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Nikhil Aitharaju

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
134 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

We were helping them with SEO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Oh yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Great relationship.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Uh, we still take advice and, uh, you know, if this doesn't work out, we're going to figure out some other ideas together in the future.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

I think we want to utilize every relationship that we got to figure out if we have product market fit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

So yeah, that's what we did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Yeah, that's a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

For the number of briefs, it's partly to be extremely transparent based on the competitive landscape and what they're doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

So we are pretty new to this industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

So we looked at other competitors in the space who were kind of offering similar solutions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

And we sort of based off our pricing based on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

And then we realized that a lot of marketing teams, unless you're a big content team, you don't have a lot of writers in-house.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

And they wouldn't be willing to pay more for those seats, unlike sales organizations where you have to pay per seat.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

So number of seats is not going to be a big lever.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

So that wasn't the case.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

I think briefs, it's easy to kind of peg the value because if you're spending $100 on content or $200 on every single content, if you can optimize it or do a better job researching, it's only $10.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

So it's only like 5% of what you're spending on every piece.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

So it's easy to justify the value.