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This is our monthly report where we share our business insights as part of our transparency policy.
Updates
In July, we shipped 1 minor version. There were some holiday periods which explains why we didn’t publish a lot of updates 🙂
Revenue
- $90 192 in revenue (+69%)
- 1 330 orders (+38%)
- 483 renewals (+154%)
- 850 new customers (+26.9%)
- 3 813 websites add (+23.7%)
As you can see, these are great numbers showing huge growth. This can been explained by 4 main reasons :
- The result from our plan to increase our customer acquisition
- Our new strategy for renewals
- The U.S. Independence Day promotion
- Our anniversary promotion day
For our 2nd anniversary celebration we offered a one-day only, 30% discount (and 20% for Independence Day) on all licenses, and a special deal on renewals : for 2 year renewals we offered 6 extra months, and for 4 year renewals we offered 1 extra year.
This worked very well, we did $15 733 during the anniversary day promotion with 162 renewals! On Independence Day we did $7624.
Here is the email, we’ve sent for our anniversary (this is the email for the business licences segment):
The renewal offer worked very well, a lot of customers directly renewed for 4 years.
We’ve already explained in a previous report, that we would like to propose automatic renewals for our customers. Indeed an important renewal rate would increase a lot our monthly revenue.
So before setting-up automatic renewals, we’ve added new renewal offers in our website :
We’ve learned a lot on how to increase renewals thank’s to our promotional emails, so we’ve decided to put what we learned directly on our website.
Before it was only possible to renew for one year, now customers can directly renew to 2 or 4 years. This is working, we’ve already customers who are renewing for more than 1 year!
We know that this month is exceptional regarding to revenue and next month will certainly not be as good.
To give some perspective, last year in July we did $20 276, and we beat that revenue in September.
Let’s see if we can do the same this year!
Statistics from January 2015
Content marketing strategy
We are continuing to focus on our blog posts to create great content. We are super happy to see that every month more and more people are visiting our blog.
Traffic on the blog
This strategy requires a lot of time in order to write good content, but the growth we have leads to more tickets to handle so there’s less time to write blog posts.
So we are hiring new teammates to join us!
At the same time we’re going to request content from freelance WordPress writers to increase the frequency of new blog posts.
Support/Happiness Report
This month we had 510 support tickets (+23%). This is fortunately not a big increase compared to the increase in revenue, so that’s good news!
We are working hard on creating new documentation posts to educate our customers as much as possible. We frequently repeat this, but good documentation is absolutely mandatory.
There is one thing we want to do with the documentation which is to translate it into several languages. At the moment we only have documentation in English documentation and we used to think this would be ok.
A talk at WordCamp Europe, about the importance of having documentation in multiple languages, changed our mind. So we’re going to translate it into several languages very soon!
This will be definitely better for our non-English customers.
Our first response time increased this month. Lots of new tickets, and holidays for part of the team didn’t help our response time.
Our Happiness Score decreased too. We’ve naturally discovered that when we get a lot of tickets to manage we are less patient and effective.
Hiring new teammates will definitely help 🙂
Lucy won (again) our internal happiness score competition, congrats to her.
By the way, we’ve launched the official website for our startup, let us know what you think : http://wp-media.me
