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Garrett Mayer-Goot

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
258 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

In my world, agencies don't actually spend on advertising despite that's what they're supposed to be good at.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

So for us, we reinvest almost all of it, but we're kind of starting to go into that next phase where we have to kind of prepare ourselves

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

to have the right trailing 12 months, the right trailing 24 months of EBITDA.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

And so, you know, for us, we are profitable and we have a really nice business model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

It just depends on how aggressive I'm pursuing top line revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

And that also depends on our capacity, our recruiting function, the job market's hell right now, to be honest, like it's really, really difficult.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

And so most of what we're doing right now is building for 2022 and then restaffing and reorging because we scale so fast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

And it's not like, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

Right now, we're trying to grow 10% month over month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

So I try to use month over month because the cool part about using relative numbers when you think about OKR setting is your team can always reset.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

So most people set goals in quarterly functions, and they use absolutes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

So we want to get X amount of revenue this quarter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

Now, the problem is if you have a bad month to start the quarter, you have to reset.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

And nobody and then it's like you're losing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

So then you spend the next two months where your culture and the growth and the organization, how your team's approaching it goes down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

So what I like to use is relative numbers, because even if you miss, let's say in July, you only grew 8%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

Actually, it's easier in August to grow 10% because you actually like it has diminishing marginal return.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

Um, okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy

Okay.