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SaaS Free Trial
Pierre Lechelle
www.pierrelechelle.com
WHAT IS A FREE TRIAL?
Consumers can use the service for free
for a limited period of time
Make users perceive the
value of your service
Perceived
Value
Perceived
Cost
Integrated inside the SaaS Sales Funnel
LEAD
GENERATION
TECHNIQUE
BRING
QUALIFIED
LEADS
Some statistics
• Totango Benchmark
• Sample of 550 B2B SaaS Companies
• 41% list pricing on their site
• 56% did not offer a free trial
Should you have one?
• It’s not obvious!
• Does it make sense to have a free trial inside
your sales funnel?
Think about the big picture
Customer Pricing Distribution
Sales
Funnel
Onboarding
Process
…
Should you have one?
• Can your product “sell itself”?
• Can the free trial, demonstrate value and
create usage?
Analytics & Optimization
• Consider your whole funnel
• Optimize your whole funnel
• Test whatever you can, including:
– Duration of free trial
– Pricing
• Measure Activation (Usage & Revenue)
Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue
Convert users to paying customers
• Demonstrate value – it’s not about price
• Discover CCAs: set of actions users are doing
that demonstrates the value of the service
• Dig deep into Analytics to discover CCAs
• Push users to execute CCAs
Duration
• Free Trial should be
– Long enough for users to execute CCAs
– Short enough to create scarcity
• Experiment & Test Trial Duration
Repartition of Duration
30-day, 41%
2-week, 18%
1-week, 4%
60 days, 2%
10 days, 1%
45 days, 1%
6 months, 1%
Other, 9%
Totango’s Benchmark - Only 68% of the sample is known
CREDIT CARD AT SIGNUP?
Conversion
Rate
Prospects
Quality
HAVE A VERY
SELF-EXPLANATORY
WEBSITE
You can also contact the people that did not
complete their payment details
Users did not convert?
• Impossible to get 100% conversion rate
• Contact them personally
• They’re still prospect, don’t let them down
• Make use of
– Lead Nurturing
– Email Marketing
– Retargeting
Alternatives to Free Trial?
• Sandbox demo
• Videos
• Money-back guarantee
• Non-obligation contract
Conclusion
• Try to better understand your customers and
the sales cycle
• SaaS Success come with
– Analyze and Optimize
– Tweaks
Wanna read more?
• Check out the full article
• Follow me on my blog

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