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Shaheem Alam

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
116 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

So we ramp up or down depending on, you know, the results that our clients are looking for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

Today we have 15 active customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

So we started a year ago, we were at 5,000 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

We do the same thing that we do for our clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

We do LinkedIn, email, cold calling outreach, literally the same way that we got clients, we help our clients get clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

Yeah, so we've done a lot of learning on that end in regards to churn and which clients are the best fit for us and which ones aren't.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

You know, a few things, for example, our clients, they need to have an average annual contract value of $30,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

Otherwise, it doesn't make sense for them to use our services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

And then they also need to kind of...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

it'll be a little bit more validated as in they need to have their first few clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

When we're doing a brand new product and we're doing like, you know, completely cold outreach and the product hasn't been proven in the market, not even a little bit yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

That's what makes it tough.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

So those are the cases where, you know, a campaign may not perform and then they might try different things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

Or if their product is just the type of product that you need to actually do marketing for rather than outbound sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

And that kind of comes back to that ticket value where each client is not going to bring you as much, you know, bring you 30,000 a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

They're going to bring you maybe 2,000 a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

Then it makes sense for them to go with marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

So we've had clients that have used our services and then realized that, OK, this might not be the best approach for me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR

LinkedIn might not be the best.