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Shekhar Rahman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
112 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

And then what the retailer will then go do is go put it on their weekly ad on their front page, hoping to move that at a dollar off, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

They're restricted by the amount of deals that they have to offer back to the shoppers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

That, I think, is a huge constriction on personalization because you don't really care what's on sale or not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

You want a product if you go to the store.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

What we decided to do is let's flip this equation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

I think the challenge that the retailers had was really they didn't have systems that were big enough to figure out if you had a million customers, how do you create

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

unique deals for each of those million shoppers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

That's really the problem we solved is we have a system now that automatically generates for every individual shopper six to eight offers a week that gets emailed out to them and executed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

Think about now using the entire store catalog for creating your promotions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

You're no longer restricted by what's on sale, what's on deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

So I'm able to now manage individual customer journeys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

So I can grow Nathan from being a new customer all the way to a loyal customer by driving promotions specifically for him, him or her, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

And this is scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

So this used to take...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

There are big companies that do this like Dunhumpy, which will do it, but they have 400 analysts sitting behind with systems and they'll do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

We managed to do it in one hour for a retailer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

They can execute these campaigns for hundreds of thousands of shoppers in one hour.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

I think to me right now, the most interesting person in the world is Elon Musk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Doubled ACV to $480k selling niche SaaS to 10 Grocery Stores, now $4.5m in revenue

I don't know if I necessarily follow him, but I study him.