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Very interesting - hadn't thought of having a % threshold when considering the jump.
We're pretty lean, so in most cases even the yearly plans would be mid 3 figure expenses. No room to negotiate really (or worth the time).
Makes sense, pretty much the same for our team right now.
Yeah, on percentages, the logic there holds most for larger purchases (4-5 figures I'd imagine) where you're tying up a significant amount of cash that could be user other ways. But if the alternative is getting whatever small interest you can in a bank account or taking a month or three off the price of a plan, the latter may be easier to justify.
Yep. For me in life and in business, I get a certain satisfaction for saving money - even if it's just a few dollars here and there - through smart purchasing.
I feel like it's one of those behaviours that can have a cumulative affect in other areas.
Particularly with banks. I spent a good 30mins printing, filling and mailing a form to close down an unused bank account costing me £5/month. Some would say a waste of time... but you know, I really don't like giving money to people for no reason!
Nope. But as a parallel, I had been thinking of using surplus cash in the bank to switch from monthly to yearly plans on the SaaS apps we know we'll keep using - but not I'm reluctant.
Would be a great time for SaaS apps to offer deeper discounts for people willing to lock in long term.
As an "inbox zero or fail" sort of person, I like to just email myself, tag it and then get frustrated the longer it sits there staring back at me!
I've built thousands of zaps for people at this point, but I have fond memories of the first complex zap I built when I got into Zapier four years ago - and I think it's still very useful now.
I ran (and still run) a small business matching language teachers with students in their area. Our CRM was a Google Sheet, each match was a row, and each row has a status, and date on which I wanted to email the teacher asking for an update.
Realising that a Zapier will only find the first row matching a criteria, I built a zap that triggered with a webhook and ended with one... and triggered itself again. I had it find the first row matching the day's date, action on it, then change the date column to a new date, so that next the zap ran, it found the next row down.
Pretty ingenious stuff I think!
Yep. For me in life and in business, I get a certain satisfaction for saving money - even if it's just a few dollars here and there - through smart purchasing.
I feel like it's one of those behaviours that can have a cumulative affect in other areas.
Particularly with banks. I spent a good 30mins printing, filling and mailing a form to close down an unused bank account costing me £5/month. Some would say a waste of time... but you know, I really don't like giving money to people for no reason!