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Hewitt Tomlin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
114 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

So when a lead kind of reaches the part of the funnel where we feel like sales can maybe schedule a demo with this person, that's what we zero in on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

And then once we get that person on the demo, typically we've sold them, but the sale is not over.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

They then have to go to someone on their end and get

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

funds approved and we've been through that process so some of our sales collateral that we hand our prospects after the demo it's actually sales collateral that doesn't directly speak to them per se but it speaks to the person above them usually an administrator and it talks to them in business language return on investment cost savings efficiency so it's kind of a two-pronged sales process one up front for the prospect and then for the decision maker in the background

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

We're probably dialing in at with sales qualified leads, converting about 25 to 30% of them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

We only have one salesperson.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

We're probably adding, I'd say we're probably adding somewhere between 40 and 50 new customers a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

No, I do look at those.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

But if we interpret those things, literally, if we search for ROI on every decision and try to quantify it, I think sometimes you lose the forest for the trees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

I can tell sometimes when we're acquiring customers at a really, really high clip and it's not worth it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

And we test those things out and then we back off really quickly and then we know when we do it efficiently.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

So your figure is not far off, but there is a lot of stuff that goes into lead generation before then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

And then every sales process is not that easy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

Some are longer than others.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

So there are some things that kind of distort that CAC.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

But around the same ballpark, we always stay conscious.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

We're all based here in Landover.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

And then some freelancers are based in Denver.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

mostly from adding new customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1524 He Helps High School Coaches Manage Workout Plans, $1m in ARR

We expand, but expanding customers is not a significant portion of our growth.