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Shafiq Balas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
154 total appearances

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

When you get a promotion, you put it on LinkedIn.

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

And like LinkedIn works, that is the most, we can say, useful channel for us.

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

and um yeah just to answer a question directly because you know we are in an existing market the cloud market is more than 300 uh billion uh in revenue in a year so and these

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

Like these companies are already paying a lot for the cloud providers.

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

So what we offer is we offer to them to save money and time for their engineers.

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

So what we ask first is feedback.

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

So this is our strategy.

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

And we are honestly looking for feedback.

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

Actually, this is work.

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

This is what we do.

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

not that feedback period but we say i'm interested in your feedback in a tool that i created that solves abc and what is abc abc is solving designing cloud architecture designing and building and managing cloud infrastructures

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

They first start by testing the product.

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

then they test the product and and they came back to us with a lot of feedbacks then we can schedule a call we can so usually we schedule a demo because they see a part of the product but not the entire product so we schedule a demo to to show them how things work and we talk to them about their pain points and about how they work the things that they want to accelerate in their process

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

and we try to match the value we provide with their way of doing things.

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

Actually, yeah, this is like saves.

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

Now we enter in the saves process, the classic one, like we talk to decision makers.

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

And as we have an approval, like our strategy is bottom up.

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

So we talk with the users.

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

Once it's validated, when we talk with decision makers, it's easier.