SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

I broke into SaaS in 2009 I was the second sales hire and the 10th overall hire at a New York City based SaaS business called Zocdoc. Quota $30,000 in recurring revenue every month. Hey Dan, these are the quotas that we talked about during the interview process. Thought it was 20,000 was my ramp quota.

Quota 132

Quota Sales Healthcare Territory 132

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

It uses the formula PPVVC=S (Pain x Power x Vision x Value x Control = Sale) to help salespeople accurately gauge the probability of closing a deal. This book represents an upgrade of the popular sales framework for business professionals in the new digital economy. The Little Red Book of Selling. Jeffrey Gitomer.

Sales 143

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 143

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

The idea of a weekend trip from New York, people live in New York, a weekend trip to London probably that’s not going to happen for a very long time. X and it’s not [inaudible 00:20:29]. I mean, there’s a couple public companies, several private companies, but it had step function.

X-functional 78

X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 78

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

You got to … Sometimes it’s slow and let it be slow, and then sometimes it’s really fast and really intense and you’ve got a lot going on, and that’s when you make your investments and sign up to work with new folks. How does that strike you today for new deals? There’s many types of pressure.

Pitch 81

Pitch Start-ups Up-sell Technology 81

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

I began my career in new product development and starting in 2011 got really excited about the high growth phase of a company. I was on the product team and saw this opportunity for us to work more cross functionally across the company and focus heavily on retention and monetization. If you value speed, you might up in for an Uber X.

Price 45

Price X-functional Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 45

SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2020

Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, New York, Philly, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and a few others. We also didn’t try to build a lot of the centralized functions too early. They’ve never missed a quota. Would you like to talk to one of our reps about X?” That’s what Flexport did.

Government 106

Government Up-sell Contract X-functional 106

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In a SaaS business, you want to be anywhere from 4 to 6x, your on-target earnings from a quota perspective. I think if you’ve pitched that early on and you don’t suddenly show up one day with $10 million quotas, people understand that that is a journey that they are going to be part of. Harry Stebbings: Got it.

Finance 60

Finance X-functional CRM Engineering 60