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Girish

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
187 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

What is it that you're going to do if something breaks?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

Is there a phone I can pick up and call?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

Are you going to give me some SLAs?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

So they need some guarantees, they need visibility, and they need control around your application.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

And you need to be able to speak their language as you move up market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

This is crucial.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

Otherwise, you seem like you're a fish out of water.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

This doesn't make sense to them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

The last thing that I'd say is that you need to put all of these things together into a package that's coherent, that's cohesive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

And that means putting together these things about, think deeply about how exactly do you reach your customer?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

What is it that they need in order to actually make sense of this whole thing as a package?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

That means stuff like case studies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

They need sales collateral.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

You need to arm your salespeople with the ammunition that they need to be able to put these things together and make a consistent story to your customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

That usually means I've typically seen the specific way to make this work is to separate out your sales team that goes off market versus the sales team that actually serves SMB because that allows you to learn and iterate and train them differently because otherwise there's a lot of

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

stuff that doesn't translate quite well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

So the simplest thing that you can do is to separate the two teams, and you need to make sure that this is working the way you expect it to be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

The part three that I'm going to talk about is this is a place where until now, you as a founder were closely involved.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

You were doing everything that's required.