The market you serve
Let's say an artist has "1,000 true fans." To hit her revenue numbers:
On iTunes, each fan would need to buy 3-4 new tracks per month. (Difficult, but not impossible)
On Spotify, each fan would need to stream her music 357 times per month.
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This is exactly what happened to
@pomplamoose: they had good unit economics on iTunes, but bad margins + volume on Spotify. As@jackconte recounted to@guyraz on@HowIBuiltThis: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/08/954876726/patreon-jack-conte-and-sam-yam …pic.twitter.com/Mlv58Ap0gk1 odpowiedź 0 podanych dalej 2 polubionePokaż ten wątek -
“In the recent past it might have been possible to make a middle-class living on your music. In the current streaming economy, the only way to survive is to be huge.” https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/16/18184314/spotify-music-streaming-service-royalty-payout-model …pic.twitter.com/KCHbsfPppJ
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So what does this mean for SaaS founders, or creators selling digital products and subscriptions?
Volume
Profit.
Those are your two levers.
How badly do people want it? That's volume.
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Low-volume example:

If you want to make $10k / month...
And your margins are 80%,
but you can only attract 5 sales,
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High-volume example:

If you want to make $10k / month...
And your margins are 80%,
and your price is $25,
you'll need 400 sales/month
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Generally, you're either in a low-volume business (with a high price), or a high-volume business (with low prices). And (again, generally):
Most consulting/services businesses are low-volume/high-price
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Just wrote this up for my upcoming Saturday newsletter. Anyone here want to give me some feedback? (Ways to improve, make it better/more clear)https://justinjackson.ca/units
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Another funny example: Tony Hawk owns his own skateboard company (Birdhouse). My guess, based on market share, is he's sold 1-2 million decks in the past 10 years. But over the past decade, his video games have sold over 31 million copies. He's rich from
not
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W odpowiedzi do @mijustin
Are you sure he's not rich from his "DO A KICKFLIP!" YouTube spots?
(And more on topic, while the richness is good, I'm pretty sure his
would be much more in the
than the
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hahaha.
not talking about
(that's gotta be there too), and conceivably the
couldn't have happened without the
...
but the unit economics + volumes are interesting
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