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Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
127 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

$50,000, $60,000 a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

But it depends on the customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

Yeah, it depends.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

I mean, we have our enterprise deals that I was talking about, the Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

They're paying us well in six figures.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

And then we have tiny early stage startups that are paying us much less than that because we charge based on amount of data we capture, which is number of news articles.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

And so a startup is going to obviously not have that much press compared to a large Fortune 500 company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

And so they pay completely different amounts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

Once we set the model of the price, we don't change it even if they double the amount of press.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

So companies love working with us as soon as they can rather than much later when they have a lot more press.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

But we help them figure out who they should talk to that's most likely to drive the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

And there are PR agencies that will help them broker the relationship.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

We really focus on a couple things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

One, being able to scale past just tracking coverage, for example, in the United States.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

So we'll bucket it that way, unlimited coverage in the United States.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

But if you want to go internationally, for example, or if you want to have other modules that we provide.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

So out of the box, we'll provide online coverage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

But if someone, for example, wants print coverage as well, then we charge additional for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

We launched it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

It was just an idea that I had in 2010.