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Jamie Shanks

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
119 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

Immediately, XO Communications, Level 3 Communications, Oracle, ADP, Thomson Reuters

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

kind of picked up our blogs, invited us in for training, and we jumped multiple levels very quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

We went from the SMB to the global enterprise in leaps and bounds in months, and we stayed in the global enterprise and global mid-market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

And although now we're even going downstream, opposite of most companies, but we primarily serve the global mid-market, global enterprise from that day forward.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

Yeah, for the average year, we're servicing anywhere between 25 and 50.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

We'll call them programs or projects.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

Now, one customer might have, let's use Thermo Fisher as an example, might have a launch in Americas, EMEA, Latin, APEC.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

So we'll have these cohorts of 25 to 50 customers a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

2.2 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

No.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

So pipeline signals was a service that we were using as a reinforcement after certification.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

So what was happening is we enable sellers to sales generate or self-generate pipeline at scale in 90-day time horizons.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

Once they do so, they have to defend it in a case study.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

But then they needed this intelligence as a tailwind behind them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

And that's when pipeline signals, well, COVID kind of fast forward the idea that, well, hold on, if it took us off airplanes, why don't we think about what else could we do and use that opportunity to build pipeline signals?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

So we were prepared years in advance.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

We were one of the first sales training companies to self-develop our own learning platform, online learning platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

We also moved to virtual instructor-led five years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

So the live part of our service offering was 10% of revenue, was speaking engagements, sales kickoffs, and quarterly business reviews.