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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

Let me switch over to marketing and things like that.

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

And then other clients, yeah, they're with us for six, seven months, eight months, and then they'll bring it internally.

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

And then other clients we have, we're their sales and marketing team.

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

I would say like over 80%.

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

We launched in September of 2019, I would say, kind of more officially.

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

And what got you into it?

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

Where are you coming from?

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

So I did three years of door-to-door.

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

That's the experience that you kind of mentioned in my bio there.

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

Oh, yeah.

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

HVAC and water treatment systems.

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

So, you know, I did a ton of door-to-door, did a ton of appointments.

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

I built sales teams.

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

After that, I moved into the tech realm a little bit, worked for, you know, as an SDR because it was a completely new industry.

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

Which firm?

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

It was a fintech company.

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

Street Context.

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

So we were selling their product, which was, I mean, back then it was an email security, it's not email security, sorry, email solution for brokerages, like financial brokerages and wealth management firms.

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

So the solution was for like traders.

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

This is like four years ago, I think.