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Ryan Wardell

SaaS Marketing Coach & CEO - StartupSauce SaaS Founder Community

Buenos Aires, Argentina (-03:00 UTC) Englishfrom Sydney, Australia
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$200 / hour
Price per hour
30 min60 min
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Bio

Hey, I'm Ryan. Serial entrepreneur, though I mostly focus on SaaS. Especially if you're selling to small/medium-sized businesses rather than consumers or enterprise. I run a community for SaaS founders outside Silicon Valley and am always keen to meet cool people and connect them up. I also REALLY enjoy helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses. I've been growing internet companies for over a decade and am particularly strong on: - Cold email outreach - Sales (though specifically for SMBs rather than Enterprise) - Partnerships, affiliates & referral engines - Conversion Rate Optimization - Copywriting - User onboarding and UX - Pricing & how to structure different products and pricing tiers. - Hiring, training and managing an in-house marketing team I've also done a lot of Google and FB ads previously, as well as content marketing and SEO - but I haven't touched those as recently as the others above. ***Please Note*** Due to time constraints, I'm only working with founders of SaaS companies now. I still want to be able to help for free, but I need to focus on those I can help the most. If you're not a founder or not running a SaaS business, there are some other fantastic mentors here who are better positioned to help you.

Expertise

  • Conversion rate optimisation

    I can help you with all aspects of CRO - from boosting conversions on a single landing page right through to developing a culture of continuous experimentation within your company.

  • Email marketing

    I've got a lot of experience with cold email outreach - even have a course on it and run a done-for-you cold email outreach service! Happy to share my knowledge with you.

  • Growth marketing

    I've generally got pretty good all-round marketing skills. I've marketed everything from financial services to sex toys online. These days I mostly focus on cold email outreach, partnerships and CRO for SaaS, but I've also got a lot of experience with paid traffic and unconventional/growth hacky channels as well.

Toolkit

  • Trello logo

    Trello

    I've got a pretty sweet Trello process for running a continuous experimentation process. Most startups can (and should!) run at least 2-4 experiments a month, and then ratchet up the experiment frequency as they grow and have more traffic to work with. Happy to share this process with you.

  • VWO logo

    VWO

    I've run a LOT of A/B tests in my time. Used to use Optimizely but switched to VWO and still prefer it over all the other options out there. Just don't ask me if the first test you should run is which of 17 different shades of blue a button should be. The answer is "no".

Industries

  • SaaS

    15 years experience in SaaS and online business, selling mostly to SMBs. I also run StartupSauce.com, a community for SaaS founders based outside the SF Bay Area. Expertise spans everything from email marketing to conversion rate optimization to product management and UX to pricing, hiring, leadership and strategy. If you're building a SaaS business (or selling something to SMBs online) I can help you.

Experience

  • StartupSauce

    CEO & Founder
    •startupsauce.com

    StartupSauce is a mastermind community for SaaS founders based outside Silicon Valley. Most of the discussion focuses on operational stuff - sales, marketing, hiring, systems, processes, tools etc - rather than valuations and raising money. Though some of our members can certainly help with raising capital as well. You'll need to be a founder or co-founder of a SaaS product, making at least $5K MRR to join, though 1/3 of our members are making over $1m ARR and we've had 7 of our members successfully take their company to an exit so far.

    SaaSCommunitiese-learningEdTech

  • OutreachSauce

    CEO & Founder

    UPDATE: We are no longer accepting clients for OutreachSauce HOWEVER I have a course coming out soon teaching you how to do cold email outreach for SaaS at scale - effectively. It includes all our proven subject lines and email templates along with the tools, workflows and infrastructure setup we used to send hundreds of thousands of emails out and achieve 80-90% open rates and 25%+ replay rates. DM me if you want earl access to the course. *** OutreachSauce is a cold email service for SaaS. 90%+ open rates and 25%+ reply rates - which, modesty aside, is way above industry average. We have a few magic tricks ;) We offer both Done-With-You and Done-For-You services - so you can choose whether you want your team trained to run everything in-house or to just outsource the work to us.

  • Growth Hacker-For-Hire

    Startup Advisor/Growth Hacker/Entrepreneur-in-Residence

    Since the start of the year I have been advising various startups and doing a few consulting gigs. - I assisted some of the Startmate '13 team with strategy and found the Technical Lead for Tutor On Demand - I taught a growth hacking workshop for Slingshot in Newcastle - I taught several public speaking/pitching classes for General Assembly

  • Ashop

    Head of Growth

    Ashop give entrepreneurs all the tools they need to set up and run a successful online store. I'm in charge of user acquisition and growth.

  • Cofounder Speed Date

    CEO & Founder

    I started a "speed dating" style networking event to connect tech founders with business founders who want to work in startups. We've had 9 confirmed matches from 8 events in Sydney & Melbourne. This is an incredibly high strike rate. We have also forged partnerships with the leading Australian startup accelerators: Startmate, PushStart and AngelCube.

  • Project PowerUp

    CEO & Founder

    Project PowerUp was "Kickstarter For Startups" - this was back when Kickstarter was all about indie films not new products and inventions. I took the company from initial concept to development, growth and eventually acquisition within 12 months. Was the first crowdfunding site in the world to crowdfund itself. Generated a lot of media attention from this.

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