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Harshal Khatre

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
192 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

So we had to spend a lot of time

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

and energy supporting those customers, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

So then we, what we did was we launched this free edition and then we created a very good knowledge base and, you know, a bunch of videos and people started to, you know, figure out on their own and they got a sense of what this software is all about, okay?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

And when they are ready, they started moving on to the paid tier plan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

In free plan, we don't offer support.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

So the support is reserved for the paid users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

We are totally bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

So currently we are 18 people that are on the team, apart from the three founders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

Around seven of them are engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

We have two salespeople.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

There is one more vertical that we also focus on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

So this is a software which is a SaaS-based model like ProfitBooks, which we sell directly to the end customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

But there is one more vertical, that addition that we sell to chartered accountants, the accounting firms, where they can onboard their own customers and have their own branding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

Okay, so we use our salespeople to talk only to those guys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

We don't use our salespeople to talk to people who are using our free edition or, you know, wanting to move to the paid version.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

No, no, they don't have quota.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

No, actually, you just blurred for a minute.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

So that's why I was looking.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

100% inbound.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

So we write a lot of articles.