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Ankesh Kumar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
144 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

sales loft and outreach.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

And now we're sort of in the process of getting our first early adopters to build those metrics in terms of increasing engagement and conversion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

And then obviously our revenue model is $25 a subscriber per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

Well, we're actually using our own technology to grow our base.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

So I'm reaching out to outbound salespeople using the chatbot integrated into my outbound email so they can see what it looks like and actually embedding their content, so their case studies, YouTube videos, etc.,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

Because the problem that outbound people have is that they can only put a certain amount of data in the email, either text or attachments.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

So adding a chatbot to it gives the buyer the option to learn more about the prospect.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

So we're doing that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

And that's been really good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

We're seeing over 50% engagement of sending those out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

So we're basically targeting demand generation, director of outbound sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

So it's not the VP level or the SDR level, but sort of in the middle, managers of the team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

So we're using third parties to get email addresses and contact your LinkedIn, the usual stuff, Lucia to get email addresses, etc.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

L-U-S-H-A, Lucia, that gets the email addresses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

So my target is 30 outbound emails a day, and those are personalized.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

I think one of the things is that obviously in this market, as you're familiar with products like Sales Loft and Outreach, those templated emails, what we're hearing is a little bit of a decline.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

People are getting a little overwhelmed with those sequences, and so the personalization is

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

So when I reach out to a prospect, let's just take Cisco, for example, which is a little bit higher.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

My target audience is 50 employees to 1,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

We're targeting SaaS companies.