Artisan Strategies

Artisan Strategies is a growth advisory firm. We specialize effectively monetizing visitors to your website. 

This means any work you've done on marketing already, just becomes more effective. CAC goes down, retention goes up, your business makes money. Sometimes it means moving from unprofitable to profitable. 

If you don't quite have the visitors you need yet, let's talk. We can help connect you with the right people for increasing acquisition first. 

We're comfortable working across industries as long as there is a purchase flow and a single item being purchased (so no ecommerce.)

Clients include:
Blip Billboards (Ad-tech)
Zight (PLG SaaS)
Mezzi (Fintech)
Millerman School (education)
and more.

Our engagements are meant to enable you over the long-term. We aren't going to give you 37 growth hacks to go implement and then walk away. Leaving you lost and with questions the first time one of your tests fails. Or worse, unsure on how to actually implement your first test. This means we only take on clients that are serious about growth and increasing revenue.

Founder & CEO

HiHello, Inc.

Navigated the initial stages of product-market fit across a broad user based. Took the company from it's current stage when I joined to three times larger in every meaningful metric within 1 year. Then built a roadmap that served the business for more than year after I left.

Head of Product, Growth, & Customer Support

Polly

• Established and executed on a long-term roadmap that delivered value to millions of users
• Delivered a full refresh of main product
• Expanded additional products and drove increased usage
• 3x’d the size of the product team to deliver on the above
• Built an A/B testing program at the company
• Hired first Growth PM and grew it to a team of 3
• Implemented refresh of pricing & packaging
• Rebuilt the entire data stack, including tracking, storage, data transformation (DBT), and analysis, as well as hired the company’s first analyst.

Head of Product & Growth

Lucid

• One of the first 50 employees and grew with the company to 700+ employees.
• Built growth team from 1 team of 5 people to 3 teams with a total of 12+ people.
• 5x’d subscriptions for our most valuable SKU in one year.
• Directly drove $XXM in revenue to the company.
• Built first experimentation program at the company that resulted in over 1,000 A/B tests run by me or my teams during my tenure.
• Owned full payment funnel from payment page experience down to processor optimization.
• Implemented support for 5 additional currencies.
• Owned and built forecast for the self-serve (PLG) part of the business.

Director of Growth

Senior Growth Manager 

Growth Manager

University Venture Fund

The University Venture Fund is the largest student run venture capital fund in the United States with $18.2M AUM
 
As a generalist fund investing $200,000 to $1M in a wide range of early- to mid-stage companies.

At the fund I consulted for other VC funds or companies, helping to do in-depth analysis on investments. This includes doing detailed research into the respective markets of each company, the management team, and service/product offered.     

On average teams of five people analyze investment potential of different companies, if the investment passes the qualificaitons of the team, they are then pitched by the team, first to fellow associates, then if passed, to an Investment Committee
          
Areas of projects personally worked on include: Social Gaming, Big Data,Construction, Medical Devices, Electric Vehicles.
           
Other VC firms personally worked with include Andreesen-Horowitz, Pelion VP, and Dolphin Capital

Senior Associate

Over a decade ago I walked into a small, unknown company. 

"We need someone who can just help us make more money. It'll be you and some engineers. Go ship whatever will make us more money. A/B tests, new features, paywalls, whatever. Just find money in the business."

I found out later, much later, that bets were placed around the company. Nobody bet we'd still be a team by the end of that year (it was February).

Well, we had a goal of $1M of cash to the business that year. A >20% increase in revenue...

We did that in the first quarter. From there, the rest is history.

Six years later, that business was well past $100M in ARR and I was about leave for my next startup adventure.

Fast forward to today, and I've discovered a powerful growth secret that most founders are still sleeping on.

But before we dive into that, let me hit you with a truth:

If you are an early-stage founder and you are not focusing on converting users as a key pillar to your business strategy... Frankly, you're leaving money on the table.

Why?

Because at the end of the day, you're not a business if people don't pay you money.

How do I know this?

At this point I've helped 
- Brand new companies get off the ground at a rocketship pace. 
- Turned companies around that we're seeing 30% year-over-year *declines* in revenue into putting up their best revenue *and* profit numbers ever.
- Taken companies that are growing at a "happy" pace to an "oh wow" pace.

Interested?

Drop me a message to learn how I can help your company to the next level! 🚀

Joseph W.

PricingSaaS

Pricing is hard - we are on a mission to make it easier!

By leveraging the latest AI technologies, we have created the world's largest database of B2B SaaS pricing intelligence that helps companies improve their own pricing strategies by staying on top of the market trends and competitive changes.

Co-Founder

Buyerson Inc.

Buyerson Inc. is a boutique consulting and research company that serves B2B SaaS companies in the $5M-50M range. We help our customers with customer research, pricing & packaging, and PLG implementations.

Product Faculty

Product & career coaching for product management students at Product Faculty.

Executive In Residence

Format

Format is a SaaS company that provides solutions for photographers and visual artists. It provides them with the ability to showcase their body of work through visually stunning online portfolios, as well as tools for managing their clients and growing their business. 

At Format, John led the product team, which included product management, design, customer research and product marketing. His team was responsible for understanding the needs of customers and building simple and elegant software solutions to address those needs. John was also responsible for monetization of the products through funnel optimizations, pricing and delivering new products and features that would open new revenue streams.

Vice President of Product

Tulip Retail

Retail has seen immense amount of innovation and  investment in the online eCommerce space, but despite the fact that majority of the revenue still comes from physical brick and mortar stores - the experience has not evolved at the same pace in the physical stores. This is where Tulip comes in. Tulip helps world's largest retailers re-invent the consumer shopping experience by empowering the sales associates with information and tools to demonstrate the immense value that a human touch can add to the shopping experience. 

Key responsibilities and accomplishments: 
* Worked closely with the company founders to define and execute on the short and long term product strategy
* Launched v.1.0 version Tulip Retail Enterprise and all subsequent releases
​* Built and managed a world class team of product managers and designers
* Defined product pricing and the process around it
* Launched three new products from concept to paid implementation

Head of Product

Rubicon Project

Took on a leadership position to drive the Chango product integration and subsequently took on a senior leadership to manage the entire cloud data reporting and analytics team and product portfolio.

VP of Product

Chango (acquired by Rubicon Project)

Worked with the company founders to establish the product management function within Chango and to expand  the product portfolio forward, resulting in a $122M acquisition by the Rubicon Project

Director of Product

Marketwired

Leading a group of Product Managers and Business Analysts responsible for developing the next generation of social communication products.

Acting Director of Product

Senior Product Manager

NetIQ

Novell

Responsible for PlateSpin ($20M+ product portfolio) product strategy and life-cycle process, including roadmap planning, requirements, acceptance testing and product release management.

Product Monetization | Founder & CEO Buyerson Inc. | PricingSaaS.com

Over the last decade, I helped scale 3 companies as a Head of Product, resulting in two acquisitions ($140M+) and over $50M in venture capital funding.

With each company, I saw the same problem: product teams were disconnected from revenue.

Then in 2019, I joined Format, where there was no sales team.

I was in charge of revenue myself.

As a head of product, I had to be very thoughtful about not only building value for our users, but also about how we could use that value to generate revenue from our customers.

The results were phenomenal. We got so good at understanding how to grow $ through product changes, that we could forecast MRR growth 12 months in advance with 90%+ accuracy.

After Format was sold in 2021, I decided to start my own venture. After exploring for a few months, I landed on the idea of PricingSaaS - a content and data company that helps SaaS people get better at monetization.

See the latest at 👉 https://pricingsaas.com/

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