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A self-serve webinar platform that replaces repeated live demos with an automated event customers can watch and convert from.
$100 starting price · $29–$179 add-ons
The product became healthier when E-Webinar doubled its entry price, accepted lower trial conversion and stopped spending support time on customers who would not pay.
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E-Webinar is Melissa Kwan’s third startup and a product-led B2B SaaS company built around an unglamorous pain: founders and sales teams do not want to deliver the same webinar or demo over and over. The platform lets a customer watch an automated webinar, with the product itself used to deliver the demo. Kwan said the business was profitable and had reached $1.5M in annual recurring revenue. It took about two years before the first version was shown to anyone, including roughly six months spent on branding and the website. The company started with plans priced at $49, $99 and $199, then doubled new-customer pricing after the product became strong enough to justify comparison with more expensive options. Conversion from trial to paid fell from about 60% to 30%–40%, but the customers who did pay stayed longer and needed less support; support tickets fell by 70%. The current starting point was about $100, with add-ons from $29 to $179. If only 2%–5% of customers buy an add-on, Kwan said that can add $5K–$10K per month. Growth became a marketing problem: SEO, content, LinkedIn, partnerships and audience building mattered more than adding another feature.
For E-Webinar, begin with founder-led sales around one painful repetition: a team that gives the same product demo or webinar every week. Sell the promise as recovered calendar time, not as a collection of webinar features.
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Data credibility: Melissa Kwan stated the $1.5M ARR, pricing, conversion, support-ticket, add-on and content-work figures in a founder interview; the claims are unaudited and no dashboard or third-party verification was supplied.
The first dollar for E-Webinar should come from a narrow paid pilot, not from waiting for a complete webinar ecosystem. After the long build, put one automated webinar in front of a prospect, help them configure the event and charge for continued access.
E-Webinar’s flywheel combines a repeatable product with better customer economics. The customer records or configures an event once, sends future prospects through it and receives a reason to keep the subscription active.
E-Webinar’s difficult stretch was the realization that product expertise did not automatically create a marketing engine. The team had built a product-led company but did not initially know how to do SEO, content, keyword research or audience building.
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