SaaStr

JULY 24, 2019

This is pretty simple, but when I look at this industry, a lot of times what I see is organizations crafting pricing packages that would enable, for example, an enterprise-wide license, where an organization pays you X amount of money, and they have unlimited seats, unlimited usage. Then finally, there have to be some barriers to turn.

X-functional 56

X-functional Engineering Clients Start-ups 56

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Ep 255: Vikas Bhambri is SVP Sales and Customer Experience @ Kustomer, the startup providing Real-time, actionable views of customers with continuous omnichannel conversations and intelligence that automates repetitive, manual tasks. Why the “strongest” conversations need to happen between engineering and marketing. Missed the session?

Finance 54

Finance X-functional CRM Engineering 54

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The licensee embeds the third-party software into its application to improve it by adding new functionality or features, or enhancing existing functionality or features. One OEM contract can give thousands or tens of thousands of end-users access to the licensor’s software. Licensing OEM software. OEM deal structure.

GTM 74

GTM Negotiate Profit margin Contract 74

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

How much of a role does price play in selecting the ultimate acquirer? How do you think about out-pricing yourself for next round and making that next round even more challenging? ” And the intent of that was, that if you hang a For Sale sign on your company, you may not get the best price. How long do they last?

Strategize 58

Strategize Quota Non-Profits Price 58

PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

If they agree, the deal is finalized by the signing of a contract. Closing questions in sales are important because they keep a prospect moving toward a sales conversion. You aren’t exactly cold calling during a closing conversation – you should be using a sales strategy suited to the moment: 1. Customers always like options.

Closing 52

Closing Contract Technique Objectives and Key Results 52

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

Annual contracts: To what extent do annual contracts dominate today? Why does Tom think in the early days one should be wary of signing too many multi-year contracts? How does Tom think about calculating churn when it comes to multi-year contracts? How does the impact of a salesperson change the conversion rate?

Contract 46

Contract Price Commission Conversion 46

SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2019

And the second goal, is to help you have conversations within your business about what the right mechanisms are to test free trial. Contract length. How long should a contract be in order to maximize conversion rate? A multi-year contract, a month-to-month contract, an annual contract.

Contract 83

Contract Price X-functional Conversion 83

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How does Rob think through pricing today in a way that encourages land and expand? How does Rob think about usage vs seat-based pricing in SaaS? How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? You look at the forward-looking ARR multiples on the stock price, and they were a lot lower back then.

E-commerce 102

E-commerce Manufacturing X-functional Retail 102

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. Nicolas : Really, one step at a time, so we knew the first pricing was just testing the market, and we iterated a lot on it. Nick : Pretty good?

Price 93

Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 93

Sales Hacker

JULY 2, 2019

Lead to customer conversion rate by lead source. Average sales price by source. The Calculations: Average sales price per lead. To get your average sales price by source you simply have to look at the data set for your entire customer database and bucket them by lead source. 2,000 x 10% = $200/lead.

Price 78

Price X-functional CRM Sales 78

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Building the basic functionality. One of the things that fintech startups often have to do, is they need to have contracts in place with not just the banks, but quite a few of the partners to really build a full stack solution. And I think we did two X what we thought we were going to do. We go in a lot of directions.

Launch 62

Launch Pitch Niche Negotiate 62

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. And so every conversation, we did an incredible podcast, you should listen, that was one of our highest rated ones.

Retail 78

Retail Start-ups Drivers/motivators Up-sell 78

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

An effective sales workflow helps improve your conversion rates, shorten the sales cycle , and increase total revenue from sales. Win rates and conversion percentages can be extrapolated for every bridge or step in the sales workflow. 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

JANUARY 3, 2020

Annual contracts: To what extent do annual contracts dominate today? Why does Tom think in the early days one should be wary of signing too many multi-year contracts? How does Tom think about calculating churn when it comes to multi-year contracts? How does the impact of a salesperson change the conversion rate?

Contract 10

Contract Price Commission Conversion 10

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. It was all about getting the contract. Once you had the contract, all the servers were set up, you flew in your professional services people, it took six months to set it up, it took six months to train people, and the product sucked, but it didn’t matter.

Growth 83

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 83

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2019

Harry Stebbings: Can I ask, I had Ben Braverman and the CRO of Flexport on the show the other day and he said it’s wonderful to have SDRs and account managers and sales reps but it doesn’t create the best personalized buying experience when you’re continuously handed off to the separate specialized function.

X-functional 54

X-functional SQL Pipeline GTM 54

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

What price points you will you sell at? So don’t be too upset if you’re not yet at the four X number, but know for sure that if you don’t get beyond that, you’re not going to have a very profitable company in the long run. What’s your messaging going to be? How will you engage with those prospects?

Non-Profits 78

Non-Profits Up-sell Start-ups Product 78

PandaDoc

MAY 8, 2023

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Service 52

Service Product Customers E-commerce 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

X this year. You don’t have to do every single function to still get a customer. For all these types of categories, I know it’s trite, but you just have to find your 10 X feature that someone will buy. Maybe doesn’t have to send the contract out for his signature, but you never, ever, ever get the time back.

Quota 79

Quota Growth Product Closing 79

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2020

We made it just 10 questions, and on the results page, we’d show you how the price varies by the features you listed in the 10 questions, and how the price varies kind of by the geography of the tech talent. For example, right now, what we’re doing is we’re having a conversation. Oh, whatever else is.

A/B testing 79

A/B testing X-functional Launch Start-ups 79

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

Get back into experimentation mode with our business model, with our pricing to really think about not just how we can shrink costs, but inflect growth on the top line so we could ultimately control our own destiny which is in fact what we did. Shifting to the fifth is around pricing. So pricing is obviously a very powerful lever.

E-commerce 101

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 101