Episode 40
040 Alyssa Marshall - A New Adventure: Becoming A SaaS Founder
Alyssa Marshall chats all things Owwlish and how she created this tool to help fellow entrepreneurs create more profitable eLearning courses. Alyssa knows firsthand the struggle to put together courses and repurpose that content into a new product. This is the problem that many customers have faced over and over again. So, she developed an easy solution, and tune in to learn all about how she did it.
Episode Sponsor
Small Fish, Big Pond – https://smallfishbigpond.com/ Use the promo code ‘SaaSFuel’
Champion Leadership Group – https://championleadership.com/
Key Takeaways
[4:26] Alyssa introduces herself and explains her journey to owning her own SaaS company.
[7:36] What led to Owwlish being created, and how it differs from other platforms?
[9:02] Uploading and updating courses made simple.
[24:46] Your path to success is through your customers.
[27:00] Customer Retention.
[33:06] Repurposing old content.
[34:15] Getting Started.
[36:00] Make it a weekend project.
[41:30] Owwlish special offer.
Tweetable Quotes
[5:34] "And that allows me to retire very early on. So I was thirty-one years old when I stopped seeing patients and I just went all in on the business itself, which was really fun.”
[8:36] "It doesn't matter what platform you're using, and you don't need a developer. As long as you can do some copy-pasting and copy a piece of code and then you can work on your course and all of that inside our platform."
[25:59] "If you have enough insight into podcasting where you're building a podcasting SaaS.
You know more about podcasting and what it takes to succeed in it than your average customer does. Share that knowledge with them. Help them succeed. They will be grateful."
Guest Resources
Owwlish - www.owwlish.com
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/owwlish
SaaSfuel Promotion - www.owwlish.com/saasfuel
Resources Mentioned
Google Courses - https://grow.google/intl/ssa/
Udemy - https://www.udemy.com/
Skillshare - https://www.skillshare.com/
WordPress - https://wordpress.com/
Webflow - https://webflow.com/
Weebly - https://www.weebly.com/
Duda- https://www.duda.co/
Wix - https://www.wix.com/
Shopify - https://www.shopify.com/
Squarespace - https://www.squarespace.com/
SaaS Fuel Resources
Website - https://championleadership.com/
Jeff Mains on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffkmains/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/jeffkmains
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thesaasguy/
Instagram - https://instagram.com/jeffkmains
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