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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, but educating the referrer pays off and then incentivizing them.

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

So we do rev share agreements at TaxTaker.

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

We pay, you know, a bit more than others might in traditional kind of SaaS businesses.

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

But sometimes our affiliates and partners, they don't want any money.

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

And so that's also awesome because then we get more margin for that.

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

They just want to see a great provider, you know, give value to their customer.

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

So this is kind of a loop, you know, continuing to say, okay, am I, have I identified the right partners, the right seeds?

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

Am I building an engaging relationship?

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

Am I educating them?

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

Am I giving them the resources that they actually need to help, you know, build my message and what I'm trying to get across?

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

Um, and then rewarding them along the way.

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

It's fun when people get paid, like our affiliates are stoked when all of a sudden they get $2,000 that just hits our account or $5,000 depending on the size of the client.

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

It's, it's, it's really awesome.

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

So next, we're going to go into investing in process, overall customer experience, and doing one thing that I think a lot of founders, it's really for us to do, right?

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

We want to say yes to everything.

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

So.

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

This is our customer journey map.

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

We start with awareness of tax credits.

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

That's been actually the best thing about our competition.

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

When you have $100 million out there in competitor funding.