SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor. ” They’d show up and try and squeeze up EBITDA and try and sell you for an EBITDA multiple.

Strategize 59

Strategize Quota Non-Profits Price 59

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. Rather than having this feeling of disconnected functional areas, everyone in the company knows what to work on. To me, that’s what the cadence says. I learned this operating myself.

Finance 113

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 113

Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

Reps working from home need to be willing to converse without selling. Take control with the DocuSign agreement cloud, a suite of tools that automates sales contracts and quotes ,all right in your CRM. Create custom contracts in a click, sign them digitally, and automatically pull data back into your opportunities.

Contract 70

Contract CRM Consult Cross-sell 70

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function. That doesn’t mean to say, you’re going to do away with the functions. Jay Snyder: That’s an enablement exercise that is not to be minimized, right? I mean, what do they do?

Retail 79

Retail Start-ups Drivers/motivators Up-sell 79

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

An effective sales workflow helps improve your conversion rates, shorten the sales cycle , and increase total revenue from sales. This visual aid gives every member of your sales team a big-picture view of the entire selling process. A sales workflow is a sequence of necessary processes that your team can follow to complete a sale.

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results Pitch Legal 52

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Greenhouse followed a similar path to Talkdesk and should cross $10 million ARR later this year, up from almost nothing at the start of the year. They all started the same day and they sat next to me watched me sell for a month and then I turned them loose. What I mean is that even to sell let’s say, to a customer in London.

Price 94

Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 94

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. And I think it comes out of the 80s and 90s and how we used to sell with shelfware. It was all about getting the contract. We really only know how to sell the mid market companies through inbound demand gen. That’s easy. We sold software.

Growth 83

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 83

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Sometimes we’re not as founders, sometimes founders sell their company because they don’t end up being deeply passionate about what it does. So sell your product. X this year. You don’t have to do every single function to still get a customer. I’m going to go from 2 to 5 or 2 to 6.”

Quota 80

Quota Growth Product Closing 80

PandaDoc

MAY 8, 2023

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Service 52

Service Product Customers E-commerce 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

We shut down something called the Evernote market which was selling physical goods, sunset some nice products like Evernote food which had nice followings, but I felt were distracting from the larger priorities. And the benefit there is you can end them more easily without having to have another charged conversation.

E-commerce 102

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 102