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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

They're not disciplined.

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

And what I mean by that is I can't tell you how many organizations, let's just say, honestly, frankly, like 99% of them.

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

have too small of a budget for amount of verticals and personas they're trying to target.

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

It's like the number one plague is killing them.

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

And so essentially what they do is let's say they have a $50,000 a month to spend.

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

They'll then want to spread that out across healthcare, government, whatever those industries are, right?

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

Let's say five industries.

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

And then we all have this lie that we've been told that we need to market to decision makers.

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

And that's BS.

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

So the biggest problem in SaaS is they all think the C-level and the V-level is how you market digitally.

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

And it's actually not true.

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

I have a saying that I believe the champion is more important than the decision maker.

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

So what we help our clients do is we'll go through their client list, we'll work with their finance organization, their sales organization, and we'll start to pull out which vertical has the highest close rate, which vertical has the best gross margin, which vertical has the largest LTV.

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

Cool.

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

Can I go through your clients and see who your point of contact is in all those engagements?

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

And then I'll enrich it with their title.

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

Now, all of a sudden I've started to get who's truly they're your persona because it's never what the marketing and sales org thinks.

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

It's always, you know, we sell the, it's like bill.com.

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

They would always sell the CFO.

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

The truth is your, your, your, your person's actually the accounting manager.