Join our Weekly SaaS CEO & Founder Growth Masterminds

Hi there —

On yesterday’s SaasRise CEO Growth Mastermind Call we spoke a lot about using AI tools like Google NotebookLM, Claude, and ChatBase to create custom AI chatbots for both internal team members and external customers.

These calls are 60 min growth masterminds where everyone is an experienced SaaS CEO or Founder who is committed to revenue growth and working toward a successful eventual exit — and all who are actively running $1M to $100M ARR firms.

We now do five of these members-only growth mastermind calls each week on Zoom, for all types of SaaS firms (B2C, SMB, Midmarket, and Enterprise).

So if you’re a CEO/Founder of a software firm with $1M to $100M in ARR, and aren’t already a member, we’d love to have you join the community. You can apply to join SaasRise here — and we’ll get you in right away with a two week free trial so you can see the community and checkout the masterminds, growth library, and webinars.

If you care about revenue growth and preparing for a successful exit, these peer masterminds are one of the few with a high enough quality of content and member selection that they are actually worth your time to experience.

Below I recap what we talked about this week (themes like AI, S&M, GTM, outbound, finance, pricing, exit prep, ABM, SDRs, RBF, recruiting, and much more)….

What We Talked About This Week in the Growth Masterminds…

Below are just some of the topics we talked about in this week’s growth mastermind calls…

1. How to create a custom AI chatbot using Claude and Google NotebookLM for internal knowledge sharing with your team
   

2. Reviewing all the lead and customer lifecycle stages and their definitions, from subscriber, Lead, MQL, SAL, SQL, opportunity, customer, and evangelist — and how to set up an automated lead scoring system that moves prospects through the stages.
   

3. Creating an external AI chat agent using a tool called Chatbase that works with OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini to provide customer support answers via chatbot
   

4. Hiring and training SDRs from an offshore placement agency like RooCruit to follow-up with past prospects as well as incoming new leads
   

5. How to use InVideo and Google Veo 2 to create short marketing videos generated by AI
   

6. Pricing strategies for software sales - whether to reduce pricing, increase pricing, and how to price based on usage, user count, features, and value
   

7. Considering a freemium offering for an Enterprise software platform with a high ACV - pros and cons based on the vertical
   

8. How to use Claude to write specific custom email messaging for each cold prospect based on their LinkedIn Profile and website
   

9. How to do outbound sales using Instantly, SalesLoft, LEMList, and SmartLead
   

10. How to build an ABM marketing strategy for going after the 30,000 people in a niche
    

11. How to calculate director/founder salaries into EBITDA. Broader context around EBITDA vs ARR calculations for valuations/exit; prepping for an exit with your company financials
    

12. How broad to go with your TAM using a matched audience list - whether to break it down by vertical or geography and create customized ads and landing pages for each major segment
    

13. Whether any other members had an Outbound SDR Template/Playbook that could be shared (yes!)
    

14. Fractional CFO options — where to find and cost expectations

These are just a few of the topics we cover in any given week. We design the calls so they are actually worth your time as a CEO and founder. We’d love to have you try out our mastermind next week. You can apply here and once you’re accepted start your free trial here.

It’s lonely at the top, so come join us if you haven’t already.

We’re here to help you grow and successfully exit!

All the best,
Ryan Allis, CEO & Co-Founder
SaasRise
The #1 Community for Experienced SaaS CEOs & Founders
www.saasrise.com

P.S - If you like great content like this and you’re a CEO or Founder of a software firm with $1M to $100M in ARR, apply to join SaasRise here.

Join Our Community of SaaS CEOs & Founders

Thanks for reading. We hope this guide has been helpful to you. Please take a moment to learn more about SaasRise, our community for SaaS CEOs and Founders. We welcome all CEOs and Founders with $1M-$100M in ARR to join us. We hold three masterminds each week for our members and provide an in-depth library of SaaS growth, fundraising, and exit resources. You can apply here.

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