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Daniel Melkerson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
151 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

But the markets are small, so you need to grow outside your borders really soon here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

That's not an issue in the US.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

it could be better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

And once again, and this is something I regret before this interview, I should have known my numbers better, but, but we, we really, that is one of our key KPIs to grow that because we actually, what do you want to hit?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

150%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

Expansion is low.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

We actually started our upsells, you know, more upsells team last year because we've been heavily focused on new logos and new ARR in the company so far.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

This year, it's not the big 500 US dollars this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

Yeah, 500,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

uh now they are very very focused on doing cross sales at the moment so not not you know upselling you know more seats or raising the price so we have different products on the platform and new users are very focused on one the initial product and now they sell the other products and they have

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

They are very open to do however they want.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

They focus from the largest ones and going down right now because this is new for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

We did it in the CS organization, and this is something we did really wrong.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

So we had what we call our customer success personnel that were doing up sales, which is a stupidest idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

I don't know why we did it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

Because they need to take care of the customers first, make sure they're not churning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

And when they have time and have an opportunity, they can do some sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

Now we have customer success managers and upsells salespeople, sales managers, which huge difference.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR

Yeah, I'm actually, I have a book here, Choose Happiness, because you need to be happy as well when you're doing this entrepreneurship thing.