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Tarik Khribech

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
211 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

I mean, there's no lack of contractors looking to, to, to do jobs because they've been hurt by these other competitors that charging them 30 bucks just to get a lead.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

And there's no guarantee you're getting the job.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

Here we are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

We offering you an actual job, not a lead.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

And it's entirely at that point, it doesn't cost you anything to, to submit an offer or accept it as a face value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

So it's not a shortage amount.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

What we have now we're focusing on is trying to find clients like yourself, people that want to come to the app.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

And that's why the focus now is shifted back into Chicago, even though if you look at our user map, it has a nationwide user presence.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

But we want to stay focused in the city of Chicago, make sure we understand our KPIs, understand our customer personas, make sure we find, you know, we get the lowest cost possible to find these clients and hopefully build some sort of a metrics that allow them to come back for more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

So right now what we do is we do a lot of social media paid advertising, as well as we go like in

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

you know, conferences, media meetups, like part of the incubators that we do every Friday, they have what's it called a TGI Friday.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

So we part of that community.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

And then we just pass out flyers, coupons for people to try the service for the first time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

That's what I would do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

But here's the thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

When I first started, I made these poster cards.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

And I was literally going through my neighbors at nighttime because I didn't want people to call the cops.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

And I would just literally slide them through the doors.