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Mahir Iskender

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
152 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

really hard time managing this 30 people, approximately 30 people team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

And one day I was just sitting in front of my FICO score or Credit Karma.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

I was checking my score and I realized that how automatically they're making me to make the payments on time and making sure that my balance are paid off and also making sure that I go and open another credit card so that my score goes up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

So using that, I realized that we were kind of influenced by these companies through the psychology and habits of paying on time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

I realized that I could use this to manage my employees, getting them engaged with the applications that we use.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

Getting engaged with their colleagues because they were not responding to each other on time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

First line of code was last year, July.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

Yeah, in March 2020, when all the COVID mess was happening.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

Yes, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

2020, that's when I decided that this must be done because I measured.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

So I made a fake basically digital for my employees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

I told them, I lied them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

I mean, this is the first time actually I'm telling this to the public.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

So I told them that we have a dashboard where we measure all your calls, all your tasks completed, all the communication you make with your colleagues, and we generate one score.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

And if your scores go down, forget about the salary increase or rewards that we had in the system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

If its score goes up, you'll be rewarded.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

And I put a reward to a one-week vacation to Istanbul.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

So I said, if you reach the 800 score, this is what your reward.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

And magic happened.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

Within six months, 30% increase in sales, 40% increase in productivity.