SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

That’s why for us, it’s so important to build that function of the company in the Bay Area. Then you have account management, and on boarding. Every month we know we need X amount of sales reps, and we multiply the number of leads that each one needs, and that is also what marketing has to produce.

Price 111

Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 111

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. We’ve added a technical account manager function.

X-functional 62

X-functional Engineering Clients Start-ups 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. Jay Snyder: I think the thing we’re doing Nick, to be able to force that is we’re getting a little bit more intelligent around account management. I mean, what do they do?

Retail 108

Retail Start-ups Drivers/motivators Up-sell 108

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

You’re probably going to have to be doing customer references unless there’s very small contract value, right, where there’s not a ton of pressure in making the right decision on the part of the prospective buyer. Then a third thing that you can do is incorporate it into the contract. What am I going to give?

Clients 66

Clients Service Customers Start-ups 66

SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2020

We are not as fortunate as some of the folks in this room that if we sign a contract, regardless of how our customer feels about what they’ve bought, they’re going to continue paying. There’s generally no contract in place. We also didn’t try to build a lot of the centralized functions too early.

Government 98

Government Up-sell Contract X-functional 98

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? And the first one as you said, Harry, is around annual contracts.

Contract 59

Contract Price Commission Conversion 59

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? And the first one as you said, Harry, is around annual contracts.

Contract 11

Contract Price Commission Conversion 11

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 58

X-functional SQL Pipeline GTM 58