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“As much as I would love to say that talking about our features is the better performer — it's not. Talking about a discount, our audience is very price sensitive, so that is a message we lean pretty heavily into.”
Discount messaging out-converts feature messaging — even when you wish it didn't
After extensive copy testing, Lose It! found discount/savings framing consistently beats feature-benefit framing for their price-sensitive audience. The honest founder lesson: your beautiful feature copy is probably losing to a price tag. Build the features, but don't expect users to convert because of them.
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Aaron Webster Schaller & Paul Apollo
Lose It!Bootstrapped freemium since 2008 · profitable 2017 · bought back Series A in 2020 · exited to Ziff Davis 2022, fully employee/founder-owned
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