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Ari Salafia

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
358 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So we might.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

Fire the customer a little bit cheaply, but we're not going to be stingy on what we pay that affiliate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So typical SaaS revenue shares around 5%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

We're paying our affiliates 10, 15, even 20% on a first year deal and sometimes on multi-year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So we want to incentivize them to continue to be thinking about us, to be spreading the word, because if we can influence the influencers, that can have a huge, huge effect.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So our competitors, you know, they raised a ton more money than us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

They're also compelled to spend a lot more than us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So where they might think of they need to get to 1,000 customers or 10,000 customers, like blitz scale, we think about how can we get to 100 to influence 1,000 or 10,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So just kind of a little bit of a different approach.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So this is an agreement that we send like a binded kind of practitioners or channels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So I think this one is Forecaster.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So financial planning software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

And we like to go in and create pretty steady partnerships with folks that are already selling to our ICP.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So our ICP is a lot of the folks in this room.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

Precede through kind of series A venture backed or bootstrapped startup technology companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So why not hang around folks that also sell into those companies?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

They're looking for value add services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

We're looking for value add services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

We don't always want to just be talking about.