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Garen Hess

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
179 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

And even though we're doing it successfully,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

It was great advice because it's given me a little bit more stamina just kind of knowing what I'm getting into going into it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

No, we're not really increasing the pricing for any existing customers or anything like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

What we're doing is just letting them churn if they don't get the kind of support that they're looking for, if they aren't implementing effectively.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

Like I said, the content is one of the primary issues.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

So in the past, we actually worked through this model where we were building content for people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

Because, yeah, it was painful because right out of the gate, we said, hey, we have this great platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

it personalizes video experience for an automated demo.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

And people said, well, how do we get our content in there?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

And, and so we started trying to figure out how we could take control of the sales by offering a complete solution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

Yeah, we definitely did that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

The problem is the content phase, building out content,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

turned out to be a massive mistake.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

And that's because even though we were able to get deals done and close and grow quickly, the content,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

development phase of the project would really get bogged down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

And it wasn't because we didn't have enough resources.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

We were actually very innovative in how we built out an agile content development methodology and all that, but the clients would get stuck just not focusing on it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

So we'd turn around a script for a video piece or whatever it might be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

And, uh, and the client would, you know, take three weeks to get back and it'd be another six weeks and then it'd get bogged down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

And six months after they bought the software,