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Amit Shanbhag

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
228 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

A lot of users are API users, so it's not a very simple match.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

You know, we did do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

So initially, so around, you know, between January 2016 to maybe March 2016, we were doing a lot of outbound user acquisition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

So we'd send, you know, sort of emails to people, try to acquire them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

But since March, you know, we got featured in Product Hunt and we built a bunch of...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

SEO operations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

And so most of our, in fact, like a hundred percent of our user acquisition now is through, completely through SEO and it's free.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

So people will, you know, so the way that this will work is let's say that I'm interested in talking to Nathan, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

So I'll type in Nathan's name and Rocket Reach's page will show up as usually one of the top five results if you type in Nathan email, nathan.email.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

So that's how people find out about us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

They sign up for an account, there's a freemium model, and they end up paying, buying one of our subscriptions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

That usually leads to then us talking to them to try and get them to sign up for team deals or APIs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

That's exactly what I got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

Um, yeah, we can't, we can't afford to have like a, you know, four month, um, sales cycle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

For the API, that does happen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

I mean, for the API, our revenue is significantly higher.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

And for the APIs, for instance, the average sales cycle is about two to four months.