vastly undervalue our work. For a long time I wasn\u2019t charging enough for Feature Upvote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slowly and steadily I\u2019ve become willing to experiment with pricing, but every price rise still&nbsp; causes me anxiety. My first price experiments were small and cautious price increases \u2014 followed by weeks of closely monitoring the result in ChartMogul. Are people still signing up for paid accounts? How does behavior differ at different pricing levels? Who is churning?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I monitor the long-term results of pricing changes via ChartMogul\u2019s \u201cAverage Revenue Per Account\u201d or ARPA chart. This is perhaps my favorite view of my business in ChartMogul. Watching the consistent ARPA growth helps steady my nerves as our prices go up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bootstrap-blog-post-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bootstrap-blog-post--1024x488.png\" alt=\"Average Revenue Per Account Chart\" class=\"wp-image-17736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bootstrap-blog-post--1024x488.png 1024w, https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bootstrap-blog-post--300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bootstrap-blog-post--500x238.png 500w, https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bootstrap-blog-post--800x381.png 800w, https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bootstrap-blog-post--1280x609.png 1280w, https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bootstrap-blog-post--1920x914.png 1920w, https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bootstrap-blog-post--1536x731.png 1536w, https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bootstrap-blog-post--2048x975.png 2048w, https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bootstrap-blog-post--720x343.png 720w, https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bootstrap-blog-post--300x143@2x.png 600w, https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bootstrap-blog-post--500x238@2x.png 1000w, https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bootstrap-blog-post--800x381@2x.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After the initial price increases went well, I started to feel bold, so in late 2020 I abruptly doubled our prices for new customers. (Existing customers remained on the old pricing.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using ChartMogul\u2019s segments feature, I can compare customers by pricing: one segment for customers on old pricing plans, and one segment for customers on the new much higher plan. Comparing customer segments by price has been a revelation. <strong>Customers at the new price point have much lower churn<\/strong>. They have higher LTV, way more than double. 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