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Reena Gupta

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
169 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

I think I told you that our marketing and things is very, I call it very reactive because of the way we grew in AppExchange.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

So we are growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

very thin on budget on marketing and sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

There are very few specific events that we do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

No, I wouldn't say that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

I mean, it depends on where we have investors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

So if you go to a trade show and you have 15 such opportunities of closing business, if some of them may close in three months or may close in 12 months or maybe never close it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

So it's a pretty typical way of the ROI.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

What I look for it is first thing is, did I cover my expenses properly?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

Wow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

Customer by customer, we have not done those kind of analysis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

But the way we look at it, marketing cost is if I have spent 20 grand in a certain marketing event, how many customers we got from that marketing event and did it cover 20 grand or did it give us 100 grand?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

That's how we look at it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

So I would say that cycle varies a lot depending if you go to Dreamforce, you can get that return very quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

I think if you look into it, one of our biggest expenses, Salesforce event.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

It's pretty hefty.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

I'm close to 50 K just for one, one event.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR

So it's, it's very expensive.