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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.

Yeah, so we're a Canadian-based organization.

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

Sales for Life, owned 50-50 by Jamie Shanks and Amar Sheth.

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

Pipeline Signals, owned 50-50 by Jamie Shanks and Amar Sheth.

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

Both own businesses.

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

No outside capital.

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

So that's one of the compelling events and reasons for separating the two businesses.

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

They travel on very different horizons and enterprise values.

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

So because of that pipeline signals, managed services are trading exponentially greater than the lack of sales training companies that go for sale.

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

So because of that, we potentially would consider a variety of different financial vehicles to scale the business.

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

Our go-to-market, we're using a singular sales play that is working extremely well.

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

And it's a sales play that Henry at Zoom Info did.

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

Essentially, you're giving away bits of value and intelligence every month to a set of named accounts you want to win.

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

And so you're enticing them with a fish on a lure to say, here are compelling events that your sales team are probably not mining and engaged in.

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

And you're proving the opportunity cost of what they're missing.

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

And so you do that at scale.

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

And so that's basically.

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

The bait is giving away 10 free signals to each account on that list, ideally developing a list of up to 10,000 accounts over time, primarily in the tech and telecom space.

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

It's where we've made our bread and butter at Sales for Life.

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

And then scaling it from there.

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

And it's an automated sales process that seems to be working.