Business Growth Podcast

Naveen Dittakavi www.HowToBuildRecurringRevenue.com talks about how to build recurring revenue in your business. He also shares how he moved upmarket to increase prices and what he does to avoid churn. 0:48 80% of the work is done BEFORE you meet somebody. He prepared for over 30 hours to meet his mentor Ramit Sethi 2:38 After meeting Ramit he changed focus to work on simple key pieces 5:10 Why recurring revenue has giving him real freedom in his business 7:15 How saying “NO” is so difficult and what he did to overcome that problem 9:22 The reasons why to validate ideas very quickly and how invisible future fears cause roadblocks 13:23 AUTOMATION is the paralyzing word for software developers and entrepreneurs 16:13 Marketing wasn’t necessarily the cause of sales but rather gave him clarity to acquire more valuable clients 18:15 Modeling Others: “We don’t want to model people where they are now. We want to model people and understand what they did to get there” “What can I do for my client to help him or her