{"id":1187,"date":"2021-04-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/?p=linkedin-64"},"modified":"2021-04-09T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T06:00:00","slug":"in-june-2020-middle-of-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2021\/04\/09\/in-june-2020-middle-of-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"In June 2020 middle of pandemic,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2020 middle of pandemic,<br \/>\nAs a leader I had to make a decision to survive.<br \/>\n1. Reduce fixed cost (Salaries)<br \/>\n2.Get more business or<br \/>\n3 Both<br \/>\nAt that time brining more business appeared difficult, While every one in the world is cutting jobs, TopMindz is into<br \/>\nConsulting &#038; staffing. So we opted 3rd option Both,<br \/>\nReduce the cost and increase the business<br \/>\nWe used lessons learned from Walmart Inc case https:\/\/lnkd.in\/eg4YJeV.<br \/>\nOur Target is to cover fixed cost to survive,Get more business to be profitable &#038; sustain<br \/>\nWhen everyone is charging clients 8% to 15% placement fee for full time role<br \/>\nWe pitched our clients,We will invest in our relationship by offering our services at flat 6%,If they give us exclusivity for all open jobs.Most of them agreed and we became exclusive<br \/>\nThis helped TopMindz to grow more than 400% second half of 2020.We created win-win to become prefered vendor for many startups<br \/>\nProud to say,We helped many startups to recruit &#038; Onboard new staff remotely in India,South Africa,Singapore &#038; USA<br \/>\nLessons: To survive,First find options to cover the fixed cost<br \/>\nAccept no loss\/no gain business to survive<br \/>\nTreat it as investment for long term client&#8217;s relationship<br \/>\nFormore Business tips follow Krishna Lakamsani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2020 middle of pandemic,<br \/>\nAs a leader I had to make a decision to survive.<br \/>\n1. Reduce fixed cost (Salaries)<br \/>\n2.Get more business or<br \/>\n3 Both<br \/>\nAt that time brining more business appeared difficult, W<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin-posts","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}