8. Impact on our business on March 31st
Top of funnel: email open rate dropped from 60% to 15%
Sales: large accounts pushing back, SMB stable
Retention: dipped to -3% in March, then back up at 0%
Q2 forecast: discounted growth projections + hiring plan by
35%
10. ˜40% of our customers were in trouble
Revenue change among our customers
11. We’ve decided to help
3 months free to customers with -20% in sales
6 months free to customers with -40%+ in sales
Existing + New customers. Keep paying commissions.
12. Our goal with this response
Help our customers go through the crisis #InThisTogether
Keep our Sales and Success teams busy onboarding merchants
14. 10% of our customers took advantage of the offer
368 applications in 3 weeks
80% of them from existing customers
Total cost of the offer is 4% of our ARR
16. Lessons learnt
Brand standpoint: definitely worth doing
Economic standpoint: for 4% of your ARR, you increase sales by 30%
Team morale: keeps the energy high
→ most likely worth it if you can afford it
Romain, CEO at Gorgias. Customer service app for ecommerce
Talk about the crisis, what’s happening in the market, share some learnings among what we saw
Sharing some data from the retail industry
Furlough, tight cash flows
Sales programs to boost demand
We estimate that 70% of new merchants will stay after the free plan
Need to add payment information
Keeps sales and success busy onboarding new customers, and gaining market share