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Shafiq Balas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
154 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

It really depends on the customer and the number of seats they take.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

As we price per seat, so like for a customer taking 50 seats, it's not the same thing for a customer taking five seats.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

So what we usually do, we apply between 15% and 25%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

But in return, we take either an engagement for a year

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

or they accept to give us a regular feedback like we do with them regular points like meetings, either once a month or once each two weeks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

So yeah, it depends on how we work with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

And some of them, they proposed for us to be partners with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

So we started this partnership.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

We didn't thought about it

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

the beginning but now as we're seeing people and companies asking for it so we start our first partnership a week ago very cool okay so this makes sense so if you're doing about 40 000 bucks a month today in revenue where were you a year ago so we can calculate growth rate i mean in 2023

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

A year ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

A year ago, we were like 100 of backs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

We were like 200 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

Yeah, because we hadn't that much customers because we didn't do any sales actions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

So we started really sales actions in the last five months, actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

Yeah, this is a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

You mentioned LinkedIn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

Yes, LinkedIn is working a lot for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

I mean, actually, because, you know, we are talking to experts, cloud architects and managers, and these people are present in LinkedIn because they work with LinkedIn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

You know, when you are looking for a job, you put it on LinkedIn.