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Chris Marientis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
205 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

We also own and operate a company in Manila.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

that does a lot of the help desk support and engineering support for the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

But we've got our president, Mike Pierce, that drives all the customer facing organization.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

That's the biggest part of the organization that we have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

He also runs people operations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

That's probably the most underrated part of our organization I really thought of before, but

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

Now, looking at it in hindsight, it was the single best decision we made to bring a really strong people operations person, and you'll see the effect that it had on the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

And then we have CFO and CTO separately with their organizations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

And the result of all that is we won Inc.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

Best Workplaces this year, Glassdoor 4.4.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

Our employee net promoter score globally is plus 74.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

We're a remote-first model, and we have world-class benefits that our head of people operations is able to get by having someone just focused on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

The last part of this talk I'm going to give is about capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

I know it's a big focus for Nathan here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

We're not venture funded, but we do have debt capital that we raised once we thought it was the right time to do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

And that's the key, is understanding the right timing to raise debt capital because you get yourself in serious trouble raising debt capital too early.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

So, you know, right now we're 22, about 18 million in bookings, 19 million in bookings.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

We'll end this year about 30 million in ARR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

But we really raised our first debt capital in 2016.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to 5x Your Bookings with a Transactional Sales Model for SMBs

It was only a million dollars.