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Deepak Balakrishnan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
142 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

So we keep bombarding them with useful information so that we stay top of mind for them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

I think until we started doing that, people started to easily forget about us, even though they buy it and then they leave it on the shelf.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

So that's the one thing I have learned that we're trying to push into the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

No, that is not a good thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

When the time comes, we're typically doing at this point annual contracts, so it's good we're not prepaid for 12 months typically.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

But at the end of that, when the time comes to renew, it will be a tough sell if they don't continually use the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

Yeah, I think what we're doing is essentially selling insurance, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

Nobody likes it, but it's important.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

But you have to sign, as you correctly said, is we noticed the following things went wrong in the last week.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

And here you go, we already corrected it for you, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

So we have to keep constantly reminding them of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

So in our specific case, last week we alerted a customer saying that one of their most critical documents had by mistake gotten shared externally to the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

They didn't realize it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

We did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

We alerted them and fixed it for them and sent them a mail saying so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

And it was all automated.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

So that was showing useful information where it showed value to them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

And we have to keep doing that on a continual basis.