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Prasanna

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
391 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

And then on the differentiation, you could say, hey, this is a CRM that is integrated with social and it is 10 times better than any other CRM.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

So for those customers who are looking for that, you are the winner.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

You want to place your x-axis and y-axis in such a way that your product comes out on the right-hand top as the winner there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

Let me illustrate this again with another example.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

Neurotags is a company of ours, and they were initially focusing on making sure the qr code gets placed on all branded items.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

Let's say an lg product that is getting sold on amazon.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

But what happens is that lg doesn't have the end user's data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

So they help you put a QR code, which the end user, when he receives it, he registers through it, and then he gets warranty support.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

Now, using that, they get the data back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

For a while, for an entire year, what they did was they just focused on the code aspect of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

Now, they did this positioning exercise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

Then they realized the x-axis that they should be talking about is post-sales experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

And they realized that their differentiation is one-click, one-click post-sales experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

This led them to even change the name from Neurotax to Direct, allowing brands like LG to have direct connection with their end users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

And earlier, they were struggling with $2,000 ACV conversation, and this repositioning helped them close deals at $30,000 ACV.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

Bonus fifth choice on pricing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

I'm going to go really quick on this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

This is, even though I said four, but the fifth one is that founders are afraid of raising prices.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

And this is a big one.